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Today is 2025-02-25, the sun sets at 17:55:22 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 1 hour, 49 mins and 39 secs. #GrandStretch #SpringStretch

GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular weekly round-up of good writing about beer and pubs, with more juicy nuggets than longreads this week. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/02/news...

Happy Friday everyone! 😁🍻

Happy Friday everyone! 😁🍻

Class 3 - Belgian Beer styles. Pure hardship πŸ€“πŸ»

Some show tonight by Jake Zerxes Fussell! πŸ€“πŸ‘

@patrickfreyne.bsky.social look what I found when I was looking through my sadly neglected cd collection!

Class 2 #bjcp American style beers...πŸ€“πŸ»

Imagine if your mistakes at work were recorded for all read to about for nearly 700 years. Like a permanent accidental reply all. Well, that's the case for the poor 14th-century cellarer of the Priory of the Holy Trinity (Christ Church, Dublin). And our instance involves ale 🧡 #skystorians

Just to round off Saturday night πŸ€“πŸ» #beer

Look, I'm not one to brag but...πŸ€“πŸ» #beersky #drinking #ale

Pretty happy with my Yorkshire puddings this evening πŸ˜‹ #cooking #dinner #foodsky

Today is 2025-02-02, the sun sets at 17:10:18 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 1 hour, 04 mins and 35 secs. #GrandStretch #NewYearNewStretch

Landed home to find a box of beer for the beer judging course I'm starting next week and what looks like a very interesting book about the history of brewing in Ireland πŸ€“πŸ»

A new blog post in my Irish beer history series, and this one takes a look at the beers being brewed by the Smithwick’s brewery in the 1950s, via a nice piece of breweriana .... beerfoodtravel.blogspot.com/2025/01/100-...

Hoping to see some of you at the book launch for Filthy Queens at Underdog on Thurs. But if you want even more Filthy Queens in your life, I'll be at Hodges Figgis on Tues, Feb 4th from 6pm, chatting with the incredible @alidunworth.bsky.social #skystorians www.waterstones.com/events/book-...

So you feel like buying my excellent and award-winning memoir, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died but aren't sure if it's as good as I keep saying. So here's a few pieces from - and about - the book, which might entice you to buy a copy right now from mammybook.com

Supping verdant in brickyard!

GOOD MORNING! Here's our usual weekly round up of great writing about beer and pubs. Kellerbier, relaunching a pub, ✨ Barnoldswick ✨, and more. boakandbailey.com/2025/01/news...

Celebrating all things Scottish this evening πŸ€“πŸ»

Is this the beginning of the grand stretch?

Some Blue sky, blue sky. Dublin. 🟦

Our next round of applications for free native provenance Irish trees will take place on Saturday, 25 January at 10am. The link will be posted on our social media platforms and website freetrees.ie #freetreesireland #lessmowingmoregrowing

Happy Friday folks! πŸ»πŸ€“

With the social media landscape artists depend on crumbling into a big lake of shite, now's a good time to mention I've a newsletter with snippets of Irish folklore & history, doodles, and fun nonsense, with zero involvement from fascist billionaires. Subscribe for free: www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter

I'm a domestic fucking goddess. I started making the dinner and happened up Full & Plenty, just checked and I was doing it right! πŸ€“ I'll have the stout with it later, sadly no one else in the house likes a drop of it in the stew...

Na zdravi!

Good morning! Here's our regular weekly round up of links and news. We do this every Saturday morning, give or take. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2025/01/news...

Need any inspiration? We wrote the book on it… #HotFat #fryanuary