Guinness is good for you!

This was our first visit to the Guinness Brewery. The tour is actually quite thorough and even fascinating! It really makes you understand just why Guinness is such a part of the Irish culture. Doctors used to prescribe it to nursing mothers and as a restorative! It was considered nutritious! The Guinness family were very forward-thinking in their business practices - - paid medical benefits, widow's pension benefits, etc. And they were (are) great philanthropists. I would be very interested in reading a good biography.

So, when you finish the tour, you take this elevator all the way up to the "Sky Bar", and you turn in your token and exchange it for a free pint of Guinness. The glass windows of the circular bar give you a 360 degree view of the city of Dublin. As you might be able to see in the photo, John is holding two glasses. I could only have a few sips...I guess I'm just not a porter person. It was much creamier than it is over here.

We returned the next day, since we had purchased the "Dublin Pass" which allowed us free admission daily to the majority of the museums and tourist places. We checked in, got our tokens, skipped through the exhibits and went straight up to the Sky Bar, so John could drink two more free pints!