Smithwicks !

replica · 12-07-2011 11:35AM

jimthemental wrote: »

You're just drinking it in a bad area I'd say. Dundalk, Kilkenny and Tipperary seem to be the best pints due to greater demand and more flow in the tap. If kegs are left out in the sun for a few days too they go off and you'd nearly be as well to drink Bud. Nearly but not quite.

By the way what pub in Chicago was it?

Pub was called the 'Kerryman' and the barman was from Cork!

kylith · 12-07-2011 11:54AM

I drink Smithwicks. In some places outside main population centres it can be a choice of Guinness, Smithwicks or Budweiser, so I go for the tastier option.

It's a nice pint (got a lovely pint of it in Kerry last week), but I'd prefer Murphy's Red if drinking red beer.

My preferences would be (in order)
Budvar
Murphy's Red
Smithwick's
Carlsberg
Everything else

jimthemental · 12-07-2011 11:56AM

replica wrote: »

Pub was called the 'Kerryman' and the barman was from Cork!

I was in it, it's not far from the Hancock building I think. Beer was grand, food was ****e. The steak sandwich I got had medium rare but cold steak and half frozen bread.

Plazaman · 12-07-2011 12:23PM

Any good hot Summers day (whenever we get them) if heading to a drinking emporium, instead of a Bulmers, get a nice pint of Smithwick Shandy to down in a few gulps to quench thirst and it is delish.

Stipulation 1 : Smithwicks must be cold
Stipulation 2 : Must be a freshly opened bottle of Red Lemonade - nothing worse than flat stuff

12-07-2011 12:27PM

buck65 wrote: »

I could name 3 better Red beers alone that aren't widely available - have you ever drank in the Franciscan Brewery in Cork? their red beer is superior as is Porterhouse red and I would rate Finians red beer ahead of Smithwicks too.
Listen I like it and drink the stuff when it is available and the Guinness is bad or it is too warm but your attitude to Micro breweries is bewildering.

The Franciscan well is the most one I have drank in and my heart sinks when I hear we are going there, though thankfully its not too often. The rebel red is ok but a good pint of smithwicks is miles ahead imo. Regardless of taste though the rebel red is poison, awful hard on the stomach and head, if I go there now I have a bottle of some larger or other. Also their stout just tastes like bad Guinness.

I'm very much a person who likes what I'm used to. I would very rarely drink anything other than Guinness, Smithwicks or corona (not including spirits obviously) unless I have no choice.

Naykid · 12-07-2011 12:32PM

I drink nothing else!! Has to have a Guinness head though. It really improves the taste, and its always great fun watching most of the Bar staff making a balls of putting the head on it. Im 27 now, been drinking it for years, it was actually one of my favourites when I first started drinking, moved to Carlsberg for a while and now back on the Smithwicks + Guinness head. the only problem I have with the combination is theres no name on it. In some bars its referred to as a special but on more than one occasion I have asked for a pint of special and ended up with two bottles of bacardi breezer or some crap like that!!!

Used to go to a bar regularly and ask for it and the poor ould barman with give me a pint of half and half. now thats rotten!!

jimthemental · 12-07-2011 12:55PM

Guinness Smithwick's 50:50 is called Black and Tan down our way.

W.Shakes-Beer · 12-07-2011 12:57PM

Kilkenny Ale, enough said.

buck65 · 12-07-2011 01:25PM

Pity you didn't say it 128 posts ago.

Seannew1 · 12-07-2011 01:42PM

I go through phases of liking the stuff.Few pubs I've had smithwicks in was nasty but a few others were grand.

dpe · 12-07-2011 02:27PM

Its a pretty poor-wannabe bitter. I grew up drinking Tetley, John Smiths or Holts and Smithwicks is garbage compared to them. Funnily enough I quite liked Caffreys (although my ring didn't) when the UK went "Oirish" pub-mad in the nineties, but I can't touch Smithwicks. I stick to Guinness unless I go back to the UK.

evercloserunion · 13-07-2011 02:26PM

Smithwicks is my favourite of the really popular beers, but there are indeed some nicer Irish reds out there. Porthouse Red and Brainblasta are among my favourite drinks. McGrath's Irish Red is also really good.

summerskin · 10-10-2012 07:41PM

Jamsiek wrote: »

Raphael Sticky Listener wrote: »

The Franciscan well is the most one I have drank in and my heart sinks when I hear we are going there, though thankfully its not too often. The rebel red is ok but a good pint of smithwicks is miles ahead imo. Regardless of taste though the rebel red is poison, awful hard on the stomach and head, if I go there now I have a bottle of some larger or other. Also their stout just tastes like bad Guinness.

