Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dublin-born James Joyce, in Finnegans Wake, preferred his own version: "genghis is ghoon...
From its huge, 64-acre St. James's Gate brewery, in the heart of Dublin, Guinness produces 80% of Ireland's beer (3,500,000 bbls. a year). It is the biggest and most benevolent industrial employer in Ireland (4,000 employees) and the largest taxpayer. Last year more than 50,000 visitors trooped through the brewery...
...discovered it, the brew came to be known as porter because of its popularity among laborers and porters. An enterprising brewer put out an even stronger beer called "stout porter." In Ireland, only the visitor asks for "Guinness." Irishmen simply ask for "a pint" when ordering Guinness stout. At Dublin's Dolphin Hotel, the "quality" mix their Guinness with champagne in a "black velvet" (which was also Bismarck's favorite drink...
Although brewers said that good porter could be made only with water from London's Thames River, Arthur Guinness disagreed. In 1759, he signed a null lease on the St. James's Gate brewery in Dublin, which used spring water. While other brewmasters took advantage of porter's dark hue to hide impurities swimming around in their vats, Guinness insisted on "none but the best ingredients...
...England. It quickly became Britain's biggest advertiser. Business boomed, and it built a London brewery. In 1948 Guinness also opened a small American brewery (100,000 bbls.-a-year capacity) in Long Island City. It found New York's tap water as suitable as that from Dublin springs...