Guinness to close Baltimore beer production amid layoffs, 5 years after opening, and months before opening a new taproom in Chicago. craftbeer Guinness
and laying off somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 workers. It’s curious timing, as parent company Diageo is about to open its Open Gate Brewery location in Chicago this summer, albeit without the large production facility that Baltimore boasted–a facility that reportedly cost around $90 million to open back in 2018.
“After careful consideration and analysis of our supply footprint, we have made the difficult decision to permanently close our manufacturing facility in Relay, Maryland,” Diageo said in a statement. “In order to ensure long term sustainable growth for Diageo, we are optimizing our existing operations across North America to meet evolving consumer preferences.”
The Guinness Open Gate Brewery in Maryland was the first of its kind for the brand, an expansion meant to bring the Guinness brand into the heartland of America. The company would not brew its iconic stout or core brands at the facility–those were still imported from the famous brewery in Ireland. Rather, the Maryland location was used as a U.S. figurehead, while producing all bottles and kegs of the company’s Baltimore Blonde Lager.
Still, it’s sobering to see such a huge facility close after the state of Maryland bent over backwards to bring it to Baltimore in the first place.
The upcoming Chicago location for Guinness, meanwhile, will be more of a glorified taproom in nature, with only a small experimental brewing system for creating taproom exclusives. These on-premise sales for brewery taprooms are perhaps the only aspect of the beer business that remains strong, so it’s unsurprising to see Diageo’s focus remain there.
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