Guinness Brewery

Guinness is the world's most popular dark and strong is named after Arthur Guinness - the man who first brewed his Irish beer more than 250 years at St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin. Ask any Irish and they will tell you that there is no place like the Irish capital where drinking Guinness, not only does it taste better than anywhere else in the world, but you also have the chance to discover the legendary Irish craic '!

St. James Gate is located near the River Liffey, is a large stone arch which was the symbolic entrance to the Guinness Storehouse for nearly two centuries. The brewery in the heart of Dublin now covers 64 acres and not just provide all the Guinness in Ireland, but also the United States and many other parts of the world. There is so much more than a working brewery that also includes a spectacular visitor center which houses two restaurants, three bars and a shop.

The founder of all this, Arthur Guinness, has benefited from a ÂŁ 100 legacy early in life and decided to invest this windfall in brewing. At age 31, he had established a successful brewery in Leixlip, just outside Dublin. However, the lure of the big city proved irresistible. Check the Leixlip brewery in the right hands of his younger brother, Arthur Guinness left for Dublin in 1759 with the ambition to reach the big time. Seventeen years before the U.S. declared independence from Great Britain, Guinness took a lease on 9,000 years of St. James Gate brewery, providing an initial ÂŁ 100 and promised to pay the rent to ÂŁ 45 year.

Arthur Guinness died in 1803 and his son Arthur Guinness II took the reins of the race in Ireland is the second largest brewer success. When Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the flag of the United States in 1818, Guinness has already started to export its big barrels of Portugal, followed two years later by exports to Barbados, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Guernsey. In the 1830s, the production of the brewery St. James outpaced Beamish Cork, making it the biggest brewer in Ireland. In 1886, he became the largest brewer in the world producing 1.2 million barrels per year. The rest, as they say, is history!

Maybe it was hunger Arthur Guinness for the big city and a great knowledge of the brewery that allowed him to perfectly brew a beer that contains the legendary spirit of the craic? But whatever its secret, you will find many visitors from around the world trying to find a hotel in Dublin is ideally located for both the best of hospitality in the beautiful city and brewery Arthur.