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Everyone copies Belgian ales, while the Belgians try and do more interesting things with their brewing legacy. Here are some beers straddling the boundaries of tradition and innovation, Belgian-style.| The Beer Nut
I like a bit of cedar spice in a beer when I can get it, so was attracted on sight to this cedar-aged American-style barley wine from Czech brewer Sibeeria. I don't know why they decided to call it Nostalgie 70s but that's what we're stuck with. It's 10.7% ABV.| The Beer Nut
When I was a kid they played lame music for middle aged people in the supermarket but this morning at Whole Foods it’s now all amazing bangers from my youth.| The Beer Nut
Can you feel the evenings drawing in, and the lure of dark and wholesome beers? Today's three don't have anything much to connect them, other than arriving into my eyeline at around the same time last July.| The Beer Nut
It's bad form that the Traunstein beers have been in circulation here for some time and I haven't yet ticked off the main core lagers. A sunny Sunday afternoon last month provided the opportunity.| The Beer Nut
Blimey. It's been a year since I last called by Urban Brewing. Shameful altogether. As a brewpub with no core range, beers turn over regularly, but there are themes, and regular re-ups of styles they've done before.| The Beer Nut
Sour beer with unusual ingredients is one of my regular hobby horses. Nothing's too outré to dissolve in a properly acidic beer solution for...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
For years, Kinnegar Brewing carried the strapline "Farmhouse beers from Donegal" -- it's gone from their beers but you can still see it on my pint glass. It was always a bit odd, because "farmhouse style" (howsoever you wish to interpret that) was never really a big thing for the brewery, which has tended to prefer making very clean pale ales and lagers. Its Phunk Pharm wild fermentation facility has been very quiet of late, unless I missed something. The latest additions to the Brewers At Pl...| The Beer Nut
It's a discount grocery disaster that Lidl appears to have killed off the excellent Rye-River-brewed brown ale, just as I was getting into the habit of buying it. Lidl still remains best of breed for its regular-production beer range, but arch rival Aldi has the edge when it comes to service to tickers: they keep the short-run beers turning over. Today I'm catching up with three recent manifestations.| The Beer Nut
An early afternoon train out of Connolly meant a couple of pre-boarding pints at The Silver Penny. There were two new ticks for me, with a broadly supernatural theme between them.| The Beer Nut
Foreign interpretations of Irish beer styles, and stout in particular, is something of a research interest of mine. They're not often sold in Ireland, for perhaps obvious reasons, so I was drawn to O'Ness by Prague brewery Sibeeria as much for its novelty value as anything else.| The Beer Nut
Could it be that pale ale's dominance of the new-release beer schedule in Ireland is waning? Even allowing for the plethora of fruit beers which landed this past summer, there doesn't seem to have been quite as much of the hoppy stuff. I think that's good for diversity. Anyway, here's all the new Irish pale ales that came my way in recent months. | The Beer Nut
Here's an official end to the summer, and an official end to all the fruit beers that Irish breweries have been turning out in recent months. Although, given the idiosyncrasies of Irish beer seasonality, I could well still be writing about them until Christmas.| The Beer Nut
The summer seasonal from WhiteField is a wheat beer called Midnight Sun. The Tipperary brewery is steadfast in its dislike of novelty, and anything on the "craft" side of the industry, so I would be reasonably confident I've drank a beer made to this recipe before, back in the days of White Gypsy, or Messrs Maguire before that. Still, it's how it is today that counts.| The Beer Nut
They've fairly been cranking the beers out at Diageo's tourist-focussed 10 hectolitre microbrewery in the St James's Gate complex, and I've ...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
DOT Brew has its summer clothes on today, beginning on two recent releases, very much not the sort of heavy barrel-aged dark beers on which the brewer has built its reputation, before reverting to type for the finisher.| The Beer Nut
In the first pair of releases since they returned to contract brewing, Hopfully has sought to placate both sides in the pale ale civil war.| The Beer Nut
Hagstravaganza 11, the seventh of its name, took place at The White Hag brewery recently. As usual, a team of guest brewers from Ireland, the UK and Europe brought a wide selection of beers for us to work through, 200ml at a time.| The Beer Nut
As soon as I heard that Priory Brewing had filled in the gaps in its line-up, I was straight back to the tank bar in Tallaght, to pick up where I left off.| The Beer Nut
I had two problems with this beer before I even took it out of the fridge:| The Beer Nut
After a one-year hiatus by the festival, and ten years by me, I was back at The Great British Beer Festival last week, for the Tuesday after...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
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Did Sierra Nevada need to add a Peachy Little Thing to its already extensive range of hazy IPAs? No it did not. But, as always, I am obliged to drink and tell you about it. To give it a properly fair shake, I opened it on a warm afternoon, on the assumption that this is a more frivolous and summery kind of beer, although the 7% ABV means it comes with some serious heft. It's mostly opaque and the bright orange of a diluted squash. The peach... substance... is very apparent from the aroma, add...| The Beer Nut
