The Beer Nut

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?

A view of Dublin Bay from Sandycove on a sunny day (today).

It's a nice day in Sandycove. I can see why the rich people decided to live here.

TwoSides Grindstone coffee porter.

Normally I know what to expect from a coffee porter. The example in today's blog post brought me somewhere else entirely: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2026/03/go-c...

There'll be other days. Main thing is: the season has begun.

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

Just did my first 12k spin out along the coast for this year. Invigorating.

On the Demise of BrewDog From someone who worked for them, and then spoke out against them

Charlotte's voice is the one I was waiting for on this.

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Brewdog’s tap runs dry - The Berliner The brewery is facing bankruptcy in Germany due to a simple economic difficulty: people are drinking less beer.

It's not part of the deal. They're looking for a new buyer. www.the-berliner.com/english-news...

James on Social Tip's Instagram, with complaints from users in the comments that it's not as good as it was when it started.

Since leaving BrewDog, I'm sure James is glad he doesn't have to listen to all the Equity Punks complaining about their diminishing rewards... oh.

Fair.

Over here, they're a major disruptor that has managed to have absolutely zero impact on the hospitality sector as a whole. Nobody is even drinking the cut-price Guinness.

I'm still trying to decide if Tilray is dumb or amazing at buying breweries.

I'd have gone with "Skunk IPA", but time will tell.

Tilray Brands close to deal for BrewDog assets - Just Drinks Tilray Brands, the US brewer and cannabis group, is nearing a deal to buy parts of UK beer business BrewDog, Just Drinks understands.

What the actual fuck? $40 million?? I will say this: when Tilray goes to a fire sale, they never take more than a pocketful of spare change.

Poor old Tilly Ray,
Sounded sad upon the radio,
Bought a load of Punk for not much dough.

Why anyone would be drinking industrial nitro gack is beyond me.

A Wetherspoon magazine with "Stout-standing" on the cover, in red cursive writing, in the Guinness style.

If a gag's worth doing, it's also worth doing in a fake-Arthur's-signature style.

A tabletop advert in JD Wetherspoon flagging that Guinness is new.

Draught stout is a tough category for any new entrant. Best of luck to the untested arriviste on the right.

Likewise Whitewater in Northern Ireland might be a bit concerned about their place as the "craft" kegs and bottles on the C&C dray.

Ah. That adds a bit of reason to C&C's interest. They seem to be struggling to manage the brewery in Clonmel, so I was wondering what would possess them to add another to their portfolio. If they're already making the beer, there's a logic to buying the brand.

Terenure.

Odell Wire Walker double IPA.

We're Colorado-bound on the blog once again, this time with a more familiar producer: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2026/03/rock...

As a child, one of my cousins-in-law (born early 1990s) asked his parents about the "So-vee-eh Union".

[photorealistic image of Watt crying in the foreground as a crane hoists a giant red Tennents T onto the facade of the Ellon brewery. a nearby skip is piled high with broken "independence or death" neon signage]