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This year marks the 250th anniversary for Guinness. To celebrate this occasion, they will be launching a Special Edition Guinness 250 Anniversary Stout on April 24th.<\/p>\n
“Using a unique brewhouse process that combines the use of stout and ale malt, it’s a distinctive carbonated stout with a clean, smooth finish. This is especially exciting, as we haven’t introduced a new stout to the US since 1967, when we first started importing Guinness Draught.”<\/p>\n
It’s only available for a limited time.<\/p>\n
Important points in Guinness History:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1725 – Birth of a legend: <\/strong>Arthur, son of Richard and Elizabeth Guinness is born in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland.<\/p>\n 1752 – Blessed inheritance:<\/strong> Arthur Guinness is left \u00c2\u00a3100 in the will of Archbishop Price. Three years later he sets up business as a brewer in Leixlip, County Kildare, just 17km from Dublin.<\/p>\n 1759 – Signing:<\/strong> Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000-year lease on a disused brewery at St. James\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Gate, Dublin. It costs him an initial \u00c2\u00a3100 with an annual rent of \u00c2\u00a345 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c this crucially includes water rights. The brewery covers four acres and consists of a copper, a kieve, a mill, two malthouses, stabling for 12 horses and a loft to hold 200 tons of hay. Arthur begins brewing porter and ale.<\/p>\n 1769 – Genius exported for the first time:<\/strong> The first export shipment of six and a half barrels of GUINNESS beer leaves Dublin on a sailing vessel bound for England.<\/p>\n 1775 – Troubled waters:<\/strong> On 16th May a Dublin Corporation committee & sheriff are sent to cut off and fill in the channel from which the Brewery draws its water. Arthur Guinness is forced to brandish a pickaxe to protect his supply. The dispute is finally settled in 1784 when water rights are granted for 8,975 years.<\/p>\n 1803 – Arthur Guinness dies: <\/strong> Raise a glass to the memory of a true original. His son, Arthur Guinness II, inherits the brewing mantle.<\/p>\n 1821 – Secrets of a perfect porter:<\/strong> Arthur Guinness II sets down precise instructions for brewing GUINNESS Extra Superior Porter \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the precursor to today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s GUINNESS Original and GUINNESS Extra Stout.<\/p>\n 1834 – New bottles have clear advantage: <\/strong> The Glass Tax is repealed and GUINNESS can now be bottled in glass rather than stoneware.<\/p>\n 1850s – From father to son to grandson:<\/strong> Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, son of Arthur Guinness II, takes over the brewery on the death of his father. Sir Benjamin Lee becomes a Member of Parliament for Dublin City and also serves as Lord Mayor of Dublin.<\/p>\n 1862 – The Harp plays its first bars:<\/strong> The trademark beer label is introduced – a buff oval label with the harp and Arthur Guinness’ signature. The Harp is registered as a trademark in 1876.<\/p>\n 1914 – Brewery output is up to almost 3 million barrels.<\/strong><\/p>\n 1976 – Over 7 million glasses of Guinness are drowned daily.<\/strong><\/p>\n 1985 – Guinness now sold in 120 countries and brewed in 25.<\/strong><\/p>\n 1997 – Diageo is formed:<\/strong> Guinness PLC & Grand Metropolitan PLC merge to form Diageo PLC. The name comes from the Latin word for ‘day’ and the Greek word for ‘world’.<\/p>\n 2001 – World drinks two billion pints: <\/strong>Almost 2 billion pints of GUINNESS a year were sold around the world and over 1 million pints of GUINNESS a day were sold in Great Britain alone.<\/p>\n 2007 – 10 Million glasses of GUINNESS are enjoyed every day: <\/strong> GUINNESS is sold in over 150 countries around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This year marks the 250th anniversary for Guinness. 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