going for Guinness • Folksy Travel by Bill Smale

I think every tourist to Ireland has heard of Guinness. They are one of the most successful beer brands in the world. They have a long history of creating a unique range of stouts which revolve around certain taste ideas. There is not only one Guinness flavor. If you’ve never been to a brewery I highly recommend visiting the storehouse tour. If you’ve been to several breweries I’m not sure how different this one will be. I have only visited maybe five different beer breweries in the world but I did not find this experience to be tremendously different than the others. But if you’re excited about Guinness then do the storehouse experience. You can also in addition or separately book the experimental beer tasting at the open gate brewery on Saint James Street. That is definitely a place you must go if you’re interested in Guinness, the company and the different flavors they have invented over these several hundred years.

Storehouse gate going for Guinness — Proof I was here. This is the gate to the storehouse experience which is the history and the information about the products.

Storehouse buildings going for Guinness — You have to go around this walkway here and at the end turn left to get to the entrance. It is not on Saint James Street even though the open gate brewery is. At the top you can see the round Guinness tasting room and pub which is a nice place to view the whole city.

Entrance to the store house going for Guinness — The entrance to the storehouse. They are self guided tours but you book a time to go in, get an initial presentation and explanation of the storehouse and then you walk around by yourself.

Company charter Bill Smale — The initial charter for the company

Grain for Guinness. Bill Smale — The specific grain use for the brew

Decked out a guy Bill Smale — This fellow was very interestingly decked out

Nitrogen flavoring going for Guinness — Nitrogen helps with the flavor

Beer barrels Bill Smale — Showing how they used to stack up the barrels for transport

Tasting room entrance entrance — The entrance to the tasting room

A view of Trinity College — A view looking over Trinity College

St. Patrick’s memorial — You can see Saint Patrick’s memorial

Horse carriages — Outside the brewery you can get a horse carriage

Take a Dublin tour on a horse carriage — They are lined up to take you on a tour around Dublin

Open gate pub — This is the open gate pub which you really must visit

Experimental beers — These are a list of the experimental beers they create and are not yet marketed. You pick three of them for the triple tasting experience

Delicious experimental beers — They were all amazingly delicious

I had tried the West Indies Porter before and it was interesting and OK

Wicklow Mountains — You can see the mountains from which the water is drawn

Belgium brews — These are two beers which are brewed in Belgium

after World War II there were no functioning breweries in Belgium so Guinness went there to set up a brewery and it now makes two different types of beer in Belgium which are not exported around the world.

Timmermans — This one is a very thick and a little bit sweet flavor with a tang. It is an extremely delicious beer and one you must try but I warn you, this beer is twice the price of a regular Guinness

Special export Guinness — This special export is also very delicious and very different from the standard Guinness. It has a wide range of flavors

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