Bushmill’s is the preferred whiskey of Irish Protestants, it being made in Northern Ireland, while Catholics tend to prefer Jameson, vatted in Dublin and distilled in Cork.
I suspect it’s my long-held preference for Scotch that prevented me from learning this critical information; that and generally avoiding reading about St. Patrick’s Day drinking tomfoolery.
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one of my uncles told me that I should drink murphy’s irish stout and bushmill’s because they’re made ‘just miles’ from where the family farm was.
Really? I thought the preference was based on which global mega-corporation you preferred to support, Diageo or Pernod-Ricard.
I’m a Red Breast man, myself, placing me firmly in the pocket of Pernod-Ricard.
I’ve never heard this or the similar declaration about drinking stout (Guinness for the papists, Beamish for the other lot, if I recall correctly) from an Irish person. Only from Americans. I do, however, prefer Jameson. And Guinness. Although not generally together.
I will note that of all the places I’ve been drunk, Northern Ireland isn’t one of them, so perhaps the rules only apply there.
I definitely should trust Waider on all things Irish. I have apparently fallen prey to an Irish-American invention:
http://www.jeffreymorgenthaler.com/2010/ask-your-bartender-protestant-vs-catholic-whiskey/
You know, unless JMo is pulling my leg even further.