# The Real History of Guinness Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-irish-passport-1120361/the-real-history-of-guinness Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-irish-passport-1120361/the-real-history-of-guinness.md Podcast: [The Irish Passport](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-irish-passport-1120361) Published: 2025-10-20T01:00:50+00:00 Episode link: https://www.theirishpassport.com/podcast/guinness-history-politics-and-marketting/ Audio file: https://chtbl.com/track/38395/www.theirishpassport.com/podcast-download/2044/guinness-history-politics-and-marketting.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-irish-passport-1120361/episodes/the-real-history-of-guinness Duration seconds: 5718 ## Resource The famous 'pint of plain' has become one of the most recognisable commercial brands in the world, and is inextricably linked to the Irish pub. In light of a new Netflix series on the Guinness family, this episode dives into the real history of the 'Black stuff', and explores how the brand founded at St. James' Gate in 1759 has reinvented itself time and time again through the miracle of marketing. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-irish-passport-1120361/episodes/the-real-history-of-guinness/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-irish-passport-1120361/the-real-history-of-guinness.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.