Sitting drinking an 'East the Beast' IPA from Lacada as I watch this excellent video! Boundary is a great brewery. Northbound Brewery in Eglinton (Derry) is worth a mention too.
My top recommendations in Ireland would be Kinnegar Brewing, White Hag Brewing Co. and Yellowbelly. On a side note, I also think American brown ales are massively underrated!
Last time I was in Dublin I stumbled into the nearest pub to my hotel hoping to have my first proper Guinness in years. What I didn't realize was that I had stumbled into a craft beer pub. I was totally blown away by the quality of stuff on offer, especially remember Galway Bay being really good stuff!
Hi Adam. Can you remember the name of the pub? Or which hotel you were staying in? Galway Bay is a great brewery. Any time I visit Dublin, I always start off at a pub next to the train station called The Brew Dock. They serve Galway Bay's 'Althea' Pale Ale on draught and it's a great pint. A couple of pints of Althea always sets me up for the evening ahead!
I know exactly where you were Adam! Unfortunately Galway bay does not operate near that hotel anymore , but they have been plenty of locations within Dublin. The Althea from Galway Bay is my favorite
A lesser known kind of a hidden gem of Central Ireland is Wide Street Brewing. They play with mixed fermentation of all kinds and while you wouldn't expect a triple fruited smoothie sour from them, they do their mixed fermentation table beers, saisons and pale ales super well. Visited the brewery and the owner was offering us free beer as much as me and my friend could drink and even let us refill our glasses straight from the fermentation tanks ourselves - awesome guy! 🇮🇪🇮🇪
@@TheCraftBeerChannel BallyKilcavan are planter stock yeoman farmer. Irish red ale used to be second most popular beer to the porter or stout but sadly ales only make up 7 percent of the irish market as of 2014. In Kilkenny red ales make up 35 percent of the beer consumed and there is a microbrewery in Kilkenny city centre called Sullivan’s near the railway station who sell to a variety of central pubs including all four of their beer styles to Kytelers where I had a lovely half pint of their red. Sullivan’s, BallyKilcavan, and the Carlow Brewing Company have the advantage of being in the grain belt. You should more of these videos.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel The O’ Hara’s nitro stout is superb. There is more choice of them in Ireland. The Wicklow Brewery,White Hag brewery, The White Deer brewery,Carlow Brewing Conpany, the porterhouse and Sullivan’s all offer nitro stouts.
Reds & Browns don't get the love they deserve, so true! So true! One of my all time favourite beers is the Red ale by Brockley Brewery (South London), an absolute gorgeous beer!
We're home brewers from Olympia, WA, USA, taking a quick tour of England and Ireland in April. Hoping to meet and tour craft breweries along the way. Pubs, of course, are our places of worship.
Other great breweries in Ireland are O Brother Brewing, Whiplash, Third barrel, White Gypsy, Stone barrel, White Hag, Galway bay, Dead center. Rye river, Canvas brewery. Brilliant video guys.
Love to see Irish breweries getting attention. Happily Ireland is such a small country , you need to look at the breweries in the north too e.g beerhut , lacada , bullhouse , modest .
Just revisiting this now that I actually made it to Ireland, it is a good refresher. One brewery i'd recommend that I haven't seen anyone mention is Killarney Brewing - their beer selection is pretty standard in terms of what they offer (red/blonde/ipa/helles etc.) but I thought they were all really well done when I tried them! Also Killarney is a lovely part of Ireland if you ever get a chance to visit, right by/in a national park! Also Galway Bay brewing, I like their beers - recently had a dark lager from them which is a style I particularly like (when done well) and I enjoyed it a lot! Plenty more for me to try though :)
We went to Ireland for our honeymoon and fell in love with the country. Went to a couple of breweries and tried as many crafts in the pubs as we could. They were all solid. Very old school styles done proper. If you ever get a chance to try Boundary Brewing out of Belfast, everything they do is top notch. Cheers 🍻
Thank you Gents, that was an excellent showcase of some cracking drams. I'll need to hunt some of them down. (Could also tell you both were feeling the effects by the time you got to that bottle, you do suffer gladly for your art).
