Munster

The rarest ending in this archive: a brewery that sold to a multinational and then got itself back. Scott Baigent and Cam Wallace — a New Zealander and an Australian, the name is the latitude line…

Cork's craft pioneer, brewing on the site of a Franciscan monastery well since 1998 and genuinely one of the breweries that started Irish craft. Molson Coors bought it in 2013. Rebel Red still tastes…

In the Ring Gaeltacht on the Waterford coast, and cannily positioned on the Greenway — the old railway line turned cycle route that put this stretch of coast back on the map.

Started in a garage in Kinsale by a couple who got a homebrew kit as an anniversary present, now a brewery and distillery over the Bandon estuary. Ireland's food capital acquired a drinks industry to…

Built for the Killarney tourist trade at proper destination scale, with a distillery alongside. Devil's Punchbowl is named for the corrie lake above the town.

Behind the Roadside Tavern in Lisdoonvarna, a spa town best known for a matchmaking festival. Trad music, seafood and beer brewed through the wall.

Named for the Kerryman who survived three Antarctic expeditions including Shackleton's, went home to Anascaul and opened a pub called the South Pole Inn. A brewery named for him is about the least…

In Limerick's medieval quarter under King John's Castle, named for the 1691 Treaty of Limerick — a city that has spent three hundred years arguing about a broken agreement now sells beer named after…

Out on the Dingle peninsula in the Kerry Gaeltacht, brewing since 2008 and labelling in Irish first. About as far west as brewing goes in Europe before the Atlantic takes over.

Organic farmhouse brewing in Tipperary with the agriculture taken as seriously as the beer.

In the Cork Gaeltacht, brewing bilingually and best known for Stag Saor — a gluten-free range built properly rather than as an afterthought, which almost nobody else was doing in 2013.

Baltimore is the jumping-off point for Sherkin and Cape Clear, and the beer is named accordingly. Island tourism in a glass.

A family farm brewery in the middle of Clare, which is dairy country — the herd in the name is not decorative.

Blarney Brewing Co. brews in Co. Cork. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Canvas Brewery brews in Co. Tipperary. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Clonakilty is a West Cork food town famous for its black pudding. A brewery was the obvious next entry on the trail.

Doolin is the trad music capital of Clare and the ferry point for the Aran Islands. A beer named for the village is aimed at a very specific and very reliable crowd.

Art-led branding and contract-brewed batches — a modern way to run a beer company without owning a building, and increasingly the only affordable way to start one.

JJ's Craft Brewing brews in Co. Limerick. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Original 7 Brewing Co. brews in Co. Cork. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Torc Brewing Co. brews in Co. Kerry. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

One of the genuine originals of Irish craft, brewing in Waterford from 2011 and named for the navigation tower on the Tramore coast. Went on hiatus in 2022 and did not come back — an early-wave…