Diageo to built new brewery for Guiness

The new brewery will produce Guinness to meet growing export demands and will also brew ales and lagers with a capacity of 5m hectolitres.

 Diageo
Ireland is announcing that it has entered into agreements to acquire
a 73-acre greenfield site in Leixlip, Co. Kildare with the intention
to build a new state-of-the art brewery. The proposed site has
important historical links to Arthur Guinness and his first brewery.
This development represents the next stage of the Euro 650million
(£520million)* capital investment in its brewing operations in
Ireland announced by Diageo plc in May 2008.

It is
anticipated that the new brewery will be completed by 2013 and will
be called the ‘Arthur Guinness Brewery’. Once commissioned, the
new brewery – in conjunction with the remodelled St. James’s Gate
brewery – will transform Diageo Ireland’s current brewing
operations into a two-brewery centre of excellence to support the
growth and development of its domestic and global beer business.