A fire broke out at the Guinness factory in Dublin shortly after noon local time. Over nine fire brigades and three rigs with aerial ladder platforms were able to contain the blaze before it spread to the ammonia plant at the site.
An official from Guinness was able to confirm that no one was hurt in the incident.
“There were no injuries to any personnel and the fire has been extinguished,” the spokeswoman said.
Maybe I better stock up right away.
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Now let’s turn to the man who says it best:
This is a tragedy.
Save the beer! Then women and children!
Oh the humanity!
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Myself along with Bob and Doug McKenzie and the Hanson Brothers would just like a moment of silence for the passing of a few good beers!
Maybe Ireland will return to its thriving pre-beer civilization now 😛
From another news story:
“Diageo (Guinness parent company) says the building stored containers, not beer, and brewing operations continued in other buildings while firefighters battled the blaze.”
At least they had their priorities correct.
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I went on a tour of Guinness brewery when I was in Dublin. Well worth the visit.
only containers damaged? i’ll go over right away. pour the brew directly in me gullet.
There was also a fire at the shoe factory. It was reported 100 soles were lost..my my
This is a wake up call!!!
Guinness should immediately decentralize to a massive production facility here in San Francisco!!!!
Can you imagine a world without Guinness?
Or crab, or sourdough bread?
I’m serious!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
I demand that all money intended to fund Health Care reform or fix Climate Change be instead used to build an intercontinental pipeline between the Guinness factory and my house.
And go,
The fire was extinguished in seconds by the tears of nearby irishmen
They now hold the record for most record books burned at one time
Although the blaze was put out quickly, it took hours before the local police and firemen had finished taking samples for the pending investigation.
I don’t know what the big deal is…
… it’s just chocolate syrup and bog water.
Without Guinness, people in Ireland will go to a soccer game, and soon realize just how damn boring it is! And rioting after Rugby games, is bound to be on the decline. No point in it, if you’re not drunk.
if someone offers you a rauchbier or smoked beer. Don’t try it… or at least don’t buy a whole glass.
Nasty. Like a smoked hamhock boiled in beer.
I’ll admit I’m more of a Belgium beer fan but love the Irish
#15 – it ain’t chocolate syrup.
#19 Chuck,
Yes it is and here’s the proof:
http://hulu.com/watch/63892/the-simpsons-guiness-brewery-tour
…and you all know if it’s on the internet it’s got to be true…
lol
“the blaze before it spread to the ammonia plant at the site”
Ok clue me in here folks…
Why do they have an ammonia plant?
Beer is not made with it. And as far as I can tell glass and metal containers to hold beer do not use ammonia. The only thing I can think of is that maybe the cardboard used to hold the bottles could use it IF they are processing raw wood pulp into cardboard.
Can someone answer this?
Of course someone that doesn’t like the brand might say it is a byproduct of the beer being as warm and tasting like urine… But I thought that was Budweiser’s traditional grounds to taste like urine.
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Guinness with an ammonia chaser. Manly.
No big loss. In fact, had production been impacted I would say a great deed had been done.
Guinness = cool, watery coffee.
blech.
Ammonia is used in the bottle washing plant to remove anything apart from glass from the bottle. It can come in full of dried paint, inside and out, but will leave sterile, and as clean as when it was moulded. the bottles will only survive cleaning around 200 times before the glass is eroded enough to fail the qc at the end, then it is recycled into a new bottle.
It’s not the only place that Guinness is brewed. I believe that they have a couple of breweries in North America as well. They just contract out brewing, as do larger “microbreweries,” like Boston Beer (Sam Adams), or Sierra Nevada. When the demand is great, a professional brewer can brew the same beer any where. It really is just a matter of chemistry. Oh, and Guinness isn’t the same in North America as it is in Europe. It’s a different recipe, with a different alcohol content.