Oceania Cruise to the United Kingdom - June/July 2013

  
         
  Dublin, Ireland      
     
  Doormen await guests at a Dublin Hotel   A street artist selling his wares  
     
      Construction taking place in all the major UK cities  
     
  St. Patrick's Cathedral where Johnathan Swift is buried   St. Patrick's Cathedral founded in 1190  
 

 

 

 

Inside St. Patrick's Cathedral Dublin

    
     

 

  
     
  St. James's Gate Brewery founded in 1759 in Dublin, Ireland, by Arthur Guinness--leased in 1759 £45 per year for 9,000 years  
     
         
    Guinness Storehouse, the "Home of Guinness", is Dublin's most popular tourist attraction. A converted brewing factory, it is now a Guinness museum, incorporating elements from the old brewing factory to explain the history of its production. Some of the old brewing equipment is on show, as well as stout ingredients, brewing techniques, advertising methods and storage devices.

The exhibition takes place over 7 floors, in the shape of a 14 million pint glass of Guinness. The final floor is the Gravity Bar, which has an almost 360° panorama over the city, where visitors can claim a free pint of "the black stuff".

  
         
     
         
     
  Some early advertising      
     
  The way to pour a perfect glass of Guiness      
     
         
     
  Academy photo of "our class" of pourers   Panoramic view of the city from the 7th floor of Guiness exhibition building.  
    So what did we learn?  If you walk into a pub in Ireland and order a pint, most likely they will give you a Guiness.  Guiness is a dry stout beer.  To make this stout you need Barley, Water, Hops, Yeast and time for fermentation.   
  The gravity bar      
     
  Barley   Water  
     
  Hops   Yeast (so special it's guarded in a safe)  
     
  Fermentation   Guiness storage and fermentation in kegs  
     
      Guiness bottles over the ages  
     
  Double Decker Hop on and Hop off buses made it nice to visit sites on your own.   Usually even these buses had someone on a microphone pointing out important things to see  
     
  One of many narrow streets in Dublin   Halfpenny Bridge built over the river Liffey 1860  
     
  Wellington Monument      
         
 

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