The Beer Nut

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...

Now that we're properly into winter, I get to look at some of this season's new release stouts. It's called journalism; look it ...

Time for an overdue look at some of the random stuff showing up on tap around Dublin in recent months. We'll start with Galway Bay, a...

Last week the Franciscan Well released its 2009 Christmas ale, under the jolly seasonal name of 3 Kings . Having adored last year's mad...

And so I was off to Cork on a bright and sunny Easter Saturday morning for the headline event of the Irish beer calendar. This year, the Fra...

Ireland was very poorly represented at the European Beer Festival, with Hilden the only Irish-owned brewery exhibiting. They had recently la...

Whoosh! There went the 2008 Great British Beer Festival , in just six and a half glorious hours of great beer and excellent company. Especia...

Pete Brown : you're a genius. On Impy Malting a while back, Pete suggested in a comment that us bloggers try and blag our way into the...

An enjoyable side-effect of being a beer blogger is the news, information and plain old gossip I receive from other beer fanatics. At the we...

The Irish beer calendar is a short one and mostly concentrated in the latter half of year, with Hilden in August, the GIBF in October and ...

It's that day of the year when central Dublin becomes a no-go area and I'm holed up at home with a couple of beers to keep me compan...

What is it about craft beer branding and canines? We have those well known American breeds Flying Dog and Dogfish Head, and now there's ...

There's no doubt that the beer market in Ireland is currently undergoing an upheaval. Choice on the shelves has never been greater and s...