{"id":75172,"date":"2025-09-20T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T11:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75172\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T11:25:08","slug":"offaly-siblings-turn-brewery-waste-into-award-winning-food-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75172\/","title":{"rendered":"Offaly siblings turn brewery waste into award-winning food business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">What started as a Zoom call between siblings during the pandemic has become a thriving food business rescuing hundreds of tonnes of brewery waste. Niamh and Ruairi Dooley&#8217;s BiaSol now stocks shelves in Aldi and Tesco nationwide, turning what breweries discard into award-winning nutrition bars and sustainable food products\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ruairi and Niamh Dooley, owners of BiaSol\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6b259413-1c44-430e-a935-5fbb6feeaa0a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ruairi and Niamh Dooley, owners of BiaSol<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">What began as a lockdown-born idea between two siblings, Niamh and Ruairi Dooley, has quickly fermented into a purpose-driven business with a constant growing footprint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">BiaSol, located in the heart of the country in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, began in 2020 with the idea of transforming byproducts of Ireland\u2019s booming beer industry into something much more nourishing than waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What started as a Zoom call between siblings during the pandemic has become a thriving food business rescuing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[39988,79,18,19,17,11117],"class_list":{"0":"post-75172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-national-ploughing-championships","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-louise-hickey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}