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I'll throw my considerable weight in by saying I would see this as a gateway drink. My mates who would be macro boozers may try it and it may help to broaden their tastes and attract them to the good stuff over in craftbeer land...or at least open there eyes to it.

Hopefully this may be a sign of things to come in the pub trade where there will be more of a selection of styles and more Irish beer. I even heard the Merrion Inn is getting a Hooker tap and has 8 degrees on bottle. But at 4.75 a pop they are probably pricing the lads out of it. It's all got to be positive if a place like that are trying craftbeer.

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I had a bottle of this at home last night and I have to say I liked it. It's by no means the most flavoursome beer I ever tasted but it has a definite hop profile and is clearly a step above virtually all commercial beer available in Irish pubs. As others here have said, I'd be happy enough to drink it in the absence of a micro-brewed beer (i.e. in most boozers around Ireland). I don't like Diageo, but I do like good beer and Smithwick's Pale Ale, in my opinion, is pretty good.

I've sort of changed my mind on this the more I think about it.

If people who are interested enough to try a craft beer and get a poor example from a pretend version then I can't see them rushing back to try a proper one as there is little doubt that the person won't know what actually happened.

Craft beer is about taste, flavour, aroma, quality in ingredients and product. A whole world away from what the macro-breweries are about. Man made beer not factory made.

In my opinion I believe it to be false advertising and identity theft, by the very definition of a craft product.

I may be suspect but, they are actually trying to move in on the craft beer market which [u:2hmqi08v]will be[/u:2hmqi08v] at the expense of real craft breweries, because they have a lot more power as to where their bottles go on a shelf as they own most of it.

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&amp;quot;Ale Man&amp;quot;:14z4hdg1 wrote: Crast beer is about taste, flavour, aroma, quality in ingredients and product. A whole world away from what the macro-breweries are about. Man made beer not factory made.
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If we're not talking about Macros but specifically this beer, it does have taste and aroma, not in bucket loads but it's there.

In terms of quality of ingredients, they use Irish pale malt and according to Beernut, pellet Amarillo hops so not sure what the quality argument is about this particular beer.

&amp;quot;Ale Man&amp;quot;:2bao66s6 wrote: Crast beer is about taste, flavour, aroma, quality in ingredients and product. A whole world away from what the macro-breweries are about. Man made beer not factory made.[/quote:2bao66s6]This really [b:2bao66s6]really[/b:2bao66s6] needs put to a blind taste test. I think it will stand up quite well against BrewEyed Blonde, Metalman Pale Ale and Ór.

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:32mcaa2f wrote: This really [b:32mcaa2f]really[/b:32mcaa2f] needs put to a blind taste test. I think it will stand up quite well against BrewEyed Blonde, Metalman Pale Ale and Ór.[/quote:32mcaa2f]

Do you think it tastes comparable to those, because to me Metalman and Ór taste nothing alike (haven't had the BrewEyed one, or the Smithwicks one)?