Macros masquerading as craft, are there many on the off licsence shelves?

[rje66]

Just wondering how many 'craft beers' out on the shelves are products of macro breweries??? ( ciders included)
Eg orchard thieves /heino
Hophouse 13/guinness

[johnrm]

Diageo have a few.
West Indies, Dublin, Rye.
The smithwicks ales, blonde etc.
Journeyman beers from Alltech - is that considered macro?

[Pheeel]

From Supervalu in Swords a few months back. I sent them a message through Facebook, no response

[johnrm]

About half is legit!

[SprocketFuel]

My definition of craft would be exactly what macros are doing,  the have "perfected"  a technique and do it over and over,  ok its not by hand but is any brewing? Micro / small batch is what we prefer to drink.

[Pheeel]

Half still ain't enough!!

[Pheeel]

From a Tesco leaflet today:
Blue Moon - MillerCoors
O'haras - okay fair enough
Pilsner Urquell - part of InBev now
Foxes Rock - Altech
Sam Adams - still technically craft in the States
O'haras again
Sweetwater - I thought they had been bought out but I might be wrong  (this beer is really bad)
McGargles - I'm not even going into that
Franny - MillerCoors

So out of 13 beers at least 4 aren't craft despite their advertising

[rje66]

Is cute hoor a fake???

[Damofto]

Cute hoor is brewed by Heineken

[Leann ull]

Panna Lager in Cork never made it to shelves only because it blew up in heinos face

[oblivious]

5 Lamps , C&C.....

[Bazza]

Cute hoor is brewed by Heineken

Had the misfortune to be served that as a 'local red ale' in Navan back in the summer. Didn't hear the waitress properly but when it was brought to me with a Heino beer mat and I had my first taste I said to the missus 'I bet this is that Cute Hoor' and was proved right when the bill appeared. As if the Heino mat was not a big enough clue the complete lack of any perceivable taste was the clincher. It takes a certain skilll to make something that colour so devoid of flavour. They've nailed it.

-Barry

[Bazza]

Clonmel really annoys me too. It's bloody everywhere in Belfast now. Just take a pint of yellow fizzy  water, name it after an Irish town and bingo; every gullible punter in the country is buying it. I might as well jump on this gravy train, bottle my own effluent and sell it as 'Aughnacloy Ale'. Minted, I'd be.

-Barry

[rje66]

Clonmel really annoys me too. It's bloody everywhere in Belfast now. Just take a pint of yellow fizzy  water, name it after an Irish town and bingo; every gullible punter in the country is buying it. I might as well jump on this gravy train, bottle my own effluent and sell it as 'Aughnacloy Ale'. Minted, I'd be.

-Barry

Don't see much of it around here, who makes it??

[irish_goat]

Clonmel really annoys me too. It's bloody everywhere in Belfast now. Just take a pint of yellow fizzy  water, name it after an Irish town and bingo; every gullible punter in the country is buying it. I might as well jump on this gravy train, bottle my own effluent and sell it as 'Aughnacloy Ale'. Minted, I'd be.

-Barry

Don't see much of it around here, who makes it??

C&C.