Do Nortern Irish prodestants drink guinness

bennyineire

I know its a bit of a silly question and just for a bit of fun, but is there a difference in drinking habits in the North between the 2 community's.
I can imagine that with the younger generation this really isn't an issue, but I wonder maybe 20/30 years ago did Cathloics drink Guinness/Harp/Smithwicks and Protestants drink Tennants/Bass.

Cavehill Red

Go home, Benny. You're drunk.

Chucken

bennyineire wrote: »

I know its a bit of a silly question and just for a bit of fun, but is there a difference in drinking habits in the North between the 2 community's.
I can imagine that with the younger generation this really isn't an issue, but I wonder maybe 20/30 years ago did Cathloics drink Guinness/Harp/Smithwicks and Protestants drink Tennants/Bass.

Ha

Sulla Felix

I thought the guinness' were part of the protestant ascendany anyway?

Yamanoto

Judging by the sunburnt mutants you see staggering about on the Twelfth, my guess is they ain't too fussy either way.

The Backwards Man

Benny, you might need to sit down before I tell you this;

There is no such thing as a Catholic drink or a Protestant drink.

Gloomtastic!

Guinnesses were one of most powerful Protestant families in Ireland. The management (white collar workers and up) of the company was an all Protestant affair right up til the sixties. But if you consider it catholic, go ahead....

mf240

Think they drink moutain jew

blueser

Going on ''prodestants'', I'd say that you've probably imbibed some of Arthur's product today?

fasttalkerchat

Actually they do. The only real difference is that they drink Tennent's.

dd972

I think there's a Harp / Tennant's divide among teenage scobes ( or spides as they call them up there ) but that's as far as it goes.

Guinness isn't even an Irish drink if you research it's history.

Kettleson

Yes Bennyineire, Protestants from NI do drink Guinness and they probably drink as much of it as anyone else.

But I take your point, working in a bar back in the 80's, there was a definite correlation between religion and choice of drink.

Many catholics at the time would not drink Bushmills, and some still don't, many making reference to the orange colour in the label.

And as dd972 said, there was def a Harp/Tennents divide amongst the "yoof".

Man, how moronic was all that.

Mind you the biggest display of irrational anger about a drink was anti Liverpool supporters raging against Carlsberg.

Well goodbye and cheers to all that.

bennyineire

Thanks kettleson, just the response I was looking for, some of the other responses had me scratching my head.

OCorcrainn

I see that your name is Benny. Perhaps this music is appropriate, given your name and how dumb this thread is.

Sunnyisland

I thought they only drank orange :-)

Kettleson

realies wrote: »

I thought they only drank orange :-)

Ian Paisley liked bitter orange.

The Backwards Man

Kettleson wrote: »

Many catholics at the time would not drink Bushmills, and some still don't, many making reference to the orange colour in the label.

Always laugh at that one, used to hear people (mostly Americans) say it was because the wouldn't hire Catholics, which is balls. Jameson is just as Protestant as Bushmills if you want to go down that road.

donegal_road

I knew a few barmen up our way who mentioned that visitors from NI who were from the 'other side of the house', were more likely to order Gordon's Gin, while everyone else would drink Cork Dry Gin.

That said, manys the pint of Guinness I have drunk with non catholic Northern folk.

Kettleson

donegal_road wrote: »

I knew a few barmen up our way who mentioned that visitors from NI who were from the 'other side of the house', were more likely to order Gordon's Gin, while everyone else would drink Cork Dry Gin.

That said, manys the pint of Guinness I have drunk with non catholic Northern folk.

Yeah, I seen that too.

Benny, this ones for you kid ..:D


http://youtu.be/qEsFtiruIok

Qualitymark

Traditionally, large bottles of Guinness are mainly drunk in Waterford and Protestant areas of Northern Ireland, whereas draught Guinness is drunk in the rest of Ireland, or so I've been told.
They used to have different advertising campaigns North and south too; not sure if they still do.

Sunnyisland

Wasent Gerry Adams a barman in a pub in Belfast back in the days before he was in the job of demolishing them :-) I know completely of topic but there you go when theres nothing on tv.

Kettleson

Qualitymark wrote: »

Traditionally, large bottles of Guinness are mainly drunk in Waterford and Protestant areas of Northern Ireland, whereas draught Guinness is drunk in the rest of Ireland, or so I've been told.
They used to have different advertising campaigns North and south too; not sure if they still do.

Didn't Bulmers cider have to be rebranded to Magners in NI for a similar reason?

The Backwards Man

Kettleson wrote: »

Didn't Bulmers cider have to be rebranded to Magners in NI for a similar reason?

Na, there's already a Bulmers cider brewed by a different company, in Bristol I think, so it was for copyright reasons.

Kettleson

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Na, there's already a Bulmers cider brewed by a different company, in Bristol I think, so it was for copyright reasons.

Sound, thanks for that.

My name is URL

"Bushmills? That's protestant whiskey!"

trashcan

My name is URL wrote: »

"Bushmills? That's protestant whiskey!"

Jimmy McNulty :D

Aidric

This thread reminds me of the nazi clowns on the Louis Theroux documentary who were down in Mexico getting sloshed on tequila and corona.

MadYaker

I thought they only drank the blood of catholic children?

Gott

Kettleson wrote: »

Sound, thanks for that.

Wasn;t it something that W.M. Magner bought the rights to the Bulmers name in Ireland from the English company?

That's why they market it as Magners in the UK, afaik.

Ruu

After each sip they must say 'No surrender!'

Kettleson

"Don't believe half of what you see and none of what you hear". Lou Reed.

Anyways, from www.theirishwhiskeyblog.com:

"The muck and mire of political/religious identities in Irish history got a deadly start with Oliver Cromwell and went downhill from there. Over time, "Catholic" and "Protestant" came to mean "Republican" and "Unionist." Divisions became so hard and pervasive that even everyday products of were tagged with affiliations that had little to do with religion or politics.

Brian Quinn, the manager of Beam/Cooley's Kilbeggan distillery, grew up in the north (Co. Tyrone). He recalls that in Belfast years ago you could spot the Catholic and Protestant workmen in the pubs on Friday evening by what they ordered. Protestants would order a half-one (a glass) of Bushmills, a bottle or glass or Tennent's beer (made in Belfast) and Gallagher cigarettes. Catholics would order a half-one of Powers, a Guinness and a pack of Players cigarettes -- all made in Dublin at the time. It was about geography, not ideology.

In fact, one of the most iconic of "Catholic" brands had a long history being staunchly "Protestant." In his book, A Bottle of Guinness Please, author David Hughes writes that until 1939 any Guinness employee intending to marry a Catholic had to offer his resignation. That was as much class-based as it was religious bigotry at the time".

Cheers..

Qualitymark

From http://dontgetusstarted.blogspot.ie/2008/03/protestant-porter-what-irish-catholics.html

...In fact, the original ale made by Guinness, a precursor to the modern Guinness Stout, was called "Guinness Black Protestant Porter"

Karl Stein

I know Cyahlics wouldn't plant certain flowers in their gardens while Perodesdants would.

Sweet William and Orange Lilies were taboo in a Catholic garden.

frag420

I dont care who drinks it, Guinness tastes like ass water!!

Zebra3

frag420 wrote: »

I dont care who drinks it, Guinness tastes like ass water!!

I won't ask why you've been tasting ass water.....

Gloomtastic!

frag420 wrote: »

I dont care who drinks it, Guinness tastes like ass water!!

You're obviously drinking in the wrong pubs!