That smell on the south quays: Guinness brewery?

mikemac · 12-11-2008 09:01AM #1

Anyone notice or is it just me?
Or maybe ye are all in Dublin so long you take no notice.

Like malt or something. That's probably not the correct item but I assume it's something similar and coming from the Guinness site.
Anyone know what it is, I like it anyway.

Usually notice it going by on the moped

CiaranC · 12-11-2008 09:02AM

Ah bless

John Mason · 12-11-2008 09:04AM

Its the roasting of hops, it happens at certain times of the day.

CiaranC · 12-11-2008 09:04AM

Welcome to 1759

dogmatix · 12-11-2008 09:05AM

pink fluffy bunny wrote: »

Its the roasting of hops, it happens at certain times of the day.

Aye - thats it. I get a whiff the occassional mornig coming in on the bike. It's not a bad smell at all.

Sherifu · 12-11-2008 09:13AM

I was on the way to work and couldn't hold it, sorry about that

ryoishin · 12-11-2008 09:25AM

you can nearly chew the air some days its that strong.

_blank_ · 12-11-2008 10:59AM

love that smell

John Mason · 12-11-2008 01:31PM

i used to live in a guiness cottage in pimlico, it was really strong especially during the summer months. i wouldnt be a huge fan of the smell but it does bring back some happy memories

delta_bravo · 12-11-2008 06:31PM

Its great it envelops all of Dublin. It can travel for several miles around the county. Smell it in Templeogue fairly often

_blank_ · 12-11-2008 06:54PM

delta_bravo wrote: »

Its great it envelops all of Dublin. It can travel for several miles around the county. Smell it in Templeogue fairly often

Sometimes in Coolock too actually.

It's great when you get the guinness smell in the morning, then Cadbury's in the afternoon.

admiralofthefleet · 12-11-2008 07:05PM

Des wrote: »

Sometimes in Coolock too actually.

It's great when you get the guinness smell in the morning, then Cadbury's in the afternoon.

yeah i love the smell from cadburys too

Fajitas! · 12-11-2008 08:07PM

Am beside the Guiness Brewery most days. Most of the time it's not too bad. Infact I quite like it. Much better than the slaughter house opposite my school when I was growing up.

Down Island Street, it's wicked bad though, and around Mother's Tank Station... Jesus, when I used have to walk past there to get to Thomas St. - I nearly retched some mornings. Is the other side to a night on the black stuff. No no, the other side.

sparkzter · 13-11-2008 01:44AM

Yeah, its not a bad smell but sometimes it seems way stronger than other? I get a similar kind of smell in Smithfield too- from the Jameson distillery, it must be the malt or something that they have in common....

juvenal · 13-11-2008 01:59AM

sparkzter wrote: »

Yeah, its not a bad smell but sometimes it seems way stronger than other? I get a similar kind of smell in Smithfield too- from the Jameson distillery, it must be the malt or something that they have in common....

It's a fine smell indeed

The Old Jameson Distellery in Smithfield closed in the 1970's and is now a museum/tourist attraction. They don't produce whiskey there at all now AFAIK.

seamus · 13-11-2008 09:53AM

Great smell, but not when you arrive into town, ropey as **** and dying to go back to bed. Urgh.

Miguel_Sanchez · 13-11-2008 10:30AM

I live up near there and love the smell. It reminds me of when I was 16 and lived near a Weetabix factory in the States, very similar smell.

And I lived near a bacon factory when I was a kid. The stink from that was horrible so it's much better getting hops on the wind when I'm walking to town.

enda1 · 13-11-2008 10:36AM

pink fluffy bunny wrote: »

Its the roasting of hops, it happens at certain times of the day.

I'd have presumed it was the roasting of barley, not hops!?

View Profile · 13-11-2008 10:46AM

Des
Sometimes in Coolock too actually.

It's great when you get the guinness smell in the morning, then Cadbury's in the afternoon.

The Tayto factory stunk though!:D

Cool Mo D · 13-11-2008 08:36PM

The Tayto factory used to smell like chips! I used to love that smell on my way into school.

View Profile · 14-11-2008 12:02AM

It was more like burnt crisps.:D

The Manhattan popcorn factory in finglas smells nicer.

P.C. · 14-11-2008 12:13AM

sparkzter wrote: »

Yeah, its not a bad smell but sometimes it seems way stronger than other? I get a similar kind of smell in Smithfield too- from the Jameson distillery, it must be the malt or something that they have in common....

It is from the malt.

The malted grain is broken up, and mixed with hot water in the 'mash tun'.
It smells a bit like breakfast porridge.

And, yes, Whiskey would use a similar process, but they do not produce whiskey in Smithfield anymore.

P.C. · 14-11-2008 12:16AM

enda1 wrote: »

I'd have presumed it was the roasting of barley, not hops!?

You are right.
Hops have a very distinctive, sharp smell (very difficult to describe).

You will not get the smell of hops from the brewing process, as it is overpowered by the barley smell.

humberklog · 14-11-2008 11:37AM

P.C. wrote: »

And, yes, Whiskey would use a similar process, but they do not produce whiskey in Smithfield anymore.

Indeed it does and indeed they don't. However there is a tour of the old distillery and during the tour they take you to an area where the malt smell is reproduced for effect. The reproduced smell is gank but it well matches the tour which is a total abortion. Piss poor, god awful.

Love the whiff of Guinness's. It used to be a lot stronger a few years back but they put some sort of filter on the outlet to reduce the fumes. They could get very, very strong and mix that with how the Liffey used to smell...hmmm. Well I liked it but it was a smell one would have to acquire a taste for. Dublin could have been the first Scratch'n Sniff city.

sunnyjim · 14-11-2008 02:46PM

It's the same smell described as the mash for the pigs in Animal Farm...

Wishbone Ash · 14-11-2008 04:06PM

humberklog wrote: »

It used to be a lot stronger a few years back

That's what I was thinking myself. I rarely smell it nowadays.

baztard · 15-11-2008 02:45PM

humberklog wrote: »

Love the whiff of Guinness's. It used to be a lot stronger a few years back but they put some sort of filter on the outlet to reduce the fumes.

It will be getting a lot less frequent in the coming years. Guinness are shifting most of their brewing out of st. James Gate to a new brewery in Leixlip. They're keeping James Gate open purely for token value from what I can see. They'll claim your guinness is brewed there, but chances are it won't be. Its a crime against the city that this is happening. The smell brings real character to the place. Hopefully they won't go down the fake smell route either.

humberklog · 15-11-2008 09:03PM

Well Guinness have said that every pint of Guinness drank in Ireland will have been brewed in St. James Gate. I think its a lot more than tokenism.

ian_m · 15-11-2008 11:15PM

pink fluffy bunny wrote: »

Its the roasting of hops, it happens at certain times of the day.

I've been meaning to ask this before, what times of the day? I think it happens more at night now than day, does anyone agree?

uberwolf · 15-11-2008 11:20PM

Dunno, haven't spotted a pattern to it yet (2 years living there and counting) but don't associate it with the evening / night particularly...

sunnyjim · 16-11-2008 05:00PM

I get it most days between 9 and 12.

That smell on the south quays: Guinness brewery?

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