If a bottle of Smithwicks was entered to a homebrew competition...

[Tom]

It might score quite highly on technicalities (an easy three points for colour), but it wouldn't get a fifty:

From the Judging handbook -
The   final   section, Overall   Impression, largely   ignores   stylistic   considerations   and   
represents   how   much   you   enjoyed  the  beer.  [...]
The  difference  between  an  Excellent beer  and  an  Outstanding beer  can 
often  be  in  subtle  or  intangible  details.  Likewise,  beers  with 
no  easily  discernible  flaws  can  be  lacking  in  specialness  or 
"magic." This section is used to give such feedback

The Smithwicks entered might tick all the taste and aroma boxes, but I'd hardly use the word magic to describe it. But this ties in nicely with the Has Guinness Gone To Shit topic a couple of months back, where (and forgive me, I do this) you take a sip of your pint of Guinness after a long walk in the rain, sat in front of a fire with a bunch of aul fellas also drinking it. Might accidentally call a macro beer magic under those circumstances. Enter it into a competition? I think I'd be underwhelmed.