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Perched on the 24th floor of G Hotel Kelawai, Gravity boasts a spellbinding skyline view with 360-degree panoramic view of the island, covering lush greenery of the hill to George Town, and stretching all the way to the iconic Penang Bridge with a mesmerizing sunset scenery to boot. The bar is adjacent to the picturesque infinity-edge swimming pool and private sophisticated Executive Lounge, it…

2011

Gravity Bar in the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin

Master brewer Fergal Murray explains the intricate science of pouring a pint, as he expertly demonstrates. He then very cautiously – one might even say gingerly – places the lovely pint of Guinness in front of her majesty. The cameras zoom in. Philip is looking at the still surging pint – he’s thirsty. 

A little fuzzy headed but eager to explore we headed out to figure out what Dublin had to offer, particularly in terms of food. Turns out the airplane meal and a Guinness upon arrival wasn’t enough to hold us over. We were happy to see that everywhere we planned on visiting within Dublin was easily within walking distance away from our Airbnb, so we didn’t have to worry about accidentally dozing off on a bus! We had a few hours before we planned to be at the Guinness factory so we decided to map out where we needed to be the next day. By total coincidence my cousin Grace and her friend were going to be exploring Dublin the next day as well, since we were going to meet up for the Trinity and Book of Kells tour we decided to head to Trinity College and figure what time we could go on a tour. We stopped along the way…pretty much in the first pub we could find for a burger and a little coffee to keep us awake.

The day was a little dreary but we were lucky in that there was no rain, though we weren’t brave enough (foolhardy enough?) to leave our rain jackets behind. I’m pretty sure we ended up circling the grounds of Trinity two or three times before we realized where exactly we were. Which was exactly why we decided to walk to Trinity, we could get good and lost today and it wouldn’t be an issue, but if we got lost when we were trying to meet up with Grace it could cut into some solid lunching time. We got the info we needed about tours and spent some time exploring Trinity on our own.

  My picture poem

I am a total sucker for a tour any time of day, but I will say stumbling along blindly helps you to find things you never would have guessed existed. We spent a little bit of time in a photo exhibit featuring pictures that looked like they were from the 1950s and just as we were about to head over to the Guinness Factory we found the Science Gallery. At the time we did not know it was the Science Gallery and to be honest right now I’m only guessing by looking at the map. There is a chance it was a science exhibit in some other building we happened to walk into because we were trying to find a bathroom. I’m so glad we wandered in though because it was such a cool exhibit. There were little robots that were constantly trying to get away from each other, big robots that mirrored your movement, a robot piano that played a duet with whatever you were playing, and a camera that instead of taking your picture when you clicked the button printed out a poem. The poetry was a little rough but for a camera I’d say it did a pretty darn good job!

The day was starting to catch up with us and we were getting a bit tired but the prospect of having a Guinness at the actual Guinness factory cheered us up enough to keep us trekking forward. We did slightly miscalculate the walk and ended up dragging our feet a bit when we got to Guinness. We were so happy to be there though! We wandered around the exhibits in a bit of a daze. It’s so important to keep moving the first day you land somewhere to stave off jet lag…but I don’t remember half as much of the Guinness factory as I’d like to. I’ll simply have to go back.

  The Essence of Tourism

While we were walking around the exhibit that shows how the beer actually gets made we started chatting with a fellow American who was interested in what I knew about hops. I’d worked on a hops farm for a summer and was able to give a few fun facts that the exhibit glazed over. (Like how hostile hops are…those plants will give you the biggest welts if they touch your skin!) By the time we got to the very visually appealing water exhibit dad and I remembered that we were on vacation and wanted to get some pictures while we were there. Our new friend was still standing right next to us so we asked him if he didn’t mind snagging our picture. I think just as he was taking the picture he noticed his group and got distracted because he handed the camera back and disappeared. We looked at the photo and our heads didn’t quite make the cut. In his defense we didn’t specify that our heads should be in the picture.

