Guinness opens experimental brewery to public

Guinness has announced the launch of a new visitor experience at its St James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin, giving the public access to its experimental brewery for the first time.

(L-R) Guinness brewers Aisling Ryan, Feodora Heavey, and Jason Carroll. Credit: Guinness

The Open Gate Brewery, which for more than 100 years has served as Guinness’ experimental brewery, will be open to the public, giving fans of Guinness a glimpse into the brewery’s home of experimentation and innovation. This is where its brewers have been given licence to experiemnts with new recipes and reinvent old ones.

Visitors be able to branch out from the brewer’s trademark stout, sampling the latest innovation’s from its Brewers Project – the brewer’s experimental side project – such as Guinness Nitro IPA, Hop House 13 Lager, Guinness Dublin Porter and Guinness West Indies Porter.

Samples of small batch experimental beers will also be available to taste. Its most recent release, Guinness Nitro IPA, is a “nitrogenated” stout brewed from Admiral, Celeia, Topaz, Challenger, and Cacade hops.

“There is huge interest in beer nowadays so it’s exciting to open the doors to the public, give people a look inside our world, and of course share some batches of experimental beers that we are working on,” Guinness brewer Peter Simpson told the Irish Times.

Beginning in December, The Open Gate Brewery will be open to the public every Thursday and Friday night from 5.30pm to 10.30pm.

For more information, visit GuinnessOpenGate.com.