Today we honor the one and only Arthur Guinness. Uncle Arthur as he is fondly known is the man we have to thank for the rich, full-bodied, burnt-barley flavored stout we all know and love to consume...ahhh a frosty pint of Guinness! On this, the 24th day of September in the year 2009, Ireland and certainly all the world toast this heavenly libation as we celebrate it's 250th birthday. Two and half centuries ago Mr. Guinness, the son of a land steward, made a decision fit for a drunken Irishman...sign a 9,000-year lease on a run-down brewery in Dublin's St. James' Gate.
An instant success...the dark ale, known for its thick creamy head which is the result of the beer being mixed with nitrogen when being poured, quickly spread throughout the globe and it is said that some 10 million pints are now downed everyday in 150 countries.
So let us raise a toast to Uncle Arthur ladies and gentlemen, and repeat after me...
You know you're drinking a beer when you're drinking a Guinness!
Cheers!
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