Days of the Beer, July 10

The beer for today is Guinness.

(It's probably one of the most misspelled beer words right behind Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser.)

But that's not why it's the beer today. On July 10, 988 (that's right Nine Eighty Eight) the city of Dublin was founded on the banks of the river Liffey. The "new world" was discovered in 1492 (probably) about 500 years before that, Dublin came to be.

Guinness was originally brewed at the St. James Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland in 1759. Arthur Guinness leased the area for 9,000 years at 45 pounds per year (that's a good deal). It became Ireland's larges brewery in 1838 and was the world's largest in 1914. It isn't the largest brewery in the world anymore, but it does make the most stout (if you can call it that).

Guinness is currently owned by Diego; these are the perils of taking your company public.

So in honor of the founding of Dublin, have Dublin's most famous beer; Guinness.