Smithwicks Ale

Brewed by Dundalk (Diageo)
Style: Irish Ale
Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland

Serve in English pint

Bottled, pours clear brown/ruby with large fluffy tan head, roasted nutty malt with hints of caramel/toffee and grassy hops, balanced bready malt with touch of toffee and herbaceous hops, med/high carb, light body, toasted malt and mellow hop residual.

This is how a beer should look. Deep copper, stark white head, gorgeous. Unfortunately it doesn’t follow through. Aroma doesn’t promise much of anything. Carbonation is about right. Body and bitterness are not well balanced. Too much bitter for too thin a body. No evidence of flavor hops on the sides of my tongue, and the taste overall is bland/grainy. Aftertaste is not pleasing, feels like I’ve just had a Bud (as best I can remember). Not a repeater.

Bottle [12oz]. This is one of those "I can’t believe I never rated this before" moments. Pours a clear orange-amber with lots of bubbles and a large lasting fluffy white head. Aroma of grain, very light hops, some fruit and caramel malt. Light, slightly watery flavour of caramel malt, grain and a light bitter finish. Average bodied, slightly creamy mouthfeel. Slightly better then I remembered it being but still just O.K. in the end.

Pours a dark amber with an aroma of burnt toffee. An earthy smell and taste, gives this beer a mouthful feeling. A little weak tasting overall, but okay. If this beer was not so watery in flavor, it might be great.

bottle. pours a dark amber with a thin white head. aroma of toffee. tastes lightly malty, notes of toffee and burnt toast. slight earthy bittnerness. finishes with a light earthy bitterness. not bad. kind of weak, though. a tad more flavor and it would be a lot better.

Clear deep amber, thick creamy head, foamy lacing. Not much of an aroma. Not much of a taste either. It’s not that it’s bad; it’s that there isn’t any beer flavor to speak of. It is wet.

Poured a red brown. Toasty malt, chocolate, toffee, etc. Was exactly what I’d expected but nothing more.

Poured from 12 oz bottle, enjoyed during Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals. It’s OK. Malty, aroma and taste wise. It’s totally average.