Blacks Kinsale Brewery & Distillery

Microbrewery in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪
Associated Venue: Blacks Kinsale Craft Brewery

Established in 2013

Contact
Farm Ln, Knocknabohilly, Kinsale, Ireland
Description
Sam and Maudeline Black are a husband and wife team who started their brewing company Blacks Brewery in 2013. This venture/obsession first began many years ago when Maudeline gave Sam a beer making kit for Valentines Day. What started as a hobby quickly developed into an obsession and thus through Sam’s passion and enthusiasm Blacks Brewery became reality. Living the dream since 2013! In 2015 the Distillery was added. We are Ireland's first co-located micro brewery and Distillery.

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5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
Bottle from Alesbymail. Cloudy golden with a small white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity, light elderflowers and light hoppy. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. Light bodied. 280417
Tried from Bottle on 28 Apr 2017 at 10:40

6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 5.5
Draught at the Headline. Hazy orange with a medium head. Aroma of orange and pine. Flavour is hetbal hop, a little peeper on a light chalky bitter base.
Tried on 18 Apr 2017 at 15:28

6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottled. A black beer with a brown head. The aroma has notes of malt, bread, and roasted bread. The flavor is sweet with notes of bread, roasted malt, and caramel, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Apr 2017 at 20:18

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Sample from 50 cl bottle. Dark amber colour with a medium sized off white head. Sweet aroma with dark malts, caramel, chocolate, coffee. Taste is sweet. Medium bodied. Finishes sweet and roasted fruity.
Tried from Bottle on 31 Mar 2017 at 14:51

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle@Yesprs - Black pour with beige head. Roasted and sweet malty with some cocoa and caramel notes, charred burnt malty accents, roasted malty close. --- Beer merged from original tick of Model T Stout (5%) on 26 Mar 2025 at 06:31 - Score: 6. Original review text: March 31, 2017
Bottle@Yesprs - Black pour with beige head. Roasted and sweet malty with some cocoa and caramel notes, charred burnt malty accents, roasted malty close.
Tried from Bottle on 31 Mar 2017 at 14:34

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
50 cL bottle. Pours dark brown with a small brown head. Deep orange glare. Roasted dark malty. Roasted malty, minerals and breadish. Lingeríng dark malty finish.
Tried from Bottle on 31 Mar 2017 at 14:33

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Bottle at Sheehans, Dublin. Poured a murky dark brown with a thin broken off white head. The aroma is roasty malt, grassy hop. The flavour is moderate bitter with a light grassy fruity light floral hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Mar 2017 at 15:05

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Bottled 330ml (AbM, BB 05/2017)
Slightly hazy orange color, medium-sized white head and some lace. Light nose has overriped fruits and yeast. Light-bodied. Overriped fruits (mango, peach), not much bitterness, yeasty, short aftertaste. Watery, kind of homebrewish.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Mar 2017 at 13:53

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Bottle 0.5l. Clear, dark red to dark brown colored. AROMA- chocolate, some vegetable. FLAVOR- dry, a bit lactic sour, moderately bitter, chocolate, coffee, touch of cappuccino and nougat. Medium bodied.
Good Irish stout.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Mar 2017 at 11:58

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
500ml bottle. Clear, orangey golden colour with average, frothy, fairly lasting, moderately lacing, white head. Slightly piney and citrusy hoppy aroma, hints of lemon tea, minimally waxy and grassy overtones, Taste is slightly watery pale malty, slightly dry, mildly piney and citrusy hoppy, hints of lemon tea, lemon, a touch of lemon grass.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Mar 2017 at 15:57