Favorite Irish Ale?
Mar 2nd, 2004 | 05:50 PM
#21
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Please, lets not talk about that fine beer's demise. Does anyone know the reason for its disappearance. I heard it was bought by Coors to stop it from competing with Killians (pee - U)Irish Red. Is Caffery's still brewed and available in Ireland
Mar 5th, 2004 | 08:28 AM
#22
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Well, tried Harp, sold over here in Canada as an import. It was just so-so....kind of a bitter after taste. And my husband who is the Labatt's Blue fan...did NOT like it! Guess we will just have to try them all till we find the one we like!!!
Mar 5th, 2004 | 10:37 AM
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LadyJane....if you are spending some time in Ireland, head for the town of Kilkenny - Smithwicks and Kilkenny is brewed there. Unofficially, there are about 150+ licensed pubs in Kilkenny with a town population of around 20,000.
Mar 5th, 2004 | 03:25 PM
#26
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On the ratebeer.com site, Smithwick's is 5.0%, Guinness is 4.1% - 7.5% depending on the version. The Extra Stout is the highest. Beers -- lagers pilsners, ales, porters, stouts, barleywines etc, have a huge range of alcoholic content (from around 3% to well over 10%) and in the case of Guinness, it appears to vary with where it was produced.
On the Harp issue, I find harp to be not much better than any standard American lager. I'm sure that some could argue the merits of one over the other and sit back and have a side by side comparison, but that would mean you'd have to drink all that swill.
I've find Kilkenny to be substantially better than any Caffrey's that I've had but who knows how old the stuff was that I drank. It is my understanding that Coors does own them now and that it continues to be produced for the European market. I don't think that Coors has explained why they pulled it off the market but I'm not sure which of its beers it would compete with. They have made an attempt to create some "microbrew" type beers that are marginally palatable.
Bill
On the Harp issue, I find harp to be not much better than any standard American lager. I'm sure that some could argue the merits of one over the other and sit back and have a side by side comparison, but that would mean you'd have to drink all that swill.
I've find Kilkenny to be substantially better than any Caffrey's that I've had but who knows how old the stuff was that I drank. It is my understanding that Coors does own them now and that it continues to be produced for the European market. I don't think that Coors has explained why they pulled it off the market but I'm not sure which of its beers it would compete with. They have made an attempt to create some "microbrew" type beers that are marginally palatable.
Bill
Mar 6th, 2004 | 07:51 AM
#27
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I discovered my error the other night when I bothered to read the label on my bottle of Smithwick's. As Bill said, it is indeed an ale.
Tried the Guinness cans with the new widget the other night. Excellent! You can get a really nice pint. My husband obviously thinks so, too, as all of the Guinness we had in the fridge mysteriously disappeared.
Tried the Guinness cans with the new widget the other night. Excellent! You can get a really nice pint. My husband obviously thinks so, too, as all of the Guinness we had in the fridge mysteriously disappeared.
