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A seven-story visitor experience built around the original early-1900s fermentation plant at St. James's Gate Brewery, where Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease in 1759. The tour traces the beer's brewing process and history, ending at the rooftop Gravity Bar for a pint and a 360-degree view over Dublin.
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The Guinness Storehouse is a visitor attraction at the St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland, opened to the public on 2 December 2000. Set in a former fermentation plant, it tells the story of Guinness stout, its ingredients, brewing and advertising.
According to Wikipedia, the building was constructed between 1902 and 1904 as a fermentation plant for the brewery, designed in the style of the Chicago School of architecture, and was the first multi-storey steel-framed building in Ireland. It remained the fermentation plant until 1988, when a new plant was completed near the River Liffey. In 1997 the building was approved for conversion into a visitor centre, replacing the Guinness Hop Store, with redesign by the UK firm Imagination and the Dublin firm RKD. A new wing and a multimedia installation explaining modern brewing were added between 2006 and 2008.
The seven floors surround a glass atrium shaped like a pint of Guinness. The ground floor introduces the four ingredients, water, barley, hops and yeast, as well as the brewery's founder, Arthur Guinness. At the base of the atrium is a copy of the 9,000-year lease Arthur Guinness signed for the brewery site. Other floors cover Guinness advertising, sponsorship, transport, cooperage and brewing, and there is an interactive exhibit on responsible drinking.
Visitors can pour their own pint at the Perfect Pint experience. The fifth-floor Brewery Bar serves Irish dishes cooked with or accompanied by Guinness, and the seventh-floor Gravity Bar offers views over Dublin. The Guinness Archives hold records and artefacts dating back to 1759, the year of the lease, and the nearby Guinness Open Gate Brewery is an experimental taproom showcasing small-batch beers.
Arthur Guinness founded the St. James's Gate Brewery in 1759. On 31 December that year he signed a 9,000-year lease at 45 pounds a year for the unused brewery, and the company later bought the property outright after expanding beyond the original four-acre site. His first export came in 1769, when he shipped six and a half barrels of beer to England. By 1868, when Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness died, the site had grown from about one acre to over 64 acres.
According to Wikipedia, the brewery became Ireland's largest in 1838 and the world's largest by 1886, with an annual output of 1.2 million barrels, and today it remains the largest brewer of stout. The statistician William Sealy Gosset, hired in 1899, developed techniques for the brewery that included Student's t-distribution. The brewery is now part of Diageo, formed by a 1997 merger. Its main product, Guinness Draught, is a dry stout served with nitrogen, which gives it a creamy head.
Wikipedia says the Storehouse has had more than twenty million visitors since opening, and notes a visit from Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in May 2011 during a state visit to Ireland. A private guided tour with a vehicle and driver can pair it with other Dublin sights such as Kilmainham Gaol and St Patrick's Cathedral.
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