Previously Messrs Maguire, this is - I think - the oldest Brewpub in Dublin - not that there are a huge amount of others (Rascals restaurant, S3452 The Camden,
1010753 The Open Gate and
1013149 Urban Brewing being other places you can drink in view of a brewkit), having operated nearly constantly for 20 years.
I'm trying to remember the last time I was in here; and it was definitely a few years ago. I will need to correct that soon as I've rarely had a bad visit.
Strictly speaking, Open Gate doesn't let you drink in view of a brewkit. The two breweries are hidden upstairs and those are just tanks behind the wire on the bar level.
ReplyDeleteMM/JWS is indeed the oldest. The Porterhouse brewed in Temple Bar from 1996 until 2000.
And for completeness, there is a very small and out-of-sight brewkit in the basement of N2783 Old Schoolhouse. I'm not sure how much it gets used and have suspicions about what goes across the bar as house beer. There was also a dinky Brewtonic nanobrewery in the old Bernard Shaw but it wasn't licensed and the beer wasn't available commercially. It may have moved to The Shaw II.