The youngest of the world's beverage categories, cream liqueurs arose as spirits just a few decades ago.
The Guinness recipe consists of four components: barley, hops, yeast and water.
In 1780, John Jameson founded his own whiskey distillery in Dublin.
The Smithwick's Kilkenny originates in 1710, in the Irish town of Kilkenny.
From Ireland hails one of the most popular and best known whiskeys, Tullamore Dew, brewed first in 1829 by a couple in Offaly, a remote little Irish village.