In the plague of closures that seems to be ripping through Irish brewing at the moment, Hopfully's was especially poignant. I've watched the plucky Brazilians from their contract brewing beginnings at Craftworks, through their gypsy phase, the re-commissioning of Brendan Dobbin's first-generation Porterhouse kit, the move to Waterford and the eventual takeover of Metalman's premises down there. I visited late last year, and the 2024 winter specials were especially good. Meanwhile they appeare...| The Beer Nut
Tomorrow, all going well, will see me back at the Great British Beer Festival for the first time in a decade. I am bemused at the thought that I won't be stepping outdoors at any point between arriving at Dublin airport in the morning and leaving it again in the evening. GBBF has moved to the UK's National Exhibition Centre, which is physically connected to Birmingham airport. It'll be my second return trip through that airport this summer, as a few weeks ago, work sent me to Great Malvern in...| The Beer Nut
Today's random exotic picks from the off licence are all by the Helsinki brewery CoolHead. They wear their hearts on their sleeves with an I...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
A flurry of activity from the Whiplash brewery resulted in today's offerings. Having already done a beer for burger chain Bunsen, they're co...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
It's Whiplash again. A note of appreciation, first of all, for their tendency to release new beers in groups rather than trickling them out ...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
I hadn't planned on being back in Open Gate quite so soon , but the offer of a new imperial stout was enough to tempt me in. And I found out...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
The summer beer release schedule has been in overdrive lately. Today's round-up is just from the busy brewers of Dublin and its periphery. ...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
It's a miracle! Though perhaps it shouldn't be surprising that a brewery called Priory, with a comprehensively Catholic theme running across...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
Being at home on the June Bank Holiday Sunday meant being an involuntary audience member at the Forbidden Fruit music festival, taking place...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
Beer made with a proportion of waste bread in the grist isn't new. Babylone IPA from Brussels Beer Project was the first to come my way, bac...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
No, the dire wolf is not back from extinction. Being able to critically examine the claims in the publicity material from a biosciences comp...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
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I'm not unfamiliar with Dutch beer and brewing, but had never heard of Rotterdam's Stadshaven Brouwerij, until I found six of its beers in t...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
I've almost reached the point where I don't bother looking for flights home from Brussels now. There are better options from Schiphol and, o...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
With the judging done after day one of the 2023 Brussels Beer Challenge , a visit to a local brewery was scheduled. I've had a handful of be...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
Continuing from yesterday , my run-down of the beers I drank at the Belgian Beer Weekend festival in Brussels last month. Early on, I spotte...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
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I didn't get to do a whole lot of discretionary pub crawling on my most recent visit to Bristol, mostly going where events took me. Luckily ...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
Why is that man photographing his pint?| thebeernut.blogspot.com
I missed the most recent beer launch event by O Brother at UnderDog, but fortunately the taps were still extensively taken over when I calle...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
Why is that man photographing his pint?| thebeernut.blogspot.com
Why is that man photographing his pint?| thebeernut.blogspot.com
It's been a busy summer of beery events, one which has brought me out of my usual haunts in the capital on several occasions. The first tri...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
Why is that man photographing his pint?| thebeernut.blogspot.com
The thing that stopped me from doing something sensible with my Toer de Geuze weekend, like getting the train to Boon and staying there, was...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
The final ever iteration of The Session happens today , and I'm seeing it out the way I'd like to be remembered: scooping furiously. The occ...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
L-R: Wit, Saison, Dubbel, Tripel, Lambic & Stout Well this was a surprise. Though maybe it shouldn't have been. Both Diageo and John Mar...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
Hagstravaganza sits like a neutron star in Irish beer discourse this summer, bending all conversations towards it, both before and after th...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
Beer blogging's big brother Alan is attempting to revive The Session, a cross-platform themed event last seen in these parts in 2018 . His ...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
On Monday I mentioned drinking at Asterix, a beer bar and restaurant in central São Paulo. While the draft selection is modest, the stock o...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
It's hard to beat a bit of sunshine and warmth in the midst of the winter gloom. Last month's New Year jaunt certainly provided that, with a...| thebeernut.blogspot.com
As chairman of Beoir , I get first call on where the AGM should be. This year, the place that had been niggling my need-to-visit sense, was ...| thebeernut.blogspot.com