Stephen Clinch
@stephenclinch.bsky.social
Beer, food, travel, politics. Member of Bohs, fan of the Boston Celtics and part-owner of Trouble Brewing.
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My love letter to Dublin the 5th most-read article in 2025 on UK's best food & drinks publisher!
Mostly down to @davidsquires.bsky.social's illustrations, & all the people who gave their time to talk to me, @lisagrimm.com @stephenclinch.bsky.social @gerrytastic.bsky.social @braciatrix.bsky.social
Mostly down to @davidsquires.bsky.social's illustrations, & all the people who gave their time to talk to me, @lisagrimm.com @stephenclinch.bsky.social @gerrytastic.bsky.social @braciatrix.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
My love letter to Dublin the 5th most-read article in 2025 on UK's best food & drinks publisher!
Mostly down to @davidsquires.bsky.social's illustrations, & all the people who gave their time to talk to me, @lisagrimm.com @stephenclinch.bsky.social @gerrytastic.bsky.social @braciatrix.bsky.social
Mostly down to @davidsquires.bsky.social's illustrations, & all the people who gave their time to talk to me, @lisagrimm.com @stephenclinch.bsky.social @gerrytastic.bsky.social @braciatrix.bsky.social
Hitting the road for Christmas, first time in my 46 years I won’t be in Dublin!
December 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Hitting the road for Christmas, first time in my 46 years I won’t be in Dublin!
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An hour before guests arrive. Fridge stocked, 10 crates of beer outside cooling, Perry and cider flowing. Food all prepared just needs to be set out a little later. Need a shower and a beer.
December 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
An hour before guests arrive. Fridge stocked, 10 crates of beer outside cooling, Perry and cider flowing. Food all prepared just needs to be set out a little later. Need a shower and a beer.
The Irish health system has its flaws, but as someone who just spent 4 days in the Mater, have to say my treatment was exceptional, the people working there are brilliant, kind and professional. Can’t thank them enough. (Don’t ask, I’m all good) Just wanted to publicly acknowledge the amazing work.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The Irish health system has its flaws, but as someone who just spent 4 days in the Mater, have to say my treatment was exceptional, the people working there are brilliant, kind and professional. Can’t thank them enough. (Don’t ask, I’m all good) Just wanted to publicly acknowledge the amazing work.
I’ve been doing this 15+ years, and have been in easily over a hundred breweries. This is one of the nicest experiences I’ve had. Beers are phenomenal, brewery is very impressive and the owner is super sound. Lost and Grounded, Bristol.
December 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I’ve been doing this 15+ years, and have been in easily over a hundred breweries. This is one of the nicest experiences I’ve had. Beers are phenomenal, brewery is very impressive and the owner is super sound. Lost and Grounded, Bristol.
Early start today!
December 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Early start today!
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This is incredible.
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is incredible.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Amazon are conspiring to make consider subscribing to YouTube just so I don’t have to see their poxy advert again.
December 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Benedict Cumberbatch and Amazon are conspiring to make consider subscribing to YouTube just so I don’t have to see their poxy advert again.
I’ve only just recovered from Sunday evening’s entertainment. Thank you to @braciatrix.bsky.social @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social @lmulligangrocer.bsky.social and everyone that came along. I’d a lovely evening chatting about all things Irish beer with so many Irish beer people!!!
December 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I’ve only just recovered from Sunday evening’s entertainment. Thank you to @braciatrix.bsky.social @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social @lmulligangrocer.bsky.social and everyone that came along. I’d a lovely evening chatting about all things Irish beer with so many Irish beer people!!!
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I’ve got a new blog post out covering my top ten tips for giving beer as a gift at Christmas. Give it a read, and then find a way to surreptitiously pass it on to your relatives
beerwithtim.co.uk/2025/12/05/g...
beerwithtim.co.uk/2025/12/05/g...
Giving beer for Christmas
Top ten tips for giving beer or beer related gifts at Christmas
beerwithtim.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I’ve got a new blog post out covering my top ten tips for giving beer as a gift at Christmas. Give it a read, and then find a way to surreptitiously pass it on to your relatives
beerwithtim.co.uk/2025/12/05/g...
beerwithtim.co.uk/2025/12/05/g...
Looking forward to this tomorrow, hoping to see plenty of familiar faces. Irish beer is in a weird place with so few events these days, Underdog closing and there only being about two pubs in the country that don’t pour the stout.