Great video lads, and having been following Ballykilcavan on twitter for a while now I'd love to be able to visit their brewery at some point (and try some of their beers, not being able to get any over here in Brussels). You handled the pronunciation better than I would have expected, and really thought the worst offence would be Jonny's mangling of Tiramisu - until the final beer 😂
We're really lucky to have some great breweries here in Ireland. I was delighted with the beers you chose to look at too. BTW BRÚ now have(DOUBLE PANDA) 10%. Check out Dead centre brewing(overlooking the Shannon river) and Widestreet brewing(wild&mxd ferm) too. I'm happy to put you in contact with them personally if you need any help. Cheers for making this video. Some of the beers over here are world class 🍺
Fantastic video, I have to get myself some of those beers! Ballykilcavans David was super professional! Good on him for showcasing his family business. Slainte!
Also: COULDN'T AGREE MORE ABOUT BROWNS AND REDS! You're totally right that we don't give these styles enough love. I still have a distinct memory of my first Smithwick's. Beautifully malty and balanced. I wish more brewers in the U.S. would dive into these styles.
Loved this video so much, makes me proud of where I come from! One thing to note, is with the citrusy wheat beer from hope, that actually used to be their saison, but the yeast was very temperamental to be brewed as part of a regular lineup, so they changed the yeast and honestly I think the beer is better for it!
You should drop the guys down in Yellowbelly a message! Im sure they'd be delighted to have a chat, and they make cracking beer! Also, you HAVE to check out Otterbank Brewing and Blending in Co.Donegal, which is a small brewery in the countryside completely dedicated to mixed ferm and barrel aged beers! The smell when you walk in there is absolutely amazing! It helps that I used to work for both of em too 😉 Would be happy to be the middleman if you want to get in contact with them 😂
Yes definitely yellowbelly and otterbank, I have family in wexford and everytime I'm over love going to the pub they started brewing it in, and definitely need to check out white hag and white gypsy to from ireland
Great video! I am actually going to move to Ireland in a few months, so hope you guys get to visit there sometime soon If you can please include something from the Cork area, as that is where I'll be! I also spotted a quality looking cidery close to the city which I'll be checking out - Killahora. They make one aptly named "Johnny Fall Down" so I feel like that's a mandatory stop haha
Greetings from Ireland. That Bambrick's brown ale is really good. I know you were in The White Hag brewery a few years ago; have you tried their Festa Nuda pastry stout? I think it might be the best beer, definitely one of the best, I've ever had. O'Hara's do good stuff too. The tropical IPA is lovely.
However, as more and more Irish breweries move all of their products to cans, I hope O'Hara's doesn't follow. For some reason I find the experience of opening and pouring from a bottle much more pleasing.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel White Gypsy is now White field. Treaty city have a nitro stout called Sarsfield stout. Hope brewery are beside the railway line at Howth Junction. The hop on beer story actually was in the mid 1980’s. Lineman is another Dublin Brewery, there is also Rascals, Porterhouse and JW Sweetman.
Superb video guys. Always great to see breweries I don't know much about and I will definately try some of these. I wonder if the fact that Guinness is so massive that these guys find it hard to get a market? Although hope brewery seem to have made a bit of a name for themselves which is AMAZING for them.
Oh it 100% will - Guinness is such a huge proportion of the market and it definitely restricts tap space for others. But the same is true all over the world with different brands!
@@TheCraftBeerChannel What we need is a law that stipulates that pubs must allow space for one independent small brewery’s beer, one small independent cider, one small independent gin and one small independent whiskey.
"Leann Folláin" is pronounced more or less as "Lan FOLL-awn". The "extra" letters do serve a purpose that I won't get into, but if you pronounce it as I described, it's close enough to keep people happy.
EVERYWHERE. We have a book about it - The London Craft Beer Guide. But our favourites are the Southampton arms, Bermondsey beer mile (esp Kernel), and the Beer Merchants Tap.
I thought Brad called the Tiramisu stout 'a wonderful pulling beer'. All sorts of thoughts went through my head as to what that could mean. Having listened again, I think he said 'pudding'.
