Top Beers of 2025
(Now including March additions)
My Favourite Beers of the YearA personal selection
Up to the end of March 2025. Updated monthly.
The Top Ten
Elbow Lane Angel Stout 4.4% ABV
Rating: 95
Mescan Gold /Óir Ale 5.7% ABV
Rating: 93.5
Mescan Spéartha Dorcha Oyster Stout, 4.7% ABV
Rating: 93.5
Kinnegar Black Rabbit Black Lager 4.5% ABV
Rating: 93
Tom Crean’s Family Six Magpies Stout, 4.2% ABV
Rating: 92.5
Wicklow Wolf Hideaway Helles Lager, 4.0% ABV
Rating: 92.5
Eight Degrees Howling Gale Irish Pale Ale, 4.5% ABV
Rating: 92.5
Whiplash Blue Ghosts Pils 5.2%
Rating: 92.5
Whiplash Bone Machine IPA, 6.2%
Rating: 92.5
9 White Deer Stag Kölsch Lager, 4.2% ABV
Rating 92.0
Dungarvan Black Rock Irish Stout, 4.3% ABV
Rating: 91.5
Brehon Red Right Hand Barley Wine 11.0% ABV
Rating: 91.5
Brehon Stand Still Cold IPA
Rating: 91
Wicklow Wolf Arcadia GF Lager
Rating: 91
Dungarvan Mine Head American PA
Rating: 90.5
Kinnegar Black Bucket Black Rye IPA, 6.5% ABV
Rating: 90.5
White Hag Little Fawn IPA 4.2%
Rating: 90.5
Eight Degrees Full Irish IPA, 6.0% ABV
Rating: 90.5
Kinnegar Devil’s Backbone, Amber Ale
Rating: 90
9 White Deer Stag Stout 4.2% ABV
Rating: 90
Sullivan’s Na Boii Pilsner
Rating: 90
Kinnegar Limeburner Kölsch-style Pale Ale
Rating: 90
Whiplash Reckoner Strata IPA, 6.3% ABV
Rating: 90
Elbow Lane Elbow Lager
Rating: 89
Whiplash Body Riddle Pale Ale 4.5% ABV
Rating: 89
Western Herd Blue Jumper IPA, 6.2% ABV
Rating: 89.0
Dungarvan Helvick Head Irish Blonde Ale, 4.9% ABV
Rating: 88.5
Wicklow Wolf Wildfire Hoppy Red Ale, 4.6% ABV
Rating: 88
Dungarvan Comeragh Challenger Session PA
Rating 87
Brehon Bech Bretha Braggot 9.0% ABV
Rating: 86
Wicklow Wolf Elevation Pale Ale 4.8% ABV
Rating: 86
West Kerry Cúl Dorcha Dark Ale, 5.0% ABV
Rating: 86
Third Barrel Texture Like Sun American Brown Ale, 5.5%
Rating: 85.5
Lough Gill Shaka
Rating: 84
Hopfully Legswap Raspberry & Lime Sour, 5.0%
Rating: 83.0
Western Herd Loop Head Pilsner, 4.5% ABV
Rating: 81.5
Lineman Reflector Pils 4.2% ABV
Rating: 81
Lough Gill Cutback IPA
Rating: 75
Rascals (with ToØl) Holy Molé Stout
Rating: 74
Non Alcoholic
1 - Wicklow Wolf 0.5% ABV IPA
Week by Week (January to December)
W/e 27.01.24 Blacks Kinsale Pale Ale 5.0% ABV
W/e 03/02/24 Rye River Nocturne Export Stout
w/e 10/02/24 9 White Deer Stag Stout, 4.2%
W/e 17/02/24 Western Herd Forge IPA, 6.5%
w/e 24/02/24 Sullivan's Maltings Irish Ale, 5.0%
w/e 02/03/24 The White Hag's Silver Branch
w/e 09/03/24 Whitefield The Banker Wheat Beer, 5.2% ABV
w/e 16.03.24 Hopfully Shine Bright IPA, 5.5% ABV
W/e 23.03.24 9 White Deer Stag Kolsch, 4.2% ABV
w/e 30.03.24 Galway Bay Lush Extra Pale Ale, 4.3% ABV
w/e 06.04.24 Outer Place Silent Orbit American Brown Ale, 6.2% ABV
W/e 13.04.24 Wicklow Wolf Locavore BA Farmhouse Ale with Brettanomyces
W/e 20.04.24 Mescan Westport Saison, 5.8% ABV
W/e 27.04.24 Whitefield Bock 7.0% ABV
W/e 04.05.24 Killarney Bourbon Barrel Aged Export Stout
W/e 11.05.24 Wide Street Plush Pale Ale 4.3% ABV
W/e 18.05.24 Eight Degrees Howling Gale Ale 4.5% ABV
W/e 25.05.24 Rye River Jigsaw DDH IPL 5.0%
W/e 01.06.24 Wide Street Sidechain Brettanomyces IPA 5.7% ABV
W/e 08.06.24 Hopburgh Schwarzbier (Black Lager) 5.2% ABV
W/e 15.06.24 Hopfully with Bradleys Leeside NEIPA 6.5% ABV
W/e 22.06.24 Guinness with Timmermans Lambic & Stout 6% ABV
W/e 29.06.24 Lineman Organised Fun Hopfenweisse 5.6% ABV
W/e 06.07.24 Kinnegar Maddyroe American Red, 5.8%
W/e 20.07.24 Wicklow Wolf 10th Anniversary American Amber 4.8% ABV,
W/e 27.07.24 Rascals Empire Haze NEIPA, 6.0% ABV
W/e 03.08.24 Sullivans Black Marble Stout
W/e 10.08.24 O'Hara's Irish Red Nitro 4.3%
W/e 17.08.24 Wicklow Wolf Locavore Summer 2024 Wheat Beer
W/e 24.08.24 Heaney Irish Stout, 4.3% ABV
W/e 31.08.24 West Cork Cape Haze West Coast IPA
W/e 07.09.24 Lough Gill Rising Wind CGX IPA
W/e 14.09.24 Wide Street Mill Pils Farmhouse Pilsner.
W/e 2109.24 O'Hara's Irish Pale Ale
W/e 28.09.24 Connemara Lager
W/e 26.10.24 Kinnegar Limeburner Pale Ale
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