The Beer Nut

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...

It's a busy brewing county, Kildare. I guess it benefits from being in the Dublin hinterland but without the constraints of Dublin comme...

Eight Degrees was one of the first Irish brewers to adopt the high-turnover mode of brewing, supplementing a safe core range with a regular ...

When I saw that Galway Bay had named a beer Irish Cream Stout , I assumed that "cream" here was one of those redundant marketing w...

Why do I take so long picking beers when I'm standing in front of the fridges in Redmond's? It's because I'm trying to piece...

Creative and unexpected moves has always been the stock-in-trade at Rascals Brewery -- the clue is in the name -- but I really wasn't ex...