british vs the irsh

In a battle on a neutral country's territory, the British would win hands down. As I have said earlier, the rough Scot and Northern Irishman will help with the also tough English and Welsh to defeat the Irish Republican forces. The Irish were always good fighters, but so were the English, Scots, and Welsh. They just do not get the credit.

İRİSH ofcourse

Where do you think you Australians got it from?

Originally posted by Dampier What, Irish as better beer drinkers! 'Pon my soul laddie, you fellows need to get into the East End and see how real (English)men drink! I cahllenge any Irishman to come "play" in Soho.   On a serious note Ireland can never win but can't lose either. I am always amused at how the Americans defend them though (Amusing how one of the biggest terrorist organisations in the world was funded by America....well, actually today they are less terrorist (unfortunately they left the freedom fighter stage too) and more crooks).   And on the historical note England isnt above fighting amongst itself (English civil war, War of Roses.etc).   Still, I challenge any Irishman to come to Winchester and have a drinking competition! Bring it on!

I would take the United Kingdom as a whole over Ireland in a beer drinking contest. The Scots pretty big drinkers(could probably compete with Ireland) and since Northern Ireland is part of the UK, the drinking trophy goes to the British.

What, Irish as better beer drinkers! 'Pon my soul laddie, you fellows need to get into the East End and see how real (English)men drink! I cahllenge any Irishman to come "play" in Soho.

Originally posted by Fighter Darrwn Shan I think the irsh would win

    

First assemble a regular army(NOT ANOTHER IRA). Then spend more money on it, u irish are rich i dont see the reason why u dont. Then u can try and put up a fight, but i still dont think u will win.

Originally posted by Tobodai As Americans you must understand...all of our own native beer is totally undrinkable. I honestly dont even like beer but I can tell American beer is the worst, and Guiness is the only one I like.  German beers are too strong (anbd if I want strong alcohal content Ill do vodka thank you)

Originally posted by ArmenianSurvival Originally posted by Paul Only an American could reguard Irish beer as drinkable. Whats wrong with Irish beer? Please explain.

Brewery	No.	Details
Diageo	3	Guinness, Smithwicks, Harp.
Heineken	1	Murphy's.
Scottish & Newcastle	1	Beamish & Crawford..
Interbrew	1	The former Bass brewery in Belfast.
Independents	0	There are no established independent breweries in Ireland.
Brewpubs	3	Two of these are in Dublin.
Microbreweries	11	Considering the hostile climate - no progressive beer duty, Guinness's control of the on-trade - it's surprising how large this sector is.

Only 20 Breweries in the country, the microbreweries are mostly a recent thing. Ireland is your standard cooperate mass vat brewed beer abomination country. Interbrew, Scottish and Newcastle, Heinekan and Diageo are foriegn.

Compare this to,

Germany 3,000 different brands of beer

UK 2,500

Belgium 2,000

Each of these countries wth less than 100 beers from major brewers, the rest local of small brewery beers.

 

Ireland's only beer of note Guiness is good by massed produced beer standards but hardly a great beer, I'm afraid has long been British and only gets noted because of it's distribution deal it gets by being part of the Diagio corperation, the world's largest hospitality suppliers. Diagio pretends to be Irish to produce Guiness and Baileys, pretends to be Russian to sell Smirnoff, pretend to be American to sell Burger King and Dunkin Donuts and so on.

http://www.diageobrands.com/indexx.html

Edited by Paul

Their stout is good, not sure if i've ever tried any of their standard beer.
What is cafferies (sp?) exactly?