{"id":1981,"date":"2025-06-02T15:22:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointparksocstudent.com\/Internationalmedia\/Ireland2025\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2025-06-02T15:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:22:04","slug":"from-skeptic-to-stout-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointparksocstudent.com\/Internationalmedia\/Ireland2025\/2025\/06\/02\/from-skeptic-to-stout-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"From Skeptic to stout lover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When we first went to the Guinness storeHouse, I originally thought that it wasn\u2019t going&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to be anything special I had thought that they would have just shown us through a&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>boring factory just showing us how Guinness and other beers were made and then at&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in the end they would have given us a free pint of Guinness. But when we entered the&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guinness Storehouse I was thankfully proven wrong. When we first entered, it looked&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>like a museum exhibit showing props of the ingredients used to make Guinness, like the&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wheat fields, grains, and other ingredients. The Guinness storehouse even had&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>something similar to the Epic museum that I also got a chance to go to. They had these&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>tablets that would tell us fun facts about Guinness, like how Guinness isn\u2019t black it\u2019s&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>actually a ruby red due to the roasting of the barley., that ten million bottles are sold&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>daily because an incredible amount are sold worldwide, and how the Guinness book of&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>world records were created to settle pub arguments, and many more. My favorite part of&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the trip in the storehouse was the taste test area where we would be given a shot of&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guinness and even learned how to drink them. First we must take a big gulp of&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guinness, hold it in, then exhale out of our nose and swallow. Now when I did it it didn\u2019t&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>really taste any different then it usually does but it was pretty interesting that there was&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a specific way to drink a beer. After we had gotten done with the taste test we got to see&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>statues of the old Guinness mascot and old Guinness bottles. The thing that stood out&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to me was the arrangement of lights that made a show that looked exactly like the&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guinness harp. Then at the end of the tour we got to finally get to drink a free pint of&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guinness which when we got done drinking we could finally leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we first went to the Guinness storeHouse, I originally thought that it wasn\u2019t going&nbsp; to be anything special I had thought that they would have just shown us through&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointparksocstudent.com\/Internationalmedia\/Ireland2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointparksocstudent.com\/Internationalmedia\/Ireland2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointparksocstudent.com\/Internationalmedia\/Ireland2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointparksocstudent.com\/Internationalmedia\/Ireland2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointparksocstudent.com\/Internationalmedia\/Ireland2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pointparksocstudent.com\/Internationalmedia\/Ireland2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/pointparksocstudent.com\/Internationalmedia\/Ireland2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointparksocstudent.com\/Internationalmedia\/Ireland2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointparksocstudent.com\/Internationalmedia\/Ireland2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointparksocstudent.com\/Internationalmedia\/Ireland2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}