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Smell of burning in the air, Dublin 8

  • 18-04-2023 9:07am
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    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭


    I recently moved to this part of the city and notice every so often there's a strong smell of burning. Noticed it used to be on Sunday nights and would be gone in the morning. Thought at first it was the neighbour below me burning toast or using an oven that hadn't been cleaned.

    I noticed this smell yesterday evening when I got off James St Luas. I had to close windows in apartment, it continued into the night. Even this morning it's still in the air a bit. Anyone know what it is ?

    Post edited by GLaDOS on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,966 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    The Hops from Guinness Factory?



  • Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭questioner22


    I don't know. It's air pollution really is what it is. There should be regulations against if it's coming from a factory.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,691 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    People buring solid fuel ?

    Especially if it's cold ... it's probably this.

    Mystery solved ? 😁



  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,891 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    There is regulations. Guinnesses have been there for over 250 years, if you live beside a brewery you will get smells.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    My guess is the Guinness brewery too.

    Also, be conscious there's a difference between odours and pollution.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭questioner22


    It doesn't seem to be related to weather. Yesterday was a warm day.



  • Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭questioner22


    There is no difference when it's something burning. I have to close the window. If it was just a harmless smell, like cut grass or something, I wouldn't have to.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,066 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    I'd bet the farm on it being the smell of the hops roasting from James' Gate. It's a very distinctive smell. Some people love it, I wouldn't be a fan, tbh, but it's not close the windows bad.



  • Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭questioner22


    As I said it's like burnt toast or someone with an oven on that had never been cleaned - definitely not a nice smell. It's so strong I thought it was coming from apartment below. Maybe whatever they're using needs to be cleaned? 

    I'm about a mile from Guinness factory.

    It's gone now whatever it was, but seems to happen around once a week.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,066 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Burnt toast is exactly what the roasting hops smell like to me. Anyway, it's not going to stop so your choices are put up with it or move.

    Post edited by Dial Hard on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,581 ✭✭✭uberwolf


    almost certainly Guinness



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭saintsaltynuts


    Free smells of Guinness.



  • Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭questioner22


    Well if they're going to be phasing out petrol because of supposed pollution, they'd have to shut something like this down first. I'd have windows open with traffic on the road underneath all the time - no issue. Same with solid fuel.



  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,891 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Burning hydrocarbons is not the same as roasting hops.



  • Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭questioner22


    It's like the difference between roasting in a clean oven vs one that's never been cleaned. So all the burnt stuff in the oven is being burned as well.



  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,891 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,053 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    What makes you think the oven is dirty? Just because it reminds you of something burning doesn't mean it is. That's just the natural aroma of hops.

    Guinness isn't going to be going anywhere so up to you if you want to stay in the area....if you decide to move do a better "due diligence" in the next area.


    Best of luck in bbq season .... there'll be plenty of burny smells then!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,966 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    I lived about 2 miles from Guinness Factory for 30 years and could smell.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 436 ✭✭Girl Geraldine


    If it is occuring at night time then I think it might be travelers burning the PVC insulation off of stolen cables.

    They do it at night time because a) the origin of the smoke plume won't be visible and b) the councils evnironment people won't be on duty at that time, and won't be able to react to catch them in the act.

    Metal and cable theivery is rampant in certain areas. The price of scrap metals is up. PVC smoke is a very toxic, choking and horrible smelling smoke.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭HotWaterCylinder




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭thefallingman


    Used to be a much stronger smell years ago, it's hardly there now with the modern suppression systems. You should be thankful it's not a piggery now there's a smell in the summer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,528 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Yeah it's the hops roasting for sure, one of the most beautiful smells in Dublin.

    Its funny how much it has changed over the years though, when I was in primary school out Dundrum way in the 80s, we'd often get quite a strong aroma of the hops if the wind was in the right direction. Nowadays, as the OP demonstrates, the smell is only really noticeable in a radius of a kilometre or two around the Brewery, presumably due to scrubbing technology and other environmental protections.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 436 ✭✭Girl Geraldine


    It is rampant in parts of Cork City. Even sometimes in the day you can see plumes of smoke emanating from areas which would well be known for their strong "culture".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,427 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Well that's an oddly specific and strange thing to post.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,427 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    OP - is the smell localised or when you smell it, can you go outside and smell it in the streets/when you go for a walk?

    If you can smell it everywhere in D8 then it's definitely the brewery. I love it myself, can smell it sometimes over in D7 too.

    If it's localised to just your apartment area then it's something else.



  • Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭questioner22


    It could be, though my thought was it's some kind of burning food or something like that. All I know is it's polluted air, it affects my throat and I don't want to breathe it.  I'd wake up with a headache if I didn't close the window.

    I've lived in the city for decades and am used to different smells. This is long-lasting, whereas a bbq or something like that a couple of hours at most.



  • Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭questioner22


    If it was a natural herb kind of smell I'd be fine with it. Maybe it is burning cables then as Geraldine suggested.

    I don't know what hops is supposed to smell like, but @Dial Hard says it does smell like burnt toast. It's hard to imagine how anyone would like that. But then different people like different things. Some like being around cigarette smoke for example, others can't stand it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,427 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    The smell of hops from the Guinness factory is not going to affect your throat or give you a headache. It's just a smell, not noxious fumes. So I doubt it's that in this case.



  • Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭questioner22


    Up until yesterday I thought it was coming from the building, because it happened when I went to bed, so I wasn't going out to check.

    Yesterday evening I got the same smell when I got off the Luas around 6, but not as strong. Maybe it was there before but I didn't notice when weather was colder. It got worse then after 9 or so.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭monkeybutter


    the stank of the hops from brewing is pretty distinctive, you'd not confuse it with something else



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,276 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    They can roast hops next door to me, wonderful smell. In the UK used to live near the Farleys Rusk factory and the smell of the factory was wonderful. Also lived for a few years within half a kilometer of a tannery now there's a smell you don't want anywhere near.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,066 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,980 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Guinness is made with roasted barley not roasted hops.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭questioner22


    I was force fed those as a baby, don't like the smell of them! Agree with you though, a tannery or something like that would be worse.



  • Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭questioner22


    I was walking around there this evening and got the smell again. Fairly sure now it's from the factory as people said. Smell is like a sponge cake cooking, slightly burnt.

    It's a mile away from James St, but seems to be another entrance up near Heuston which would make it closer.

    During the day it doesn't bother as much or it's not as strong. It's at night when I like to leave the window open a bit to let air in. At least now I know what it is 😐️



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,733 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    It's not a factory, it's a brewery.

    I wasn't mad about the smell when I first moved to the area (even though I love Guinness), but I really miss it now that they seem to have much reduced spread of the smell.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,976 ✭✭✭MacDanger


    Have you showered recently OP?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭homingbird


    Here in limerick a certain community burn electric cable to get the metal out of it if it was you or i we would be thrown in jail not them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,427 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Do you really think someone would actually be thrown in jail for burning some cables?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭homingbird


    You & me are paying for the fire brigade to call to put it out not them so they keep doing it. Things need to change as they are born with so many rights like a pension when the majority of them never worked a day in there life you dont have enough stamps you aint getting a pension.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,427 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    50% of travelers die before they reach 39 and and 70% don't live passed 59 - so don't worry, most of them will have died before your tax money has to support them with a pension.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Furze99


    Well if they've stolen said cable and are retrieving copper from it by burning the plastic off it.. then frankly yes - jail and hard labour.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,427 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Big difference between should and would.

    I seriously doubt anyone would go to prison for that. Let alone hard labour. Be they traveler or not.



  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,233 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Closing this as the question's been answered and we're getting wildy off topic

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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