This my friends is what makes me happy to pass this along to you!

Don’t worry your heads though Guinness fans they’ll be opening a larger facility worth and estimated whopping 520 million pounds! That’s somewhere around 1 BILLION USD! Drinkers of the black stuff in England and Ireland won’t have to worry about different water polluting the taste of their beer though. They’ll still be getting their brew from the historic St. James Gate brewery, although the workforce there will be cut by half.

The St. James location has been in operation 1759 when Arther Guinness started brewing his first stout next to the River Liffey.

David Gosnell, Diageo’s global supply director, told a Dublin news conference that the company even thought about closing the St. James Gate production facility but after public outcry decided that it meant too much to Guinness fans.

The closings and new plant aren’t supposed to be fully finalized until 2013 so the picky drinkers who believe different waters make different beers need not worry too much about the subtleties of their stout changing any time soon.