The Beer Nut

This year was my tenth at the Borefts Beer Festival, held at the De Molen brewery in Bodegraven. The Festival itself was celebrating 20 year...

I have been a consistent enjoyer of the Catharina sour beers from Galway Bay, the only Irish brewery that makes them. The latest, Felina , h...

It's like one of those ghosts that doesn't know it's dead. The Lauterbacher brewery claims a foundation date of 1889, with a his...

The September beer festival at the RDS in Dublin was a fixture on Ireland's calendar between 2011 and 2017. A later move to other venues...

The temperature hit the mid-30s when I was in Plovdiv . That necessitated some split-shift tourism, visiting sights in the morning and eveni...

I'm guessing the large number of Czech and German visitors to Bulgaria are one reason it carries more of their beers than ones from any ...

My last three posts  covered what I saw of the craft scene on my visit to Bulgaria, and I make no attempt to define what I mean by "c...