Our favorite exhibits were probably the various ads Guinness has used throughout the years. The bicycling fish was endearing in a slightly creepy but lovable enough sort of way and the “tick followed tock followed tick” exhibit was incredibly dramatic. It was pretty fascinating to walk through the ad exhibit and see not only how Guinness has changed its advertising throughout time, but to really see how advertising itself has changed and evolved. Though, I suppose it could be said that advertising is often just one part of the narrative that is dragging us along to evolutionarily…it really depends upon whether or not you’re talking to someone who works in advertising!

Dad smelling and tasting some Guinness!

After the ads we waited in line for the Tasting Room which I will always remember as the smelling room. It was a completely white room with four basins that each a different aroma of Guinness coming out of them. After taking time to understand which part of Guinness created that particular scent/flavor we all got a tiny glass of Guinness and went into a separate room where there was a bell just waiting to be rung. To be completely honest my brain was fuzzy and my feet were tired at this point so I can’t remember if historically they rang the bell when their shift was over or if they rang the bell when the brew was done, but I do remember hearing that I could ring the bell. I am a huge fan of audience participation and have the special skill of shooting my hand up faster than anyone else even when I’m so jet lagged I don’t know what day it is and I’m holding a Guinness. What I’m saying is I got to ring the bell. Our tasting guide was not so impressed by my bell ringing abilities but I stand by my decision to ring it in a tasteful manner. Someone’s got to make headway in breaking the loud American tourist stereo type.

In the Gravity Bar with Guinness in hand!

After the tasting we could have stood in another line to learn how to pour the perfect pint of Guinness and walk away with a certificate. We were in a bit of a daze and ready for a Guinness and the line looked long. We decided that the perfect Guinness pouring class would half to wait until the next time we were in Dublin and headed up to the Gravity Bar. It is exactly as cool as the name makes it sound. It’s a room at the top of the building with a 360 view of Dublin and a bar right in the middle. Of course it is a popular destination and dad and I had to do some serious hovering before we were able to find our own little cocktail table. We were more than happy to share it with a couple that was from California and clearly trying to scout out a table with less success than we’d had. Feeling refreshed from our Guinness and new friends, we headed down to the gift shop to make our first official touristy purchases and then headed back to the Airbnb to finally fall asleep.

  In this weeks Throwback Thursday we rewarded ourselves in the battle against jet lag with a Guinness at the Gravity Bar!

A little fuzzy headed but eager to explore we headed out to figure out what Dublin had to offer, particularly in terms of food.

A little fuzzy headed but eager to explore we headed out to figure out what Dublin had to offer, particularly in terms of food. Turns out the airplane meal and a Guinness upon arrival wasn’t enough to hold us over. We were happy to see that everywhere we planned on visiting within Dublin was easily within walking distance away from our Airbnb, so we didn’t have to worry about accidentally dozing off on a bus! We had a few hours before we planned to be at the Guinness factory so we decided to map out where we needed to be the next day. By total coincidence my cousin Grace and her friend were going to be exploring Dublin the next day as well, since we were going to meet up for the Trinity and Book of Kells tour we decided to head to Trinity College and figure what time we could go on a tour. We stopped along the way…pretty much in the first pub we could find for a burger and a little coffee to keep us awake.

The day was a little dreary but we were lucky in that there was no rain, though we weren’t brave enough (foolhardy enough?) to leave our rain jackets behind. I’m pretty sure we ended up circling the grounds of Trinity two or three times before we realized where exactly we were. Which was exactly why we decided to walk to Trinity, we could get good and lost today and it wouldn’t be an issue, but if we got lost when we were trying to meet up with Grace it could cut into some solid lunching time. We got the info we needed about tours and spent some time exploring Trinity on our own.

