Island's edge opinions

Effects · 28-01-2022 1:47pm

I love Teku glasses, and generally I'm drinking 440ml cans.

Phil.x · 13-02-2022 1:19am

I'm gumming for some after the last four I had. Better than the other black stuff!

bingo76 · 25-03-2022 8:33pm

Just tried this tonight from a can. Had to check the can was in date, as getting a really horrid bitter after taste off this. Allegedly the tea additive to this is supposed to make this less bitter - finding the opposite is true.

Luckily bought some Guinness Surger cans at the same time, so will skip the remaining Islands Edge cans (until I'm desperate). May try again if I see it on draught, but not impressed at all for a first time taster

Effects · 02-04-2022 4:25pm

I hate to admit this. But I don't find it as bad as I thought I would. I'm halfway through the four pack someone gave me at Christmas.

Dante · 04-07-2022 9:47am

It tastes like Guiness without the creamy goodness, ie shite.

ciaran76 · 04-07-2022 10:10am

Thought it was very light tasting myself. Did enjoy the intial taste but it went quite bkand quickly.

L1011 · 04-07-2022 2:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119287680#Comment_119287680

9 White Deer Stag Saor Stout's been on the market for quite some time.

rob316 · 04-07-2022 2:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119287631#Comment_119287631

Can't understand why they don't market Murphys, its a lovely stout, bit more flavor than Guinness and very creamy. Beamish is my favourite but I couldn't see it appealing to the masses, its fairly bitter and considerably cheaper than Guinness. Islands Edge is for people who don't drink stout so they have created this sub-market of swill with the awful tasteless lager and cider from Rockshore.

techman1 · 04-07-2022 3:02pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117908515#Comment_117908515

Why did they get rid of Guinness Extra Cold in Ireland? I don't agree with the Guinness purists it's simply too warm and unrefreshing in many pubs now

Citizen Six · 05-07-2022 1:17am

What temperature would you want it at?

the beer revolu · 06-07-2022 10:49am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119289270#Comment_119289270

Quite simply because people didn't like it and found it too cold. Pubs didn't want regular Guinness and extra cold taps, so extra cold got the chop.

It was way too cold!

techman1 · 06-07-2022 1:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119297309#Comment_119297309

Well then just have "Guinness Cold" rather than Extra cold, the fact is that in many pubs it is served too warm ,ok for Winter but not for summer

Macy0161 · 06-07-2022 2:26pm

Large Bottle, off the shelf.

andrew1977 · 06-07-2022 2:32pm

Bought 8 cans of it, drank it , nothing spectacular, nothing disgusting either, would i buy it again , No.

Macy0161 · 06-07-2022 2:39pm

btw Had Islands Edge at a St Anne's Park gig. Was better than the lager option, but wasn't enough to be arsed queuing for a third.

Citizen Six · 09-07-2022 12:20pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119298114#Comment_119298114

The temperature is set by Diageo techs usually, isn't it?

Pick a different drink if it's not cold enough for you. Or ask them to put some ice in it.

Roxxers · 17-07-2022 1:16am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119313095#Comment_119313095

set by the pub if they want techs is a board word for some of them

Roxxers · 17-07-2022 1:18am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117906687#Comment_117906687

bullshit its muck like that

Poorside · 17-07-2022 9:53am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119347744#Comment_119347744

Jaysus lad, no need to be so angry about how I like my stout.

beardo81 · 01-08-2022 9:50am

Only had tried Islands Edge cans before yesterday and had been very unimpressed with them.

Pub I went to yesterday served me a poor 1st pint of Guinness so I said I'd try 'the Edge'

5 pints later and I was still enjoying it. Nice creamy head, pleasant roasted aftertaste and almost as full bodied as Guinness. Very very good pints and a nice change from Guinness. Not sure how popular it is countrywide but I'll definitely have more pub pints of it in the future (when I get out that is!!)

So moral of the story is try it on tap lads, you might have a totally different experience to the home cans.

MakersMark · 01-08-2022 9:51am

Looks like Guinness, tastes like Coors light.

Not a fan.

Atlantic Dawn · 02-11-2023 5:54pm

Gone the way of the Dodo...

https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2023/11/heineken-discontinues-islands-edge-stout-in-ireland/

Damien360 · 02-11-2023 5:59pm

I don't remember seeing it on tap anywhere. In that time since it's arrival, Guinness revamped their tap and added a non-alcoholic Guinness tap. Only ever saw it in the off licence and was never tempted to buy it.

Insect Overlord · 02-11-2023 6:08pm

I had 2 pints of it at the Olympia last year when The Darkness were in town. Perfectly drinkable but fairly boring. Couldn't believe they didn't have Guinness available.

sprucemoose · 02-11-2023 6:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119287631#Comment_119287631

didnt they use murphys for that for a while? i remember hearing a couple of english lads at one of the rwc 2015 games ordering pints of 'murphy's guinness'

irish_goat · 02-11-2023 6:51pm

Murphys is what is on tap in any Heineken venues up north e.g. The Odyssey Arena, Brandywell Stadium.

antimatterx · 02-11-2023 7:03pm

I've never been so happy to see a pint fail. All they had to do was push Beamish and Murphys further. I've never seen Murphys in Dublin

fmul9798 · 02-11-2023 11:56pm

It does strike as some marketing guff that convinced some up-and-coming MBA, who in turn didn’t bother to get back to basics and actually do some research. They had two stouts in their portfolio, and they dumped money in to another. The marketing geniuses knew that the real reason those didn’t increase share was because they just didn’t know what the cool kids social media crew did. Perhaps their next will be a Heineken competitor.

waterwelly · 03-11-2023 12:05am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121316660#Comment_121316660

It's like Diageo. They still have Harp on keg, but it must be 20 years since they pushed it.

But instead of targeting the Under 40's market with a product that already has some presence / penetration, they come up with Hophouse 13 and Rockshore.

L1011 · 03-11-2023 12:07am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121317965#Comment_121317965

Diageo have been pushing Harp since last summer. Huge increase in the number of pubs with it in Dublin.

I suspect they realised there were Islands Edges lines coming out, as well as trying to recover the remaining Budweiser lines since it went to C&C. It has died a death in Dublin; most lines seem to have become Rockshore/Rockshore Light or now Harp. I'd drink all three in preference to Budweiser but it did have fans.

When HH13 came out (nearly a decade ago), Harp was more commonly remembered as a crap product; that had died out. Its not even that crap. Probably has more Sally O'Brien memories than assumptions about quality now.

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