They're a gregarious lot at Budapest's Mad Scientist. Today's three beers are all collaborations with various other parties.Mad in Black is that unusual ...

 Why does fall seem to just speed up life?  Is it because school starts again; is it the days getting shorter?  Is it just because I am getting older and ...

The market for independent beer may have contracted somewhat, but the breweries can still put on a show. A couple of weeks ago the Dublin Beer Festival ...

I'm all in favour of small breweries diverging from the ubiquitous craft styles, but a Rotbier, Rascals? I'm not, generally, a fan of Nuremberg's totemic ...

Time for a quick check-in with Latvian brewery Ārpus. Craft Central carries a vast array of their cans, and I judiciously picked a handful of ones that ...

First beer of the evening on one of the hottest days of late summer: if that doesn't provide a fair context for a piña colada sour beer, I don't know what ...

Autumn has arrived, and the annual Dublin Beer Festival at the RDS will be upon us soon. Ahead of that, I have a series of short posts on recently released ...

I've barely set foot in Belgium this year, though that will be changing later in the autumn. To tide me over, a couple of Flemish randomers I picked up in ...

Virtually no cask ale means absolutely no warm cask ale: a win for the Dublin pub scene, there. At JD Wetherspoon, the cellar cooling system was well able ...

What more appropriate drink for a summer midweek than shandy? The Shandy Shack would like us to believe there is no better proposition. "Shandy's a British ...