TopDawg Travel

I actually have been drinking beer since I was old enough to sit with my father and sip out of his bottle of cold brew.  My mother always frowned at him and we’d sneak around to allow me that cold sip on a hot summer day.  I laugh when I say that we’d be out in the fields, my father working and me watching, and he’d send me to the house in the late afternoon to bring him a beer.  I would either open it there at the house and get the first sip, or manage to get 2 bottles out and drink one on the way to the field.  There was a sink hole on the way and I would dump my empty bottle into it to “hide” the fact I had had one.  Did I really think he did not know?

So I am telling you this story because I just found out about the Guinness festival in Dublin on September 24, 2009.  It celebrates the 250th anniversary of Arthur Guinness signing a 9,000 year (yep, that is right, 9000 years) lease on St. James Gate Brewery.  You can read all about it in my National Romance Travel Examiner article.  Now we were not drinking Guinness when I was a child.  We were drinking a domestic bottled beer, but I have in adulthood learned to enjoy many different kinds of beers and I intend to figure out what time it is in Seattle when it is 17:59 in Dublin and be lifting a glass of Guinness just because!

The pictures below are compliments of the press gallery on the Guinness Storehouse website.  I hope you enjoy, and think about reading my article and join me in lifting a glass, no matter where you are, on September 24 at 17:59 Dublin time!