Smoked Salmon & Micro-Brewers in Lisdoonvarna, Ireland

Recorded in "The Wild Honey Inn" Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare, Ireland
@burrensalmon Birgitta Hedin-Curtin of Burren Smokehouse (a local business that sells globally) speaks fluently with Swedish accent about Bord Bia, Irish Embassy in Stockholm ... & so much more

Wild salmon, ChapterOne
http://www.chapteronerestaurant.com/ tasting journey

American Red Oak shavings are used...

Unique ovens specially built in Limerick...

Food technologists...

Swedish journalists in Stockholm...

Michael Moran world champion "Moran's on the Weir"... http://www.moransoystercottage.com/

Guinness & wine... happening

Eels smoked in local smokehouse - the inspiration...

Canadians...Canada... Pacific salmon - the difference from Atlantic salmon... lumberjacks eating habits... Smoked eel lovers... shortage of supply... Ely eels threatened too...

Mackerel also smoked...

Mother-in-law, grandfather, mother (1926)...
Ardnacrusha - stories... ESB eel seller...

Audioboo, @markrock
http://audioboo.fm/ is known in

www.burrensmokehouse.ie
@burrensalmon
Facebook
YouTube

Pinterest may be on the horizon... Women like it & also like smoked salmon...
#foodporn mentioned

BioCoop chair of organic food approached BurrenSmokehouse...

Cliff House Hotel @cliffhousehotel www.thecliffhousehotel.com plugged... general manager & chef @kajuiter both praised - a plan made to visit there... Tasting menu + wine tasting highlighted.

Jonathan Amm 10th wedding anniversary...

A plan hatched... abrupt end (reached 20 minute limit)

Recorded first impression of @burrensalmon shop Lisdoonvarna:

Bridgestone Guides back to 1996 - John & Sally McKenna
BIM...
the "Ladies"... Burren Information Point : you hear a reading of stuff on the notice board, including newspaper clippings...
Peadar Reilly master smoker in Burren Smokehouse
Business founded in 1989 with husband
Good Food Ireland...
Omega3...
Why you can't tour the smokehouse... but can have a video tour instead
Doolin Cave advert
North Clare sea kyaking
Wine
Landscape
Dean & DeLuca 2011 Gifting Guide... what they sell includes Burren Smokehouse product...
Doolin Fisherman Platter... hot & cold oak smoked salmon & mackeral
Any lakes in Kilkenny
Background music
Cheese sold - sheep's cheese from Cratloe Hills - Sean & Deirdre FitzGerald
Honey Lemon Pepper flavouring
Whiskey flavoured, fennel
Oak smoked pure Irish salmon
Chocolate lollypops - Áine chocolate
Carrigeen Irish moss
Cider vinaigre
Crisps
Waffles
Fudge from Butlers
Rapeseed oil with garlic
Clare Jam
Apple jelly
Orange marmalade with poitín
German from Jonathan Amm
Tea

We finally get to taste @burrensalmon - this is the sound of 3 people tasting, drinking water & drooling over different styles of salmon. None of us guessed which was the wild salmon - but we stood there at the counter of the Burren Smokehouse sampling salmon on cocktail sticks...

You hear reactions to each of the salmon in turn & tasting chat - as if we were tasting wine- pretentiously...

Slow Food Movement...

Salt, bite, smokeyness, melt in your mouth, slides off the palate...

Scoring the taste...

Texture... depth... rotten apple, petrol, bicyle wheel, wood, rain, leaves...

Pint of Guinness... glass of water... mouth wash,

@garyV ...

Clare Spring Water,

Dry-cured... wet-cured...

Alcohol flavour... sweetness...

River-caught with nets, legally... sustainable

Recorded while strolling round Burren Smokehouse shop in Lisdoonvarna

Ambient sound, staff in the shop, chat...
Music played by the smoker at @burrensalmon
Local pubs in Doolin...
Live music in Roadside Tavern
http://www.roadsidetavern.ie ...
Audio-visual display...

I'd seen smoking in Ummera, Cork
Anthony Cresswell...
Thinking of buying a postcard...

Listening in to conversation...
build the brand
Birgitta speaking
Ballymaloe features
Storytelling...
Irish products - Kilbeggin Oatflakes -
Gleniline Yogurt
Organic Focus
Minister Shane McEntee
Simon Coveney from Cork

Campaigning to save Organic
Tipperary people
Irish salmon industry...
West coast of Ireland has an "incredible" product

The niche...
so important to have organic sectors
talking of the importance of range...
Fortnam & Masons
Crackers

Asking Birgitta a leading question about how she spends her time...

UK, London, Bord Bia, USA, Miami, New Orleans, Inspiration Tours, Qatar, Kuwait,

Where would you like to go? For Brand You...

Caribbean,
Canada, Jane Boyd @boydjane
April Ennis @aprilennis, Prince Edward Island
Nick Kellet

Mitch Joel, Toronto, Montreal

New Zealand, both islands

Off to the brewery next... "the creme de la creme"