This is by no means definitive! Just breweries close to Bord Bia who we liked the sound of! We'll hopefully be visiting lots more breweries when we finally head over.
Another Irish hint: Land & Labour, a sidekick from Galway Bay's head brewer
Do Northern Ireland next! Boundary, Mourne Mountains, Lacada, Modest Beer etc. All excellent breweries!
Seconded, had some great stuff from Boundary and Mourne over the last year or so.
Sitting drinking an 'East the Beast' IPA from Lacada as I watch this excellent video! Boundary is a great brewery. Northbound Brewery in Eglinton (Derry) is worth a mention too.
Beerhut too!
Boundry export is lovely
My top recommendations in Ireland would be Kinnegar Brewing, White Hag Brewing Co. and Yellowbelly. On a side note, I also think American brown ales are massively underrated!
Kinnegar's 'Rustbucket' Rye Ale is one of my favourite beers! It is superb in every way.
Agreed, Kinnegar is my favourite brewery. So many incredible beers in their range.
Ireland is now even higher on my Go-To list!
Last time I was in Dublin I stumbled into the nearest pub to my hotel hoping to have my first proper Guinness in years. What I didn't realize was that I had stumbled into a craft beer pub. I was totally blown away by the quality of stuff on offer, especially remember Galway Bay being really good stuff!
Galway bay made some wonderful beer - it has been a long time since I had any but hopefully still the case!
Hi Adam. Can you remember the name of the pub? Or which hotel you were staying in? Galway Bay is a great brewery. Any time I visit Dublin, I always start off at a pub next to the train station called The Brew Dock. They serve Galway Bay's 'Althea' Pale Ale on draught and it's a great pint. A couple of pints of Althea always sets me up for the evening ahead!
I know exactly where you were Adam! Unfortunately Galway bay does not operate near that hotel anymore , but they have been plenty of locations within Dublin. The Althea from Galway Bay is my favorite
Conrad Hotel I think is the place
@@kilienodonnell5111 I wish I had that kind of money! Haha I did some poking around and I think the place was "Against the grain"
A lesser known kind of a hidden gem of Central Ireland is Wide Street Brewing. They play with mixed fermentation of all kinds and while you wouldn't expect a triple fruited smoothie sour from them, they do their mixed fermentation table beers, saisons and pale ales super well. Visited the brewery and the owner was offering us free beer as much as me and my friend could drink and even let us refill our glasses straight from the fermentation tanks ourselves - awesome guy! 🇮🇪🇮🇪
Super impressive that Ballykilcavan can make a beer from within 500 meters! Will keep an eye out for their beers
Absolutely. That beer is only once a year but we'll be headed over to get some for sure!
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Have you tried Wicklow Wolf, Sullivan’s Brewing Co and Dungarvan Brewing.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel The O’ Hara’s nitro stout is lovely. Their Leann Folláin extra Irish stout is sublime.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel BallyKilcavan are planter stock yeoman farmer. Irish red ale used to be second most popular beer to the porter or stout but sadly ales only make up 7 percent of the irish market as of 2014. In Kilkenny red ales make up 35 percent of the beer consumed and there is a microbrewery in Kilkenny city centre called Sullivan’s near the railway station who sell to a variety of central pubs including all four of their beer styles to Kytelers where I had a lovely half pint of their red. Sullivan’s, BallyKilcavan, and the Carlow Brewing Company have the advantage of being in the grain belt. You should more of these videos.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel The O’ Hara’s nitro stout is superb. There is more choice of them in Ireland. The Wicklow Brewery,White Hag brewery, The White Deer brewery,Carlow Brewing Conpany, the porterhouse and Sullivan’s all offer nitro stouts.
Love the idea of the farm brewery
We have a few here in Ireland
One of the best videos you've done without even being in situ, what a showcase!
Thanks so much! The brewers put a lot of effort in
Reds & Browns don't get the love they deserve, so true! So true! One of my all time favourite beers is the Red ale by Brockley Brewery (South London), an absolute gorgeous beer!
