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.
There is one. It’s called, surprise, burtonisation.
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 guy, he has Euler diagrams and everything!
I checked out the Guiness in our local liquor store last night. It clearly says “Brewed in Ireland”.
Oh! What a give-away!