About
Sullivan’s Brewing Company opened for business over three hundred years ago in The Maltings on James’s Street, smack bang in the middle of Kilkenny City. After Sullivan’s Brewery closed for the final time in the early 1900s the tales of the good deeds of this Sullivan Family began to fade into memory.
The Smithwick Family in partnership with direct descendants of the Sullivan Family had a vision to re-open the once-great brewery in the city where it all began. They enlisted the help of Ian Hamilton, one of Ireland’s most eminent contemporary master-brewers. Together they are bringing artisan brewing back to Kilkenny. If people thought that brewing in Kilkenny was dead and buried, they are in for a rude awakening…
Brewed at Dundalk Bay. Some small batch beers brewed in the taproom.
The Smithwick Family in partnership with direct descendants of the Sullivan Family had a vision to re-open the once-great brewery in the city where it all began. They enlisted the help of Ian Hamilton, one of Ireland’s most eminent contemporary master-brewers. Together they are bringing artisan brewing back to Kilkenny. If people thought that brewing in Kilkenny was dead and buried, they are in for a rude awakening…
Brewed at Dundalk Bay. Some small batch beers brewed in the taproom.
7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Appearance: foggy gold with a tall off-white head of good retention. Aroma: Biscuits, grass, floral and fruity hop. Taste: Similar profile. Medium dry. Medium bitter hoppy ending. Mouth feel: Medium minus body, average carbonation. Overall: Decent ale.
Tried
on 19 May 2023
at 14:34
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle, smallish head, clear deep orange with brown taints, caramel, grains, yeast, herbal bitterness. Drinkable but quite simple and boring.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 May 2023
at 21:04
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 06 May 2023
at 12:00
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pint can from Flanagan’s, 3/25/23. New brewery! Brewery #2139, Ireland #10. Hazy orange, large tan head, average retention. Aroma of stone fruit, yeast, apple. Dry. Taste is citrus, toast, yeast. Well balanced. Solid.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Apr 2023
at 03:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Dark golden, clear, yellowish foam. Aroma: malty, sweetish, candy, a little flowery and fruity, pear jam and biscuit. Sweet taste, candy, biscuit, a little butter, earthy hop bitterness, quite good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2023
at 17:37
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
500ml bottle from RusBeerShop in Moscow. Pours black with a medium-sized beige head. Aroma is coffee, ash, chocolate. Taste is dry, roasted malt, coffee, faint ash. Medium bitter finish. Light to medium body. Top stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Apr 2023
at 08:37
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Ever so slightly hazy golden coloured body with a nice, relatively thin, single centimetre tall just off-white head that stays afloat for a while above the 95 per cent clear golden body. Aroma of nice biscuity and slightly oaty malts with a grassiness, some hay and flowers but a sweet, caramelised sugar and toffee note that seems to persist, along with a dash of cream somehow on the finish - surprisingly nice in the nose. Light to barely Medium-bodied; Relatively crisp and biscuity, slightly grainy malts show at first with some nice support for the herbal qualities and a soft sweetness from the caramelised sugars and toffee flavours, all ending with a pretty dry and malty end that once again is nice to show some oat, vanilla and creaminess at the end that provides some complexity. Aftertaste is light and easy-drinking, while still having some flavours of the sweet caramel, a dash of the oats and a bigger bite of the biscuity and grainy malts that provide more flavour and pungency, but this is still pretty mild, while still showing some flavours and depth. A bit nicer than expected and not a bad option from Ireland, which is usually devoid of anything worthwhile, and while this would not want me ever want to return to that country, should the people there be actually able to find this beer easily and cheaply, I'd be happy for them! I sampled this 440 mL can, purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 03-September-2022 for US$2,69 with a best by date of 21-March-2023 sampled just a little after that date on 11-April-2023 after returning from Spring Break and being rushed into 'Spring' here at my house here in Washington.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Apr 2023
at 15:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle from RusBeerShop in Moscow. Pours foggy gold with a medium-sized white head. Aroma is floral, biscuit malt, caramel. Taste is light sweet, floral and biscuit malt. Light bitter finish. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2023
at 13:34
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
14.9 oz. can Total Wine - Naples. Pours a clear, super dark ruby red color with a small beige head and fair retention. Almost no lacing. Rich malty and smokey flavor with light caramel flavor and no bitterness. Medium-light body. Low carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Mar 2023
at 01:41
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
14.9 oz. can. Pours a semi clear gold color with a tiny white head. Fair retention. Minor spots of lacing. Malty flavor but not sweet. Tastes Yuengling-like, but just slightly more bitter. Medium body. Low carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Mar 2023
at 01:36