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A craft beer walking tour of Dublin

One route. Several stops… You’re welcome.

SAMPLE SOME OF Dublin’s finest craft beer pubs, and get a 2.8km walk in while you’re at it.

Here’s your route, let us guide you.

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Start off in the Beerhouse on Capel Street

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You’re always guaranteed the correct glass for each beer you order here. There’s an excellent choice and it’s a great kick off point.

Drink: Jack Codys Lunasa Saison

Work your way down to the Black Sheep

It’ll only take you two minutes and you can even play a board game over the massive selection of pints.

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Drink: Galway Bay, Full Sail

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Now stall it down to the Porterhouse in Temple Bar

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This place brews all their own stuff. It’s full of tourists but a spot at the window is as blissful as you’ll get in the city.

Drink: A Temple Brau, of course.

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Now it’s a trek up to Against the Grain on Wexford Street

Maybe it’s a good time to stop for some food.

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This is from the Galway Bay Brewery, same as the Black Sheep. The choice is phenomenal, and they even do beer cocktails.

Drink: Oh go on, try a beer cocktail. The specials board won’t stir you wrong.

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On to P Macs next on Stephen St Lower

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P Macs is always a good after work spot, so expect that crowd. There’s a mountain of beers to choose from and free crisps on the tables.

Drink: A Metalman

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To the Bankers with you, found on Trinity Street

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The Bankers is a lot more low key than the rest, a proper aul lad pub in the middle of the city. Hey, it’s cosy, and a welcome spot in between the two Cassidy twins.

Drink: Play it safe with a bottle of Galway Hooker.

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Time to hit Cassidy’s next, you’re almost finished

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If you can look past all the hipster decor, there’s a lot to love about Cassidy’s, including free sweets and a whole load of personality.

Drink: Basic, but a blue moon with a bit of lemon in it.

Finally, hit J.W. Sweetman on Burgh Quay

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Your final resting place, in more ways than one.

Finish up with some of their Irish Red Ale.

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By Nicola Byrne. Originally published on DailyEdge.ie.

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    Mute khaydeez
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    Aug 26th 2015, 9:59 PM

    Absolutely love craft beer! But not the hipster nonsense that surrounds it!! bartenders stop acting like you invented ale, It’s been around since the Middle Ages and beyond!! So has pulled pork!!!

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    Mute Lou Tennant
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    Aug 26th 2015, 10:12 PM

    At this stage, as far as I’m concerned, craft beer can fock right off.

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    Mute Play Against Par
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    Aug 26th 2015, 10:51 PM

    Hold on! Craft beer tour? Is that not just a pub crawl repackaged?

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    Mute For Connolly
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    Aug 26th 2015, 10:58 PM

    Craft beer? Our founding fathers would be turning in their graves.

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    Mute Diarmuid Lucey
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    Aug 26th 2015, 11:13 PM

    Great yet another reason for a pisss up!
    And we wonder why the Irish have such a bad reputation for alcohol consumption?

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    Mute For Connolly
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    Aug 26th 2015, 11:15 PM

    Over 50,000 people die every year in Ireland from alcohol related illnesses. It’s a serious public health issue.

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    Mute Diarmuid Lucey
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    Aug 26th 2015, 11:28 PM

    Why has my comment received so many ted thumbs?

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    Mute For Connolly
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    Aug 26th 2015, 11:30 PM

    Because you’re trolling and if there’s one thing I can’t stand it’s trolls.

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    Mute Diarmuid Lucey
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    Aug 26th 2015, 11:39 PM

    This is so absurd being told that I’m trolling by the biggest troll of all. Ridiculous!

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    Mute Diarmuid Lucey
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    Aug 26th 2015, 11:42 PM

    Perhaps the Irish need to learn that getting pissed up anytime there’s darkness at night, it’s not good for them nor is it good for Irelands culture.

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    Mute Owen Ball
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    Aug 26th 2015, 11:43 PM

    Maybe because craft beer is all about the choice, the taste, and supporting Irish local industry, rather than the night on the lash courtesy of cheap lousy beer full of chemicals? Craft beer is about enjoying the beer like a meal experience and should be welcomed in place of the slab of cheap gut rot beer culture that has pervaded in recent times.

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    Mute Diarmuid Lucey
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    Aug 26th 2015, 11:50 PM

    Haha…..good one Owen! The innocence of that comment lol

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    Mute Seán O leprechaun
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    Aug 27th 2015, 12:31 AM

    Hipsters on your marks, tie back your hair, get set on your vintage bikes, go !!

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    Mute Owen Ball
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    Aug 27th 2015, 12:49 AM

    Its a personal opinion Diarmud, as we are all allowed,
    not a slight on your good self, but take it as you see fit.

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    Mute Mick Fox
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    Aug 27th 2015, 8:41 AM

    A pub strut, if you will.

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    Mute Murphman
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    Aug 27th 2015, 9:27 AM

    50,000 troll’s are born every day in Ireland. This is a serious public health issue.

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    Mute Billy Naughton
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    Aug 27th 2015, 1:56 PM

    Maybe because people do not agree with you. Is that so incredulous? Are you teetotal or a sensible drinker like the majority of people? Would you prefer alcohol was banned? If you are a drinker at all, your comments come across as quite condescending, as you are judging a lot of people, the majority of which have no problem with alcohol.

