How old is the Guinness beer and who is the inventor of it?
On the last day of December 1759 a determined young man named Arthur Guinness rode through the gate of an old, dilapidated ill-equipped brewery sited on a small strip of land on Dublin’s James’s Street. He had just signed a lease on the property for 9,000 years at £45 per annum. His friends shook their heads in disbelief. For ten years, Mark Rainsford’s Ale Brewery (for such it was) had been on the Market and nobody had shown any interest in it. The Street was already festooned with similar small breweries, all attracted to this spot by a good supply of water. Throughout the city of Dublin there were about 70 breweries at that time, all, it must be assumed, small. Mr. Guinness’s newly acquired brewery was no more than average. But Arthur was about to change all of that. He was 34 years old. He knew that the products of this teeming, almost domestic, industry were highly unsatisfactory. Trade fell off badly when import regulations which favoured the London Porter breweries, were prolong
On Thursday, September 24, the makers of GUINNESS, the world’s most iconic stout, will unite with consumers around the world to toast 250 years of brewing tradition started by one remarkable man: Arthur Guinness. The global celebration known as Arthur’s Day marks the 250th anniversary of Arthur Guinness signing the 9,000-year lease on the famous St. James’s Gate brewery in Dublin in 1759. The commemoration of this milestone will begin in Dublin and spread westward throughout the United States and across the world to cities including Lagos, Yaounde and Kuala Lumpur. Sources: http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Guinness+celebrates+250th+birthday/2028243/story.
