About The Guinness Map
The Guinness Map idea was born one night in April 2024. I was just finishing up at a friend's birthday dinner and my wife asked if we wanted to go grab a pint somewhere else. We found a local Irish bar and I contemplated ordering a Guinness — in NYC though, this can be a risk. I've lived in NYC since 2018 but originally I'm from Ireland so I understand theres a huge difference in quality. I wondered to myself, is there somewhere online I can find out whether or not this place has something worth sampling?
While I drank what ended up being a below-average pint, I started to search around, but couldn't find anything that met my requirements...I wanted a Google Maps-style website that could locate me and show my local area with any locations/reviews. There was a dated website that had locations but no reviews. No good. There was a nice official Guinness website that had locations but no reviews (and only in Australia). No good.
So I figured: I'm a software engineer, I can put together a website that allows people to upload reviews and pictures for places that serve Guinness (good or bad) around the world. Thus, The Guinness Map website was born.
- Darren
The Goal? To have a space online cataloging at least one Guinness review for every country/capital in the world.
Currently there are locations covering countries and cities, with reviews on the map.
Why not Social Media? Even though social media is a great resource, with pictures and reviews of pints, it's functionally impossible to search all this information on a specific level.
Your feedback is important. Please feel free to reach out here with any feedback.
Special thanks to these individuals whose work has made this site and our social media look and function as beautifully as they do:
Sam Buddery - Product & Partnerships - sam@theguinnessmap.com
Shane Pepper - UI Designer - iamshane.ie
Shane Gavin - Graphic Designer - shanegavin.com.au