The maker of the famed Guinness stout said Tuesday it wants to build a brewery and taproom at its former whiskey bottling plant near Relay in southern Baltimore County, reviving the site with the brand’s first U.S. brewery in more than 60 years.
Diageo tentatively plans to makeover the hulking former Seagram’s buildings on Washington Boulevard as not only a brewery but as a tourism destination like its original St. James’s Gate brewery in Dublin, Ireland.
The brewery would focus on new beers for the U.S. market while the brand’s classic Irish dry stout would continue to be made in Dublin.
The proposal is contingent on the General Assembly’s approving a new kind of liquor license that would allow the scale of on-site sales Diageo envisions for the brewery.
Diageo would invest $50 million in the project and could create up to 70 jobs, including 40 in brewing, warehousing and packaging. About 30 people could work on the visitor side of the operation, which would include a restaurant.
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