McGargles kilcock

[DEMPSEY]

expect a visit or two ok as your surrounded by Liffey Brewers, were in Summerhill, Clane, Maynooth, Dunboyne and about a dozen other places.

welcome to the site and best of luck with the brewery.

and Celbridge good luck with the venture. Will be delighted to go on a visit when all is up and going.

[Ciderhead]

Great to see another player of consequence brewing in the Irish Market, and I wish you every success in your venture.
Can I ask a question though and it's a personal opinion and not that of the forum, why did you contract brew and market a beer that I know is of a lesser quality than you ultimately expect to produce down the road?
Will it not make your launch of Irish produced and branded beer that much more of an uphill struggle in what is rapidly becoming a more congested market with significant numbers of new entrants?

[HopTown]

i have a very different opinion on our beers and so do untappd users. they are scoring well.

Mcgargles is designed to bring people into craft wwho might currently be drinking heineken or bud etc.

I like our beers and although we will make minor tweaks to the IPA, we will not change them when we brew in Kilcock.

The UK choice was simple. i know the guys well in that brewery and trust them.

cheers

Niall

[Eoin]

The name and the marketing blarney are woeful.

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[mr hoppy]

Mcgargles is designed to bring people into craft wwho might currently be drinking heineken or bud etc.

For all I know I might like Mcgargles if I try it, and if I come across it I wouldn't rule it out, but this quote just nails exactly why I hate the whole idea of "craft beer" and why I'd rather hang out on this site rather than on a certain other site Irish beer related site.

It's not a f*cking religion, it's an intoxicating beverage. It either tastes good to you or it doesn't.

Craft is b*llsh*t. It's what's in the glass that counts.

[Eoin]

The beer is alright, nothing spectacular, they had a tasting in my local offie a few weeks back.

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[mr hoppy]

Don't get me started on the "craft premium". Fer fook's sake Oi'd rather drink moild.

[Ciderhead]

5 years ago I have to admit I was drinking Heineken and I guess I am one if those convertees, my goto session beers now are Hooker or Metalman, I do like to mix it up a bit now and again and find myself drinking a lot of Kinsale pale ale recently and specials from new market entrants.
I am really sorry to report I have tried Mcgargles now twice and was disappointed on both occasions

[mr hoppy]

Say it aint so CH - and you said it took stones stones to admit to not doing a starter.

Mind, I'll be sitting in a tin can over the deep blue ocean in a couple of weeks and i'll be damn glad of a tiny can of heineken.

It's just the whole we're on your side, we're just not for you spin screams BS at me. No doubt their stout costs a euro or two more than perfectly drinkable can of "macro" Beamish - cos it's craft 

I'll drink what I like I don't care who makes it or what it's called, and if yer beer's sh*te good luck to ya but i won't be drinking it.

[Ciderhead]

I was in a country pub during the summer and weather was scorching and they only had G, H and water, I drank 3 pints of the H and was ucking dying the next day.
Next time I will go for the water.

[mr hoppy]

Only time I really drink H is on KLM, and as I've said a few times on here before Dutch H has a distinct iso-amyl acetate / banana flavour which is actually ok but makes me think of watered down chimay white. So much for what the BJCP knows about European lagers (IMHO, of course).

[DEMPSEY]

For me it's simple I will try all new beers and if I don't like them I will not continue to drink them.I wont make a fuss as its not for me to tell someone else how to run their business and I prefer to give them my view only if asked. Time is the great leveler and if a beer is not liked by the drinkers then they wont buy it again and again. I have a Christmas box set of these beers and will get around to them but will also wait and try the beers when they are brewed in Kilcock. I personally  hope they meet my own tastes because the more the merrier and greater choice is what I want.

The best pub in Ireland has got to be the Lucan County bar  (opinion given even if not asked for ).

[Ciderhead]

+1 Mr D, but if one of my customers suggested I was doing something wrong in what I sell or there was room for improvement in an area, I would listen, after all I can have the best products in the world but if no one wants to buy them...
Lots of different perspectives on how the breweries push and market adopts a beer.
Best example I have seen outside tasting panels, and I won't name them, but xbrewery put half a dozen crates into the market subsidised the price and specifically asked for market feedback, they got it woefully wrong and majority was poured down the drain, but much cheaper to do that than full scale launch.
Needless to say having identified the core problem areas they came back and got it right the second time.

[Ciderhead]

Mr x is my respecting the commercial confidence entrusted in me as to what the micro was up to when I called them on it and asked what they were up to.

I listen to everybody including bollixes as very occasionally even they make a positive contribution.

[IrishBeerSnob]

I'd thoroughly recommend that everyone listens to the podcast
Its very eye opening and Niall and his team have absolutely massive plans.

I've said it on the Beoir thread on the same subject that I feel there is learning points on both sides as it was very unfortunate the ways things went.

The link to the podcast is here http://11pmsomewhere.tumblr.com/post/75253990838/for-episode-6-of-the-11pm-somewhere-podcast-ian its an hour long but covers a hell of a lot.