"Rockshore" - What a terrible name for a beer?

L1011

Harp's market these days is convincing people in Northern Ireland its "their" beer.

They started that when it was made in Dundalk and have kept it up after moving to Dublin...

poitinstill

tried it last week . not good. no taste. if you like light tasting watery beer have at it. else avoid not even worth a taste

fritzelly

Tried a free sampler tonight. Was expecting my tastebuds to be jingling but found it too gassy and a bit tasteless. Wouldn't be going out of my way to buy it

kooga

Diageo introduced Rockshore as they have lost the licence to brew Budweiser here - it has gone to Bulmers/CC/showerings in Clonmel

OldMrBrennan83

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TheRiverman

Tried it once,didn't like it.It is also overpriced.

death1234567

It's a lager for people who don't like lager. Completely tasteless.

Sugarlumps

Tried it at a festival, there is virtually no taste whatsoever.

L1011

kooga wrote: »

Diageo introduced Rockshore as they have lost the licence to brew Budweiser here - it has gone to Bulmers/CC/showerings in Clonmel

Tried to find a post so I could say "called it", but it seems I only said it in ramblings in the pub and thought I'd posted it here. Oh well!

Heineken Light to try retain the Coors market when they moved that (to Burton I presume); then this.

Haven't heard the name Showerings used in years, as an aside.

kooga

L1011 wrote: »

Tried to find a post so I could say "called it", but it seems I only said it in ramblings in the pub and thought I'd posted it here. Oh well!

Heineken Light to try retain the Coors market when they moved that (to Burton I presume); then this.

Haven't heard the name Showerings used in years, as an aside.

I always wondered how Heineken were able to brew coors light here when molson have their own distribution here / also coors uk is 4% and Irl is 4.3%

Re showering I don't know what it's called in called - could be tenants

Interestingly is miller still available on draught here

jt69er

Hibernia93 wrote: »

Any similarities to the taste of the now discontinued Clonmel lager that was made by Bulmers? I absolutely loved that lager although everyone here didn't lol.

Not discontinued, still being brewed.

jt69er

kooga wrote: »

Diageo introduced Rockshore as they have lost the licence to brew Budweiser here - it has gone to Bulmers/CC/showerings in Clonmel

That story has being going around a while, not sure if its true.

L1011

kooga wrote: »

I always wondered how Heineken were able to brew coors light here when molson have their own distribution here / also coors uk is 4% and Irl is 4.3%

Re showering I don't know what it's called in called - could be tenants

Interestingly is miller still available on draught here

Heineken had a contract for Coors from the distant past, before the MolsonCoors merger I think.

Showerings was the name of the company owning Bulmers in Ireland until C&C bought it, why it got called that is probably worthy of an academic paper on mergers and acquisitions. I haven't seen it used in a non historical sense in about 15 years and even then it was anachronistic, the trading company is inactive for ages.

I haven't seen Miller on draught for ages, but it was always relatively niche

irish_goat

L1011 wrote: »

I haven't seen Miller on draught for ages, but it was always relatively niche

O'Neills on Suffolk Street would be a good indicator. They tend to have everything on draught. If it's not there then it's probably no longer available.

kooga

irish_goat wrote: »

O'Neills on Suffolk Street would be a good indicator. They tend to have everything on draught. If it's not there then it's probably no longer available.

Miller fell of the radar when Heineken took over beamish and Crawford as they discontinued brewing it - I think for a while Richmond marketing were importing it on draught from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 in the smaller barrrels as to who or where the bottles come from I don't know

Thephantomsmask

I tried this as a free sample. I can only describe it as drinking out of a finished beer glass that was refilled with fizzy water. All gas and a vague hint of some taste that might have come from passing a brewery on the way to the shop.