Guinness Storehouse
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Ireland is famous for its brewing traditions, and tourists coming to Dublin, of course, can not fail to visit the museum, located in the famous brewery "Guinness". This is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the Irish capital, Dubliners themselves account for only 5% of the visitors.

The brewery was founded in 1759 and already in 1838 it became the largest in Ireland, and in 1886 - the largest in the world. Now it is the world's largest producer of dark malt beer - stout.

The seven-storey building of the fermentation plant, which houses the museum was built in 1902, the plant worked until 1988. In 1997 it was decided to move here Guinness Museum. The new museum opened in December 2000. Seven floors surrounding the atrium, in the form of beer pint glass. If this "cup" filled with beer, it will fit 14, 3 million pints.

Exposure of the first floor talk about the four main components of which brewed beer: water, barley, hops and yeast. Here are presented the materials telling about the founder of the company, Sir Arthur Guinness. On other floors tells the history of the brewery, on the brewing technology, about the types and kinds of beer. Here you can see a collection of posters and beer bottles and learn how to use beer in cooking various dishes.

On the seventh floor there is a bar, and the cost of a pint of beer is included in the entrance fee. In the third and fourth floor of the business center, which hosts a variety of conferences, etc.

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