  My picture poem

I am a total sucker for a tour any time of day, but I will say stumbling along blindly helps you to find things you never would have guessed existed. We spent a little bit of time in a photo exhibit featuring pictures that looked like they were from the 1950s and just as we were about to head over to the Guinness Factory we found the Science Gallery. At the time we did not know it was the Science Gallery and to be honest right now I’m only guessing by looking at the map. There is a chance it was a science exhibit in some other building we happened to walk into because we were trying to find a bathroom. I’m so glad we wandered in though because it was such a cool exhibit. There were little robots that were constantly trying to get away from each other, big robots that mirrored your movement, a robot piano that played a duet with whatever you were playing, and a camera that instead of taking your picture when you clicked the button printed out a poem. The poetry was a little rough but for a camera I’d say it did a pretty darn good job!

The day was starting to catch up with us and we were getting a bit tired but the prospect of having a Guinness at the actual Guinness factory cheered us up enough to keep us trekking forward. We did slightly miscalculate the walk and ended up dragging our feet a bit when we got to Guinness. We were so happy to be there though! We wandered around the exhibits in a bit of a daze. It’s so important to keep moving the first day you land somewhere to stave off jet lag…but I don’t remember half as much of the Guinness factory as I’d like to. I’ll simply have to go back.

  The Essence of Tourism

While we were walking around the exhibit that shows how the beer actually gets made we started chatting with a fellow American who was interested in what I knew about hops. I’d worked on a hops farm for a summer and was able to give a few fun facts that the exhibit glazed over. (Like how hostile hops are…those plants will give you the biggest welts if they touch your skin!) By the time we got to the very visually appealing water exhibit dad and I remembered that we were on vacation and wanted to get some pictures while we were there. Our new friend was still standing right next to us so we asked him if he didn’t mind snagging our picture. I think just as he was taking the picture he noticed his group and got distracted because he handed the camera back and disappeared. We looked at the photo and our heads didn’t quite make the cut. In his defense we didn’t specify that our heads should be in the picture.

Our favorite exhibits were probably the various ads Guinness has used throughout the years. The bicycling fish was endearing in a slightly creepy but lovable enough sort of way and the “tick followed tock followed tick” exhibit was incredibly dramatic. It was pretty fascinating to walk through the ad exhibit and see not only how Guinness has changed its advertising throughout time, but to really see how advertising itself has changed and evolved. Though, I suppose it could be said that advertising is often just one part of the narrative that is dragging us along to evolutionarily…it really depends upon whether or not you’re talking to someone who works in advertising!

Dad smelling and tasting some Guinness!

After the ads we waited in line for the Tasting Room which I will always remember as the smelling room. It was a completely white room with four basins that each a different aroma of Guinness coming out of them. After taking time to understand which part of Guinness created that particular scent/flavor we all got a tiny glass of Guinness and went into a separate room where there was a bell just waiting to be rung. To be completely honest my brain was fuzzy and my feet were tired at this point so I can’t remember if historically they rang the bell when their shift was over or if they rang the bell when the brew was done, but I do remember hearing that I could ring the bell. I am a huge fan of audience participation and have the special skill of shooting my hand up faster than anyone else even when I’m so jet lagged I don’t know what day it is and I’m holding a Guinness. What I’m saying is I got to ring the bell. Our tasting guide was not so impressed by my bell ringing abilities but I stand by my decision to ring it in a tasteful manner. Someone’s got to make headway in breaking the loud American tourist stereo type.

In the Gravity Bar with Guinness in hand!

After the tasting we could have stood in another line to learn how to pour the perfect pint of Guinness and walk away with a certificate. We were in a bit of a daze and ready for a Guinness and the line looked long. We decided that the perfect Guinness pouring class would half to wait until the next time we were in Dublin and headed up to the Gravity Bar. It is exactly as cool as the name makes it sound. It’s a room at the top of the building with a 360 view of Dublin and a bar right in the middle. Of course it is a popular destination and dad and I had to do some serious hovering before we were able to find our own little cocktail table. We were more than happy to share it with a couple that was from California and clearly trying to scout out a table with less success than we’d had. Feeling refreshed from our Guinness and new friends, we headed down to the gift shop to make our first official touristy purchases and then headed back to the Airbnb to finally fall asleep.