Alternatives to Guinness - micro breweries by mmatthej1
TRY the Porterhouse Brewing Company pubs in Parliament Strre and Nassau Street - both offer good surroundings with excellent own-brewed beer choices (3 each of : Stouts, Ales & Lagers), plus choice of other beers. The stouts are arguably better than Guinness - we thought so! Good food choices - value is home-made soup for lunch lite-bite, bearing in mind beer calories! At night, there is music each night, at least at Parliament St., and it's plenty busy, tho' service is always prompt. TRY Messrs Maguire in Burgh Quay, just on South Side of O'Connell Bridge. Again, good, old style surroundings, esp. if you go upstairs - sit and look out over the River & Bridge. Bit less organised in telling you about their range but try their 'Extra', which surpasses Guinness, in our humble but correct view! Noticed others eating nice looking grub, so maybe worth a try.
At night, they pump up the volume over the speakers, to rattle your rib cage, but it's still a nice place to enjoy a beer or two.Of course there are many other pubs/bars worth a visit - you would need to really work at it, to do full justice.
We liked : O'Neills, The Duke, even the Temple Bar, Conways - all good in different ways.
(We switched to buying 1/2 pints, on basis that we could then try a different beer each time, without filling our boots too soon!)
