Favorite Irish Beer?

Discussion in 'Ireland: NSR' started by Catfish, Jan 19, 2010.

  1. Catfish

    Catfish Member

    Oct 1, 2002
    Chicago
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    I know this might be silly, but seeing as I'm a bit of a beer lover (tried over 500 different ones, so far), which is your favorite Irish beer?

    Is Guinness still massively popular because it's loved or just biggest, richest and the Irish version of Budweiser?

    Any love for Murphy's, Caffrey's, Beamish, or something else I don't know about??

    thanks.
     
  2. allegrabene

    allegrabene New Member

    Jul 11, 2009
    Alexandria, Va
    Club:
    Celtic FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Beamish and Harp fer sure ya
     
  3. Evil_J

    Evil_J Member

    Oct 6, 2010
    Club:
    Waterford United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    In the states, we drink a lot of Guiness, but we still get Beamish too. There are particular beer bars here that will have 200+ beers on tap. Its all good to me. Cheers.
     
  4. Dyvel

    Dyvel Member+

    Jul 24, 1999
    The dog end of a day gone by
    Club:
    Leeds United AFC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    I went home for a visit this past May and, to be truthful, I got tired of the lack of selection in Ireland. If you go in to a pub in NYC you have a selection of beer from all over. A pub in Ireland will have Guinness, Smithwicks, Bass, Harp, Tuborg Gold on tap and a couple of American beer in bottle form. Pubs in England have a decent selection of ales. I like Guinness but after 8 days I found myself wanting something else.
     
  5. malby

    malby Member+

    Liverpool FC
    Republic of Ireland
    May 11, 2004
    Rep of Ireland
    Club:
    Drogheda United
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    :rolleyes:

    What bloody pubs were you going into!

    I've never seen Tuborg on draft. Every pub has Bud and some have Miller.

    Carlsberg by far the biggest draft selling lager.
     
  6. Samarkand

    Samarkand Member+

    May 28, 2001
    Time traveled to the 1920s to the one from The Quite Man?
     
    Dennis324s and malby repped this.
  7. Dyvel

    Dyvel Member+

    Jul 24, 1999
    The dog end of a day gone by
    Club:
    Leeds United AFC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    A pub in the town of Tully Cross, Connemara. Four or fives beers on tap. And the same in a couple of pubs in Kinsale. Serious lack of variety. Maybe I have become the spoiled American brat my sisters accuse me of being.
     
  8. LuckyDay

    LuckyDay New Member

    Jul 6, 2011
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Tully Cross as the name suggests is'nt a town but a cross roads with a Pub and a Hotel. They do well to keep open never mind serving a wide enough variety of beers to satisfy the palate of such a sophisticated returnee. :)
     
  9. malby

    malby Member+

    Liverpool FC
    Republic of Ireland
    May 11, 2004
    Rep of Ireland
    Club:
    Drogheda United
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    He's a nice, quiet, peace-loving man, come home to Ireland to forget his troubles. Sure, yes, yes, he's a millionare, you know, like all the Yanks. But he's eccentric - ooh, he is eccentric! Wait 'til I show ya... his bag to sleep in - a sleeping bag, he calls it! Here, let me show you how it operates
     
  10. malby

    malby Member+

    Liverpool FC
    Republic of Ireland
    May 11, 2004
    Rep of Ireland
    Club:
    Drogheda United
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    Yes you have ;)
     
  11. malby

    malby Member+

    Liverpool FC
    Republic of Ireland
    May 11, 2004
    Rep of Ireland
    Club:
    Drogheda United
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    Oh, and happy Arthurs day.
     
  12. Samarkand

    Samarkand Member+

    May 28, 2001
    Bet they wouldn't accept dollars but were looking for some foreign thing called Euros and there was no ESPN or FSC on the TV either! The nerve. ;)
     
  13. Dyvel

    Dyvel Member+

    Jul 24, 1999
    The dog end of a day gone by
    Club:
    Leeds United AFC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    It was awful! What was that place i visited? It certainly wasn't the Ireland I left in 1977!
     
  14. Panther1903

    Panther1903 Member

    Aug 26, 2006
    Mississauga, Canada
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    I've only tried a couple of brands - Murphy's Stout and Guinness - liked them both.
     
  15. elvinjones

    elvinjones Member

    Jul 4, 2011
    San Jose
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Hey did you hear that Obama visited Ireland? :D

    So many stories about Irish Americans coming back, I mean.

    When I was in Ireland, one guy told me that you used to be able to stick a spoon in the top of a Guinness years ago, and another that his daughters were learning how to speak incorrectly because of the BBC. Clides versus cluyds or something.
     
  16. Samarkand

    Samarkand Member+

    May 28, 2001
    How annoyed were you when you realized that you were ripped off when you paid for that leprechaun?
     
  17. carmelino

    carmelino Red Card

    Oct 23, 2010
    Europe
    Club:
    FC Barcelona
    Nat'l Team:
    Croatia

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