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Main article: Beer in Ireland
Sign at the Market Street entrance of the St James's Gate Brewery in Dublin

This is a list of breweries in Ireland. Brewing has a long history in Ireland, the country's capital having been home to the largest brewery in the world, founded by Arthur Guinness in Dublin more than 250 years ago.

With Irish people being the world's sixth biggest drinkers of beer,[1] there has been plenty of opportunity for new breweries to gain a share of the market, and a wide range of craft beers began appearing in the early years of the current century, produced at microbreweries and in brewpubs across the country.

Operational breweries

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
A glass of Murphy's Irish Red

As of mid-2018, in addition to international/macro-breweries such as Guinness and Heineken, there were 75 independent craft breweries in operation in the Republic of Ireland, with many more in operation in Northern Ireland.[2] They include:

Brewers in Ireland
Brewery Web page Town County Founded
12 Acres Brewery 12 Acres Brewing Killeshin Laois 2015
5 Lamps Brewery 5 Lamps Dublin Dublin 2012
9 White Deer Brewery [3] 9 White Deer Macroom Cork 2013
Ballykilcavan Brewery Ballykilcavan Stradbally Laois 2016
Barrelhead Brewery Barrelhead Dublin Dublin 2006
Black Donkey Brewing [1][3] Black Donkey Ballinlough Roscommon 2014
Blacks Brewery [3] Blacks of Kinsale Kinsale Cork 2013
Bo Bristle Brewing Bo Bristle Banagher Offaly 2010
Boyne Brewhouse [3][4] Boyne Drogheda Louth 2016
Brehon Brewhouse [5][6] Brehon Carrickmacross Monaghan 2014
Brown Paper Bag Project [1][7] Brown Paper Bag Dublin Dublin 2012
Brú Brewery [8][4] Brú Trim Meath 2013
Burren Brewery Burren Lisdoonvarna Clare 2011
Carlingford Brewing Company Carlingford Brewing Company Carlingford Louth 2014
Carlow Brewing Company [1][3] Carlow Bagenalstown Carlow 1996
Carrig Brewing Company [3] Carrig Drumshanbo Leitrim 2011
Crafty Divils [3] Crafty Divils Killorglin Kerry 2014
Donegal Brewing Company Donegal Ballyshannon Donegal 2011
Drew Fox Brewing Company Drew Fox (Cleverman) Wexford Co. Wexford 2015
Dungarvan Brewing [3][4][6] Dungarvan Dungarvan Waterford 2010
Eight Degrees Brewing (Irish Distillers) [1][3][7][4][9] Eight Degrees Mitchelstown Cork 2010
Four Provinces Brew. Co. [1] Four Provinces Kimmage Dublin 2014
Franciscan Well Brewery [1][10][4][6] Franciscan Well Cork Cork 1998
Galway Bay Brewery [1] Galway Bay Galway Galway 2005
Galway Hooker Brewery [3] Galway Hooker Oranmore Galway 2006
Guinness (Diageo) [11] Guinness Dublin Dublin 1759
Hope Craft Brewery Hope Beer Dublin Dublin 2016
J.W. Sweetman [3] J.W. Sweetmanl Dublin Dublin 2013
Killarney Brewing Company [3] Killarney Killarney Kerry 2015
Kinnegar Brewing [1][3] Kinnegar Rathmullan Donegal 2012
Lough Gill Brewery [1][3][6] Lough Gill Brewery Sligo Sligo 2015
Manor Brewing Company [3] Mont Beer Manor Kilbride Wicklow 2013
McGargles (Rye River Brewing Company) [3][4] McGargles Celbridge Kildare 2014
Mescan Brewery [1] [12] Mescan Kilsallagh Mayo 2013
Metalman Brewing Company [1][3] Metalman Waterford Waterford 2010
Mountain Man Brewing Company Mountain Man West Cork Cork 2012
Muckish Mountain Brewery [13] n/a Creeslough Donegal 2014
Munster Brewery Munster Youghal Cork 2014
Murphy Brewery Ireland (Heineken) [14] Murphy's Cork Cork 1856 [15]
N17 Brewery [1] N17 Tuam Galway 2014
Northbound Brewery Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page).<ref[1] Northbound Campsie, Derry
O Brother Brewing [3][6] O Brother Kilcool Wicklow 2014
Porterhouse Brewing Company, The [3] Porterhouse Dublin Dublin 1989
Rascals Brewing Company [1][3][4] Rascals Rathcoole Dublin 2013
Reel Deel Brewery [1] Reel Deel Crossmolina Mayo 2014
Rising Sons Brewery[4] Rising Sons Cork Cork 2012
St. Mel's Brewing Company [1] St. Mel’s Longford Longford 2014
Stone Barrel Brewing Company Stone Barrel Dublin Dublin 2013
Sullivan's Brewing Company Sullivan's Kilkenny Kilkenny 2016
Torc Brewing [16] Torc Brewing Killarney Kerry 2014
Treaty City Brewing Co Treaty City Limerick Limerick 2010
Trouble Brewing [1][3] Trouble Kill Kildare 2009
West Cork Brewing Co. West Cork Cork Cork 2014
West Kerry Brewery (Beoir Chorca Dhuibhne) [1][3] West Kerry Ballyferriter Kerry 2008
West Mayo Brewery [17] West Mayo Castlebar Mayo 2013
Whitewater Brewing Company Ltd. Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page). [2] Castlewellan County Down 1996
White Gypsy Brewery [3] White Gypsy Templemore Tipperary 1996
White Hag Brewery, The [1][3][6] White Hag Ballymote Sligo 2014
Wicklow Brewery, The [3] Wicklow Redcross Wicklow 2014
Wicklow Wolf Brewing Company [1][3] Wicklow Wolf Bray Wicklow 2014
Wood Key Brewing [18] n/a Dublin Dublin 2015
YellowBelly Beer [6] YellowBelly Wexford Wexford 2015