I'm very much a person who likes what I'm used to. I would very rarely drink anything other than Guinness, Smithwicks or corona (not including spirits obviously) unless I have no choice.

I was in Kilkenny at the Cat laughs festival and they were giving out free pints of Smithwicks and nobody was drinking it even though its a local beer. I was one of the people that didn't drink it. Stuck to Carlsberg

And you brought up a thread from a year ago to tell us that?

Well done pal, yer a fukcing hero.

Onesimus · 10-10-2012 07:49PM

3.8% I love it. Just started drinking it recently. Unfortunately down here you all dont sell the english ale ''John Smiths smooth'' which I LOVE. But smithwicks is a good substitute.

akura · 10-10-2012 07:51PM

Smithwicks is all my dad will drink.

Boombastic · 10-10-2012 08:21PM

I'm not anti-semitic, I just prefer the taste of McArdles :pac:

super_furry · 10-10-2012 08:45PM

I'll have it now and again when I can't stomach anymore Guinness. Their new Smithwicks Pale Ale is really good too - as good as anything you'll find in a bog standard pub on tap.

oldyouth · 10-10-2012 09:13PM

Smithwicks was my learner drink back in the day. Lasted until 19 on the stuff. I couldn't take a mouthful of the stuff now. It always has a sour whiff of it.

mfceiling · 10-10-2012 09:18PM

Used to drink it years ago...bass was also cheap so it was on the radar....fcukin Bertie aherne ruined bass for everyone...

Poor Uncle Tom · 10-10-2012 09:20PM

Phoenix is yer only man...

Like suckin' bog water through a tramps hankie....

Swampy · 11-10-2012 12:06AM

Drinking it at the moment. With a Guinness head.

saabsaab · 11-10-2012 12:22AM

Smithwicks is grand when it is fresh. You can get it a bit off sometimes if the pub does not have regular drinkers and the lines aren't let run a bit. I like it with a guinness head too.

LordSutch · 11-10-2012 12:23AM

Drank Smithwicks way back in the 80s, then I progressed to better and nicer beers like those Cask Ales brewed in England, from Hobgoblin to Abbott Ale, Fiddlers Elbow, Old Peculier, Old Speckled Hen, Fullers ESB, Bombardier, (the list is endless), just love those real ales, then there's all those european beers available now too!

Must give Smithwicks another go in the near future.

admiralofthefleet · 11-10-2012 12:29AM

Boombastic wrote: »

I'm not anti-semitic, I just prefer the taste of McArdles :pac:

mc ardles is lovely, even nicer if you make a black and tan with a pint of guinness

superblu · 11-10-2012 12:46AM

Used to drink it when I was younger. I loved it with a Guinness head or really cold out of a can. Think out of nostalgia I might have a pint of it at the weekend. The taste will probably remind me of steeling myself to ask a wan for the shift back in the day.

Boombastic · 11-10-2012 01:06AM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

mc ardles is lovely, even nicer if you make a black and tan with a pint of guinness

Tasty, I would also be partial to a glass of I.R.A*

I decide what beer to drink on a case by case basis

*Indian Red Ale

Munstermissy · 11-10-2012 01:15AM

When my mate goes on the dry for November/Lent he drinks Smithwicks:-)

mikemac1 · 11-10-2012 01:26AM

Swampy wrote: »

Drinking it at the moment. With a Guinness head.

Is that called a Black n' Tan?

I've heard of that in pubs but unsure what that is

admiralofthefleet · 11-10-2012 01:33AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Is that called a Black n' Tan?

I've heard of that in pubs but unsure what that is

no a black and tan is half/half guinness and mc ardles/ale

Spread · 11-10-2012 03:24AM

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

Only people from Kilkenny/Carlow drink it

It's fairly popular out here. I know a good few people with no/very little Irish blood who drink it.

Smithwicks !

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