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
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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
Ards Brewing Company[7][8]GreyabbeyDown2011
Ballykilcavan Brewery [5]StradballyLaois2016
Black Donkey Brewing[1][6]BallinloughRoscommon2014
Blacks Brewery[6]KinsaleCork2013
Brehon Brewhouse[9][10]CarrickmacrossMonaghan2014
Brú Brewery[11][12]TrimMeath2013
Bullhouse Brewing Company[13][14]Belfast
(originally based in Newtownards)
Antrim2016
Carlow Brewing Company[1][6]BagenalstownCarlow1996
Crafty Divils[6]KillorglinKerry2014
Donegal Brewing Company[15]BallyshannonDonegal2011
Dungarvan Brewing[6][12][10]DungarvanWaterford2010
Eight Degrees Brewing
(Irish Distillers)[1][6][16][12]		MitchelstownCork2010
Five Lamps
C&C Group[17]		ClonmelCounty Tipperary2014
Four Provinces Brew. Co.[1]KimmageDublin2014
Franciscan Well Brewery
(Molson Coors)[1][18][12][10]		CorkCork1998
Galway Bay Brewery[1]GalwayGalway2005
Galway Hooker Brewery[6]OranmoreGalway2006
Guinness
(Diageo)[19]		DublinDublin1759
Hillstown Brewery[20][21]RandalstownAntrim2014
Hope Craft Brewery [5]DublinDublin2016
Inishmacsaint Brewing Company
(Fermanagh Beer Company)[22]		DerrygonnellyFermanagh2010
J.W. Sweetman[6]DublinDublin2013
Killarney Brewing Company[6]KillarneyKerry2015
Lough Gill Brewery[1][6][10]SligoSligo2015
Manor Brewing Company[6]Manor KilbrideWicklow2013
Rye River Brewing Company[6][12]CelbridgeKildare2014
Mescan Brewery[1][23]KilsallaghMayo2013
Metalman Brewing Company[1][6]WaterfordWaterford2010
Muckish Mountain Brewery[24]CreesloughDonegal2014
Heineken[25]CorkCork1856 (as Murphy's)[26]
O Brother Brewing[6][10]KilcoolWicklow2014
Porterhouse Brewing Company, The[6]DublinDublin1989
Rascals Brewing Company[1][6][12]RathcooleDublin2013
Reel Deel Brewery[1]CrossmolinaMayo2014
Rising Sons Brewery[12]CorkCork2012
Rough Brothers Brewing[27][28][29]DerryLondonderry2018
St. Mel's Brewing Company[1]LongfordLongford2014
Torc Brewing[30]KillarneyKerry2014
Trouble Brewing[1][6]KillKildare2009
West Kerry Brewery (Beoir Chorca Dhuibhne)[1][6]BallyferriterKerry2008
Whitewater Brewing Company Ltd.[1]CastlewellanDown1996
Whitefield Brewery[6]TemplemoreTipperary1996 (renamed from White Gypsy in 2020)
White Hag Brewery, The[1][6][10]BallymoteSligo2014
Wicklow Brewery, The[6]RedcrossWicklow2014
Wicklow Wolf Brewing Company[1][6]BrayWicklow2014
Wood Key Brewing[31]DublinDublin2015
YellowBelly Beer[10]WexfordWexford2015

Defunct breweries

See also

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