Dan Smithwick — The Man Who Brought Brewing Back to Kilkenny Ep.1

For more than two centuries, two brewing families called Kilkenny home. Then it all disappeared.In this first episode of Built in Kilkenny, Charlie Cook sits down with Dan Smithwick, descendant of one of Ireland's most famous brewing families, to talk about how he brought brewing back to a city that had lost it.The conversation covers the history of Sullivan's and Smithwick's, the horse bet in France that cost a family their brewery, the closure of the last brewery in Kilkenny in 2013, and the revival of Sullivan's into a beer now sold around the world.A Charlie Cook Live series.