The Porterhouse Brewing Company is a brewing company based in Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1996 by cousins Oliver Hughes and Liam Lahart who opened Ireland's first craft brew pub in Dublin. The company's brewery is now in Glasnevin, providing beers to its outlets in Dublin, London and New York. It also sells its products via several supermarket chains.[2]
While there were over two hundred breweries in Ireland during the 19th century, by the twentieth century the market was largely served by a few large breweries. It was in this environment that, in 1989, Liam Lahart and Oliver Hughes bought a run-down building in Bray, County Wicklow, which became the company's first pub. In 1996, the Porterhouse brewpub was opened in Dublin's Temple Bar area. They opened their next bar in Covent Garden London in 2000. They opened Porterhouse North in Glasnevin, Dublin in 2004, and the group purchased another property in Dublin city centre in 2004.[3] In January 2011, they opened a premises on Pearl StreetinManhattan, New York, trading at Fraunces Tavern. The original bar in Bray, was sold in February 2019.[4]
As of 2021, the company reportedly had between 280 and 300 employees,[5][6] declining to 180 by early 2022.[1] As of late 2022, the company's website listed four bars: two in Dublin (in Temple Bar and Nassau Street), one in London and one in New York.[7]
Wrasslers 4X Stout, a 5.7% abvstout claimed to be made to a recipe originally brewed by Deasy's of West Cork in the early 1900s;
Oyster Stout, 5.2% abv;
Plain Porter, 5% abv; Winner of the gold medal at the Brewing Industry International Awards for the best stout in the world in 1998 and again in 2011;[citation needed]
Turner's Sticklebract Bitter (TSB), a 3.7% abv session bitter first brewed in July 2000 to celebrate the opening of The Porterhouse in Covent Garden, London;
In 2009, the brewery launched a range of bottled versions of its beers.[citation needed] During the 2020 COVID-19 "lockdown" in Ireland, they released a IPA called "Stay Home Isolation IPA".[8]
Other businesses, operated by the Porterhouse Group, include a chain of tapas bars which, as of 2021, had four locations in the Dublin area (South William Street, Temple Bar, Camden Street and Dundrum) and one in London.[14] It also owned the Lillie's Bordello nightclub,[15] and operates its successor, Lost Lane.[citation needed]
^"Porterhouse Central Reopens With Cocktails On Tap". businessplus.ie. Associated Newspapers Ltd. 6 September 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2022. Porterhouse Central on Dublin's Nassau Street has reopened with a new name [..] It has been renamed Tapped