The Beer Nut

For some unfathomable reason, my posts about Aldi's off-brand lagers are perennially popular with you lot. Never above a bit of click-ba...

With Diageo winding up operations at the Smithwick's St. Francis's Abbey Brewery and moving all brewing to Dublin, Kilkenny's n...

I mentioned in passing recently that Molson Coors's operations in Ireland seem to be ramping up somewhat, after three of years of light...

"White Gold": such a lovely way to describe a beer that looks like slightly cloudy Budweiser. But I'm being facetious. Wild Sw...

Yeah, just pretend you didn't already read Thom's bit on Fürstenberg last week , eh? That way, this'll all be new to you... The ...

It's always a risk, going drinking with someone who has studied beer packaging technology at university. They end up making impulse purc...

When it comes to beer, Ireland is pretty much synonymous with stout. As far as I can tell, this is largely down to Diageo's marketing po...

Ten days in Cuba was quite enough for me. I stayed mostly in sweltering Havana, with just a brief side-trip to El Che's mausoleum in sim...

The time has come for the second part of my Sunny Islands With Bad Beer series , or at least the research end of it. This time I won't b...

Boak and Bailey's quest for the origins of beer obsession lead me to revisit a story I touched upon three Sessions ago. Two days after...

I spent my last evening in Cyprus milling around on my own in Larnaca. In amongst the blaring seafront bars competing with each other for th...

It's bilingual puns again today, I'm afraid. Sorry. Solas is a bar on Wexford Street in central Dublin. It's a very up-market mo...

The gradual increase in the number of American beers available in Ireland (real American, not Kilkenny-made Bud or Cork-made Miller), as men...

Beer and food ? That's a no-brainer for me and means curry every time. Historically speaking, the beer should be Carlsberg, the first la...

Here I am in Brussels, beer capital of the world and my first post is about... Irish stout. Funny story. On my way to the airport on Tuesd...

It's a damning indictment of the state of Irish beer that our largest independent brewer, owner of a chain of pubs which does not stock ...

For all my ravings about craft-brewed this and complex-flavoured that, I do like to keep a supply of easy-drinking fizzy lager in the house ...