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Arthur Guinness Son & Co. produces a dark stout beer (a type of porter), known widely as Guinness. The first use of the word stout about beer was the Stout-Porter brewed by Guinness of Ireland in 1820, although Guinness had been brewing porters and ales since 1759, initially in Leixlip but at the St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin. Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease at IR £45 per annum for the unused brewery. Ten years later Guinness exported their product for the first time. Six and a half barrels of Guinness Beer were shipped from Ireland to England. It is also brewed under licence internationally; the resulting beer is, from all reports, significantly different. The Guinness brewery in Park Royal closed in 2005.
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