Description
A bustling brewery interior centres on an oversized wooden mash tun, frothing as workers tip in sacks marked “finest malt” and fuss with comically elaborate gears, fans and piping. The caption reads “Mixing the Guinness Mash”, with the sub-line: “An efficient plant for successfully combining the essential Guinness ingredients.”
Issued as one sheet from John Ireland’s twelve-part Guinness calendar series for 1981, it forms part of a playful narrative of craft and process behind the stout.
Fine pen line with soft, watercolour-style colour and gentle caricature echo a Heath Robinson pastiche; “John Ireland” is credited within the image.
