Since I wrote about stouts earlier in the week, I can only add – praise the engineers who developed the pub draft can! It may not be as good as draft, but it’s pretty darn close, and I can enjoy it in my living room (at least until we install that tap system I’ve been dreaming about for some time now).
As I understand it, the little widget in the pub draft can is basically a pressurized container which shoots a blast of nitrogen into the beer when the can is opened. It seems to have started with Guinness, but fortunately …read more

I was surfing for interesting things to report on while trying to decide on a beer to drink when I stumbled across this article about stout from the lesser of my two hometown papers. Fortunately for me, I have both Beamish and Murphy’s stout in the pub draft version in my basement right now, so as I write this I’m enjoying the former while looking forward to the latter.
The Beamish is a nice smooth drink, an Irish stout from Cork similar to those listed in the article. As with many well-known brands, the brewing company, Beamish and Crawford plc, has …read more