June is Food & Drink month in Guaranteed Irish and to celebrate we hosted our annual Food & Drink Forum in Cork on June 15th. Adding to the atmosphere of the event, were local Cork based food and drink suppliers, showcasing, and sampling their products. Let’s take a closer look at these fantastic companies.
Kinsale Mead
Mead (Miodh in Irish) is the world's oldest alcoholic drink, unique in that its primary ingredient is honey but also incredibly diverse. Kinsale Mead are an award-winning meadery, judged as among the best in the world. Their mead is full of delicious flavours, embodying the modern, refined style of mead making, refreshingly different and versatile. They are made from authentic recipes, pure raw honey and carefully selected berries.
Kinsale Mead Co was founded by Kate & Denis Dempsey in 2016 to rediscover the ancient art of mead making, and to create a world-class range of light and refreshing drinks.
Learn more at kinsalemeadco.ie
Juspy
Juspy is Ireland’s only collagen & protein cacao superfood power blend. Juspy was created by Leonie Lynch and inspired by a time in her life when she was struggling and running on empty. The more exhausted she became, the more her chocolate cravings were getting completely out of control. Having worked as a movement coach for 12 years, Leonie knew the important role nutrition plays in how bodies function.
Juspy is created with cacao, high protein and collagen, blended with pea and rice protein. The name Juspy comes from the phonetic pronunciation of ‘just be’ because the company celebrates moments and people. Juspy healthy. Juspy happy. Juspy whatever you want to be.
You can learn more about Juspy by listening back to Leonie on the Guaranteed Irish Business Podcast or by visiting Juspy.com.
Ballyhoura Apple Farm
Ballyhoura Apple Farm is located in the beautiful hillside town of Kilfinane, Co Limerick. Ballyhoura value their roots in the local community and cherish Ireland’s traditions of localism, co-operation, support and friendship. Ballyhoura Apple Farm was founded in 2004 in Churchtown in North Cork by Gerry Murphy and Maurice Gilbert.
Ballyhoura Apple Farm produce a wide range of apple juices, ciders and vinegars, made in a sustainable fashion. All fruit & vegetables used in their juices support other food producers in their local community to help create and sustain local employment.
Learn more at Ballyhouraapplefarm.com.
Clonakilty Blackpudding
Clonakilty Blackpudding can trace its routes to the Philip Harrington butcher shop on Sovereign Street, Clonakilty, in the 1800s. Johanna O’Brien, a local farmer’s wife, made the original black pudding for Harrington’s butcher shop, using a secret spice mix which was faithfully handed down through Philip’s family for over a century.
Later in the 1980s, Edward & Colette Twomey wanted to share the taste of Clonakilty Blackpudding and began attending shows across the country. Since then the company has grown substantially and their products can even be found abroad in the UK and Australia.
To this day the original secret spice mix is a closely guarded secret, with Colette Twomey still responsible for infusing the mix into all the black pudding produced by the company.
Learn more at clonakiltyblackpudding.ie.
Hanna’s Bees
Hanna’s Bees is run by Hanna Bäckmo, a Cork-based beekeeper with a relentless passion for edible gardening, nature, colour and sustainability.
A hive-to-home business, Hanna has several apiaries in East and South Cork with around 60 honeybee colonies producing honey, beeswax and propolis for her unique range of products.
All Hanna’s products are carefully handmade in Cork celebrating traditional craftmanship with a colourful modern twist and home-grown Irish produce. The range of products includes the increasingly popular reusable beeswax wraps, beautiful honey-scented beeswax candles, propolis tinctures and an assortment of delectable small-batch honeys. All mouth-wateringly sweet and guaranteed Irish. Hanna’s Bees also cater for vegan customers, with reusable vegan wraps made with plant waxes.
Learn more at hannasbees.ie.