The Beer Nut

To Urban Brewing, where strictly speaking there were more beers than I had time for.

6% ABV is a reasonable strength for an IPA.

Arriving late for summer, Witty Banter is a new limited edition witbier from Dew Drop Brewhouse in Kildare.

Sweden's Brewski is one of those breweries whose beer is imported en masse to Ireland.

Zichovec Pivovar is one of those European breweries with a vast array of beers on sale in my neck of the woods, so I get to pick what looks interesting from their range.

I'm all in favour of small breweries diverging from the ubiquitous craft styles, but a Rotbier, Rascals?

The market for independent beer may have contracted somewhat, but the breweries can still put on a show.

Time for a quick check-in with Latvian brewery Ārpus.

I can't say that Bavarian brewery Faust has appeared much on my radar, in Germany or beyond.

With a dwindling list of Dublin pubs which put their beer offer first, it's important to treasure the ones we have left.

It's not all big IPAs and blousy sour ales in Irish beer these days.

At the outset of this series, I hadn't realised that each pair would include one pale ale and one something else.

I'm happy to observe that The Christchurch, Third Barrel Brewing's new pub, is performing its required role exceptionally well, as the hangout of preference for Dublin's zytherati.

First beer of the evening on one of the hottest days of late summer: if that doesn't provide a fair context for a piña colada sour beer, I don't know what does.

Autumn has arrived, and the annual Dublin Beer Festival at the RDS will be upon us soon.

Look, I'm absolutely not against the concept of non-alcoholic beers.

Virtually no cask ale means absolutely no warm cask ale: a win for the Dublin pub scene, there.

I've barely set foot in Belgium this year, though that will be changing later in the autumn.

The pale ales, they drop slowly.

Three new beers from Heaney Brewery to round the week off.

What more appropriate drink for a summer midweek than shandy?

The uncertainty that surrounds the rest of Diageo doesn't seem to be affecting the folks at Guinness: the one bit of the drinks multinational which looks to be washing its face, and no doubt the faces of Johnnie Walker and Captain Morgan too.

I've left it late getting to Beak, a brewery which shares its Sussex home town with the redoubtable Harvey's.

Jubel lager "cut with" fruit has, it seems, been going great guns over in the country next door.

At time of writing, the long hot summer of 2026 is continuing.

I have some tripartite brand extendery for you today.

Sometime wild beer specialist Wide Street Brewing continues to pursue other goals with its two latest releases.

The beer range at Marks & Spencer is something I tend to pick at, rather than actively pursue.

I had enough fun with the beers from Croatia's Garden Brewery recently that I picked up cans of the other two beers of theirs currently in circulation in Dublin.

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Three new beers from the generally reliable Our Brewery of Randalstown showed up locally recently.

"Just stay out of Temple Bar" is my general advice to anyone coming to Dublin and looking for beer.

A completely random pick from the fridge at Craft Central landed me this can of triple IPA from Canadian brewer Nano Cino.

The Glider is a modern marvel.

In the discourse around beer, one often sees it noted that the simplistic veneration of ever-bigger numbers, common a decade and more ago, has subsided.