There's a grand aul walkable stretch of crafty locations from Drink Store in Stoneybatter to Underdog now, it's turning into a nice area of town, and not too far to Capel/Parliament Street either, and you could even stretch that walk right out to Dudley's on Thomas Street.
Care to map it out by any chance?
The Big Romance - Bonobo - Fidelity - Underdog - Dudley's
A nice little day out there!
Big news out of Celbridge...
Can't wait for the imminent Rye River low abv sessionable lager 😜
Hmmm
Tapped
Sweetman's? (No idea what their own range is like these days.)
Big romance
Bar 1661
Bonobo
Fidelity
Underdog
Porterhouse TB
Beer temple
Dudley's
Pad that out with a couple more (Another GBB, Thomas house, even Delaney's in Smithfield has a decent tap line up) and that's the crafty 12 pubs sorted.
Bonobo have Pointy Shoes on tap at the moment too.
P. Mac's and Peter's.
Peter's is a great shout with the Wicklow Brewery stuff on tap, don't see that much around the place
I think the owner (Peter I assume) is a buddy or neighbour of the Wicklow lads. It was explained to me once but I've half forgotten.
I do love a spot that can mix craft beer with still being a proper old pub.
I think this is the most efficient way of getting to most of Dublin's Craft Beer pubs, with the exception of Brew Dock, Against The Grain and 57 The Headline - simply because BD and ATG are out of the way and are GBB pubs, and the headline is too far out - my suggestion would be to get a taxi to it and get food there.
There's about an hour and twenty minutes walking between venues, and the longest walk is going from Fidelity to Dudley's, but you could stop into Pilsner Pub to break that walk up a bit. I also wasn't sure if Thomas House was still crafty, but it's easy to add it between Dudley's and Beer Market anyway.
There's also the 9 minute walk between PHTB and JWS where you could nip across to Panti if you wanted, or walk through Temple Bar and stop in at The Palace which I think has some craft.
Drinkstore Pick up 16 cans for the stroll between pubs
—> 1 min
L Mulligan Grocer
—> 8 mins
—> 7 Mins
Black Sheep
—> 8 Mins
—> 12 Mins
Dudley’s
—> 5 mins
Beer Market
—> 3 mins
Bull & Castle
—> 1 mins
Darkey Kelly’s
—> 3 min
Beer Temple
—> 9 min
Sweetman’s
—> 2 min
Cassidy’s
—> 5 min
—> 6 min
Peter’s
Bar Rua
P Macs
Finally, if you wanted to add an easy northside leg to this walk, you could start at The Bernard Shaw in Phipsboro, add The Bald Eagle and The Back Page then go to Bonobo, around to LMG and then do the rest of the city centre walk.
Has Darkey Kelly's gone craft? Used not to be
loads. I was in there abut 2 weeks ago, really decent selection for what it is
Im definitely doing some of this when I go up next week. I've never been to Stoneybatter before and always felt there must by somewhere like this in Dublin that I was missing out on.
Stoneybatter is a great spot these days.
I completely left The Big Romance off my list but it sort of messes up the walk too, probably easiest way to incorporate it would be from The Black Sheep
I think the number of drinks might mess up your walk. 😂. I would literally have to be carried around that route and that’s even before considering pizz stops
Add in a Belfast Coffee from 1661 there and that's me done I'd say 😅
My last visit to Sweetman's was disappointing, two taps I enquired about were actually empty, an IPA I ordered was put on the counter for me when it was clearly a stout, eventually settled on a pale ale and after two sips was abandoned as it was undrinkable.
Delaney's had some To øl on tap last time i was there, Walsh's had kinnegar, mulligans, Fidelity, Bonobo and underdog basically one luas stop away, you could easily lose a boozy day in stonybatter/Smithfield. Plenty of great food and a few games of pinball In token (also a decent can/bottle setup)
Big romance, walk down Marlboro st, dip into pipers corner, then be lazy and get the luas 2 stops to underdog.
JW Sweetman's last-known head brewer now has his own brewery on Bow Street. That coupled with new owners and a general lack of interest in the in-house brewery doesn't bode well.
is the equipment still there I wonder.
pre-pandemic they used to be really amenable to homebrew meetings, and I've definitely been on a tour of the set up on a couple of occasions.
It'd be a pity to let it become run-down or unused
Is it Dublin City Brew Co. ?
Actually looks like a real taproom in Dublin city centre which would make it the only one as far as I am aware.
Think that might be Barrelhead/Hopsburgh Helles on Bow St?
Didn't realise they had their own place. Another one for Hodor's pub crawl, if you can get beer there.
Oh could be wrong on that completely! I thought they were brewing around there, no idea if you can go in.
I doubt the JWS equipment can be moved out in any economically viable way.
It looks like a Photoshop. I don't think Dublin City Brewing has ever existed as a brewery. From the street side it's still boarded up and the signage is now gone. As far as I know the beer has always been brewed at Dundalk Bay or the Netherlands before that.
Yeah, Barrelhead/Hopkins & Hopkins/HopburgH is who I meant. There's a production licence in place for Bow Street and it's all decorated as a brewery. Haven't seen any pics of the inside, though.
More likely. The place I mentioned is on Parnell St. and looks like a very slick operation. Not surprised to hear its just good marketing+contract brews.
They gave a load of their friends their beers and asked them to join Untappd and give them five stars. That's the opposite of good marketing.
Well not if the friends actually gave them 5 stars.
Kind of reminds me of dealing with the absolutely odious cnts at Forest Road Brewery. They had sticker, badges and "merch" all over the craft beer scene before any actual beer.
