The Beer Nut

That's the name, don't wear it out.

Black Bucket black IPA, and Ireland v Wales in rugby on TV.

They say the world's gone to shit, but I have Kinnegar Black Bucket and #TheRugby so, 🤷‍♂️

Nobody is making you drink anything.

I love:
a) That joke
b) That it has a direct Irish translation with Whiplash
c) And a Norn Irish one with Boundary.

Des de Moor obituary Other lives: Cabaret club entrepreneur, singer and performer who also wrote extensively about real ale

Obituary for Des de Moor now online at the Guardian

www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...

Engagement statistics.

Bottle of Orval in The Libertine.

Don't think I've ever had one of these in a Dublin pub.

"Pint bottles off the shelf", at Libertine, Dublin. They only have Guinness, though. For shame!

The first time you've seen this section on a beer menu.

Likewise!

Should be well settled by now.

Passable selection, with three Wicklow Wolf lines, a Whiplash and two types of draught Chouffe 👌

Exterior of The Libertine, a newly established pub in Dublin, which was previously the craft-focussed pub called 57 The Headline.

The interior. They've spent a bit on this. New partitions have turned a fairly open-plan L-shaped pub into something that feels altogether grander. The '90s-vintage mahogany bar has been replaced by a pale-oak-and-white-ceramics job.

Pint of Scraggy Bay.

Last weekend it was the former Against the Grain. Today it's the former 57 The Headline. My ghost will likely haunt both.

Yeah, the bottles arrived recently.

Yeah, the North is a whole other deal; a legacy from when they were the biggest beer producer up there. Down here, they're a big "cider" plant with beer tacked onto the side and hoping for the best.

Never liked them myself, but for a worrying amount of people, I&G Original was the gateway into actually-good beer.

Doubt it. It was last tried fairly recently and didn't fly. We don't get Whitewater, Heverlee or much by way of Tennent's either.

C&C buys Innis & Gunn beer brand for £4.5m Drinks group C&C Group said today it has bought the Innis & Gunn beer brand from the Scottish company's administrators for £4.5m.

Only £4.5m? It's been quite the week for noughties-vintage cock-of-the-walk Scottish beer barons being found out. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Hasen Original Kellerbier.

A paean to softly-spoken Bavarian lagers, on the blog today: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2026/03/germ...

People are disappointing in so many ways.

So, this is a stupid joke based on the fact that The Irish Times's pseudonymous business commentary column is called "Cantillon" for reasons far too boring to go into, but unrelated to the Brussels lambic brewery. Today, the column mentioned BrewDog's takeover by Tillray Brands.

You won't often find BrewDog and Cantillon in the same newspaper article. As far as I know, they never collaborated.

Sure is. #TeamSheehans

Now I want chocolate biscuit cake.

Image from Nautile's Facebook page showing the itinerary of their Ireland trip: A collaboration brew with Hope in Dublin on the 5th, a collaboration and tap takeover with The White Hag in Ballymote on the 6th, and a tap takeover in Brickyard, Dundrum Co. Dublin, on 7th March 2026.

Breton brewery Nautile is on a tour of Ireland at the moment. Catch their tap takeovers at @thewhitehag.bsky.social on Friday 6th March (tomorrow!) and at Brickyard, Dundrum on Saturday 7th.

A long row of taps on the bar at Il Santo Bevitore in 2019.

I happened across a beer festival when I visited. Had a fantastic couple of evenings.

Screenshot from Google Streetview of Il Santo Bevitore in Venice, a canalside pub in red brick with a first-floor balcony. Flags in the window advertise La Trappe and Sierra Nevada.

I don't normally go in for pretty pub pictures, but you may find me standing here on the virtual Ponte Santa Fosca in Venice, gazing at Il Santo Bevitore, for some time.

#TeamSheehans

Token lager is off.

FAO the sales and distribution team.

Oh wait, I think there may be another bank of taps I didn't hunt out. It's another Keogh's situation 🫤

Shitty beer line-up at Token.

I have strayed. Isn't Token supposed to have a Token independent beer from youse?