Beer Nouveau

07/11/2025

Porter on cask and nitro keg? Better stick a vortex creamer on that handpull then! Giving the cask a fighting chance on the smooth body front, and the drinkers an opportunity to see what cask can be!

🍺 The join us this Friday for the second day of the Belfast Beer & Cider Festival and meet the Brehon Brewhouse team at our educational Discovery Bar!

🍻 They'll be taking festivalgoers through a comparison of their Irish porter, Shanco Dubh (7.7% ABV), in cask and nitro. The cask version showcases its velvety malt complexity and gentle warmth, while the nitro dispense will bring a creamier mouthfeel and a cascading pour that accentuates its chocolate and coffee notes.

🎟️ Come and taste the difference yourself this Friday: https://orlo.uk/8WceW

17/10/2025

🍻 Find out about how alcohol consumption was restricted during the First World War, in the third part of Steve Dunkley's (Beer Nouveau) Government and Hospitality series for Learn and Discover.

🔎 And also learn about the early 20th century temperance movement and how government decisions impacted British towns for decades to come.

➡️ Explore here: https://orlo.uk/yJE74

🖼️ Christine Jopling

10/10/2025

After the cancellation of GBBF and GBBF-W, what needs to happen for CAMRA festivals to survive?

Here's my thoughts:

At the beginning of 2024, after CAMRA announced that the Great British Beer Festival was taking a year off I published a piece on What To Do About Beer Festivals. Since then I’ve been doing researc…

24/09/2025

If you're a CAMRA member you can read the second part of my series on Brewing & Politics through history, this time: Dark Matter(s)

Leading up to 1802 England was at war with France, again, and the country was being run by Pitt the Younger. He was really good with taxes, taxing the rich more than the poor, wax candles which gave a clean light were taxed more than the smelly and smoky tallow ones for instance, but the war had lef...

27/06/2025

If you miss my rambing and ranting from behind the bar at my tap... I'm one of the Industry Experts at the Disco Bar!
So come along and say hi, catch up, and have a bit of nostalgia!

26/06/2025

Some thoughts on publishing beer writing:

Some Rambling Thoughts About Beer Writing & Blogs, etc…Okay, so I often see that there isn’t the online beer writing that there used to be. And let’s be honest, there isn& #821…

19/06/2025

Can sake save the brewing industry?

And maybe the climate? It seems like a big ask for a small drink, sake has such a small percentage of the global drinks market that no-one even really tracks it. Just its annual worth estimated to …

24/04/2025

It's been a while, but I've been writing again:

CAMRA’s Members Weekend presented a problem for those of us who volunteer for the Discovery Bars: How to show what we do without coming across as patronising. For those who don’t know them, the Dis…