Carlow Brewing Company
Carlow Brewing Company, better known by its beer brand O'Hara's, was set up in 1996 by the O'Hara family in a nineteenth-century goods store at Carlow railway station. The first two beers, a red ale and a wheat beer, followed in 1998 and the stout in 1999. In 2009 production moved to a purpose-built brewery in Bagenalstown in the Barrow Valley, a long-standing malting-barley area. The range runs from Irish stouts and red ale to a broad set of IPAs and whiskey-barrel-aged editions. Spanish brewer Hijos de Rivera took a 32 % stake in 2017; the company also makes cider.
Beers by Carlow Brewing Company
23 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Carlow Brewing Company brew across 5 style families.
Across these 23 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.
O'Hara's Leann Folláin
Their beers place in the Top 64% of the catalogue on average, across 23 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Carlow Brewing Company
Carlow Brewing Company, better known by its beer brand O'Hara's, was set up in 1996 by the O'Hara family in a nineteenth-century goods store at Carlow railway station. The first two beers, a red ale and a wheat beer, followed in 1998 and the stout in 1999. In 2009 production moved to a purpose-built brewery in Bagenalstown in the Barrow Valley, a long-standing malting-barley area. The range runs from Irish stouts and red ale to a broad set of IPAs and whiskey-barrel-aged editions. Spanish brewer Hijos de Rivera took a 32 % stake in 2017; the company also makes cider.
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