Both a new brewery pub and a reopened traditional Dublin pub in one, Four Provinces in Kimmage is a resurrection of the Black Horse Inn which closed a few years ago.
Four Provinces Brew Co are based in Kimmage - the brewery behind the pub roughly - and their beers are sold in cans as well as having decent enough draught availability in the craft-centric pubs of the city. I enjoyed some on my visit to S0194 The Hill a few weeks previous.
The Beer Nut covered a visit to the brewery and mentioned plans for a taproom on-site at the time, but they have instead gone for the flexibility of a full pub. The pub itself is a traditional, roughly 1950s suburban premises, in a fairly narrow but quite long building in the middle of a row of shops.
As of now, the original Black Horse branding remains on the windows and mirrors, although I was told of plans to change some of the internal decoration in the short term. The usual signs of an outside-the-canals craft pub are there - Guinness, Heineken and TVs - but the rest of the tap lineup is craft, featuring (on the day of my visit) the Four Provinces core range along with guest taps including a Dungarvan and a White Gypsy.
The staff on the day were more than willing to indulge in me likely boring them to death, and their card payment facilities were fully working which I wasn't expecting on what was only their second day open! One feature that you may notice from their branding and social media is the extensive use of Irish; and to that end there was at least one fluent Irish speaking staff member so that those who want to use their cúpal focal or more should be able to.
I eventually had to leave to get food, after more pints than I'd usually have on a list-ticking visit. Hopefully the suburban location does not impede the craft-forward nature of the drinks menu and the Four Provinces thrives.
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