The Beer Nut

The Beer Nut

@thebeernut.bsky.social

Drinks beer, travels. Drinks beer. Writings: https://thebeernut.blogspot.com/

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The Beer Nut
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Sitting in an alley drinking a beer while a troop of tiny children in hi-viz vests scurry past on their way to be shown a statue of a girl urinating. Hello Belgium. How've you been?

The Beer Nut
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I get that it's a small business which may only deal with other small businesses, but why would you let this pumpclip out with the character's left hand looking like that?

Westy@westy539.bsky.social

Bad weather = PUB! Currently drinking this nice malty bitter. Super dry finish 😋 🍻 #BskyBeer #Beer #Ale

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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray)
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BLOG POST: “It’s exciting to be able to buy imported Helles beers from both Augustiner and Tegernsee at Sainsbury’s, while we’re picking up canned tuna, Woolite and ‘crispy nuggets’. And £3.40 a bottle doesn’t seem like a terrible price, either.” But... boakandbailey.com/2026/10/its-...

boakandbailey.comIt’s great but is it worth three times the price?Craft beer people tend to agree that it’s worth paying extra for quality but how much better does a beer need to taste to cost more than three times as much?
The Beer Nut
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Halloween Tale of Horror 👇

Thomas Carroll@irish-goat.bsky.social

The owner of the Mandarin Palace Chinese in Derry is oft to dress up like Elvis and belt out a few tunes during a Saturday dinner service. I also used to live directly above the restaurant...

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Robin LeBlanc, from work
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I'm sorry, but I don't think github and tech subreddits being flooded with vibe coded programs that won't work outside of the uploader's computer is living "near the digital frontier." It feels more like drinking sewage water and dying of dysentery before even heading out to the frontier.

The Verge@theverge.com

Bill Gates thinks we need to prepare for roughly two decades of AI disruption, and he says this period could be so painful it might split society in two — between people comfortable living near the technological frontier, and those who reject it. Read, watch, or listen: buff.ly/5e6qf4M

The Beer Nut
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Most mornings I'm stopped at Portobello bridge while traffic crosses from Rathmines into town. The bus passengers look like this.

Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺@braciatrix.bsky.social

And finally the one that graces the cover of my latest work, In the Name of the Devil, the drawing for The Premature Burial. Here a man lies trapped in his coffin, buried six feet underground and very much still alive. We can see the terror on his face as he awaits his fate

The Beer Nut
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What's the point of pull quotes in an online article? In print, you're leafing through and the pictures and pull quotes are there to get your attention. But online, you're already reading the thing before you encounter a pull quote. I don't get it.

The Beer Nut
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"To reef more money from unsuspecting yanks, perchance to dream."

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel.bsky.social

That whole Masters of Ale thing is something the started this year to reef more money from unsuspecting yanks. There's a talk there at Savour this weekend and I hope one of the speakers might steer the history in the right direction, but I'd say his hands are tied ...

The Beer Nut
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Remember: if it *doesn't* say it's brewed in Ireland, it's not brewed in Ireland. And if it *does* say it's brewed in Enniscorthy, it's brewed in Yorkshire.

Daniel - Desert Apostate@hcexvangelical.bsky.social

I believe you are correct. I'll have to look closer the next time I'm at the beer store. I want to say Connecticut. The only pictures I have are of the front of the cans, and there is a subtle change. From "brewed in Ireland," to "batch brewed Irish style ale"

The Beer Nut
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My extremely down-to-earth local is re-opening as "Poddle's Mill Bar & Kitchen". Welcome to Kimmage: the graveyard of gentrification.

Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie

Not been much activity in terms of pub openings for the past while, so I've ended up putting some speculation and unconfirmed stuff on the pipeline: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/p/pub-openin...

everypubindublin.blogspot.comPub Openings/Reopenings/Pipeline 2026Visiting every pub in Dublin City & County, and documenting new pubs and those that have gone before.