A First for Guinness: Overnight Visitor at Brewery

Airbnb's latest contest is at famous Dublin site
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Mar 13, 2017 9:10 AM CDT
A First for Guinness: Overnight Visitor at Brewery
Domhnall Marnell pours visitors a pint of stout during a preview of the Gravity Bar penthouse layout in Dublin.   (Shawn Pogatchnik)

Guinness is inviting its first sleepover guest in the Dublin brewery's 258-year history—by transforming its rooftop bar into a penthouse with the city's most panoramic view. The maker of Ireland's ubiquitous stout announced Monday that it's hosting the latest "Night At" event by Airbnb, which has staged one-night-only accommodations in an ever-growing menu of eccentric locales, including a shark tank, the top of an Olympic ski jump, and a Transylvanian castle replete with coffin beds. The successful Guinness contestant must describe online in 200 characters or fewer—or 300 characters in Chinese or Korean—why they're the world's biggest fan of the beer. You can enter the contest here.

The prize for the winner and a guest includes flights to Dublin, a butler, a tour of brewery features that are off-limits to visitors, a six-course meal overseen by Guinness' head chef, and an opportunity after breakfast the next day to help the senior brewmaster make a batch of the stout. The AP received advance viewing of the bespoke apartment being created for the winner April 24 in the brewery's top-floor Gravity Bar, which features 360-degree views of Dublin via floor-to-ceiling glass panels. It features a round bed that looks like a creamy-topped pint of the black stuff, branded pool table, plush living room with TV, antique telescope for examining Dublin in more detail, and an assortment of Guinness artifacts. The bar, one of the highest points in Dublin's skyline, usually is the pint-in-hand finish line for 1.6 million visitors annually to the Guinness Storehouse, Ireland's top tourist attraction. (More Guinness stories.)

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