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Dark cask beers at the Wetherspoon Spring Beer Festival.

Dark cask beers at the Wetherspoon Spring Beer Festival.

Ahoy casketeers! Findings from the 2026 #Spoonsfest, on the blog today: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2026/03/spri...

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Hogs Back Juliet. The badge says it's brewed for IWD.

Hogs Back Juliet. The badge says it's brewed for IWD.

Doing my bit for #InternationalWomensDay or whatever it says on the smallprint of this #Spoonsfest pumpclip ✊️

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Half way through the #Spoonsfest beers with 14 out of 30 ticked, Elgoods Shug Monkey is the top beer so far despite the more than dubious name. A basic bitter elevated to transcendence by pungent yeast esters and an astringent, addictive bitterness.

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A pint of Thornbridge Pink Grapefruit Pale: €2.05 a pint in The Forty Foot, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.

A pint of Thornbridge Pink Grapefruit Pale: €2.05 a pint in The Forty Foot, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.

Growing tired of the rip-off €2.60 pints in town, I have come out to Dún Laoghaire in search of better value. #Spoonsfest

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Bunting for the 2026 Spring Beer Festival being hung at Keavan's Port, the JD Wetherspoon on Camden Street, Dublin.

Bunting for the 2026 Spring Beer Festival being hung at Keavan's Port, the JD Wetherspoon on Camden Street, Dublin.

Hang the bunting, boys. It's #Spoonsfest!

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Maxim Cashmere and Evan Evans Storm Runner, on cask at Keavan's Port, Dublin. I think the beers and pumpclips are the wrong way round here. See post for details.

Maxim Cashmere and Evan Evans Storm Runner, on cask at Keavan's Port, Dublin. I think the beers and pumpclips are the wrong way round here. See post for details.

My second blog post from the autumn 2025 #Spoonsfest is here. Take a look at what you could have won. thebeernut.blogspot.com/2025/10/ceas...

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Nethergate Harvest Stout and Hook Norton Pick Me Up mild, on cask at The Silver Penny, Dublin.

Nethergate Harvest Stout and Hook Norton Pick Me Up mild, on cask at The Silver Penny, Dublin.

In the first of an all-cask two-parter, I'm getting stuck into the beers from the recent #Spoonsfest, on the blog today: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2025/10/star...

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Bateman's Autumn Sun at Keavan's Port (JD Wetherspoon), Dublin.

Bateman's Autumn Sun at Keavan's Port (JD Wetherspoon), Dublin.

Innis & Gunn Spiced Rum Cask at Keavan's Port (JD Wetherspoon), Dublin.

Innis & Gunn Spiced Rum Cask at Keavan's Port (JD Wetherspoon), Dublin.

A day early, but the #Spoonsfest starting pistol has been fired on Camden Street.

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Some of the cask beers currently available at The Silver Penny, Abbey Street, Dublin. Part of the JD Wetherspoon Spring Beer Festival.

Some of the cask beers currently available at The Silver Penny, Abbey Street, Dublin. Part of the JD Wetherspoon Spring Beer Festival.

Dublin casketeers: if you haven't dipped your toe into #Spoonsfest yet, there's a decent selection on in the Abbey Street branch right now.

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Sign in Abbey Street JD Wetherspoon offering pitchers of cask ale for €5.20 during the festival.

Sign in Abbey Street JD Wetherspoon offering pitchers of cask ale for €5.20 during the festival.

On one hand it's sad that the beers don't turn over fast enough by the pint, but on the other there are some superb dark ones in the current #Spoonsfest

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Logo of the JD Wetherspoon Spring 2025 Beer Festival, 5-16 March.

Logo of the JD Wetherspoon Spring 2025 Beer Festival, 5-16 March.

It's Spoonsfest day, yes it's Spoonsfest day, yes it's Sp-Sp-Sp-Sp-Sp-Sp-Sp-Sp #Spoonsfest day.

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