Looking for the perfect pour? How long should it take? Do good things happen to those who wait?
Here is some Guinness trivia:
1. 2009 was the 250th Anniversary of Guinness.
2. St James Gate was not the original site for the brewery. Arthur Guinness began brewing beer in Leixlip, a town in County Kildare.
3. In 1759 he moved to an empty St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. A bigger brewery in a bigger city for bigger production of a great product!
4. The St. James's Gate Brewery was leased for 9000 years at an annual fee of £45, or $65 USD! This lease INCLUDED fresh water rights. Imagine paying only $65 for rent for a year on anything, let alone a large brewery! The fresh water rights caused problems with the Dublin Corporation, who wanted to charge a levy. This created quite a stir, and production was halted for a brief time while labourers blocked the water supply to the brewery. In the end, Guinness kept their fresh water rights as outlined in his lease.
5. Ten years later, in 1769, Guinness exported six and one half barrels of beer to England, their first exportation. This brought awareness of the product to a whole new market. As people emigrated to the new world, they would of course take their favorite brew with them.
6. By 2001, almost 2 billion pints a year were sold world wide.
7. Over the years, much slang has come about when ordering a pint of Guinness and here a few ways to order one!
- "Arthur G"
- "Pint of black stuff"
- "Arthur Scargill"
- "Pint of plain"
