Diageo opens world’s biggest stout brewery on the banks of the Liffey

The world’s biggest stout brewery has opened at St James’s Gate.

Guinness owner Diageo cut the ribbon on the €169m Brewhouse No. 4 on the banks of the Liffey in Dublin city centre yesterday.

The facility is 10,000 square metres and will see the 255-year-old, 55-acre site produce more than one third of the drinks’ giant’s worldwide beer production along with the secret Guinness flavour essence for breweries in 50 other countries.