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I always wondered about the various old posters in the porterhouse. The ones with old brand names that seem to have been erased by time or more likely Diagio.

Well I was at the 50th anniversary of the U.N mission to Congo last week and then spotted in the Irish Times the following Saturday that the troops brought with them -

422 dozen bottles of Time ale
98 dozen Phoenix ale
72 bottles of Whiskey
72 bottles of Gin

The time name was used again in recent years where a brewery was meant to be based on suffolk st ! It as in fact just an office and the beer was made abroad I think.

There is a nice big poster or flag of Phoenix ale in the porter house. Could it have been the same Phoenix brewery that Daniel O'Connell had a share in but that got swallowed up by Guinness...

So there you go.

in waterford they're mad for their large bottles of phoenix..
One of the guys on here has a phoenix logo as his avatar image - think its "tube"

"JamesM":251w8azw wrote: in waterford they're mad for their large bottles of phoenix..
One of the guys on here has a phoenix logo as his avatar image - think its "tube"[/quote:251w8azw]

yeah I wondered about that waterford phoenix, it was on the go til recently enough. Does it still exist, and who brews/brewed it? The phoenix/Manders brewery on Watling st corner was not absorbed into Guinness as a going concern, it had already stopped trading when Guinness purchased the brewery site, so I doubt Guinness kept any of the names or trademarks.

Anyone know anything about the waterford phoenix and where it comes from/came from? I know the main brewery in Mauritius is called Phoenix.

I remember drinking Phoenix the first time I was in Waterford, wasn't up to much as I recall. Certainly didn't know what the fuss was about.

"snuff":fr79blok wrote: I remember drinking Phoenix the first time I was in Waterford, wasn't up to much as I recall. Certainly didn't know what the fuss was about.[/quote:fr79blok]

according to this michael Jackson article[/url:fr79blok] Phoenix was brewed in Dundalk, probably by McArdle's or maybe Harp.

It seems likely that Guinness would have moved Phoenix to one of their big ale breweries before getting rid of it altogether, most likely when the Macardle-Moore brewery was shut down and production of Macardles moved across the way to Great Northern.

I don't think there's any relationship between Phoenix ale and the Phoenix brewery. I've certainly never seen an ad for a beer called Phoenix made by the Phoenix brewery.