Ballykilcavan Brewery
Ballykilcavan Brewery sits on a farm outside Stradbally in County Laois that the Walsh family has worked since 1639; David and Lisa Walsh-Kemmis are the thirteenth generation there. They set up the brewing company in 2016. The first beer was still made at another brewery, and the kit has since moved into the farm's 18th-century stone grain store. All barley comes from the surrounding fields, the water from a well in the farmyard, and a hop garden supplies the harvest for a yearly fresh-hopped pale ale. A visitor centre in the old mill-house was added later.
Beers by Ballykilcavan Brewery
9 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Ballykilcavan Brewery brew a broad range across 7 style families.
Across these 9 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Brickyard Red Ale
Their beers place in the Top 66% of the catalogue on average, across 9 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Ballykilcavan Brewery
Ballykilcavan Brewery sits on a farm outside Stradbally in County Laois that the Walsh family has worked since 1639; David and Lisa Walsh-Kemmis are the thirteenth generation there. They set up the brewing company in 2016. The first beer was still made at another brewery, and the kit has since moved into the farm's 18th-century stone grain store. All barley comes from the surrounding fields, the water from a well in the farmyard, and a hop garden supplies the harvest for a yearly fresh-hopped pale ale. A visitor centre in the old mill-house was added later.
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