"Mountjoy Brewery brewed a 'Dublin Brown Ale' in 1953 it seems ... this is from the Irish Press of that year. I wonder if all their recipes are in someone's safe hands...?"
(This drew a question as to when they actually closed, some websites say 1949 but then I then found something online...)
"... Interesting ... the online version of the Findlater book has an addendum that says it closed in 'August 1956'..."
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(I then added this...)
"... Further to the Mountjoy Brown Ale tweet above, here's a dubiously worded advert and a writeup from The Irish Press in 1955. It looks like that brown ale died a death - or isn't mentioned at least - and sadly the brewery was soon to head in the same direction..."
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(Part of my Tweet-to-Blog-Conversion-Project - Original Tweet is here)
(With thanks to Carlow Library Local Studies room and Findlater's online book.)
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