Guinness Draught

Among the Cantonese-speaking Chinese locals in Singapore and Malaysia, Guinness Stout is known as `Hak Gau Peh`, literally means `Black Dog Beer`. This is because somehow, only the elder generation prefers Guinness Stout. And these senior citizens survived through the tougher days, where education was less important. Illiteracy rate was high, and these people do not know how to pronounce `Guinness Stout` while ordering it. Incidentally, Guinness advertisement posters were always associating a black bulldog with the stouts. So these people simply say `Black Dog Beer` in Cantonese while ordering it. This has become a household name, at least among the men over the period.

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Guinness

Arthur Guinness Son & Co., founded 1756, produce 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 in 1820, although Guinness had been brewing porters and ales, initially in Leixlip, but at the St. James`s Gate Brewery, Dublin, Ireland since 1759, when Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum for the unused brewery. Ten years later in 1769 Guinness exported their product for the first time, when six and a half barrels were shipped to England. Guinness brewed their last porter in 1974. Guinness Stout is also brewed under licence internationally: the resulting beer is, from all reports, significantly different. The Guinness brewery in Park Royal, London closed in 2005. Composition Guinness stout is made from four natural ingredients: water, barley, hops and yeast. As with most beer, the majority of the barley is malted, but some is flaked (i.e. steamed and rolled) [continues...]

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