We're home brewers from Olympia, WA, USA, taking a quick tour of England and Ireland in April. Hoping to meet and tour craft breweries along the way. Pubs, of course, are our places of worship.
It's been two years, so it's time you both made it over to Ireland for real!
Great video lads, so many more fantastic breweries to discover in Ireland
Other great breweries in Ireland are O Brother Brewing, Whiplash, Third barrel, White Gypsy, Stone barrel, White Hag, Galway bay, Dead center. Rye river, Canvas brewery. Brilliant video guys.
Thanks Brian! We have been to white hag but not the others. One day soon!
@@TheCraftBeerChannel whiplash superb
Add loughgill to this and you have the perfect list
Canvas are excellent! An innovative farmhouse brewery, would make a great brewery tour. A good representation of some Irish breweries here. Nice one!
White Gypsy is now White Field
Fantastic video guys. YES! Come to Ireland - and head out West.
Love to see Irish breweries getting attention. Happily Ireland is such a small country , you need to look at the breweries in the north too e.g beerhut , lacada , bullhouse , modest .
Just revisiting this now that I actually made it to Ireland, it is a good refresher.
One brewery i'd recommend that I haven't seen anyone mention is Killarney Brewing - their beer selection is pretty standard in terms of what they offer (red/blonde/ipa/helles etc.) but I thought they were all really well done when I tried them! Also Killarney is a lovely part of Ireland if you ever get a chance to visit, right by/in a national park!
Also Galway Bay brewing, I like their beers - recently had a dark lager from them which is a style I particularly like (when done well) and I enjoyed it a lot!
Plenty more for me to try though :)
Thanks for this, Jonny and Brad! Great video, definitely want to try these (and more) Irish craft beers now.
We went to Ireland for our honeymoon and fell in love with the country. Went to a couple of breweries and tried as many crafts in the pubs as we could. They were all solid. Very old school styles done proper. If you ever get a chance to try Boundary Brewing out of Belfast, everything they do is top notch. Cheers 🍻
We love boundary! They get over to the UK a fair bit - would love to film there one day
One thing that I am proud of our smaller independent breweries is that they haven’t really gone and made those horrific fruit juice beers
@@TheCraftBeerChannel You need to try Sullivan’s Ruby Ale on draught.
Great vid, I have a real affinity with Ireland and a family history. I love the story of Ballykilcaven, hope to get there someday 🙏
Us too! Looks like a magical place
Thank you Gents, that was an excellent showcase of some cracking drams. I'll need to hunt some of them down. (Could also tell you both were feeling the effects by the time you got to that bottle, you do suffer gladly for your art).
We are beer martyrs.
the most underrated craft beer country in Europe(world) --- we do it as good as anyone
Probably better than the Americans in regards to drinkability and beer purity
Great video lads, and having been following Ballykilcavan on twitter for a while now I'd love to be able to visit their brewery at some point (and try some of their beers, not being able to get any over here in Brussels). You handled the pronunciation better than I would have expected, and really thought the worst offence would be Jonny's mangling of Tiramisu - until the final beer 😂
Hahaha damnit. Was too worried about the Irish terms.
We're really lucky to have some great breweries here in Ireland. I was delighted with the beers you chose to look at too. BTW BRÚ now have(DOUBLE PANDA) 10%.
Check out Dead centre brewing(overlooking the Shannon river) and Widestreet brewing(wild&mxd ferm) too. I'm happy to put you in contact with them personally if you need any help. Cheers for making this video. Some of the beers over here are world class 🍺
Thanks for the tips!
Fantastic video, I have to get myself some of those beers! Ballykilcavans David was super professional! Good on him for showcasing his family business. Slainte!
Also: COULDN'T AGREE MORE ABOUT BROWNS AND REDS! You're totally right that we don't give these styles enough love. I still have a distinct memory of my first Smithwick's. Beautifully malty and balanced. I wish more brewers in the U.S. would dive into these styles.
Loved this video so much, makes me proud of where I come from! One thing to note, is with the citrusy wheat beer from hope, that actually used to be their saison, but the yeast was very temperamental to be brewed as part of a regular lineup, so they changed the yeast and honestly I think the beer is better for it!
