Guiness Is Opening Their First Brewery In The USA In 63 Years In The Most Irish Place Possible, Baltimore County

Biz Journal - Top o’the Tuesday morn: Guinness is coming to southwest Baltimore County.

The company plans to build a midsize brewery modeled after one of the top tourist destinations in Ireland, the Guinness Open Gate Brewery in Dublin. A Guinness visitor experience will also be part of the project.

It will be the first Guinness brewery to open in the U.S. in 63 years.

The states-side brewery will be a home for new Guinness beers created for the U.S. market. Visitors will be able to tour the working brewery, sample experimental beers brewed on-site at the taproom, and purchase Guinness merchandise at the retail store.

“We want to leverage our 250 years of brewing heritage and bring the success and excitement of the Guinness visitor experience in Ireland to Baltimore County,” said Tom Day, president of Diageo Beer Co. USA, in a statement.

When you think of Guinness, what do you think of? I think of a heavy stout straight out of Ireland, where beer flows like wine and the women do too.

Until today. Now, I think of Baltimore County.

There is nothing that screams Irish drinking from sun up to sun set quite like Baltimore County. Nothing that screams having a whale of a time with ye lads quite like BC. It’s a hot bed for the Irish. The most famous Baltimore residents of all time are straight from Dublin. O’mar Wallace, Mychel Phelps, Sisq’o. All the greats. So it was a no-brainer for them to open the brewery there. It was a long time coming, folks. A long time coming.