Ireland
Ownership: Diageo plc (UK) — brewed at St. James's Gate, Dublin
Known for: The world's most iconic stout. The harp. The two-part pour. The pint that built a nation's global image.
History: Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease on St. James's Gate Brewery, Dublin, in 1759. By the 19th century it was the largest brewery in the world. Guinness dry Irish stout became inseparable from Irish identity, British pub culture, and post-colonial economies across West Africa. Few products in history have shaped a nation's global image as completely as Guinness shaped Ireland's.
