Its the best stout you can get Yeah it's even hard to get in some places here in Ireland, Luckily for me though I'm in Cork, home of that particular lovely pint of plain
So are kilts, shortbread, haggi, bagpies, ghosties and all the other quaint nationalistic pish of 1500s Edinburgh.
You can only drink so much guinness before it gets sickening. I usually go with 2 or 3 pints then switch to Smithwicks, now that is good stuff.
You Nordies sure do like punishment. Many years ago I happened upon 12 cases of Smithwicks and no word of a lie I couldn't give the stuff away.
What's wrong with Smithwicks? All the men in my family drink away at it, but then we are all country folk so that could be it.