€153m brewing facility launched

Production is due to start at Diageo Ireland’s new €153m brewing facility at St James’s Gate by the middle of next year.

The drinks giant formally launched construction at the new brew house facility at the iconic Dublin home of Guinness yesterday, only the fourth such structure to be built at the brewery in its 250-year history.

The facility will have the capability to produce 7m hectolitres per year — or somewhere in the region of one billion pints a year.