Carlow Brewing

Here at Carlow Brewing Company, also known as O’Hara’s Brewery, we craft brew traditional Irish beers and our own interpretation of international beer styles, including our stouts and ales, wheat beers and lagers, all carrying the brewery founders family name, O’Hara’s.

Each beer is crafted using classic brewing methods to create the traditional Irish beers styles that have long since been forgotten by many of the larger breweries. We use just four main ingredients; water, malts, hops and yeast to produce the highest quality craft beer range. We hope you share in our passion, taste our beers and enjoy the experience.

Carlow Brewing Company, also known as O’Hara’s Brewery, is an independent, family-owned business established in 1996 and one of the pioneers of Irish craft brewing. Located in the heart of Ireland’s traditional malt and hop-growing “Barrow Valley” region which has strong historical linkages to the Irish brewing industry, we are proud to have been at the forefront of the new wave of Irish craft brewing for almost 25 years. As a craft brewery we brew our beers true to the tradition – with taste and flavour. It takes a combination of passion and respect for the craft, curiosity and creativity to build a good craft brewery and to brew great beers. Share in our passion, taste our beers, explore a brief insight into O’Hara’s Beers through our website and we’d be happy to have you join us one day at the brewery.

The Carlow Brewing Company was founded in 1996 by brothers Eamonn and Seamus O’Hara. Due to the dominance of macro beers in Ireland at the time, the brewery was initially very export-oriented. In the last few years, Irish interest in the brewery, and craft beer in general, has increased.

In 2017, the company acquired Craigies Cider. In April of the same year it was announced that, Hijos de Rivera, a Spanish brewery, had purchased a 32% stake in the Carlow Brewing Company. In 2020, the company purchased a number of brands from Boyne Brewhouse, a brewery in Drogheda.