7 delicious foods to pair with Smithwick’s Irish Red Ale These are the best foods to eat with a crisp and refreshing pint of Smithwick’s, the pride of Kilkenny.

You’ll often find Smithwick’s, also an Irish red ale, alongside Guinness. The Smithwick family had opened its own brewery in Kilkenny in 1710.

Smithwick's is available on draft at most Bay Area Irish pubs and in six- pack bottles (around $7) at selected stores. Murphy's, Beamish and Caffrey's also produce authentic Irish red ales in ...

The Finger Lakes region is home to a number of craft breweries whose brewers craft their takes on Irish ales and stouts. Here are nine to try.

Smithwick's is a sweet, creamy ale, brewed in the old Irish red style. It doesn't have much of an aroma, and little carbonation. More brown than red, it's also Ireland's oldest ale, brewed since 1710.

From a sessionable Irish red with near-perfect balance to a beer brewed with Lucky Charms, here are six Irish-style ales to drink for St. Patrick's Day.

Smithwick Brewing is now quite well-known internationally. Interestingly, about eight years earlier, Daniel Sullivan had also opened a brewery making red ale, and somewhat of a rivalry evolved.

A new red ale available only in Dublin and Kilkenny, Ireland – and the Buffalo area – was awarded a gold medal at the 2017 International Brewing and Cider Awards.

Smithwick’s is the most common example, and there are some great examples brewed in the Midwest, most notably Conway’s Irish Ale, from Great Lakes in Cleveland, and Boulevard’s Irish Ale ...

Smithwick's is Ireland's oldest operating brewery, the major ale producer in Ireland and, along with Guinness, part of Diageo. Like Murphy's Irish Red, this is a red ale characterized by caramel ...

While trying to avoid the obvious — Guinness, Harp, green — there was Smithwick's Red Ale, O'Hara's Irish Red, and then this. I guess "Buh-LOCK-ay" was ready to go to war!

I was part of several generations of Irish men for whom a pint of Smithwick’s was their first real introduction to alcohol. It wasn’t dry and burnt like stout, or bitter and acidic like lager ...