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Thu 09 Sep 2009Guinness celebrates 250 years of stout brewing
MILLIONS OF glasses of Irish stout will be raised across the world today to toast the 250th anniversary of the country’s most famous export, Guinness.
To celebrate company founder Arthur Guinness’s decision to sign a 9,000 year lease on a brewery at St James’s Gate in Dublin on this day in 1759, the current custodians of Ireland’s best know brand, Diageo, have organised events in Europe, Asia and Africa.
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