Porterhouse Brewery

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Porterhouse Brewing Company
IndustryBrewing, public houses, restaurants
Founded1980s
Headquarters,
Ireland
Number of employees
180 [1]  (2022)
Parent Porterhouse Group
Website https://porterhousebrewco.ie/

The Porterhouse Brewing Company is a brewing company based in Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1996 by cousins Oliver Hughes and Liam Lahart who opened Ireland's first craft brew pub in Dublin. The company's brewery is now in Glasnevin, providing beers to its outlets in Dublin, London and New York. It also sells its products via several supermarket chains. [2] It was reported, in 2023, that Conor McGregor had "agreed to buy the Porterhouse Brewery" [3]

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History

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Live music at The Porterhouse, Temple Bar in 2014

While there were over two hundred breweries in Ireland during the 19th century, by the twentieth century the market was largely served by a few large breweries. It was in this environment that, in 1989, Liam Lahart and Oliver Hughes bought a run-down building in Bray, County Wicklow, which became the company's first pub. In 1996, the Porterhouse brewpub was opened in Dublin's Temple Bar area. They opened their next bar in Covent Garden London in 2000. They opened Porterhouse North in Glasnevin, Dublin in 2004, and the group purchased another property in Dublin city centre in 2004. [4] In January 2011, they opened a premises on Pearl Street in Manhattan, New York, trading at Fraunces Tavern. The original bar in Bray, was sold in February 2019. [5]

As of 2021, the company reportedly had between 280 and 300 employees, [6] [7] declining to 180 by early 2022. [1] As of late 2022, the company's website listed four bars: two in Dublin (in Temple Bar and Nassau Street), one in London and one in New York. [8]

In April 2023, a report in the Irish Independent indicated that Conor McGregor had "agreed to buy the Porterhouse Brewery in Dublin". [3]

Beers

The Porterhouse Brewery's beers, mainly draught beers which are filtered and kegged, include:[ citation needed ]

In 2009, the brewery launched a range of bottled versions of its beers.[ citation needed ] During the 2020 COVID-19 "lockdown" in Ireland, they released a IPA called "Stay Home Isolation IPA". [9]

Pubs

In order of opening date, pubs operated by the group have included:

The group's brewery is located in the Glasnevin area of Dublin. [14]

Other businesses

Other businesses, operated by the Porterhouse Group, include a chain of tapas bars which, as of 2021, had four locations in the Dublin area (South William Street, Temple Bar, Camden Street and Dundrum) and one in London. [15] It also owned the Lillie's Bordello nightclub. [16]

In 2011, Porterhouse announced a desire to build a distillery in Dingle, County Kerry. [17] The distillery opened in 2012 [18] [19] trading as Dingle Distillery, part of the Porterhouse Group. [16]

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