Guinness is Guinness is Guinness and it all comes from the same well near the brewery, as opposed to The Liffey.

The horseshit about best in Ireland is great for the tourist dollars in Templebar, but as someone who has lived and worked in most parts of the world including ironically Dublin, I can say that properly kept draft Guinness, allowed to settle for a minute (not the four bloody days some Irish bars insist for voodoo reasons) before pouring in the last drop is the same anywhere.

It travels well, and to be honest, will get less jogging in the lorry going to most places in The UK, straight from the brewery to North Wall docks and onto decent motorways in The UK than trying to get to some Godforsaken village beyond the peat bogs on the West coast.

When travelling, I tended to opt for it wherever as at least you know what you are getting, whether it be in Sydney, Singapore, Seattle or Sunderland. When I lived in Munich, I fell in love with Weissbier, but that's another story.

And Guinness has been just Irish since the UK production ceased, although it is still brewed for bottles in Nigeria, (tastes different to be fair) and one or two other places for local consumption, according my when I did the brewery tour last.