The Beer Nut

I'm used to Irish breweries having a long gestation, from the first announcement by some ballsy entrepreneur to actually being able to d...

I'm off on holidays for the next while, which meant doing a bit of fridge and notebook clearing before I went. Here's most of a summ...

This blog turns 13 today, and anyone who has been reading it for a while will doubtless have noticed that I write more about Diageo beers ...

It's come up before how Irish supermarkets are currently using beer as one of the weapons in their endless struggle for dominance over e...

A couple of weeks ago I took up the invitation from Aidan of Galway Hooker to visit the new brewery site in Oranmore with a group of fello...

As the Irish beer market continues to grow, it's inevitable that contract brewing forms a big part of it. Of the Irish breweries who fac...

Inevitable, really. Only a year ago I passive-aggressively ask the trade where the Thornbridge stuff is, and now there's more of it com...

It's a rite of passage for the Irish beer drinker to be able to reminisce on a failed Guinness brand extension. You're not fit for a...

All of a sudden it seems like there's loads happening on the Irish beer scene. For one thing, Franciscan Well have a new seasonal out wh...

The Irish summer made a fleeting appearance late last week, coinciding with the opening of Bloom in the Park , a garden festival organised b...

It's Porterhouse Independent Irish Beer and Whiskey Festival time once again. And, also once again, they've re-jigged the way they...

A particularly awkward Session topic for me this month. Stan Hieronymus has set it up, picking " regular beer " as the theme. Now,...

The Session rolls round again and once more I am permitted to digress momentarily from my usual straight-laced beer reviews and propound one...