美国国家公共电台 NPR Guinness Opens Its First U.S. Brewery In 64 Years

 

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Guinness is famous for making stout¹ beer, and this week, the Irish company opened a new brewery⁴ in Maryland. It's the first time Guinness has had a brewery in the U.S. in more than 60 years. So does Guinness want to sell lots more stout to Americans? NPR's Bill Chappell visited the new facility, where he found out the brewer³ is trying something different.

BILL CHAPPELL, BYLINE⁵: First things first - Guinness will not be brewing⁶ its famous stout in America. To find out why, I asked Peter Simpson, the head brewer at the Open Gate Brewery in Dublin.

PETER SIMPSON: Yeah, I think Guinness stout is such an iconic stout that has links - such strong links back to Dublin and back to Ireland that it would feel wrong to take it away from Ireland and to brew² it over here.

CHAPPELL: As for the beers the Maryland brewery will make here, most of it will be blonde lager - a beer that Guinness hopes will flourish in the U.S. Guinness and its parent company Diageo spent $90 million to convert a large distillery into the Open Gate Brewery and Barrel House. The company's hoping to attract 300,000 visitors a year.

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CHAPPELL: The first barrel of beer was tapped this week, and visitors were led inside to check the place out.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Take it away.

CHAPPELL: Guinness used to have a U.S. brewery, but it closed in the 1950s. The company had bet that Americans who served in Europe in World War II had developed a taste for stout, but there wasn't enough demand. Drinkers here wanted something lighter⁷ and crisper.

THERESA MCCULLA: At that time, America was so firmly a lager-drinking country.

CHAPPELL: That's Theresa McCulla, who has one of the coolest titles in America. She's the beer historian at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. McCulla says that, early on, Americans drink all kinds of different beers. But after German immigrants arrived in the mid-1800s, they fell in love with lagers. That was true when Guinness came over in the 1950s, and it's still largely true today.

Guinness is coming back to the States at an interesting time. Americans aren't as thirsty for beer these days. Even the growth of craft beer has slowed down. And, with more than 6,000 breweries⁸, beer companies have to do more to win customers.

Bart Watson is the chief economist⁹ at the Brewers Association. He says, to bring a crowd to a brewery these days, you have to offer an experience.

BART WATSON: It's certainly something now that, you know, we see being important to beer lovers - going and experiencing the brewery, learning about the beers, taking a tour - and also something that drives purchase decisions.

CHAPPELL: The Guinness experience includes a large lawn that's shaped like an imperial pint¹⁰ glass. It's big enough for around 4,000 people to hang out and listen to music. Outside, there's space for food trucks. Inside, there's a bar where Guinness stout from Ireland is poured next to beers from the experimental brewery downstairs.

Maryland's governor, Larry Hogan, cut a ceremonial ribbon to open the new brewhouse.

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LARRY HOGAN: I'm a strong advocate for new businesses, and, as you can probably guess, as an Irishman - and maybe looking at the girth...

(LAUGHTER)

HOGAN: I have enjoyed a few pints¹¹ of Guinness in my time.

CHAPPELL: Hogan says he supports Guinness one beer at a time. The folks at the Diageo hope other Americans will follow suit.

Bill Chappell, NPR News in Baltimore County, Md.

1 stout   

adj.强壮的，粗大的，结实的，勇猛的，矮胖的

参考例句：

• He cut a stout stick to help him walk.他砍了一根结实的枝条用来拄着走路。
• The stout old man waddled across the road.那肥胖的老人一跩一跩地穿过马路。

2 brew   

v.酿造，调制

参考例句：

• Let's brew up some more tea.咱们沏些茶吧。
• The policeman dispelled the crowd lest they should brew trouble.警察驱散人群，因恐他们酿祸。

3 brewer   

n. 啤酒制造者

参考例句：

• Brewer is a very interesting man. 布鲁尔是一个很有趣的人。
• I decided to quit my job to become a brewer. 我决定辞职，做一名酿酒人。

4 brewery   

n.啤酒厂

参考例句：

• The brewery had 25 heavy horses delivering beer in London.啤酒厂有25匹高头大马在伦敦城中运送啤酒。
• When business was good,the brewery employed 20 people.在生意好的时候，这家酿造厂曾经雇佣过20人。

5 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

6 brewing   

n. 酿造, 一次酿造的量 动词brew的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• It was obvious that a big storm was brewing up. 很显然，一场暴风雨正在酝酿中。
• She set about brewing some herb tea. 她动手泡一些药茶。

7 lighter   

n.打火机，点火器；驳船；v.用驳船运送；light的比较级

参考例句：

• The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
• The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。

8 breweries   

酿造厂，啤酒厂( brewery的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• In some cases, this is desirable, but most breweries prefer lighter-type beers. 在一些情况下，这是很理想的，但是大多数啤酒厂更倾向于生产酒度较低的啤酒。
• Currently, there are 58 breweries producing Snow Beeracross the country. 目前，全国共有58个雪花啤酒厂。

9 economist   

n.经济学家，经济专家，节俭的人

参考例句：

• He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
• He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。

10 pint   

n.品脱

参考例句：

• I'll have a pint of beer and a packet of crisps, please.我要一品脱啤酒和一袋炸马铃薯片。
• In the old days you could get a pint of beer for a shilling.从前，花一先令就可以买到一品脱啤酒。

11 pints   

n.品脱( pint的名词复数 )；一品脱啤酒

参考例句：

• I drew off three pints of beer from the barrel. 我从酒桶里抽出三品脱啤酒。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Two pints today, please. 今天请来两品脱。 来自《简明英汉词典》