Beár Bia podcast showcases Irish pairings at Bord Bia Bloom

 Hosts Dee Laffan and Oisín Davis celebrate Irish food and drink in episode two, featuring producers from the Bord Bia Bloom festival

Dee Laffan and Oisin Davis are on a mission to highlight the finest Irish food & drink pairings through their new podcast Beár Bia. The first season of Beár Bia will feature 12 episodes and will be broadcast fortnightly.

Translated to English as Food Bar, Beár Bia’s key focus is pairing native food & drinks as a vital means to develop the Irish culinary culture. 

How Beár Bia works

Beár Bia invites Irish food & drink producers for a round-the-table tasting and discussion. 

Brewers chatting with cheesemakers, distillers hanging out with chefs, etc – all of it recorded, filmed & photographed for the podcast.

For their second episode, Beár Bia were granted access to the huge array of different Irish food & drinks producers that were at the Bord Bia Bloom festival.

Their goal was to look at how they could celebrate pairing some of the best Irish drinks there with Irish food products in their most simple state. 

The producers and the brands Beár Bia worked with for the special Bord Bia Bloom episode were Ann Rudden of Aine’s Chocolates of Cavan; Dennis Dempsey of Kinsale Mead in Cork and Caitriona Keavney from Cooleeney Farm in Tipperary.

The conversations covered Ireland’s oldest food & drinks combo, an ideal starter style pairing and a decadent Irish dessert. 

The hosts

Dee Laffan is a food journalist and editor with more than 15 years of experience. Currently, she is writing for TheTaste.ie, Irish Country Living in the Farmers Journal, and Irish Country Magazine. Additionally, she’s a proud Irish Food Writers’ Guild member and a Blas na hÉireann judge (Irish Food Awards).

Oisín Davis is an award winning cocktail creator, spirits columnist and best selling author of his debut book,”Irish Kitchen Cocktails.” Through his company Great Irish Beverages, he has run nationwide drinks festivals, worked all around the world educating and marketing for Irish whiskey and manages publicity for some of Ireland’s most prestigious spirit brands. 

The Beár Bia podcast is supported by Bord Bia.