Rye River Brewing Company
Rye River Brewing Company was founded in November 2013 by Niall Phelan, Alan Wolfe and Tom Cronin. It first brewed in Kilcock and later moved to a larger site on the Dublin Road in Celbridge, County Kildare, which has been open to visitors since 2017. The business began with the McGargles brand; since 2021 its everyday beers carry the brewery's own name, alongside a small-batch seasonal line and several ranges brewed for Irish retailers. Germany's Warsteiner Group took a minority stake in December 2022.
Beers by Rye River Brewing Company
17 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Rye River Brewing Company brew a broad range across 6 style families.
Across these 17 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:
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.
Lil' Twist Grapefruit
Their beers place in the Top 45% of the catalogue on average, across 17 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Rye River Brewing Company
Rye River Brewing Company was founded in November 2013 by Niall Phelan, Alan Wolfe and Tom Cronin. It first brewed in Kilcock and later moved to a larger site on the Dublin Road in Celbridge, County Kildare, which has been open to visitors since 2017. The business began with the McGargles brand; since 2021 its everyday beers carry the brewery's own name, alongside a small-batch seasonal line and several ranges brewed for Irish retailers. Germany's Warsteiner Group took a minority stake in December 2022.
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