Kilkenny
Guinness (St. James's Gate) in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Regular|
Score
5.81
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Also sold as Kilkenny Draught.
First Brewed 1710 St Francis Abbey.
Kilkenny Irish Cream Ale, with its deep red hue and rich, creamy head delivers a distinctively smooth and flavourful taste.
First Brewed 1710 St Francis Abbey.
Kilkenny Irish Cream Ale, with its deep red hue and rich, creamy head delivers a distinctively smooth and flavourful taste.
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4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 4.5
This beer’s best moment is when it’s poured from the can and slowly transforms from opaque cloud to a lovely, clear amber colour. Four out of five for the appearance and four out of ten for the taste about sums Kilkenny up for me. When vigorously provoked, the beer gives off some caramel and honey aromas, and when drunk it feels as thin as water before developing a creamy mouthfeel with quite a bit of malt and a slight hoppy bitterness at the end.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Oct 2012
at 23:49
4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
0.4l can @ Bergen Airport. Clear caramel-brown with a really creamy off-white head. Smells light sweet, mild ashy, some faint fruity tones. Not horrible, but not fantastic. It's soft on the carbonation and it has a mild oily mouthfeel. Light sweet caramel flavors also, some faint cigarette tones with a soft bitter and quite smooth finish and a flour-ish both semi dry aftertaste and really watery and thin. Easy drinking, but flavor wise this has never been a favorite of mine. Nor this time. 05.08.2012
Tried
from Can
on 02 Oct 2012
at 03:15
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3
Poured from tap into a Kilkenny glass at the Kings Head pub in Galway, Eire - Jan ’12. Coppery-light brown in colour with a small white head. Sweet aroma on the nose but not a great deal going on other than a little malt and sugar. Tastewise verges on a sweet but a (and certainly not rich in this respect) caramel flavour is present and a very faint bubblegum taste. Not a lot of bitterness if any? - an easy drinking beer if you wish! A creamy mouthfeel and drinking experience to boot with little carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Aug 2012
at 08:20
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Can at home. Has a clear dark brown colour with a medium and pretty compact white head. Lots of wood in the aroma with leather, chocolate, cinnamon and berries. Much of the same in the flavour but with more roast. Very soft and smooth mouth feel, a bit thin. Light bitterness. An easy-drinking and okay ale.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Aug 2012
at 04:45
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Kilkenny (by St. James's Gate (Diageo)):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5
29/VI/2012 - on tap @ Patrick Foleys (Gent) - BB: n/a (2012-667)
Clear amber beer, small off-white head, little stable, adhesive. Aroma: yeasty, bread, toast, bit metallic, touch of citrus. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: little citric in the start, toast, bit nutty, sweet caramel, some malts. Aftertaste: some citrus, bit sugary, little bitter, metallic ending.
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5
29/VI/2012 - on tap @ Patrick Foleys (Gent) - BB: n/a (2012-667)
Clear amber beer, small off-white head, little stable, adhesive. Aroma: yeasty, bread, toast, bit metallic, touch of citrus. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: little citric in the start, toast, bit nutty, sweet caramel, some malts. Aftertaste: some citrus, bit sugary, little bitter, metallic ending.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jun 2012
at 10:00