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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6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Keg at six degrees north Edinburgh. Pours orange amber, nose is caramel, floral, taste is sweet, caramel, toffee.
Tried on 01 Apr 2017 at 01:50

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Keg at brewdog... Copper.. Thin white lacing lacing.. Soft passion.. Dry floral mango nose... Dry soft fruits.. Long bitter passion y
Tried on 22 Mar 2017 at 02:59

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Keg at BD Castlegate. It pours lightly hazy amber with a small off-white head. The aroma is pretty fresh, fragrant, bitter - sweet, plenty of grapefruit, pomello and bread. The taste is crisp, dry, assertive bitterness, pithy grapefruit, lemon rind, pine, resin, slightly grain vibe, touch of astringency and some alcohol with a drying finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Decent enough, but a touch grainy perhaps.
Tried on 20 Mar 2017 at 14:40

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Keg @ Brewdog, Birmingham. Pours black, small tan head. Aroma has mild coconut and chocolate. Taste continues, some roast, moderately sweet, smooth and moreish.
Tried on 20 Mar 2017 at 05:58

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Keg at Brewdog Shepherds Bush, London. A dark brown/black coloured pour with a medium beige head on top. Roasty, malty, citrus, pine aroma. Tastes rather similar, roasty, malty, citrus, pine. I believe this is my first Irish craft beer, not a bad effort.
Tried on 18 Mar 2017 at 06:09

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Keg at the Brewdog Soho. An opaque black coloured pour with a lasting G light tan head. Aroma is sweet cakey nutty malts, light coconut and ash, dark choc. Flavour is composed of semi sweet lactose sugars earthy cakey malts, dark earthy choc, cake. Palate is medium bodied, slightly milky,, moderate carbonation, slightly powdery finish. Hint of hit alcohol in the finish. Bang on.
Tried on 17 Mar 2017 at 15:29

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Keg at the Brewdog Soho. A light hazed reddy orange coloured pour with a sticky off white head. Aroma is semi sweet orange rind, apricot, little roast, rubber. Flavour is composed of si raw rustic base malts, little toast, spicy citrus peel, woody pine. Palate is semi sweet, grainy, highish carbonation, sticky hop. Assertive, slightly harsh hop bitterness. Ok ipa.
Tried on 17 Mar 2017 at 15:22

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Bottle shared with Niilstrong @ hotelroom. Dark brown to black color, average sized beige head. Smell and taste malts, hops, dark malts, sweetish initially but than decently bitter. Decent body and carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Mar 2017 at 20:00

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Hopfig getreidiger Beginn, weich, relativ süffig. Geringe Herbe, steigend würzig, angenehm starke Hopfigkeit. 10/9/10/11/7/11
Tried on 11 Mar 2017 at 15:18

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Bottle shared with Niilstrong @ Brewbot, Belfast. Clear yellow golden color, medium sized white head. Aroma is malts, hops, tropical fruits. Taste malts, hops, citrus, citra hops, citrus bitterness in the finish. Decent body and carbonation. A little too sharp on the citrus for me but very nice nonetheless.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Mar 2017 at 04:08