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"TheBeerNut":3sin2d1g wrote:

"Tube":3sin2d1g wrote: It would appear that it's Vartry water, not Liffey water, that's in Guinness.[/quote:3sin2d1g][b:3sin2d1g]No commercial brewer has ever used the water from the river that runs through their city.[/b:3sin2d1g] Urban rivers were primarily used as sewers until very recently.

I understood that the water supply for James's Gate is from Wicklow direction. The Kildare thing may be a reference to the filter beds at the fifth lock on the Grand Canal. According to this[/url:3sin2d1g] they still supply water to the factory but it's only used for washing.

That's very strange about the water chemistry, though.[/quote:3sin2d1g]

Cough , Ahem

As far as I was aware at the time , Beamish and Crawford Brewery , while using the City Water supply for brewing , did in fact use water from the river ( filtered ) for some cooling around the Plant .
They had toyed with the idea also of installing a watermill on their river frontage .

Now , I could be wrong and maybe it was a proposal they had looked at , because in fairness , I was in a brewery , but I'm almost positive I remember looking into the well shaft at the back of the Brewery where they were drawing river water .

I believe it was part of their green drive at the time .

"TheBeerNut":1ddd84eq wrote: Yes, I believe Guinness used Liffey water to float their barges on as well. Cough.[/quote:1ddd84eq]

We'll need some Benilyn for our coughs John !!

"TheBeerNut":28xesd3r wrote: [b:28xesd3r]Mine has to be dry-hopped or I'm not interested.[/b:28xesd3r][/quote:28xesd3r]

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