going for Guinness

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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.

Proof I was here. This is the gate to the storehouse experience which is the history and the information about the products.

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.

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.

This fellow was very interestingly decked out

Showing how they used to stack up the barrels for transport

Saint Patrick’s Monument it’s just off of Saint James Street

Outside the brewery you can get a horse carriage

They are lined up to take you on a tour around Dublin

This is the open gate pub which you really must visit

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

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

You can see the mountains from which the water is drawn

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.

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