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 501 locations and 317 reviews on the map.

Why not Social Media? Even though social media is a great resource, brimming with pictures and reviews of pints, it's functionally impossible to search all this information.

Your feedback is important. I hope The Guinness Map will be a growing inventory, so I would love to hear your thoughts on how to make it better. Please feel free to reach out to me at contact@theguinnessmap.com with any feedback.