You won't catch me writing about "ice cream sour" beers very often, so make the most of today's blog post: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2025/12/frui...

In the early '90s my school had an obsession with boys' hair length. This photo was presumably the nightmare scenario they were trying to prevent.

Today on the blog I'm giving the west coast revival a couple of kicks to see if it makes any noise: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2025/12/veer...

My beer of the weekend, not that you asked, was Lough Gill North Star.

I’m not very good at self-promotion, but here’s a repost for the Sunday readers out there 🙂 There’s a claim that is being repeated more often of late that cyder was a different and superior drink to cider. In this long read (perfect with a cup of tea or a glass of cider) I debunk this modern myth.

And it's goodnight from me.

Well this was a bit of fun 🤓

Beginning to look to me like the only type of boiled beer is European commercial beer. I don't think any of the other continents boiled, and European farmhouse brewers largely didn't, either. So of course everyone concluded all beer must be boiled.

*puffs pipe* See, this is a pretty good simulacrum of Guinness, but there's no point making a good simulacrum of Guinness because Guinness drinkers drink Guinness because it's Guinness, not because of how it tastes. *taps ash out*

The absolute state of this. 'From the Heart of County Wexford' and 'A family tradition since 1905' implies to the consumer that it's brewed in that county and has been around that long. Theakston Brewery should be hanging their head in shame for these shenanigans, as that's where it's brewed ...

First time visiting Daphni. Good beer range; points off for nonics -- thought we'd seen the back of those.

Any colour as long as it's black, is how I'm rolling in today's blog post: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2025/11/let-...

Beer writing's coming home.

It's that time again 🎉

Not enough credit is given to the safety feature of switching off the lightsaber if your hand has been chopped off.

It's early this year. Wasn't expecting it until next week.

How are the Germans getting along with hazy IPA, you ask? Here's a quick sketch: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2025/11/acht...

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OK but where are the Arts Degree Ginger All Butter Cookies?

On the blog today, an overdue return visit to the Belfast Beer & Cider Festival, and a new venue: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2025/11/bloc...

My beer of the weekend, not that you asked, was Hopfully Black Balloon.

Price of sour beer these days, you'd think they'd be all in.

Been a busy weekend down at the craft mines.

Paradox

Merry Extra Large Pork Pie

The Irish Georgian Society is hosting a talk on Tuesday 25th: "Built to Brew: the Architecture and Urban History of the Irish Brewery" by architecture historian Dr Livia Hurley. 6pm at their Dublin HQ (opposite Grogan's). Details and tickets: www.igs.ie/events/brew-...

Nothing helps with my bird feeder purchasing decisions so much as the tears of a squirrel.

Broke my 20-year-old Duvel glass a few months ago. For €10 in SuperValu, this was an economical replacement.

Ya breakin ma balls here, Wordle. Wordle 1,617 4/6* ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

What's the matter, babe? You've barely touched your turkey, ham, stuffing, gravy and brussels sprout loaded fries.

Finishing this week's blogging with a couple of quick ones from up north: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2025/11/swee...

Happy Vengeful Whale Day to all who celebrate.

#Sneachta.

What appears to be an AI re-parsing of Wikipedia is burning up the planet to give us such exceptionally useful content as this

Never understood how Bessbrook is important enough a destination to warrant its own wee sign on the platform at Newry. Fair play to whoever won that campaign.

On the blog today, that time I went to Belgium but ran out of breweries to visit so ended up drinking Franconian rauchbier from a holzfass in the town square: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2025/11/of-w...

Orpheus must hate the christmas panto.

Not sure how effective this is against personal injury claims, but it's cheaper than a plumber 🤷‍♂️

A #pastamonday response to the drop in temperature.

Today in "big breweries fuck things up when they buy small breweries" (via @everypubindublin.ie): www.irishexaminer.com/business/com...

I judged fruit beer and this was our winner: results.brusselsbeerchallenge.com/en/2025/3505... Never heard of the brewery but the beer was amazing.

Today's blog post is a run through some beers from one of the weirder parts of Belgium, which is saying something: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2025/11/apos...

My beer of the weekend, not that you asked, was Wicklow Wolf The Still Hand.

€15 in SuperValu so presumably the liquid is worth about 75c of that. But how bad can it be? All aboard! 🚢

Bobby-Draking this bad boy.

Hungary? Pfft. This is what passes for beer to those clowns. #thefootball

'The Wicklow Wolf Eclipse Stout and a glass of Moretti please.' I wait. 'We haven't got the Eclipse on, we have the O'Hara's nitro red.' 'Ah, okay. I'll have a Beamish.' 'But we've already pulled the O'Hara's!?' It's placed in front of me; I shrug ... Reader, I got my Beamish.

This turned out to be even weirder than the strapline implied.

"170 years". This must have been right around the time that Guinness settled on 1759 as its foundation date.