‘I spent some of my childhood in London but Atlanta is where I’m from.’ Atlanta, the home of Coca Cola and a city that is twinned with Newcastle in the United Kingdom, you may wonder what the commonality is there, well it’s 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI). 4-MEI is a caramel colouring in Coca Cola and Newcastle Brown Ale and due to cancer concerns both companies have reviewed their recipes to either reduce it or get rid of it.

Whilst in college he worked in kitchens and that’s how he got into beer. ‘These restaurants had massive beer selections and it just piqued my interest. My goal then became to work in a brewery in Amsterdam after graduation.’

‘Beer making is about creating something delicious. I always try to create a sense of place with brewing, whether it’s a place I’ve been or people that I’ve met.’ A parallel could be drawn between Short and the character Jean-Baptiste Grenouille of Perfume, not the murdering part, but the fervent pursuit of finding new flavours and building a new taste experience from one strand of flavour. ‘If you taste only what you get in Ireland beer wise you will be stifled.’ Short travels frequently trying new beers and food and noting it all in his flavour notepad, ‘I was in Sweden and there was a place that had these delicious cardamom pastries, the flavour was so intense and I wanted to replicate it for beer. I start with a flavour and try to build a beer around it, a lot of people start with the finished beer but I like to build to that.’