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Smithwicks Ale

Smithwicks Ale

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An Irish Ale brewed by
Dundalk (Diageo)

Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland

bottled
common

on tap
common

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11093.06/5.03.06/5.05%57.2 English pint P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Smithwick’s is Ireland’s number one ale. Its exceptional taste, distinctive colour and purity of ingredients make it unique. Its rich, satisfying taste has earned it five gold medals in the famous Monde Selection Beer Tasting Competition. Smithwick’s is produced using the finest hops and special roasted, malted barley. In 1998 a new enhanced draught product with improved head retention was launched along with redesigned glassware.

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 Magic_dave6 (3563), London, Greater London, England
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/54/102/57/20

May 4, 2008  
Keg in O’neils. Its like a nitro product accidently on 60/40 rather the 70/30. Aroma is too cold to get much other than poor grainy sweet malt. Taste is similar, poor sweet grainy clearly made from poor quality malts, bitterness is really fake. Iv possibly overrated this as iot was a poor an uninspring attempt at a beer.

stangger (99), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/102/510/20
Aug 8, 2008  
On tap... everywhere. It’s the upper end of the generic bar beers, drinkable with a nice splash of bitterness at the end.


mcjay (9), Neenah, Wisconsin, USA
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4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/510/105/519/20
Aug 2, 2008  
Very smooth malty flavor with a nice deep amber tone. Smithwicks (pronounced smit-icks) is to the Irish ale what Guinness is to the Irish stout. One of my favorites.


DrDavid (64), , Vermont, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/104/511/20
Aug 1, 2008  
(Bottle). Cola color, small head. Roasty, slightly bitter taste, with lingering minimal finish. Thin, mild, not unpleasant.


 smjohnst (108), , Pennsylvania, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/58/104/517/20
Aug 1, 2008  
It has a guiness taste in the form of an ale, which for me is the perfect fit. It has a very smokey after taste.


 502Flavors (199), Kentucky, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/55/102/511/20
Jul 29, 2008  
On tap at a local dive bar. Dark nut brown pour with pretty good head. Aroma doesn’t have much going on, just a faint hint of nuts and pale malt that that you almost have to strain to detect. Flavor is funky and a bit out of balance - some hop notes and some slightly roasted malt flavor. Light bodied on the palate with medium carbonation. Overall: not horrible, but not great. It has a strange mustyness to it, like its dusty.




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