draught beers on tap - available in Ireland

malene

Apart from Bud, carlsberg, coors, heineken, harp,

what are the other main leaders in larger on draught?

Thanks.

kenmc

Your thread title says 'beers' yet you then narrow it down to 'larger' by which you presumably mean 'lager'.
You've named all the major players in the fizzy yellow p;ss market.

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Becks Vier is in a fair percentage of pubs, seems to have replaced Miller.

Stella Artois is also widely available on draught, but you won't get it everywhere.

Red Sleeping Beauty

kenmc wrote: »

Your thread title says 'beers' yet you then narrow it down to 'larger' by which you presumably mean 'lager'.
You've named all the major players in the fizzy yellow p;ss market.

Well it's better to have a larger beer than a smaller one.




Em, I've given up on a self imposed ban on Guinness and Diageo (the ban included all beers mentioned in the OP also). It's just not possible to go for a sociable drink and not end up choosing a Diageo beer. What I mean by sociable is to go to a pub of someone else's choosing as opposed to somewhere I've chose - when I was choosing where to drink it was just to Bull & Castle and Porterhouse! As above, you can get Becks and Stella in a good few pubs. Erdinger is also quite popular in the Dublin city centre pubs too and a local-ish pub of mine (I'm in urban hell) has Staro on tap!

oblivious

Also there is the Irish Warsteiner

kenmc

Alan Rouge wrote: »

Erdinger is also quite popular in the Dublin city centre pubs too

Erdinger is neither a lager nor a larger though.

Mimikyu

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JIZZLORD

bavaria seems to have replaced fosters

malene

OOps, yes, I meant non Diagio lagers. Who distributes kronenbourg 1664 in kegs?

edit - spelling again!!

malene

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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i worked in place for about 18 months. I that whole time, I sold 2 pintys of miller. But i had to pour off about 3 pints to get that one pint every time. Stick to bottles!

Mimikyu

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malene

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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It probably depends on location, clientel etc..

slayerking

malene wrote: »

OOps, yes, I meant non Diagio largers.

How much "Larger" do you want them? Are we talking like really big?:)

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I thought this forum was a bit more mature than to be constantly pointing out spelling mistakes

BeerNut

malene wrote: »

Apart from Bud, carlsberg, coors, heineken, harp,

malene wrote: »

I meant non Diagio largers.

Well Heineken and Coors Light are both made by Heineken.

malene wrote: »

Who distributes kronenbourg 1664 in kegs?

This was part of the Scottish & Newcastle portfolio so would have been distributed by Beamish & Crawford. If it's still around, it's presumably coming from Heineken.

IronMan

Kronenbourg was withdrawn from the market by the good folks from Heineken.

Competes with their own best selling swill.

malene

IronMan wrote: »

Kronenbourg was withdrawn from the market by the good folks from Heineken.

Competes with their own best selling swill.

found this:

Beamish & Crawford Plc. Address South Main Street, Cork. Contact p. (021) 4911100 f. (021) 4911111 Customer Service: 1850 325222 f. (021) 4911269 e. info@beamish.ie f. www.beamish.ie Type of Business Brewing & Distribution. Main Product Groups Stout, Lager, Cider. Main Brand Names Beamish Genuine Irish Stout, Beamish Red Ale, Miller Genuine Draught, Miller Beer, Foster's Lager, Fosters Ice, Carling, Kronenbourg 1664, Newcastle Brown Ale, McEwans Lager, Scrumpy Jack Cider, Sidekick.
so Beamish do it now?

mayordenis

well beamish is owned by heineken, and with beamish barely and entity anymore it's basically heinekens.

BeerNut

malene wrote: »

Address South Main Street, Cork.

Closed.

malene wrote: »

f. www.beamish.ie

Dead.

malene wrote: »

Beamish Red Ale

Discontinued.

malene wrote: »

Miller Genuine Draught

Contract expired -- now brewed in the Netherlands and distributed by Richmond Marketing.

malene wrote: »

Kronenbourg 1664

Cancelled (see above).

malene wrote: »

so Beamish do it now?

Beamish the company is gone. It's just another Heineken brand now. And one they're not very interested in maintaining, I'd say.

gurramok

Can't believe they cancelled Kronenbourg, thats taking the mick by Heineken.

Will it still be available up north?

BeerNut

gurramok wrote: »

Will it still be available up north?

Probably. I just noticed that Carlsberg got Kronenbourg in the Scottish & Newcastle carve-up, so Heineken Ireland wouldn't have been allowed continue brewing or distributing it, and Carlsberg don't operate here. Carlsberg are a major player in the UK, however, so they'll probably keep brewing Kronenbourg there, and distributing it in the north.

WoollyRedHat

IronMan wrote: »

Kronenbourg was withdrawn from the market by the good folks from Heineken.

Competes with their own best selling swill.

So you can't even buy it in off licences?

What would be similar to Kronenbourg?

grenache

I've noticed Budvar on tap in a few Cork pubs. It is devilishly good beer. Also since we're talking about beers, not just lager, Smithwicks is still widely available in rural pubs, not so much in urban establishments though.

thorpe

In the carve up of Scottish and Newcastle, Carlsberg got the French brewing operations aka Kronenbourg, Heineken got the UK operations but also got a I think a number of years of a liecence to brew Kronenbourg for the UK & Ireland market but pulled the Irish Kronenbourg straight away. It is Heinekens long term plan to replace Kronenbourg with Heineken in the UK market.

BeerNut

thorpe wrote: »

It is Heinekens long term plan to replace Kronenbourg with Heineken in the UK market.

So there's an answer for WoollyRedHat: the professionals at Heineken think you should be drinking Heineken.

Good as any other industrial yellow fizz, I guess.

WoollyRedHat

Henikien is mediocre at best, the hell with that....

Mexico66

A great lager worth trying is the Sparta Pils ABV 4.8%. Brewed in Belgium and available in Sin è Bar, Dice Bar and the Cobblestone.

BeerNut

Why Mexico66, it's almost as though you drink nowhere else

Wigs

I'm coming to Ireland next October and do not like Irish Beer. I'm strictly a Miller guy. What beer do I have to start drinking here in America to get used to the taste?:o

BeerNut

I'm sure we'll have something that meets your needs. There's even Miller.

Martyn1989

Wigs wrote: »

I'm coming to Ireland next October and do not like Irish Beer. I'm strictly a Miller guy. What beer do I have to start drinking here in America to get used to the taste?:o

What do you mean you don't like Irish beer? What have you tried?