The Porterhouse is a huge three storey building, however keeps its atmosphere. Good selection of beers are available. Enjoyable sat drinking my pint listening to a live celtic band in the evening. I recommend a visit.

I’m rerating this, my previous review was pretty scathing. The fact is, these days I come here quite alot. The reason I go is primairly their beer selection. They have a wide selection of Belgian beers and a prettyy good selection from around the rest of the world. Recently they’ve started doing SNPA on tap. I’m not crazy on the place itself. I find it fits too neatly into the superpub category ie huge, uncomfortable, often over crowded. The food can be ok but also can be poor. They often have terrible live music. Some of the staff are nice and helpful and some are just rude. In my opinion, stouts is what they do best out of their own brews. The lagers and ales are slightly bland and uninteresting but their three stouts are excellent in their own way. To sum up, Porterhouse is definitly worth a visit but I just can help thinking that it could be alot better.

I take your point that a Dublin brewhouse is an oddity, but in this case it is a good idea. For starters, the emphasis is on stouts and the cereal-rich brews that one expects in Ireland. Secondly, the beermaking is proficient, including a real ale offering. All in all, a nice place to catch a football match and try various pints, or samplers at 3 tastes for 5 Euro.

If you are looking for a nice range of beers to chose from in Ireland, this is the place to be. Their own brews are excellent (try Oyster STout!). Disadvantage: as many tourists go there, they started to cater to those crowds with some very strange German Oktoberfests (strange to horrible live music included) and the like. The range of draught beers available offered during those fests is very good though. They have a large collection of beer bottles. You can bring them a full bottle; if they don’t that beer yet, you can swap it for a pint of their brews. They operate another Porterhouse pub in another part of Dublin (Drumcundra?)

A good place, with great Irish Stew, but sevice was very slow, often went to the bar to get service, alot of brews, the house ones were quite good, try a sampler! overall, an ok place,but typical Euro service! The house beers were great!

Awsome place in the Temple Bar district of Dublin. A few blocks north of the River Liffey. Great selection of good house brews. Decent food. Often has live music.

Visited over St. Paddy’s weekend. Huge four- or five-story pub with free live music. Loud, but hey, it’s popular. Incredible bottled beer offering plus 10 of their own brews, which I highly recommend trying while you can. Excellent melding of beer lovers’ selection with social pub atmosphere.

Visited in November 2000. Don’t really remember too much about it ... it was crowded and HUGE. <<Revisited in September 2009 and discovered they now have two locations. Great selection of house beers (at least 7-9). Crowded as hell at any time of day, which is testimony enough. Food is good.>>

I sat at the bar, just chatting with the bartender who knkew his stuff and who loved his beer. It was the best experience I had in Dublin-even better than my first EVER Guiness at the storehouse. The beers were great and I found it charming that they didn’t serve Guiness at all, perhaps the only place in the entire city. They had over a hundred beers not from the porterhouse. I loved this place, and would definitly recomend it to anyone making thier way through Dublin.

In Dublin’s Temple bar district, but there are others in the UK. Three levels of seating. Wait staff was friendly but didn’t know the beer all that well. The stuff brewed in house is quite good, with the oyster stout being the strangest and most interesting. Food was quite good, large portions, but there are better deals in the area. There is a large selection of bottles from around the world. Definitely worth checking out while in Dublin.