The Guinness Storehouse
What a smart man Arthur Guinness was. Buying a 9,000 year lease over an old brewery site at St. James in 1759 for an annual fixed payment of 45 pounds. The government official who negotiated that contract clearly didn't know about the concept of inflation or earned an unhealthy guinness payment under the table.
Fast facts:
- Over 10,000,000 pints of the stuff is drunk every day
- First Guinness brewery outside of the UK was in Nigeria
- Guinness aides recovery of cavalry during Battle of Waterloo in 1814 (reminds me of a Tour de France stage win)
- Tour includes a free pint at the top of the building which has the best view in Dublin
A beer tour is a beer tour at the end of the day but it's still worth doing as the view from the bar is almost 360 degrees. Could see Croke Stadium where Westlife were to play their last concert ever a few days later. I wont miss them.
The Old Jameson Distillery
After walking here from the Guinness Storehouse, past the Leprechaun Museum, by the time I got there I couldn't be arsed with another tour. I was suffering badly from my cold, not helped by the pint of guinness earlier and patchy memories of drinking Jameson as a teenager, so I decided I would just sit in JJ's Bar (John Jameson) and try a Hot Irish Whiskey instead (shot of whiskey, lemon lice studded with cloves topped up with hot water). It was pretty good.
21st June, 2012
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