Category: Membership
Published on Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:24 Written by Saruman
Here's a list of the Beoir team starting with the elected officials and then moving on to other positions such as the Beoir regional representatives.
Elected Officers and Admin Team
Reuben Gray (Saruman) - Chairman - Site Admin
Joined Irish Craft Brewer in late 2008, founding member of Beoir in 2010.
Reuben has been writing about beer on his blog The Tale of The Ale since January 2009 and has been actively involved in raising awareness of our independent micro breweries throughout all this time. He also writes for various publications and is the publisher and editor of Beoir Magazine. An avid amateur brewer and beer drinker. Reuben got in to craft beer in the US in 2004 but it wasn't until late 2008 that he was introduced to the Irish craft beer scene by a Scotsman living in Prague, married to an American and visiting Ireland.
Often hosts talks and tastings and is a regular judge at beer competitions.
Elected to the position of Chair in June 2013.
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John Stephens (DrJohn) - Treasurer - Site Admin
Joined Irish Craft Brewer in 2007, founding member of Beoir in 2010.
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Mark Hilliard (oblivious) - Public Relations Officer
Joined Irish Craft Brewer in 2007, founding member of Beoir in 2010.
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Joined Irish Craft Brewer in early 2010, founding member of Beoir in 2010.
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Barry Masterson (Barry M) - Site admin
Co-founder of Irish Craft Brewer, March 2007, co-founder Beoir, July 2010. Site admin and general dogsbody.
Barry set up IrishCraftBrewer.com (ICB) with Séan Billings in March 2007 to provide for an online community of home brewers and beer lovers in Ireland. Over a couple of years, ICB grew, and after being approached by the EBCU, it became clear that a more formal organisation was needed to represent the conscientious beer drinkers of Ireland. Despite having emigrated to Germany in 2008, Barry, Séan and John Duffy (who had joined the ICB team by then) proposed the formation of Beoir to the ICB membership, and the rest is history.
Barry is still active as part of the team maintaining and managing the Beoir site, despite being two years into a farmhouse renovation, and is a semi-active beer blogger since summer 2008. He is desperately waiting for more Irish beer to be exported to Germany.
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John Duffy (TheBeerNut) - Site Admin
Joined Irish Craft Brewer in 2007, founding member of Beoir in 2010.
John lives in Dublin and has been a drinker of Irish craft beer since the mid-1990s. He joined Irish Craft Brewer shortly after it was founded and helped steer its transformation into Beoir. He served as Beoir's treasurer from 2010 until 2016 and attended meetings of the European Beer Consumers Union on its behalf.
John has been writing a blog about beer called The Beer Nut since 2005 and has contributed to books such as the CAMRA Good Beer Guide, Irish Craft Beers: Origins, Styles & Breweries and 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die.
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Steve Lamond (Stephanos) - Cider Liaison Officer
Beer blogger, north east regional rep & Ireland and Scotland admin for ratebeer.
I was born in Yeovil, Somerset and moved to Northern Ireland in 2010 via Southampton University where I obtained a Masters degree in Chemistry with Ocean and Earth Science in 2009. Being from Somerset, I obviously enjoy cider too.
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Regional Representative Officers
As well as our elected officers and admin team, we have a number of Beoir Representative officers stationed around the country. If you would have an issue in your locatlity, or just want to have a chat about Beoir or hold an event, please contact your regional representative.
North East
Steve Lamond: Stephanos
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South East
Derek Sheridan: Lugh Longhand
James: CTbeerguy
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Northwest
Thomas Carroll: Irish_Goat
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Midlands
Reuben Gray: Saruman
Eugene O'Brien: Axbrew
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West
Enda Cleary: St. Fursey
Chris Green: BeardyBrewer
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Mid West
Cyril Downes: CDow
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South West
Billy Naughton: Taf
Ronan Russell: Ronan
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