I hear they're eyeing up Myspace as well.

True, but I feel I'm owed one day on which to feel not so guilty about it. It was the calendar! (In league with Marks & Spencer and Colman's mustard.)

You mean I ate all those pies on 14th March for NOTHING?

Just noticed that the company which reinvented this particular wheel is a sponsor of the website. It's an ad.

O'Hara's Stout in a nitro widget can.

Dundalk Bay stout in a nitro widget can.

Weird piece. "Quite unique" eh?

Duvel under a clear blue sky.

Stealing some holiday vibes on the patio 😎🇧🇪

Front door of Open Baladin, Rome.

Front door of The Football Pub, Rome.

Front door of Be.Re, Rome.

Front window of Luppolo Station, Rome, with a glass of pale lager in the foreground.

What's on tap at Rome's top beer spots? My blog has the gen today: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

I happened across a 2019 vintage. It was excellent.

My beer of the weekend, not that you asked, was Liefmans Goudenband.

Dublin pubs and the ‘Boycott Bass’ campaign (1932/1933) In the early 1930s, republicans in Dublin and elsewhere waged a campaign of intimidation against publicans who sold Bass ale, which involved violent tactics and grabbed headlines at home and furthe…

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Drinking Gouden Carolus Tripel from a Rochefort chalice glass.

Howayeh Charlie.

A small dog, in Dolly's, Terenure, Dublin.

Dog in the dog pub, take a drink.

A frankly insane AI depiction of "Ireland" including snowy peaks, a bright red train, and presumably a fjord

Ahhhh Ireland

Paid €15.40 for two pints, so roughly half that.

The beer page of the Dolly's drinks menu. There's a black streak down the page where the beer prices should be.

It's something of a running joke how long this place has taken to open, but they appear to have had to redact the prices on the draught beer menu ON DAY ONE.

A pint of Trouble Brewing Ambush hazy IPA and a pint of Kinnegar Scraggy Bay non-hazy IPA at Dolly's, Terenure, Dublin.

The beer offer has improved, mind.

Vaughan's Eagle House is a Victorian corner pub in Terenure, Dublin. It has, today, been reinvented as "Dolly's", a flamboyant drag-coded dog-themed craft-beer-and-cocktails bar. They've painted it pink and added green tiles to the exterior.

A bank of beer taps at Dolly's.

Vaughan's Eagle House of Terenure village is Going Through Some Things. It's important that we're all supportive of it/them during this disconcerting time for all of us.

I've opened a bottle of Lindemans Cuvée René Oude Gueuze 2023. Just because.

"Hey Johnny, what are you celebrating?"
"What've you got?"

It's a better beer, IMHO.

Crooked Stave Italian Pils.

On the blog today, another wild beer specialist tries its hand at more mundane fare. From mixed fermentation to mixed results: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2026/04/goin...

God: OK, what will we make "ChatGPT" sound like in French? Give me your best ideas.

Brehon Brewhouse Ulster Black on cask.

🚨Cask Stout Klaxon!🚨
Ulster Black in fiiiine form at The Porterhouse right now.

Slay (Filthy) Queen(s): Beer Tasting, Ghost Hunting, and Trying to Lose Our 17th Century Ale License with Rye River Brewing Don’t mind the dead body in the back. Katherine Blomiley wasn’t one to let a little thing like a corpse deprive her of liberating customers from their ill-gotten gains. Not even her mother-in-law’s…

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Something like that.

Should have thought of that before you sat down.

"Enjoy your table for 45 minutes". At the café of the National Gallery of Ireland.

Nothing on the menu was as delicious as the pass-agg tone of this note.

Lidl San Martínez lager.

"World Beer"? I haven't heard that name in a looong time. New blog post: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2026/04/budg...

as you were

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I find Michael Portillo's hair unconvincing. #thetrains