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Just after the end of the war, Guinness was still producing more than a quarter of a million barrels of Porter annually. Making up almost a quarter of their Irish sales. That changed when the 1950s rolled around and Porter sales began to slip.

It all looks rather like what happened in London. At a certain point, Porter went into terminal decline in Ireland. In the early 1960s, it stopped being a mainstream beer. At least in the Republic of Ireland. It remained reasonably popular in Norther Ireland, particularly in Belfast. And that’s where the last Guinness Porter was served in the early 1970s.
Guinness sales in Ireland 1946 - 1955
Year Extra Stout Porter total % Porter
1946 987,051 289,512 1,276,563 22.68%
1947 882,284 257,973 1,140,257 22.62%
1948 998,086 284,511 1,282,597 22.18%
1949 1,074,492 290,411 1,364,903 21.28%
1950 1,104,564 268,486 1,373,050 19.55%
1951 1,168,162 243,484 1,411,646 17.25%
1952 1,046,983 228,841 1,275,824 17.94%
1953 1,076,367 210,613 1,286,980 16.36%
1954 1,104,830 175,397 1,280,227 13.70%
1955 1,157,655 138,842 1,296,497 10.71%
Source:
"A Bottle of Guinness please" by David Hughes, pages 276-279.





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