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Old 18-03-2004, 12:12 AM
Paul Sherwin
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Default Smithwick's in the US

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:45:30 GMT, (Tim Vanhoof)
wrote:

I gather that the Irish drink a lot of Bud these days. Thus we have the
ridiculous situation of Irish people drinking locally-brewed beer with a
North American name, and North Americans drinking locally-brewed beer
with an Irish name.


Bud is brewed in both Ireland and the UK. The websites appear to be
identical, but AFAIK the two beers are completely different:

http://www.budweiser.ie/
http://www.budweiser.co.uk/

I've no idea what version the people in Northern Ireland get.

Best regards, Paul
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