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Why isn't Kilkenny sold in the United States?

I first tasted this beer in Rome, Italy, of all places, in the summer of 1998. In my humble opinion, there is no better beer in the world. There are many with more flavor (or flavour, if you like), but there are none to rival its combination of taste, feel and smoothness.

I experienced a few fine beers in Germany (a Munchner Dunkel served in the Rathskellar restaurant in Munich stands out...alas I cannot remember its name), and several fine varieties in Prague (most notably Budvar and Velvet); however nothing matches Kilkenny. Although I'm certain there are many connoisseurs who would knock each other over to argue my conclusion, as this is a matter of opinion, there can be no right answer but my own.

Regardless of one's opinion, it is, by all accounts, a fine beer; it is popular in many other countries, and it stands to reason that it might sell reasonably well in our neck of the woods. So, why not sell it here?

Perhaps the best reason is simple: if everyone that loves Kilkenny is anything like me, they don't actually drink that much beer. Well, I'm afraid I don't have a counter argument to that, except to say that I, on rare occasion, will go to Canada and spend about $60.00 on a case of the stuff. That must count for something.

I could say I told you so...

well well well, it's always nice to have my ideas corroborated by independent 3rd parties like this.

In case you don't feel like reading that article, the long and the short of it is that an independent auditing firm, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, has come to the conclusion that Internet delivery of instant-on HD content is still years away. I don't know where they pulled the year 2015 from, but it sounds as good as any, I suppose.

Some of you...ok the 1 or 2 of you that might actually read my drivel, might remember this post of mine, where I said the same thing and relied on the same reasoning to reach my conclusion.

the bottom line: most people don't have a fast enough connection to enable instant streaming of HD content of the same quality found on a blu-ray disk. I still think that Internet distribution is the future, but we simply aren't there yet, and now it would appear that we have bigger fish to fry.