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Dundalk Bay Brewery & Distillery

Ireland · Regional · ★ Award winning · Known for a full range of styles
★ Award winningKnown for a full range of styles

Dundalk Bay Brewery & Distillery brews the Brewmaster range in Dundalk, County Louth. The company was set up in 2015 by Spectac International, a Dundalk engineering firm that builds brewhouses and stills for other producers, and is run by the Healy family. Its 50-hectolitre brewhouse is fully automated and recipe-driven and has its own de-alcoholisation unit and nitrogenation line, which shows in the range: nitro stouts, a nitro red ale and alcohol-free beers stand next to lager, IPA and pale ale. The same site distils gin, vodka and whiskey and also brews beers for retailers and pub groups.

15Beers
6Styles
6.4%Avg ABV
2015Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
31%
catalogue avg 45%

Beers by Dundalk Bay Brewery & Distillery

15 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Dundalk Bay Brewery & Distillery brew a broad range across 6 style families.

Signature · 15 beers
Stout 7IPA 3Amber 2Pale Ale 1Strong 1Lager 1

Across these 15 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

smooth
12 of 15 beers
malty
10 of 15 beers
full-bodied
9 of 15 beers
chocolate
8 of 15 beers

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.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 58%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
4 / 13
beers above the median
#697
best ranked beer
Brewmaster Nitro Stout

Their beers place in the Top 58% of the catalogue on average, across 13 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Dundalk Bay Brewery & Distillery

Dundalk Bay Brewery & Distillery brews the Brewmaster range in Dundalk, County Louth. The company was set up in 2015 by Spectac International, a Dundalk engineering firm that builds brewhouses and stills for other producers, and is run by the Healy family. Its 50-hectolitre brewhouse is fully automated and recipe-driven and has its own de-alcoholisation unit and nitrogenation line, which shows in the range: nitro stouts, a nitro red ale and alcohol-free beers stand next to lager, IPA and pale ale. The same site distils gin, vodka and whiskey and also brews beers for retailers and pub groups.

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Location
Dundalk · County Louth · Ireland
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