Defunct breweries

  • Achill Island Brewery, Achill Island, Bunacurry, Mayo, 2014-2017 [19]
  • Baile Brew 2014
  • Biddy Early Brewpub, 2007
  • Beamish and Crawford, Cork, 1792–2009 : relocated to Murphy's Brewery
  • Big Hand Brewery, Dublin,
  • Brookston Brewery 2009
  • Cherry Brewery (Diageo), Waterford, 1955-2002
  • Dempsey's Brewing 1983–1984
  • Dingle Brewing Company, 2011–2017
  • Dublin Brewing Company
  • Great Northern Brewery, Dundalk,1897–2015 : redeveloped as a distillery
  • Harp Brewery (Diageo), Dundalk, 1960–2013 : relocated to St. James's Gate
  • Independent Brewing, Carraroe, 2014–2018
  • Jack Cody's, Drogheda, 2014–2017
  • Kellys Mountain Brew, Clane, 2014-2019
  • Kilkenny Brewery, Kilkenny, 2012
  • Limerick Lady
  • Rathdowney Perry's Brewery
  • Smithwick's (Diageo), Kilkenny, 1710–2013 : relocated to St. James's Gate

See also

References

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  2. ^ McMahon, Conor (26 April 2019). "Britain's craft beer 'gold rush' has slowed to a drip. Here's how the Irish sector is shaping up". Fora/TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z "Irish Craft Beer Festival". Retrieved 3 Nov 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "Irish Distillers acquire Eight Degrees Brewing". Travel extra. May 2018.
  5. ^ "Brehon lays down law in craft brewing". The Argus.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "2017 Beer of the Year". beoir. 13 March 2017.
  7. ^ a b "2014 Global Craft Beer Award". Craft Beer Award. Archived from the original on 2015-11-10.
  8. ^ "Brú Brewery scoops three awards at prestigious World Beer Awards". Reuters.
  9. ^ "Irish Distillers Acquires Eight Degrees Brewing – Irish Distillers". Irish Distillers. 2018-05-11. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  10. ^ "This Irish beer has just been voted the best of its kind in the world". The Journal.
  11. ^ "Guinness goes vegan". The Telegraph.
  12. ^ "Beerista: Brewing up a storm in a world of its own". Irish Times. 1 July 2016.
  13. ^ "Inspiration for new brew". Donegal Democrat.
  14. ^ "Heineken Ireland (Murphy's Brewery)". Cork Heritage.
  15. ^ "James J Murphy and His Brothers ..." Murphy's Brewery.
  16. ^ "Torc brewery to take on craft beer market". The Kerryman. 22 November 2014.
  17. ^ "West Mayo Brewery Beer on Sale in Russia!". Mayo. 28 September 2015.
  18. ^ "Take it home: an Irish red ale and a South African Chenin Blanc". Irish Times. 3 February 2016.
  19. ^ "Mayo's Achill Island Brewery is being liquidated after being unable to pay its power bills". Fora.
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