Kinnegar Brewing

Microbrewery in Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland 🇮🇪

Established in 2011

Contact
K2, Ballyraine Industrial Estate, Aughavannon, Rathmullan, Letterkenny, Ireland
Description
At Kinnegar we pair brewing tradition with a contemporary sense of adventure to produce clean, crisp, full-flavoured farmhouse beers. The brewery is named after the nearby Kinnegar Beach 
just north of Rathmullan in County Donegal.

Our roots are deeply embedded in the hilly fields and farms of northeast Donegal. This is the perfect environment for the way we make beer. We don’t filter or pasteurise, and we let our industrious little friends, the yeast, carbonate the beer naturally during fermentation.

With the opening of K2, our new state-of-the-art facility in nearby Letterkenny in March 2017, the clinking of bottles coming off our line no longer mingles with the bleating of sheep from the surrounding fields. The farmhouse ethos at the core of what we do however remains the same.

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6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

440ml can: BB 17th January 2024, canned 17th May 2023. Hazy golden/yellow, weak white head. Hop fronted aroma and taste, tropical fruits and piney esters combine nicely, taste also a pleasant blend of bittering fruitiness and earthy resinous hoppiness on a decent malty base. Liked it!

Tried from Can on 07 Oct 2023 at 19:23


6

Magus, karamell, kuiv, tsitrus, vesine. Okish.

Tried on 22 Sep 2023 at 17:03


6

Roast, coffee, strong barley, husky, hoppy

Tried on 22 Sep 2023 at 16:52



6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Keg at taphuys. Pours golden, nose is rhubarb, citrus, taste is juicy rhubarb, sweet, some ginger.

Tried from Draft on 17 Sep 2023 at 17:47


7

Tried from Draft on 01 Sep 2023 at 19:00


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Thick, dark cream head over deep black beer, almost looking as Irish coffee. Roast first& foremost, sweeter notes following, alas with a smell as from coriander. Oats are announced already. Almost bitterish roast, followed by the sweet-ish coriander-like flavour. Really can't name cocos, except for a hint in the finish, as if a rest of cocoswater was left in the bottle before filling. Very faint stout acidity. "Coriander" keeps hanging around. Full bodied with a creamy texture. I'm not sure. Maybe I'd have loved the cocos nose/taste more than the idea of the infernal weed.

Tried from Can from Station 1280 on 16 Aug 2023 at 05:59


8

Hazy, fruity Häsli

Tried from Can on 05 Aug 2023 at 16:16


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Draught at Underdog in Dublin. Pours hazed yellow with moderate white head. Overt tropical fruit. Really nice beer.

Tried on 29 Jul 2023 at 18:45


6.5

Tried from Draft on 14 Jul 2023 at 20:45