The Beer Nut

It's a new brewery for me today. McGill's has been plying its trade down in Waterville for some years now, but I didn't know tha...

They've gone all creative at Open Gate for the summer, Lord save us. Classic styles can wait; everything is getting an off kilter ingred...

Today, you join me not-live on the patio, on the first properly warm day of the year. Our topic is radler (shandy the German way) and the co...

Obviously I don't do "guilty pleasure" beers, but I do have a fondness for Cherry Chouffe while also recognising it's no g...

It was a mix of sunshine and showers on the mid-May weekend in Kilkenny, so it's just as well the motorised awnings over the beer garden...

It seems like only last week I was looking at Ireland's winter beers, but apparently the planet has done that tilting thing again, the w...

When I was an undergraduate, my university offered the option to sit second year exams in March, a term early. A decent grade came with an e...