# "Imported from Britain" means what?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imported-from-britain-means-what/620077>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 26, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imported-from-britain-means-what/620077 "2012-04-26T23:19:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imported-from-britain-means-what/620077/41 "2012-05-01T17:16:39Z")

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> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#):
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> I was not happy when my know-it-all (yet still wrong almost all the time) cousin informed me that Bass Ale was now being brewed in the USA, but for once in his life, he was 100% correct…
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> It’s still priced at nearly $16 per six pack here in the good ol’ People’s Republic Of Zion…

If you are paying a premium then I only hope the water they use in the USA is as hard as the water is from Burton-on-Trent. There is a reason it was once the brewing capital of the Empire…

Will not taste the same otherwise unless there is some very clever water treatment going on.

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**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imported-from-britain-means-what/620077/42 "2012-05-02T09:01:59Z")

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> [@notquitekarpov](#):
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> Will not taste the same otherwise unless there is some very clever water treatment going on.

There is one. It’s called, surprise, burtonisation.

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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imported-from-britain-means-what/620077/43 "2012-05-02T09:47:01Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> Britain = England. Right?

Great Britain: The island England, Wales, and Scotland are on.

The British Isles: England, Wales, Scotland, Isle of Man […], Ireland (INCLUDING the entity politically separate from the UK).

The United Kingdom: England, Wales, Scotland, North Ireland

Crown Dependencies: Isle of Man… fuck it, just listen to [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10) guy, he has Euler diagrams and everything!

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imported-from-britain-means-what/620077/44 "2012-05-02T13:52:50Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> From what I understand, there are two Guinness breweries in North America, one in the US to serve the Canadian market, and one in Canada to serve the US market, so both can be “imported”.

I checked out the Guiness in our local liquor store last night. It clearly says “Brewed in Ireland”.

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**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imported-from-britain-means-what/620077/45 "2012-05-02T15:14:16Z")

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> [@kurtisokc](#):
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> Bloody peasants!

Oh! What a give-away!

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