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The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 11h

Victory! TeKus of Narwhal all round.

Four glasses of Sierra Nevada Narwhal imperial stout.

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The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 12h

Two point lead going into the last round. All to play for.

The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 14h

This you?

A racist 19th century cartoon of an angry Irishman.

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The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 15h

Such bitterness...

The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 15h

Black IPA: resurgent and, frankly, getting a bit mouthy.

Headline: "British-Irish naval patrols needed to protect undersea cables, says BIPA."

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The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 20h

Visiting a trappist brewery in a few weeks' time and got notice from the organiser that we're not allowed photograph the monks. I hadn't planned to, but if it's forbidden... 😈

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The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 1d

Aww, thank you!

The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 1d

Bossing #pastamonday with some nduja pork meatballs.

Pork meatballs in sauce on fusilli pasta.

The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, they don't run it like a normal business, which can be inconvenient.

The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 1d

Today on the blog, I'm taking a look at the autumnal beer range at Open Gate. It's a pumpkin-free zone: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2025/10/autu...

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The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 2d

My beer of the weekend, not that you asked, was Lough Gill Solera.

The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 2d

Asian-spiced oysters topped with fried onion? Don't mind if I etc.

Dish as described, in Craft, Harold's Cross, Dublin.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 2d

😬

The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 2d

Throw a dart at a lamppost.

The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 3d

And a very Merry Christmas to you, middle aisle.

Me, helping myself to Aldi Christmas-themed liqueur chocolates.

The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 3d

Hippy wigs in Woolworths latest:

The BrewDog core range on sale in Aldi Ireland.

The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 4d

Encornu.

Alan McLeod / A Good Beer Blog @agoodbeerblog.bsky.social · 4d

Lecornu 2.0!

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d

Breaking News: President Emmanuel Macron of France reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, days after Lecornu resigned.

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The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 4d

Skål!

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sirmontyhusk.bsky.social @sirmontyhusk.bsky.social · 4d

Not sure about the branding on the glassware for Basement Beer 😂

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The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 4d

The whole thing is so depressing. The *noise* of it all is completely out of keeping with the actual role that's up for election. Bring back the presidents who were little more than constitutional furniture.

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The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 4d

As kids we're taught how spiders catch their prey and wrap it in webbing before tucking in. Well, I just watched ol' Seven Legs here slurp down a fruitfly in one go, like spaghetti. No crumbs. #nature

The very big spider who now owns my kitchen window.

The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 4d

I wouldn't have said so, but ymmv.

The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 4d

10 Cloverfield Lane? I wasn't sure if it gets classified as horror, but Wikipedia thinks it is.

The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 4d

Since you have Beetlejuice, maybe other Henry Selick stuff, like Monkeybone, or [cancelled author asterisk] Coraline.

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