Lady's Well Brewery
Lady's Well Brewery stands on Leitrim Street on the north side of Cork, where James J. Murphy and his brothers began brewing in 1856 on the grounds of the former Cork Foundling Hospital. The name comes from a holy well beside the site. Murphy's Irish Stout was first brewed here in 1889. The brewery became a Heineken subsidiary in 1983 and is today the home of Heineken Ireland. Since the Beamish & Crawford brewery closed in 2009, Cork's second stout, Beamish, has been brewed here too, alongside lagers made under licence for the Irish market.
Beers by Lady's Well Brewery
4 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Lady's Well Brewery brew across 2 style families.
Across these 4 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
With 4 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
Compared with 423 other breweries brewing Irish Dry Stout and Imperial Stout:
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.
Beamish Irish Stout
Their beers place in the Top 43% of the catalogue on average, across 4 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Lady's Well Brewery
Lady's Well Brewery stands on Leitrim Street on the north side of Cork, where James J. Murphy and his brothers began brewing in 1856 on the grounds of the former Cork Foundling Hospital. The name comes from a holy well beside the site. Murphy's Irish Stout was first brewed here in 1889. The brewery became a Heineken subsidiary in 1983 and is today the home of Heineken Ireland. Since the Beamish & Crawford brewery closed in 2009, Cork's second stout, Beamish, has been brewed here too, alongside lagers made under licence for the Irish market.
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