Supporting craft breweries

More negative headlines for Brewdog. Unless of course you are a big investment fund.

Ya if you really got only 2.50 back for your 500 you were not doing it right.

The 11 essential bars were

"Birmingham, Dogtap Ellon, Dublin, Edinburgh DogHouse, Lothian Road, Manchester, and London's Paddington, Canary Wharf, Seven Dials, Tower Hill and Waterloo."

You would think there was more than that worth saving but it's hard to know with the nature of their pubs.

I assume all of their transport hup franchises will be fine. At worst they will just rebrand and staff will be fine.

Do the 38 bars closing really need to close immediately. Craft beer for the people except the ones misfortune enough to work for you.

Bargain basement prices in SuperValu. Decided to invest as haven’t had it in years…

Outside of Diageo, Heineken and C&C, who are the largest brewers in Ireland?

By volumes?

By sales?

Is it Rye River in Kildare?

Or maybe O'Hara's in Carlow?

Where would White Hag fit in?

Who are the top ten craft brewers, by size/volume/revenue?

Thanks.

I am somewhat familiar with all of them, except Trouble. Where are they from?

I believe Galway Bay are unusual in that own (or owned) a chain of their own pubs?

Galway Bay still have a limited number of pubs. Other breweries also run a pub or pubs (not counting taprooms at brewery sites even if they have pub licences), e.g. O'Haras have two (one has a brewery on site but its not the main brewery), Whiplash have one (or two? not entirely sure about Love Tempo, but its closed currently anyway), Four Provinces have one.

Rising Sons is is owned by a pub chain rather than the other way around but it all works out the same really.

Trouble are from Kill in Kildare, one of two breweries in the same town.

Porterhouse have some pubs, some pubs they but lease out, a brewery they own but lease out; and beers made for them by White Hag and Kinnegar under licence (and notably not at the brewery they lease out)

Are you counting Brewery Corner as one of O'Hara's places? It closed earlier in the year.

Porterhouse sold their brewery operation to a rapist a while ago but retained the name, and are now gypsy brewing. Some of their beers are brewed in kinnegar

see my updated comment too.

Brewery Corner was a travesty of a place for years until they put it out of it's misery

I didn't know that actually, I do know he owed thousands to malt suppliers.

Rye River. O'Sheas used to be O'Haras.

Station Works.

It had never crossed my mind that Journeyman was Musgrave own brand, and I buy it relatively often. Cheapest stuff in the shop