Many brew houses comprise of beautiful copper vessels where innovative craft brews are created along with fired boiling kettle. The basement is a room of conical fermenters with conditioning tanks and comfortable seating areas for the visitors. The brewer yeast is passed into the tank so that beer can be transferred from one vessel to another to complete the brewing process. Dublin specializes in small group tours that provide the beer enthusiasts with a high quality vacation experience. The tour is a combination of beer industry and variety of heritage sites with the most stunning sceneries that are beyond your imagination.
Ireland is known for its vibrant brewing industry, with city and town proudly drinking the local produce. In between, there were problems in this industry as many other countries grew their focus on brewing industry. Now again, Ireland is making huge strides in this industry and is now the owner of numerous breweries, brewing a wide range of flavorsome and quality beers.
Dublin is famous for one style of beer known as stout. It became popular in 18th century and Irish brewers began to export large quantities of this beer to England. The statistics showed that the export increased from 50,000 barrels to 1,500,000 barrels. Today Dublin is serving both ale and stout, both with traditional and modern taste.
A Darty Brewing Co. was established in 1892 but it only lasted for five years. After that, Regal Lager brewery Ltd began with full swing for drinkers all over Dublin, which was then followed by Guiness, the largest brewing market ever known in the history of Ireland. As stout started losing popularity over the past few years, ale was produced with lot of struggle to give the drinkers something new to add to their taste. Over the last 15 years, the sales have increased all over the nation, with the formation of each pub and beer house. Small pubs such as Beamish and Murphy have great impact on the people of Dublin but Guiness is still dominating among all.
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