Kinnegar Brewing

Microbrewery in Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland 🇮🇪
Associated Venue: Kinnegar Brewing

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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7.5/10
Sharp ginger and very tart refreshing rhubarb. Good for a coach beer
Tried from Can on 21 Jul 2019 at 16:48

7/10
Tried from Bottle on 13 Jul 2019 at 14:58

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Can sample at a tasting at Yoav's place. Hazy yellow. Minerals, citric hops, vegetal notes, yeast, quite dry, moderately bitter finish.
Tried from Can on 11 Jul 2019 at 19:28

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Draught @ Mother Kellys, 251 Paradise Row, Bethnal Green, Greater London, England E2 9LE.[ As Kinnegar Yannaroddy Porter ].Clear dark black brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, coconut, sour fruit notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long duration, coconut, dark malt, roasted, chocolate. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20170811] 7-4-7-3-14
Tried on 11 Jul 2019 at 14:37

6/10
Tried from Can on 04 Jul 2019 at 17:19

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle at The Winding Stair in Dublin, Ireland. The pour is black brown with a well formed 2 inch dark khaki head. The aroma is strong roast, along with dark chocolate and a bit of pine in the malt. The taste is clean dark chocolate malt, the roast and finishing dry with pine. The palate is medium bodied, active carbonation and the clean roast finish. Tasty Porter, went great with the lovely food at The Winding Stair.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Jun 2019 at 14:53

7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 9
440ml can from Sterk Amsterdam, 29th June 19. At home in the garden, picked the wrong one up last month, so pleased to grab this in my business trip this week. It's canned October 18, it's on its BB for June 19, however it pours black, tan head. Aroma is liquorice, cocoa, grapefruit. Taste is bitter, hoppy, citrus, cocoa. It's an excellent black IPA, full in the mouth and full of hoppy flavour. Love it
Tried from Can on 29 Jun 2019 at 14:48

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
American style amber ale made by one of these new generation Irish craft brewers, thanks Johan for sharing the – beautifully styled – can. Egg-white, thick and foamy, plastery lacing head over a clear, ruddy-orange amber coloured beer. Aroma of rusk, dry teabags, fried tomato peel, peanuts, old biscuit, dried flowers, orange zest. Clean fruitiness in the mouth, touch of apple peel and orange perhaps, fizzy carb, smooth and soft bread crust-, rusk- and peanut-like maltiness, sweet with a bitterish toasty edge blending with a rooty, zesty, bit powdery, spicy ‘classically American’ hop bitterness in the end. Typical U.S. style amber along the lines of New Belgium’s Fat Tire and the like, rather unassuming perhaps in that respect as this style seems to have become rather obsolete these days, but well-balanced and technically flawless.
Tried from Can on 27 Jun 2019 at 14:58

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Can from The Beerhive. Hazy amber/ruby body with a beige head. Steady carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of toffee and earth. Flavour of pomegranate, burnt caramel and apple. Medium body with a frothy mouthfeel. Soft fizz. Enjoyable.
Tried from Can on 23 Jun 2019 at 06:28

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can from The Beerhive. Murky golden body with an off-white head. Steady carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of peach and coriander. Flavour of toffee and overripe orange. Medium body with a smooth texture. Soft fizz. Excellent.
Tried from Can on 23 Jun 2019 at 06:02