Yeah it was a lovely summery beer! Thanks for the history of it!
Well that made my next holiday destination choice simple. Awesome work lads!
You should drop the guys down in Yellowbelly a message! Im sure they'd be delighted to have a chat, and they make cracking beer!
Also, you HAVE to check out Otterbank Brewing and Blending in Co.Donegal, which is a small brewery in the countryside completely dedicated to mixed ferm and barrel aged beers! The smell when you walk in there is absolutely amazing! It helps that I used to work for both of em too 😉 Would be happy to be the middleman if you want to get in contact with them 😂
A new one on us! We will look it up!
Yes definitely yellowbelly and otterbank, I have family in wexford and everytime I'm over love going to the pub they started brewing it in, and definitely need to check out white hag and white gypsy to from ireland
@@daveholloway3304 White field brewery now
Fantastic!
Great video! I am actually going to move to Ireland in a few months, so hope you guys get to visit there sometime soon
If you can please include something from the Cork area, as that is where I'll be! I also spotted a quality looking cidery close to the city which I'll be checking out - Killahora. They make one aptly named "Johnny Fall Down" so I feel like that's a mandatory stop haha
Lucky you! Will hopefully come over soon - Jonny Fall Down sounds like a plan for us too
You need to check out Whiplash , Kinnegar, 8 Degress, Wickow Wolf and White Hag. They make some of the best Irish beers.
We'll 100% be visiting many of these guys when we finally head out there!
Love the video, but I think you should have added links to each brewery in the description box.
Fair point. Will add them asap
Hey - awesome clip but part two of this is a must. There are several other breweries that are worth mentioning Galway Bay, White Hag etc
Of course - though we have covered both those before at various points. We'll hopefully head over soon.
You need to check out Land and Labour, who just do sour/wild beers. Offshoot of Galway Bay Brewery, I believe.
We have been chatting to them about getting some beer over actually! Hopefully soon.
Check out Wicklow Wolf, Wicklow Brewery, Rascals Brewery, Rye River & Yellow Belly Brewery also
Please do a French beer focus episode! So many great beer producers here now, including Popihn, Ammonite, effet papillon and la malpolon.
We've had some tasty Popihn but none of the others. We'll get researching!
i love the farm to beer idea
Do you guys have any idea why the Irish Hope brewery and the Dutch Hoop brewery have such a similar logo?
None at all! We'll look into it....
Great video. Those look like awesome beers
Lyeh-ann Foe-Lawn 👍🏼 check out West Kerry Brewery, Mourne Mountains Bewery, Mescan, Canvas Brewing too
Thanks for the tips!
Greetings from Ireland. That Bambrick's brown ale is really good. I know you were in The White Hag brewery a few years ago; have you tried their Festa Nuda pastry stout? I think it might be the best beer, definitely one of the best, I've ever had.
O'Hara's do good stuff too. The tropical IPA is lovely.
However, as more and more Irish breweries move all of their products to cans, I hope O'Hara's doesn't follow. For some reason I find the experience of opening and pouring from a bottle much more pleasing.
I havent - will see if it is available in the UK
I think O’ Hara’s will remain bottles for most of their products. The one thing that bothers me is the use of 440ml cans
Tasted a couple of HOPE here in the Netherlands, awesome stuff 🍻🥳
I get all my beer supplies for brewing from Ireland
We get the odd bit too but love Malt Miller for the vast majority of it.
Nice. BTW "white gypsy" (woodcock) and "treaty city" (harris) are two great Irish craft breweries. You should check em out.
Thanks for the tip!
@@TheCraftBeerChannel White Gypsy is now White field. Treaty city have a nitro stout called Sarsfield stout. Hope brewery are beside the railway line at Howth Junction. The hop on beer story actually was in the mid 1980’s. Lineman is another Dublin Brewery, there is also Rascals, Porterhouse and JW Sweetman.
What's up with Hope and Hoop from the Netherlands? They are really much the same (logo, beers, designs)?
Hope in Dutch is Hoop. They share a co-owner and collaborate on brews. They are "cousins"
Mystery solved!
