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Best Breweries in Northern Ireland
1. Modest Beer
Randalstown, Northern Ireland
We're a little independent brewery crafting small batch beers for discerning drinkers. Originally from Holywood (with one L), County Down but now brewed and canned in Randalstown.
2. Boundary Brewing
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Boundary is a cooperative brewery owned by its members. A Belfast-based brewery committed to creating only the most interesting of beers, focused on quality ingredients and drawing on inspiration from both the Belgian and the more modern US styles.
3. Beer Hut Brewing Co.
Kilkeel, Northern Ireland
Beer Hut Brewing Co. produce's decent quality beer and is ranked #3 in Northern Ireland. They are most well known for "Fluffy Bunny", which is a Milk / Sweet Stout and "Way Out West", which is an American IPA. Their primary focus is brewing IPAs and Dark Beers.
4. Mourne Mountains Brewery
Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK. Exploration and adventure in small batch craft beer. Brewed with naturally soft water originating high in the Mourne Mountains, we make a wide variety of beer styles β from crisp, hoppy Pilsners to big, bold Imperial Stouts.
5. Lacada Brewery
Portrush, Northern Ireland
Lacada Brewery produce's good quality beer and is ranked #4 in Northern Ireland. They are most well known for "East the Beast", which is an American IPA and "West Bay", which is an American Pale Ale. Their primary focus is brewing IPAs and Pale Ales.
6. Bullhouse Brew Co
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Bullhouse Brew Co are one of the fastest growing breweries in the UK and the largest independent brewery in Northern Ireland. We create world-class, award-winning beer that puts Northern Ireland on the map. We are passionate in our belief that great beer has the power to drive positive change and shape communities. We're driven by challenging the status quo, raising the profile of Northern Irish beer and creating vibrant drinking spaces to enjoy our beers, such as Bullhouse East (awarded Best Urban Craft Beer Bar in the UK 2023 at the SIBA Business Awards).
7. Out of Office
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Out of Office produce's unproven beer and is ranked #12 in Northern Ireland. They are most well known for "Airplane Mode", which is an American Pale Ale and "NSFW", which is a New England IPA. Their primary focus is brewing IPAs and Pale Ales.
8. Walled City Brewery
Londonderry, Northern Ireland
The Walled City Brewery makes uniquely local, premium quality, fabulously flavoursome craft beers in small artisan batches, using recipes that Masterbrewer James Huey has been painstakingly perfecting over the last 12 years.
9. MashDown Brewery
Banbridge, Northern Ireland
MashDown Brewery produce's unproven beer and is ranked #9 in Northern Ireland. They are most well known for "Belfast Session", which is an American Pale Ale and "Belfast Belle", which is a Pale Lager. Their primary focus is brewing Pale Ales and Dark Beers.
10. Spadetown Brewing Co.
Lurgan, Northern Ireland
We make a range of gorgeous brews to remedy those gloomy βtudes, brewed and canned in our home town of Lurgan, Co. Armagh. Crafted with care, delivering quality & consistency pint, after pint. No funny business, just really great beer!
11. Our Brewery
Randalstown, Northern Ireland
Our Brewery at Get 'Er Brewed with a vision to pushing the boundaries of fermentation, being part of something special and learning new approaches to brewing while taking inspiration from traditional methods.
12. Ormeau Brewing Company
Belfast, Northern Ireland
13. Bell's Brewery (Belfast)
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Re-establishing the old Brewery Quarter of Belfast with a fully operational on-site brewery at The Deer's Head public house. Back in 1778 Bellβs Brewery was a thriving brewery operated by John Bell, adjacent to where we now stand.
14. Rough Brothers
Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Rough Brothers produce's unproven beer and is ranked #14 in Northern Ireland. They are most well known for "India Pale Ale", which is an American IPA and "Northern Pale Ale", which is an Other Pale Ale. Their primary focus is brewing IPAs and Pale Ales.
15. Heaney Brewery
Magherafelt, Northern Ireland
Heaney Brewery produce's unproven beer and is ranked #13 in Northern Ireland. They are most well known for "Irish Stout", which is an Irish Dry Stout and "Irish Pale Ale", which is an International Pale Ale. Their primary focus is brewing Dark Beers and Pale Ales.
16. Dopey Dick
Derry, Northern Ireland
Dopey Dick produce's unproven beer and is ranked #16 in Northern Ireland. They are most well known for "Session IPA", which is a Session IPA and "Red Ale", which is an Irish Red Ale. Their primary focus is brewing IPAs and Amber Ales.
17. Whitewater
Castlewellan, Northern Ireland
Established 1996 on the fifth generation family farm amidst the spectacular Mourne Mountain range in the north of Ireland, Whitewater Brewery still retains the passion and desire to brew beers with fantastic flavours.
18. Northbound Brewery
Eglinton, Northern Ireland
Northbound Brewery produce's unproven beer and is ranked #18 in Northern Ireland. They are most well known for "08 KΓΆlsch Style", which is a KΓΆlsch and "26 Pale Ale", which is an American Pale Ale. Their primary focus is brewing Pale Ales and IPAs.
19. Ards Brewing Co.
Newtownards, Northern Ireland
Ards Brewing Co. produce's generally unappealing beer and is ranked #19 in Northern Ireland. They are most well known for "Hip Hop", which is an Other Pale Ale and "Wee Sally's", which is an English Pale Ale. Their primary focus is brewing Pale Ales and Dark Beers.
20. Fermanagh Beer Company
Drumskimly, Northern Ireland
Welcome to the land of Fermanagh Brewing Company, producing fine craft Inishmacsaint beers. Weβre a small brewpub based in the heart of rural Fermanagh β the most beautiful county in Ireland (in a βbeautiful-but-dampβ kind of way).
21. McCrackens
Portadown, Northern Ireland
McCrackens produce's unproven beer and is ranked #21 in Northern Ireland. They are most well known for "Black", which is an Irish Dry Stout and "IPA", which is an Other IPA. Their primary focus is brewing IPAs and Dark Beers.
22. Norn Iron Brew Co.
Dunmurry, Northern Ireland
Norn Iron Brew Co. produce's unproven beer and is ranked #22 in Northern Ireland. They are most well known for "IPA", which is an American IPA and "Session IPA", which is an American IPA. Their primary focus is brewing IPAs and Dark Beers.
24. Hilden Brewing Co.
Lisburn, Northern Ireland
Hilden Brewing Co. produce's characterless beer and is ranked #24 in Northern Ireland. They are most well known for "Twisted Hop", which is an Other Pale Ale and "Headless Dog", which is an American Red Ale. Their primary focus is brewing Pale Ales and Amber Ales.
25. Hercules Brewing Co
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Hercules Brewing Co produce's characterless beer and is ranked #25 in Northern Ireland. They are most well known for "Yardsman - Belfast Pale Ale", which is an English Pale Ale and "Yardsman - IPA", which is a Session IPA. Their primary focus is brewing Pale Ales and IPAs.