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Dublin's Lost Breweries

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  • #2
    Hootanany
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    Very good will subcribe:D


  • #3
    alastair
    Registered Users Posts: 19,307 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    Very interesting, but a tad 'southsidey' - only a cursory mention of the Mountjoy Brewery? :(


  • #4
    Mesrine65
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    The Mountjoy Brewery at Russell Street across from Croke Park.

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  • #5
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,777 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    alastair wrote: »
    Very interesting, but a tad 'southsidey'
    Westsidey, really. For practical reasons.
    alastair wrote: »
    only a cursory mention of the Mountjoy Brewery? :(
    Lists on the internet, eh? :D

    Mountjoy doesn't really fit the story: as far as I know it neither acquired nor was acquired by another brewery. (Same goes for Sweetman's, of course, but we were literally walking past it so felt an obligation to stop.)

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  • #6
    gaiscioch
    Registered Users Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭gaiscioch


    Mesrine65 wrote: »
    The Mountjoy Brewery at Russell Street across from Croke Park.

    image60.jpg

    Ah, poor old Behan (born in 13 Russell Street in 1923) hadn't a hope (brewery closed in 1956). Fascinating history here.

    Anybody know anything about the brewery on Brewery Road out in Stillorgan?


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  • #7
    schemingbohemia
    Registered Users Posts: 5,606 ✭✭✭schemingbohemia


    alastair wrote: »
    Very interesting, but a tad 'southsidey' - only a cursory mention of the Mountjoy Brewery? :(

    Sorry, can you direct me to your video that includes these?


  • #8
    alastair
    Registered Users Posts: 19,307 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    schemingbohemia wrote: »
    Sorry, can you direct me to your video that includes these?

    Is this an attempt at sarcasm?

    Beernut's video was, as I stated, very interesting, but missed out on a pretty significant part of the 'lost brewery' story by focussing on the grand canal breweries at the expense of the royal canal end of things. Now you can rightly point to the complete absence of any brewery video from this source, but let me paint an analogy for you:

    Punter - This portrait of me is missing my nose!
    Artist - Well, where's your brilliant drawing then?

    Kind of misses the point, eh?


  • #9
    alastair
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    BeerNut wrote: »

    Lists on the internet, eh? :D
    Not really. I live beside it, so it kind of springs to mind.
    BeerNut wrote: »
    Mountjoy doesn't really fit the story: as far as I know it neither acquired nor was acquired by another brewery. (Same goes for Sweetman's, of course, but we were literally walking past it so felt an obligation to stop.)
    That's true, but it was also the last Dublin alternative to Guinness's standing, before being lost itself.

    Nevertheless - I enjoyed your video - and the Dalkey Mustard business is a lovely bit of trivia.


  • #10
    BeerNut
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    alastair wrote: »
    it was also the last Dublin alternative to Guinness's standing, before being lost itself.
    Yeah, I heard that on some YouTube video about Dublin breweries..

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  • #11
    alastair
    Registered Users Posts: 19,307 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    BeerNut wrote: »
    Yeah, I heard that on some YouTube video about Dublin breweries..

    The same one that didn't visit the site, despite the significance of the brewery to the story being told? :D


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  • #12
    BeerNut
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    alastair wrote: »
    The same one that didn't visit the site, despite the significance of the brewery to the story being told?
    The story is about the breweries which were eventually consolidated into Watkins, Jameson, Pim & Co. Where does Mountjoy fit there, other than as a footnote?

    We'll need this information for the franchise reboot.

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  • #13
    schemingbohemia
    Registered Users Posts: 5,606 ✭✭✭schemingbohemia


    alastair wrote: »
    Is this an attempt at sarcasm?

    Beernut's video was, as I stated, very interesting, but missed out on a pretty significant part of the 'lost brewery' story by focussing on the grand canal breweries at the expense of the royal canal end of things. Now you can rightly point to the complete absence of any brewery video from this source, but let me paint an analogy for you:

    Punter - This portrait of me is missing my nose!
    Artist - Well, where's your brilliant drawing then?

    Kind of misses the point, eh?

    It wasn't an attempt, it was sarcasm.

    The OP states that it covers some of Dublin's lost breweries and doesn't pretend to be a complete history of all breweries ever in Dublin.

    I just thought your point was rather churlish and presumed you had done better yourself but you haven't.


  • #14
    irish_goat
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    I take it the Russell St brewery was where the apartments and the Mick Wallace restaurant now are? Listed on Google as Distillery Court now, so did they make spirits too? Walked past it everyday for about a year and never realised the history.


  • #15
    L1011
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    irish_goat wrote: »
    I take it the Russell St brewery was where the apartments and the Mick Wallace restaurant now are? Listed on Google as Distillery Court now, so did they make spirits too? Walked past it everyday for about a year and never realised the history.

    DWD Jones Road Distillery, you'll see some DWD mirrors etc (and repros of them) in bars around town.


  • #16
    alastair
    Registered Users Posts: 19,307 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    schemingbohemia wrote: »
    I just thought your point was rather churlish and presumed you had done better yourself but you haven't.

    Of course you did. :rolleyes:


  • #17
    alastair
    Registered Users Posts: 19,307 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    irish_goat wrote: »
    I take it the Russell St brewery was where the apartments and the Mick Wallace restaurant now are? Listed on Google as Distillery Court now, so did they make spirits too? Walked past it everyday for about a year and never realised the history.

    The distillery was built after the brewery. The brewery was situated beside the canal, up to where the Wallace apartments start, and the distillery from about there up to the NCR.


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