Stephen Clinch
@stephenclinch.bsky.social
Beer, food, travel, politics. Member of Bohs, fan of the Boston Celtics and part-owner of Trouble Brewing.
Scotland trying to 1up Ireland here!
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Scotland trying to 1up Ireland here!
Normally on a Friday evening I’m at home looking at a timeline of lovely pints. Not tonight!
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Normally on a Friday evening I’m at home looking at a timeline of lovely pints. Not tonight!
Grainger’s on Talbot Street have Dark Arts back on tap! They’ve also got at least one of these old school Trouble glasses.
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Grainger’s on Talbot Street have Dark Arts back on tap! They’ve also got at least one of these old school Trouble glasses.
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Have been sent the clip of Bernese Mountain Dog owners sending off Michael D twice by heart-melted people outside of Ireland.
What a country.
What a country.
President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina are preparing to leave Áras an Uachtaráin for the final time this evening as his term comes to an end.
Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president.
#VMNews
Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president.
#VMNews
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Have been sent the clip of Bernese Mountain Dog owners sending off Michael D twice by heart-melted people outside of Ireland.
What a country.
What a country.
I’d say the odds of your man ever getting the trillion dollars are slim to none.
November 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I’d say the odds of your man ever getting the trillion dollars are slim to none.
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No queuing at the bar, don't order cocktails, no table reservations and always buy your round.
@pelliclemag.com's Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette will shortly be carved upon stone tablets and placed above the entrance to the toilets.
@pelliclemag.com's Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette will shortly be carved upon stone tablets and placed above the entrance to the toilets.
The Pellicle Essential Guide to Pub Ettiquette!
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
The Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette — Pellicle
It was the writer and politician Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) who famously said, “ Change your hearts or you will lose your inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns ...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:33 AM
No queuing at the bar, don't order cocktails, no table reservations and always buy your round.
@pelliclemag.com's Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette will shortly be carved upon stone tablets and placed above the entrance to the toilets.
@pelliclemag.com's Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette will shortly be carved upon stone tablets and placed above the entrance to the toilets.
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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They literally ruin everything they touch
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They literally ruin everything they touch
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Completely normal website legitimised on the daily by politicos, hacks and people willing to turn a blind eye to what it is, and what its owner uses it for.
October 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Completely normal website legitimised on the daily by politicos, hacks and people willing to turn a blind eye to what it is, and what its owner uses it for.
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The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
October 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
Found this hidden gem in London, you’ve probably never heard of it!
October 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Found this hidden gem in London, you’ve probably never heard of it!
So obsessed with work I’m seeing breweries everywhere!
October 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
So obsessed with work I’m seeing breweries everywhere!
Crypto, the biggest ponzi scheme the world has ever seen.
October 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Crypto, the biggest ponzi scheme the world has ever seen.
There was a lad in the brewery last week wearing sun glasses with a pin size 4k camera built in and I’m definitely not here for it. We’re done!!!! We’re way past peak technology and are on our way down the other side.
October 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
There was a lad in the brewery last week wearing sun glasses with a pin size 4k camera built in and I’m definitely not here for it. We’re done!!!! We’re way past peak technology and are on our way down the other side.
After a 30 year break, I can officially announce. Lads, I’m back on the Liga!
October 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
After a 30 year break, I can officially announce. Lads, I’m back on the Liga!
Special thanks to the man below for doing all the real work and providing the recipes for these beers. It was great fun for us brewing these beers.
October 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Special thanks to the man below for doing all the real work and providing the recipes for these beers. It was great fun for us brewing these beers.
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There is a new @londonbeercity.bsky.social out today, featuring the King's Road and a pub called the Queen Charlotte. You can get it for free by signing up here: www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...
October 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
There is a new @londonbeercity.bsky.social out today, featuring the King's Road and a pub called the Queen Charlotte. You can get it for free by signing up here: www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...
Also, this movie is phenomenal!
October 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Also, this movie is phenomenal!
After a couple of years of mostly just brewing core beers, and paying down covid debts. We’ve been super busy doing things over the last month.
October 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
After a couple of years of mostly just brewing core beers, and paying down covid debts. We’ve been super busy doing things over the last month.
All that really matters at this stage.
Did yer man get his three and a half grand back yet?
October 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
All that really matters at this stage.
Taking myself out for a haircut and a couple of afternoon pints. Looking forward to finding a nice corner to read this in.
I’ve written for @pelliclemag.com about the Dog and Bell, a unique pub whose evolution over the past 40 years nevertheless illustrates the story of modern London pubs. It’s here: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out — The Dog and Bell in Deptford, London — Pellicle
On a Friday night in early December, Deptford’s Dog and Bell is Christmas as imagined by a Haribo-addled toddler. A huge resin Santa, grinning merrily in his sleigh, squats in Prince Street out...
www.pelliclemag.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Taking myself out for a haircut and a couple of afternoon pints. Looking forward to finding a nice corner to read this in.
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Pure greed, built a great business, but it was never enough, grow, grow, grow… Exploited the goodwill of so many staff, customers and industry pros.
EXCLUSIVE: BrewDog has announced it has sold its 'Lost Forest' after 250,000 of the trees it planted on the Scottish estate died
October 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Pure greed, built a great business, but it was never enough, grow, grow, grow… Exploited the goodwill of so many staff, customers and industry pros.
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Sunflower in Belfast, great little corner pub with 1 handpump serving local Boundary Pale Ale on our afternoon visit. Yard outside with pizza van. Came back in the evening for the Manouche gypsy swing band followed by folk club upstairs.
October 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Sunflower in Belfast, great little corner pub with 1 handpump serving local Boundary Pale Ale on our afternoon visit. Yard outside with pizza van. Came back in the evening for the Manouche gypsy swing band followed by folk club upstairs.