Galway Bay Brewery

Microbrewery in Oranmore, County Galway, Ireland 🇮🇪
Associated with 10 Venues

Established in 2009

Contact
Carrowmoneash Station Rd., Oranmore, H91 FA31, Ireland
Description
The Oslo was the start of Galway Bay Brewery and remains our flagship pub based in Salthill; our owners Jason O’Connell and Niall Walsh added a brewery on site in 2009, making The Oslo one of the country’s first brew pubs. Since then Galway Bay Brewery has expanded operations to 11 bars based in Galway and Dublin and have grown and re-positioned the Brewery just outside of Galway in Oranmore. We now produce four core beers along with a plethora of rotational beers that are released throughout the year.

With the installation of our new brew house we are turning our focus towards exporting and making our beers available in the UK and Europe

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6.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Draft, taster. @"MBCC 2025", Copenhagen (Denmark). 23/05/2025
[#8.265 Global - #169 Ireland - #18 Galway Bay Brewery]
Pours bright pink with a small pinkish head. Aroma: yuzu, funk, red berries and yeast. Taste: red berries and funk. Spiced palate.
Next one, please!
Tried from Draft on 23 May 2025 at 08:21

7.5/10
23/05/2025 Sample at Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2025
Tried on 23 May 2025 at 06:38

7/10
23/05/2025 Sample at Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2025
Tried on 23 May 2025 at 06:37

8.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8
On tap at MBCC 2025, yellow session. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Dark roasted malts, burnt sugar, and bourbon barrels throughout. Fantastic.
Tried from Draft on 23 May 2025 at 03:00

6.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
On tap at MBCC 2025, yellow session. Pours murky pink with a white head. Berries on the nose. Flavour has light berries, floral hops, grass. Decent.
Tried from Draft on 23 May 2025 at 03:00

6.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Bière trouvée au Comptoir Irlandais. Robe dorée limpide, mousse blanche fine, assez persistante. Nez typique sur le houblon américain, avec une belle présence d’agrumes, surtout pamplemousse, et une légère touche herbacée. L’attaque est vive, bien sèche, centrée sur les houblons : agrumes, zeste, amertume nette. Ensemble plaisant, bien équilibré, mais le corps reste un peu en retrait. Une IPA sympa, rafraîchissante, qu’on aurait aimée un peu plus charpentée.
Tried on 12 May 2025 at 18:27

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
10th May 2025
Panda thanks to Cloin. Near clear deep amber beer, good bubbly pale tan head. Palate is light, mildly dry and has a good fine minerally crispness. The flavour is basically all those archive brews from the 190s and 1970s, well the good ones anyway! Smooth mildly caramel malt, a little dark toffee Cooling pine, a mild hop spice nip. Hugely frameshift changing, got a light bright pine and hop sting element over what tastes like it has.been aged for decades
Tried on 10 May 2025 at 22:32

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 5 Overall 6
Blood red with no head. Aroma of crushed blackberry. Flavour is pithy fruit, tart although softened by the yuzu citrus. Tangy base and finish.
Tried from Draft at The Brew Dock (Galway Bay) on 08 May 2025 at 23:00

7/10
#oesterstout #ierland
Tried from Draft on 03 May 2025 at 19:22

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle at home, from one of the Irish on line peddlers whom I can't recall, 27/04/2025.
Dark mahogany brown topped with a beige cap that thins to a swirl.
Nose is ripe dark fruits, herb, spice, molasses, toffee fudge, dates, figs.
Taste comprises fruit cake mix, spice, booze tunes, bourbon nip which is slightly more intense than the vermouth, dates, toffee, caramelised brown sugar.
Full bodied, fine carbonation, drying close with a balanced rising boost.
Solid BA life.
Tried on 27 Apr 2025 at 18:01