Description
A deadpan “taste lab” unfolds beneath the series header “The Gentle Art of Making Guinness”: white-coated testers hover with pipes, notebooks and pints while a trainee reclines in a patterned armchair, enduring the early “training” stages.
Issued as one sheet from John Ireland’s twelve-part Guinness calendar series for 1981, the image forms part of the brand’s light-hearted storytelling around process, craft and flavour.
Fine pen line with soft, watercolour-style colour and gentle caricature sit squarely in a W. Heath Robinson pastiche; “John Ireland” is credited at the top-left.
