Official Arthur Guinness Signature Irish Beer Ale Stout Coffee Mug Tea Cup 10 oz

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Official Arthur Guinness Signature Beer Ale Stout 12 ounce Coffee Mug Tea Cup
This is a very lightly used pre-owned official Guinness stout coffee mug that holds 10 ounces of your favorite beverage.  The mug features Guinness' logo, the Irish harp and Arthur Guinness' signature on both sides of the mug.  The mug f
eatures the Arthur Guinness Signature Guinness harp and name printed on both sides of the mug and is not Microwave safe due to metallic gold embellishment.
The mug measures 3.75 inches tall by
3.5 inches in diameter.
Guinness is an Irish dry stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness (1725-1803) at St. James Gate, Dublin, Ireland. "Stout" originally referred to a beer's strength, but eventually shifted meaning toward body and color.  On December 31 1759, Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease at £45 per year for an unused brewery.  Ten years later, on 19 May 1769, Guinness first exported his ale, shipping six-and-a-half barrels to Great Britain. Arthur Guinness started selling the dark beer porter in 1778.  The first Guinness beers to use the term were Single Stout and Double Stout in the 1840s.
St. James' Gate became the largest brewery in Ireland in 1838, and was the largest in the world by 1914, covering 64 acres.  Although no longer the largest brewery in the world, it is still the largest brewer of stout in the world.  During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the brewery owned most of the buildings in the surrounding area, including many streets of housing brewery employees, and offices associated with the brewery.  The brewery also made all of its own power using its own power plant, had its own extensive railroad system and ship docks.  Throughout the bulk of its history, Guinness produced "only three variations of a single beer type: porter or single stout, double or extra and foreign stout for export".  Already one of the top-three British and Irish brewers, Guinness's sales soared from 350,000 barrels in 1868 to 779,000 barrels in 1876.  In October 1886 Guinness became a public company, and was averaging sales of 1,138,000 barrels a year.  This was despite the brewery's refusal to either advertise or offer its beer at a discount.  Even though Guinness owned no pubs, the company was valued at £6 million and shares were twenty times oversubscribed, with share prices rising to a 60% premium on the first day of trading.