The Beer Nut

It's catch-up time for me with Wicklow Wolf. In my defence, Locavore Summer 2023  arrived late, only showing up on shelves near me in la...

It's always nice when the breweries come up with blog post ideas for me, so shout-out to Carlow Brewing and Hope for simultaneously rele...

I hope y'all like consonants, 'cos I'm just back from the Balkans and there's nothing them fellas like more than squeezing a...

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

Chris was a little bemused when, having offered to bring any beer available in California to Dublin for me, I asked for some Guinness Extra...

It's been a busy few days, beerwise, involving some thorough investigations into the new wave of Irish beers on the scene right now. It ...

I love cask beer, but there's an awful lot of horseshit preached about it, particularly from certain sectors of that lot over to the eas...

You know how neighbours love to gossip, and how annoying that can be. So it's not in the least bit surprising that when Edward Cecil Gui...

The busy beery weekend kicked off on Friday evening in the Bull & Castle and a pint of O'Hara's Stout from the cask. From there ...

The Bull & Castle's commitment to Ireland's craft beer has reached new heights in recent months with the addition of a beer engi...

It was a turf war: plain and simple. The independents had all been swallowed by the Big Three who were now each using the political influenc...

On his recent visit, Velky Al donated some bottles of Primátor Excluziv to a corner of the Irish beer blogosphere (me, Thom and Adeptus )...

I was in early to the Belfast Beer & Cider Festival on Saturday. When newer arrivals appeared and squinted inquisitively at the beer lis...

"What do you normally drink?" is a question I get asked a lot by friends, after I've gone off on one about how the pub we'...

George's Dock is a platform moored in a basin just off the Liffey in the heart of Dublin's financial district. It's used for eve...

I am agog at the news coming out of the Czech republic from the beer blogosphere's correspondents there -- Evan , Velky Al and Pivní Fi...