Arthur Guinness, the company’s first master brewer, famously took out a 9,000-year lease on the brewery in 1759 and began exporting the now-iconic black Guinness porter beer in 1796.

Guinness was founded in 1759, when Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease on St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin. It now bills itself as the world's most popular stout.

While the price of Guinness is topping £6 a pint in many central London bars, a list for the new brewery bar is yet to be fixed. The Covent Garden bar will be 54,000 sq feet and have capacity for ...