Guinness Storehouse, Beer museum at St James's Gate, Dublin, Ireland
The Guinness Storehouse occupies a seven-storey 1902 steel-framed building at St James's Gate, its floors wrapped around a glass atrium shaped like a pint of Guinness. The exterior is brown brick and grey stone with curved bays, and grey metal letters reading "GUINNESS STOREHOUSE" sit beside a gold harp marked "ESTD 1759".
Built in 1902, this was Ireland's first steel-frame building and initially served as a fermentation facility for the brewery. The structure changed purpose in 2000, opening its doors to visitors after sitting mostly unused since 1988.
The name Storehouse comes from the building's role storing and fermenting brew. At the base of the glass atrium stands a copy of Arthur Guinness's 9,000-year lease, signed in 1759. In the Perfect Pint bar visitors pour their own pint and can have a selfie printed on the head.
The building has seven floors around a glass atrium; the Gravity Bar is on the seventh floor and the Brewery Bar on the fifth. Most admission tickets include one pint of Guinness. The Guinness Open Gate Brewery, an experimental taproom, is nearby.
The glass atrium at the centre of the building is shaped like a pint of Guinness and rises from the ground floor to the roof. At its base sits a copy of the 9,000-year lease Arthur Guinness signed for the brewery site in 1759.
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