Galway Tea and Beer win awards

Date Published: 24-Apr-2009

A GALWAY speciality Organic tea company has been selected as one of the ten most innovative food companies at the IFE, one of Europe’s biggest international food trade shows.

Solaris Botanicals is a family-run business in the Ballybane Enterprise Park, specializing in the blending and preparation of internationally award winning whole-leaf organic teas. It is the only company in Ireland hand blending organic first flush tea and herbal tea.

Simon Hulstone, Michelin starred chef-patron of the Elephant bar and restaurant in Torquay and current Knorr National Chef of the Year highlighted Solaris Tea’s as “good, fresh-flavoured teas, incredibly aromatic and very easy to drink.”

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Out of a list of over 90 beers, the members of Irish Craft Brewer presented the “Beer of the Year” award to Galway Hooker at the annual Irish Beer Festival in Cork.

Awards co-ordinator, John Duffy, noted that the beer had won because of its “superbly balanced flavour and incredible consistency”.

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