Irish craft beer in the US?

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  1. deadwolfbones

    deadwolfbones Pundit (795) Jun 21, 2014 Oregon

    Asking for a friend...
     
  2. jesskidden

    jesskidden Grand Pooh-Bah (3,145) Aug 10, 2005 New Jersey
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  3. zid

    zid Grand Pooh-Bah (3,132) Feb 15, 2010 New York
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    Lough Gill
     
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  4. KarlHungus

    KarlHungus Grand Pooh-Bah (3,315) Feb 19, 2005 Minnesota
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    There isn't much. Ireland isn't a beer country in the same way England, Belgium, Germany and the United States are.
     
  5. Ahonky

    Ahonky Initiate (0) Feb 13, 2018 New York

    Try taking a pint away from an Irishman and you'll find that your statement requires some nuance.
     
  6. FBarber

    FBarber Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,325) Mar 5, 2016 Illinois
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    Other than O'Hara's, the only craft beer from Ireland Ive ever seen stateside (In the midwest) is McGargles.
     
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  7. LiamoMill

    LiamoMill Crusader (468) May 11, 2017 Ireland
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    That’s way off the mark these days, there’s a huge amount of craft breweries in the country. Certainly some great options for a country with a small population.
     
  8. Amendm

    Amendm Pooh-Bah (2,601) Jun 7, 2018 Rhode Island
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    88 breweries in Ireland according to the directory from this site.
    Appears to be a lot of micro brews.
    They must not export hardly any of it to the USA.
     
  9. LiamoMill

    LiamoMill Crusader (468) May 11, 2017 Ireland
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    This. As I was discussing in another thread, pretty similar to how many US breweries don’t export their beers, we do better coming to Europe but that’s mainly down to the scale of some of the US breweries.
     
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  10. jesskidden

    jesskidden Grand Pooh-Bah (3,145) Aug 10, 2005 New Jersey
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    According to a 2018 list in the UK's The Telegram, Ireland's #6 per capita - above the UK, US and Belgium - the latter 2 not even making the Top 20.

    1. Czech Republic - 143.3 litres per capita
    2. Namibia - 108
    3. Austria - 106
    4. Germany - 104.2
    5. Poland - 100.8
    6. Ireland - 98.2
    7. Romania - 94.1
    8. Seychelles - 90
    9. Estonia - 89.5
    10. Lithuania - 88.7
    11. Belize - 85
    12. Spain - 84.8
    13. Slovenia - 80.3
    14. Slovakia - 80.1
    15. Croatia - 78.7
    16. Gabon - 77.8
    17. Finland - 76.9
    18. Bulgaria - 76.3
    19. Panama - 75
    20. Iceland - 75
     
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