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.
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.
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottled, from Hopt. Lightly hazy pale golden, small head. Aroma of tangerine with a whiff of rubber. Dry with light body and clean mouthfeel. Tangerine, pine and elderflowers, some wheat crackers. Resinous very bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2018
at 20:03
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Revisite en 2025, 44cl can, BB 02/04/2025,canned 02/08/2024 achetée chez Malting Pot, Ixelles.
Brune foncée, col épais crémeux café au lait.
Arôme reste sur une black IPA au seigle classique mais de très belle facture. Toasté avec une pointe de grillé/café avec un retour houblonné résineux en retrait. Le tout est solide avec ce cachet de Black IPA d'antan - le houblonné aurait pu être légèrement plus complexe tout en restant dans l'oofre C-hops voire CTZ.
Palais est plaisant avec une belle note houblonnée restant dans une offre tirant sur le résineux et le pin - apport balancé des malts - grillé - café au lait, chocolat noir amer avec une touche fine épciée du seigle.
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27/05/2018 - score de 7.3 = 6/7/8/6/8 Draft @ Graingers Café, Dublin. Brune foncée, col crémeux blanc-cassé. Arôme est houblonné agrumes, note de malt grillé avec une petite touche de pin et résineux. Touche chocolatée en rétro. Palais est malté avec un bel effet grillé voire biscuité, houblonné ok en amertume, c-hops, petite épaisseur de seigle avec une pointe épicée léger résineux. Sur la fin un petit côté tropical revient, léger, sympa et correcte.
Brune foncée, col épais crémeux café au lait.
Arôme reste sur une black IPA au seigle classique mais de très belle facture. Toasté avec une pointe de grillé/café avec un retour houblonné résineux en retrait. Le tout est solide avec ce cachet de Black IPA d'antan - le houblonné aurait pu être légèrement plus complexe tout en restant dans l'oofre C-hops voire CTZ.
Palais est plaisant avec une belle note houblonnée restant dans une offre tirant sur le résineux et le pin - apport balancé des malts - grillé - café au lait, chocolat noir amer avec une touche fine épciée du seigle.
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27/05/2018 - score de 7.3 = 6/7/8/6/8 Draft @ Graingers Café, Dublin. Brune foncée, col crémeux blanc-cassé. Arôme est houblonné agrumes, note de malt grillé avec une petite touche de pin et résineux. Touche chocolatée en rétro. Palais est malté avec un bel effet grillé voire biscuité, houblonné ok en amertume, c-hops, petite épaisseur de seigle avec une pointe épicée léger résineux. Sur la fin un petit côté tropical revient, léger, sympa et correcte.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 May 2018
at 15:32
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at mikkeller 2018 day 2 lunch time queue... Hazy amber.. small white head.. juicy funk zezty fruits nose.. Soft sharp funk fruit.. big yeasty fruit
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 May 2018
at 08:58
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Keg at the brew dog.... Murky brown.. Thin tan lacing... Soft sweet toffee fruit.. Herbal rye nose... Light funk woody fruit
Tried
on 27 May 2018
at 07:56
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5
Draught at Brewdock. Hazy gold with a medium head. Aroma of peppered yeast. Flavour is pepper hop and yeast, fruity grain finish
Tried
on 16 May 2018
at 19:31
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at BD TH, 16/05/18. Golden amber with a decent off white head. Nose is grassy, bitter orange, airy malts, melon. Taste comprises light grapefruit, lemon rind, citric tinged straw, light Old Skool vibes, peach. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with balanced hop bitterness. Mellow easy drinker ... a bit on the dull side for me but nowt wrong with it.
Tried
on 16 May 2018
at 19:29
6.5/10
Very flavorful, bright and piney up front and a chewy toffee finish. Oddly not that interesting
Tried
from Draft
on 16 May 2018
at 19:02
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft at FOB, Rimini, Italy. Pours hazy gold with limited white foam, very fine. Aroma is particular, fruity and denoting some sournes. You can actually feel the apple to some extent. Body is average with good carbonation. Taste is partially sweet at first, with good sourness coming through then. Finish is fairly long and fruity.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 May 2018
at 18:00
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Hazy orange color with white head. Aroma is funk, leather, quite earthy, grainy. Taste is the same. Silky mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2018
at 12:30
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
1st May 2018
Brewdog Shoreditch. Keg. Almost clear dark amber - brown beer, small pale tan head. Thin palate, semi dry and with reasonable minerally carbonation. Thin dark malts still carry a fair whack of roasty bitterness. Bitter floral hops, tastes like UK hops in the boil. Modest fruity hop underneath, definitely the underdawg here! Whispers of pine, dark chocolate and red berries before a light semi dry finish. Long bitterish linger. Nice enough but needs a more solid malt base to hang its hat on.
Brewdog Shoreditch. Keg. Almost clear dark amber - brown beer, small pale tan head. Thin palate, semi dry and with reasonable minerally carbonation. Thin dark malts still carry a fair whack of roasty bitterness. Bitter floral hops, tastes like UK hops in the boil. Modest fruity hop underneath, definitely the underdawg here! Whispers of pine, dark chocolate and red berries before a light semi dry finish. Long bitterish linger. Nice enough but needs a more solid malt base to hang its hat on.
Tried
on 01 May 2018
at 16:26