List of breweries in Ireland

This is a list of breweries in Ireland. Brewing has a long history in Ireland; the country's largest city, Dublin, is home to one of the largest breweries in the world, St James's Gate Brewery, founded by Arthur Guinness more than 250 years ago.

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

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
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 around 35 in operation in Northern Ireland.[2][3][4] They include:

Breweries in Ireland
Brewery
(Owner)		 Town County Founded
12 Acres Brewery [5]KilleshinLaois2015
9 White Deer Brewery[6]MacroomCork2013
Barrelhead BreweryDublinDublin2006
Beer Hut Brewing Company[7][8]KilkeelDown2017
Ards Brewing Company[9][10]GreyabbeyDown2011
Ballykilcavan Brewery [5]StradballyLaois2016
Black Donkey Brewing[1][6]BallinloughRoscommon2014
Boundary Brewing[11][12]BelfastDown
(on the County Down side of the River Lagan)		2015
Armagh Brewing Company[13]ArmaghArmagh2020
Blacks Brewery[6]KinsaleCork2013
Brehon Brewhouse[14][15]CarrickmacrossMonaghan2014
Brú Brewery[16][17]TrimMeath2013
Bullhouse Brewing Company[18][19]Belfast
(originally based in Newtownards)
Antrim2016
Kinnegar Brewing[20][1][6]RathmullanDonegal2011
Lacada Brewery[21][22]PortrushAntrim2015
Bridewell BreweryClifdenGalway2006
Burren BreweryLisdoonvarnaClare2011
Canvas Brewery[23]AglishTipperary2018
Spade Town BreweryLurganArmagh2021
Carlingford Brewing CompanyCarlingfordLouth2014
Farmageddon Brewing Company[24][25]ComberDown2014
Carlow Brewing Company[1][6]BagenalstownCarlow1996
Crafty Divils[6]KillorglinKerry2014
Crew Brewing CompanyLimerick CityLimerick2020
Donegal Brewing Company[26]BallyshannonDonegal2011
Dungarvan Brewing[6][17][15]DungarvanWaterford2010
Eight Degrees Brewing
(Irish Distillers)[1][6][27][17]		MitchelstownCork2010
Five Lamps
C&C Group[28]		ClonmelCounty Tipperary2014
Four Provinces Brew. Co.[1]KimmageDublin2014
Franciscan Well Brewery
(Molson Coors)[1][29][17][15]		CorkCork1998
Galway Bay Brewery[1]GalwayGalway2005
Galway Hooker Brewery[6]OranmoreGalway2006
Guinness
(Diageo)[30]		DublinDublin1759
Hillstown Brewery[31][32]RandalstownAntrim2014
Hope Craft Brewery [5]DublinDublin2016
Heaney Farmhouse Brewery
(Heaney Brewing Company)
[33][34][35][36]		BellaghyLondonderry2016
Hercules Brewing Company
(brewers of the Yardsman range)[37][38]		BelfastDown
(on the County Down side of the River Lagan)		2014
Hilden Brewery[39][40][41]LisburnAntrim1981
Inishmacsaint Brewing Company
(Fermanagh Beer Company)[42]		DerrygonnellyFermanagh2010
J.W. Sweetman[6]DublinDublin2013
Killarney Brewing Company[6]KillarneyKerry2015
Lough Gill Brewery[1][6][15]SligoSligo2015
Manor Brewing Company[6]Manor KilbrideWicklow2013
Rye River Brewing Company[6][17]CelbridgeKildare2014
Mescan Brewery[1][43]KilsallaghMayo2013
Metalman Brewing Company[1][6]WaterfordWaterford2010
Muckish Mountain Brewery[44]CreesloughDonegal2014
McCracken’s[45]PortadownArmagh2018
Heineken[46]CorkCork1856 (as Murphy's)[47]
O Brother Brewing[6][15]KilcoolWicklow2014
Porterhouse Brewing Company, The[6]DublinDublin1989
Rascals Brewing Company[1][6][17]RathcooleDublin2013
Reel Deel Brewery[1]CrossmolinaMayo2014
Rising Sons Brewery[17]CorkCork2012
Rough Brothers Brewing[48][49][50]DerryLondonderry2018
St. Mel's Brewing Company[1]LongfordLongford2014
Torc Brewing[51]KillarneyKerry2014
Trouble Brewing[1][6]KillKildare2009
West Kerry Brewery (Beoir Chorca Dhuibhne)[1][6]BallyferriterKerry2008
Western Herd Brewing Company Ltd Kilmaley Clare 2015
Whitewater Brewing Company Ltd.[1]CastlewellanDown1996
Whitefield Brewery[6]TemplemoreTipperary1996 (renamed from White Gypsy in 2020)
White Hag Brewery, The[1][6][15]BallymoteSligo2014
Wicklow Brewery, The[6]RedcrossWicklow2014
Wicklow Wolf Brewing Company[1][6]BrayWicklow2014
Wood Key Brewing[52]DublinDublin2015
YellowBelly Beer[15]WexfordWexford2015

Notes on mergers and defunct breweries
  • Achill Island Brewery, Achill Island, Bunacurry, Mayo, 2014-2017 [53]
  • Beamish and Crawford (Heineken), Cork, 1792–2009 : relocated to Murphy's Brewery
  • Boyne Brewhouse, Drogheda, 2016–2019, some brands bought by O'Haras and resumed[54]
  • Carrig Brewery, Drumshanbo, active from 2011–2019, merged with Brú Brewery in 2019 and the brewing operation moved to the latter's brewery in 2019.[55] In late 2021, Brú Brewery and Galway Bay Brewery merged, but announced that brewing would continue in both breweries.[56]
  • Lett's Brewery, Enniscorthy, 1864–1956. Still licensed and firm still exists but brewery inoperative.
  • Macardle Moore Brewery (Diageo), Dundalk - 1850-2000
  • Smithwick's (Diageo), Kilkenny, 1710–2013 : relocated to St. James's Gate

See also

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