Guinness Brewery

The Guinness Brewery at St James's Gate in Dublin is the historic home of Ireland's most famous beer. Arthur Guinness signed his celebrated 9,000 year lease on the four acre site in 1759, and the brewery has expanded steadily across the surrounding streets ever since to become one of the largest stout breweries in the world. The cobbled lanes, brick chimneys and Victorian industrial buildings around James's Street form a working brewing complex that still produces Guinness for export across the globe.

While the operational brewery is not generally open to the public, visitors gather at the adjacent Guinness Storehouse, which serves as the official visitor experience and gateway to the site. The wider neighbourhood is steeped in brewing heritage, with the company's old transport yards, malt houses and stables visible from many of the surrounding streets, and the River Liffey nearby once carried Guinness barges down to the docks.

St James's Gate sits a short walk west of Dublin's medieval core, close to Christ Church Cathedral and the Liberties district, an area increasingly known for its independent distilleries and craft brewers building on Dublin's long brewing tradition.