Superb video guys. Always great to see breweries I don't know much about and I will definately try some of these. I wonder if the fact that Guinness is so massive that these guys find it hard to get a market? Although hope brewery seem to have made a bit of a name for themselves which is AMAZING for them.
Oh it 100% will - Guinness is such a huge proportion of the market and it definitely restricts tap space for others. But the same is true all over the world with different brands!
@@TheCraftBeerChannel What we need is a law that stipulates that pubs must allow space for one independent small brewery’s beer, one small independent cider, one small independent gin and one small independent whiskey.
Love the videos, just tried to smell the hops in Greene King IPA, think covid has trashed my sense of smell
Speaking of tiramisù inspired stout, you should try tiramisu imperial stout of Birrificio Lambrate in Milan
Great video! I'd be curious to try O'Hara's Irish Stout against Guinness.
Especially on draught
Kinegar do a nice Rye ale. Also 8 Degrees do some nice American style beers.
Been desperately trying to find that O’Haras Nitro in the UK - very jealous.
It was ace! White Hag have one in the UK and Siren put out some nitro stouts too.
You guys should definitely check out some Whiplash beers. Available at Ghost Whale as well as a few other craft beer shops
We've had many, many Whiplash beers. They make wonderful stuff and will hopefully visit in person one day.
When is CBC going to do a live drink along??
We do them every month?! Next one is the 14th October!
"Leann Folláin" is pronounced more or less as "Lan FOLL-awn". The "extra" letters do serve a purpose that I won't get into, but if you pronounce it as I described, it's close enough to keep people happy.
An Irish beer special!
The lack of carbonation in the O'haras barrel aged beer was a big negative for me.
Yeah that was a real shame because it would have lifted that aroma further and given it more body. Hope they do another version.
I think it is almost wine like
I’m going to London for the first time in my life. Staying in Holborn. Where is the good beer at?
EVERYWHERE. We have a book about it - The London Craft Beer Guide. But our favourites are the Southampton arms, Bermondsey beer mile (esp Kernel), and the Beer Merchants Tap.
Hopfully, Land & Labour, Rascals, Whiplash would be 4 more to try.
I felt the obligation to say: WHIPLASH and HOPFULLY are mandatory !!! Have a look on these lads
love it lads
I thought Brad called the Tiramisu stout 'a wonderful pulling beer'. All sorts of thoughts went through my head as to what that could mean. Having listened again, I think he said 'pudding'.
Pudding definitely pudding. No one has ever pulled while nerding out about craft beer.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel ...also, sorry for calling you Brad, Jonny. Hard to tell you two apart.
Jonny, you say Tiramisu like its a Osaka based ramen shop.
Would 100% visit that place. Ramen then Italian desserts.
Surprised Kinnegar is not there!
This is by no means definitive! Just breweries close to Bord Bia who we liked the sound of! We'll hopefully be visiting lots more breweries when we finally head over.
Exactly , and thank you for covering Irish craft beer , we all look forward to having you guys here 🍺
Get on the Ambush lads.
By Trouble Brewing?
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Yeah Trouble's Ambush and Yellowbelly's Citra Pale Ale are the uber pintable drinks of the Irish beer scene.
Gotta get to Ballykilcavan
I know right?! And both beers were so good. Not showy, just beautifully made. We have a podcast with them coming off the back of this.
although if you’re gonna do an Irish beer episode, seems criminal to leave out Whiplash, far and away our best brewery
We are saving that for when we actually come over.
ah i see, very strategic good call hehe
You should change the title to "The Craft Beer Channel TRY Irish Craft Beer" or something, just thinking ;)
Sounds like you are saying "Bord Beera" not "Bord Bia", hahaha.
Got beer on the brain.
There are many other breweries in Ireland that are just better!
Which do you recommend?!
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Definitely Kinnegar, Boyne, Larkins, Wicklow Wolf, Whiplash, Franciscan Well, Lough Gill, White Hag, Hopfully :)
Your audio mixing definitely requires some work, please try and equalise the volume next time. Regardless, great video.