Some quotes from a recent article: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/15/business/guinness-shortage-concerns-britain/index.html
Right the time of year for a Guinness! Personal preference for their West Indies Porter but like them all. We can’t read enough comments here about people jaded of Pastry Stouts, sometimes an old reliable and more importantly affordable Stout does the trick.
Maybe the Nielsen data referenced by the article was only about Draft beer? I could see it being more likely that Guinness has higher draft sales in the US than Modelo
I think there might be a significant typo in the article linked by OP (and bolstered by @MadMadMike 's post). It might intended to be Guinness "is the fastest-growing imported beer in the country based on bar, restaurant and brewery sales over the last year" (bold emphasis mine). I don't have access to NielsenIQ Scan data or whatever has this info potentially to confirm but the above was referred in a recent NYT article on Guinness fwiw. Fastest growing imported beer, not top imported beer.
Ration cards for Guiness. https://www.the-independent.com/new...age-pubs-ration-cards-christmas-b2664945.html
Is there a reason that Guinness does not allow their Open Gate breweries here in the US (Chicago and Baltimore) to brew their iconic stout?
I consider this to be a good thing just like Modelo's big surge. Having readily available beers I enjoy = awesome. Now the only news I need to hear is that hazy IPA sales are falling off a cliff and that brewers are poised to stop packaging so damn many of them.
I don’t know either, but maybe it’s also a cost issue, they churn out so much Guinness in Dublin, it might be more cost effective to import it than make it in the US. There’s already a weird obsession (to me) with which pub has the best Guinness, maybe Diego management doesn’t want additional arguments about where the best Guinness is brewed. As Jess Kidden has detailed, there is a long history of Guinness being produced under license in North America, so there has been a policy change.
Not just under license (by Moosehead and Labatt in Canada, Goebel in the US and Desnoes & Geddes in Jamaica - probably others, too) but Guinness also owned a brewery in Long Island City, NY but it only lasted until 1954. But, as with any Guinness Stout thread, the question is always "Which Guinness Stout"? I don't think they've ever brewed the product known as Guinness Draught anywhere other than Ireland. At least, none has ever been exported to the US that wasn't brewed in Dublin. A rare case of "So much" ≠ Enough
Another North American location: When I was in Belize in 2018, my review of the locally brewed Guinness Foreign Extra Stout noted that the label of the 275ml re-fillable bottle read "Brewed under license in Belize by Belize Brewing Co. Ltd." That's the brewery that brews Belikin.
Saw that on a British Pubs Facebook Group more than a few times recently. Also smacks of great marketing. When I was in the UK 88-93, I found the brewed under License stuff, good, not great back then. Give me the Mother's Milk instead
Guinness operated their own brewery in London during that period. The Guinness Park Royal brewery, opened in 1936 and closed in 2005.
Looks like Guinness's current popularity (and apparent shortage in the UK) has resulted in a surge in sales for competitor Murphy's in the UK. https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2...rish-stout-up-632-as-guinness-stock-dwindles/
I bought more Guinness last year than the last 4 or 5 years combined. Granted it was 2 6-packs, but still . . .