A reminder that this is on tomorrow. Please go and support Christina and try Trouble and ours not-18th-century porters. I'd attend, but if two Irish beer history people appear anywhere together it causes a portal in the beer-time continuum and John Smithwick jumps out waving a recipe for red ale ...
December 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Looking forward to this tomorrow, hoping to see plenty of familiar faces. Irish beer is in a weird place with so few events these days, Underdog closing and there only being about two pubs in the country that don’t pour the stout.
December is the month in beer sales when you either get rewarded for all the work you did during the year or becomes fairly obvious you’ve been at nothing!
December 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
December is the month in beer sales when you either get rewarded for all the work you did during the year or becomes fairly obvious you’ve been at nothing!
As an employer I’m into this auto enrolment. Would be nice if I could sign up. Can also see how the new costs could send big companies on tight margins over the edge.
December 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
As an employer I’m into this auto enrolment. Would be nice if I could sign up. Can also see how the new costs could send big companies on tight margins over the edge.
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Dave does a great job distilling and synthesizing the rise and fall of Rogue, and reading it makes me realize how out-of-step brands founded on toxic masculinity (to use a shorthand) have fared. The country is steeped in TM now, and it’s just not into beer brands offering more of the same.
After a year of increasingly dire developments at the pioneering PNW craft brewer, last month it abruptly shuttered all its locations, declaring bankruptcy the day before Thanksgiving. At @vinepair.com, I charted Rogue's rise & fall against the fate of the craft-brewing industry it helped to create.
Rogue Is a Case Study in Craft Brewery Collapse
On rare occasions, the beer industry produces a perfect metaphor. In 2022, for example, a high-profile California craft brewery called Modern Times Beer soared up the volume charts, overextended itsel...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Dave does a great job distilling and synthesizing the rise and fall of Rogue, and reading it makes me realize how out-of-step brands founded on toxic masculinity (to use a shorthand) have fared. The country is steeped in TM now, and it’s just not into beer brands offering more of the same.
So cool to see the rapid growth in renewable energy over the last year or two. In spite of some people’s best efforts, and years later than maybe it should have happened. But still it’s really cool, feels like there’s serious moment now too.
UK adds 1.9 GW of solar in 12 months www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/27/u... - and more solar PV to come for the energy transition in the UK: doi.org/10.1049/rpg2...
UK adds 1.9 GW of solar in 12 months
Latest government figures record 20.7 GW deployed PV capacity at the end of October 2025, up 10.4% in a 12-month period. Surge in contracts for difference (CfD) supported connections recorded in 2025 ...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
So cool to see the rapid growth in renewable energy over the last year or two. In spite of some people’s best efforts, and years later than maybe it should have happened. But still it’s really cool, feels like there’s serious moment now too.
Just seen an Re-turn advert saying putting your bottles and cans in your recycling bin isn’t as good as returning them to machines. Why? Isn’t as good for who?
December 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Just seen an Re-turn advert saying putting your bottles and cans in your recycling bin isn’t as good as returning them to machines. Why? Isn’t as good for who?
One year married today. Took my wife out for tacos. #classyguy
November 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
One year married today. Took my wife out for tacos. #classyguy
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Friends!! Join me Dec 7th from 4pm at @lmulligangrocer for PORTER WARS- book talk and beer tasting!!
We will be launching my collaboration brew with @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social & @troublebrewing.ie - two porters inspired by my chapter Porter Wars from Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland
We will be launching my collaboration brew with @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social & @troublebrewing.ie - two porters inspired by my chapter Porter Wars from Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Friends!! Join me Dec 7th from 4pm at @lmulligangrocer for PORTER WARS- book talk and beer tasting!!
We will be launching my collaboration brew with @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social & @troublebrewing.ie - two porters inspired by my chapter Porter Wars from Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland
We will be launching my collaboration brew with @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social & @troublebrewing.ie - two porters inspired by my chapter Porter Wars from Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland
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The absolute state of this. 'From the Heart of County Wexford' and 'A family tradition since 1905' implies to the consumer that it's brewed in that county and has been around that long. Theakston Brewery should be hanging their head in shame for these shenanigans, as that's where it's brewed ...
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The absolute state of this. 'From the Heart of County Wexford' and 'A family tradition since 1905' implies to the consumer that it's brewed in that county and has been around that long. Theakston Brewery should be hanging their head in shame for these shenanigans, as that's where it's brewed ...
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.
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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.