A friend of mine once told me the reason why I didn't like Guinness was because I didn't have it served properly, that for me to really appreciate it, it had to be served not from a can but from draft, preferably from the one Irish Pub in Toledo that many of them frequent. One night we met down there, and he was right, it was a much more enjoyable beer moment than the Guinness I'd tried from the grocery store, from a can...
What does that have to do with things being tough for Guinness? Nothing beyond a bit of personal background on why the story caught my attention. Ireland is experiencing some pretty rough economic times, what makes it worse was prior to the 1990's Ireland was experiencing some pretty rough times, and now it appears, those times are back to the point where Diageo Guinness's parent company, citing the "current difficult global economic situation," put its plans on hold to build a one billion dollar "superbrewery" outside of Dublin...
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