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    Mute Stephen Mc Elligott
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    Aug 26th 2015, 10:03 PM

    What’s with the pic of the hipster so cool and edgy looking girl at beginning of the article? Why is craft beer associated with young hipsters as if to imply that it’s this crowd only who are interested in it as if we are all yuppies who drink it only or something? Craft beer is for everyone and in most cases a lot better option than the pint of popular chemicals you get over the bar nowadays.

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    Mute Ron North
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    Aug 26th 2015, 10:17 PM

    If my memory serves me correctly (and I have to admit it sometimes makes stuff up and presents it to me as fact), the same photo was used in a previous craft beer story and the girl in the picture is in fact an Irish craft beer brewer.

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    Mute Ron North
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    Aug 26th 2015, 10:36 PM

    No, I think it has let me down again, she was pictured at the launch of a craft brewing week in 2012 but that doesn’t make her a brewer, she could be a model or something else. My mistake.

    http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/craft-beer-progress-report-1801362-Dec2014/

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    Mute tmwtbc
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    Aug 27th 2015, 12:32 AM

    Good memory Ron, fair play.

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    Mute Lily Signoret
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    Aug 26th 2015, 10:08 PM

    You forgot The Headline on Leonard’s Corner.

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    Aug 26th 2015, 10:10 PM

    You never got the best craft beer and whiskey bar in there. L. Mulligan Grocers, Stoneybatter, D7

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    Aug 26th 2015, 10:01 PM

    Wouldn’t make it past the Porterhouse! #lightweight

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    Mute Dan Mc
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    Aug 27th 2015, 7:46 AM

    What about the ‘The Brew Dock’, just beside Connolly station? My favourite spot to have a sneaky beer. Great gryb as well.

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    Mute TommyHaze
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    Aug 27th 2015, 8:46 AM

    ‘Gryb’
    I know.
    Beer’s not the same without it.
    A nice pint of crafty beer and a bowl of gryb.
    Yer only woman.

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    Mute Paul Roche
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    Aug 26th 2015, 9:59 PM

    … Or sit on your ass in a pub of your own choosing and drink sensibly.

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    Aug 26th 2015, 10:02 PM

    be well bolixed after that, from the walk.

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    Aug 26th 2015, 10:38 PM

    Some of the craft beer is just awful… But strong.

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    Aug 26th 2015, 10:27 PM

    The hipsters must be cuming in their trousers.

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    Aug 26th 2015, 10:22 PM

    That is my idea of a good walk….

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    Aug 26th 2015, 10:32 PM

    I love beer but have never had a craft. Could someone recommend one to start off with.

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    Aug 27th 2015, 7:28 AM

    Knitting !

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    Aug 27th 2015, 9:04 AM

    Full sail by Galway bay or punk IPA and you’ll be hooked. Hopefully not in an alcoholic sort of a way

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    Mute Babadook
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    Aug 27th 2015, 9:49 AM

    Cheers phil

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    Mute Magoo Maguire
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    Aug 26th 2015, 11:55 PM

    The beer market on thomas street is a nice pub aswell.

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    Mute Anthony Byrne
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    Aug 27th 2015, 7:27 AM

    I’m a serious beer drinker. And I say “Craft beer me h0le”. I call it what inspector morse called it – “Proper beer, not that tinned rubbish”. And yes, it has been around for centuries, so all those hipsters and small brewery entrepreneurs, fair play for brewing the stuff, but nope, you didn’t invent it.

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    Mute Pádraig Ó Máirtín
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    Aug 26th 2015, 10:45 PM

    just come to galway, the salthouse is the best craft beer bar in the country

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    Mute Darach Malone
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    Aug 26th 2015, 10:53 PM

    Luckily I read the headline a second time and noticed it actually said ‘craft beer walking tour’.

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    Mute BiaMaith
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    Aug 27th 2015, 1:09 AM

    I love the Butchers Bar in Christchurch. Great bunch of staff and the beers were a little cheaper than some of the other pubs when I lived in Dublin last year. They do a lovely steak too.

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    Mute TommyHaze
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    Aug 26th 2015, 11:21 PM

    Pure pith.
    Alco pops for hipsters.
    The Dubliners will be turning in their graves.

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    Mute Integra-Ted
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    Aug 27th 2015, 10:11 AM

    Start off in Brew Dock, by Bus Aras, then hop the Luas from the front door, up to Jervis, cut over to the Beerhouse, then Black Sheep, scoot down to Sweetman’s

    Or starting from the Southside, your first port of call should be 57Headline, then hop a bus down to near Alfie Byrnes, walk along the green back to Wexford street and Against the Grain

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    Mute Morgan Freeman
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    Aug 27th 2015, 4:10 PM

    Would a mile not have been a better distance than 2.8km? Any reason why you didn’t go with a mile?

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    Mute Pete Gibson
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    Aug 27th 2015, 2:14 AM

    Any pub that serves beer is automatically a “craft beer pub” as far as I am concerned.
    All beers are craft beers.
    (There can’t be much wrong with any place that serves beer).

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    Aug 27th 2015, 9:01 AM

    Probus wines is a bit out of the way but it’s still a shame it wasn’t included

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