Northern Irish Butchers Win All-Ireland Awards for Excellence
Seven of the 12 categories in the first All-Ireland Sausage and Burger Championships for family butchery businesses were won by Northern Ireland butchers. The annual event was organised by Butchery Excellence Ireland.
Butchery Excellence is an initiative by Montgomery Food Consulting of Aughnacloy, County Tyrone to help family butchers improve standards and their overall competitiveness.
Open to all independent butchers in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, the All Ireland Sausage and Burger Butchery Awards reinforce the quality and heritage of the wide variety of sausages and burgers that are provided by butchers in Ireland.
The Northern Ireland category winners were:
Continental Sausage - Cunningham's High Class Butchers, Kilkeel for Tomato, Chilli & Pork
Traditional Beef Sausage - Gary Coote Meats, Fivemiletown, County Tyrone
Steak Burger - Bergin Family Butchers, Edenderry, County Antrim
Meatballs - Glenn's Butchers, Limavady, County Derry for Spicy Beef & Mozzarella
Speciality Beef Sausage - Gary Coote Meats, Fivemiletown, County Tyrone for Caramelised Beef & Mustard
Beef Burger - Lowe Bros, Dungannon, County Tyrone
Vegetable Roll - M&W Farm Meats, Portadown, County Armagh
Sean Owens, Managing Director of Montgomery Food Consulting and chief judge says: "The All Ireland Sausage and Burger Awards are special and simply put, we had a great number of excellent entries from every corner of the country.
"The standard of the competition was superb and I was particularly impressed with the innovation and creation of some great tasting gourmet style speciality sausages. I consider the quality overall to be second to known and this is great news for customers in butcher shops across the island of Ireland.
"Over many years of judging at high level sausage competitions, it's now in the knowledge that butchers across Ireland are taking their rightful place in respect to innovation and creation across the butchery industries of Europe. Needless to say, the entrants in this competition have surpassed previous adjudications with their new and exciting products whilst staying true to artisan and traditional methods and recipes."
Rhonda Montgomery, Chief Executive of Montgomery Food Consulting and founder of Butchery Excellence Ireland, adds: "We have had an amazing response to our first All-Ireland Sausage and Burger Championship competition, with well over 200 entries being received from across the 32 counties of Ireland."
Butchery Excellence is an initiative by Montgomery Food Consulting of Aughnacloy, County Tyrone to help family butchers improve standards and their overall competitiveness.
Open to all independent butchers in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, the All Ireland Sausage and Burger Butchery Awards reinforce the quality and heritage of the wide variety of sausages and burgers that are provided by butchers in Ireland.
The Northern Ireland category winners were:
Continental Sausage - Cunningham's High Class Butchers, Kilkeel for Tomato, Chilli & Pork
Traditional Beef Sausage - Gary Coote Meats, Fivemiletown, County Tyrone
Steak Burger - Bergin Family Butchers, Edenderry, County Antrim
Meatballs - Glenn's Butchers, Limavady, County Derry for Spicy Beef & Mozzarella
Speciality Beef Sausage - Gary Coote Meats, Fivemiletown, County Tyrone for Caramelised Beef & Mustard
Beef Burger - Lowe Bros, Dungannon, County Tyrone
Vegetable Roll - M&W Farm Meats, Portadown, County Armagh
Sean Owens, Managing Director of Montgomery Food Consulting and chief judge says: "The All Ireland Sausage and Burger Awards are special and simply put, we had a great number of excellent entries from every corner of the country.
"The standard of the competition was superb and I was particularly impressed with the innovation and creation of some great tasting gourmet style speciality sausages. I consider the quality overall to be second to known and this is great news for customers in butcher shops across the island of Ireland.
"Over many years of judging at high level sausage competitions, it's now in the knowledge that butchers across Ireland are taking their rightful place in respect to innovation and creation across the butchery industries of Europe. Needless to say, the entrants in this competition have surpassed previous adjudications with their new and exciting products whilst staying true to artisan and traditional methods and recipes."
Rhonda Montgomery, Chief Executive of Montgomery Food Consulting and founder of Butchery Excellence Ireland, adds: "We have had an amazing response to our first All-Ireland Sausage and Burger Championship competition, with well over 200 entries being received from across the 32 counties of Ireland."