It’s mad how these things take off. Around 2017 everyone under the age of 25 in Ireland started drinking gin and tonics.
Marketing works
There was no cocktails when I started going out. Unless a fat frog is a cocktail.
Wimmin used to drink all alco pops
There was a Smirnoff Ice craze around the early noughties. There were even taps in places. Then it fell off a cliff.
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Is Ritz still a thing?
Stag
Satzenbrau
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What was that Guinness beer that was a massive flop Beoir or something
The funny thing is that coors is brewed by Heineken in cork under license . If molson coors were to brew it themselves Heineken would lose out big time . As far as I know molson own franciscan well in cork .
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Breo
I think Heineken own it? The Rebel Red is okay, but hard to find somewhere with any flow on it. The rest of it is shite. Their Pale Ale is meh
Diageo have had some amount of goes at trying to find a beer that works for them.
Heineken have ran rings around them really when you think Guinness/Diageo must have had a 90% market share in the 70s and 80s.
My local still stock it as an older lady drinks it and would kick up murder if they didn’t.
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I was at a free work do and drank Smirnoff Ice on tap all night. Halcyon days
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When you look at the amount of draught beer Heineken has compared to Guinness . 25 odd years ago it was only Heineken and Murphy then came coors, followed by the buy out of beamish and Crawford and inherited fosters , beamish and carling which they got rid of . Orchard thieves, moretti , lagunitas ,tiger, blood orange and Murphy red. They have it sewn up .
They also own Tiger which you’d see the odd time
Edit nevermind I see it on your list there
Holsten Pils
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Has Madri made its way to Ireland yet? It’s absolutely everywhere in UK. They’ve gone hard on the marketing and “the football lads” have adopted it as their drink. Marketed as a Spanish beer when it fact it’s just posh Carling.
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It has.
it leaves you with an absolute whopper of a headache if you over indulge in it. Pure piss
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Had it once when at Old Trafford, I’ll stick to the plastic bottles of Carling 
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