I went to school beside the Guinness brewery. The smell of the hops brewing will remain with me forever. However the school was dirt poor in many ways and they

I went to school beside the Guinness brewery. The smell of the hops brewing will remain with me forever. However the school was dirt poor in many ways and they wouldn't sponsor our school football team to buy some kit. This was back in the 80's Ireland with massive unemployment and huge emigration. Ironically the school had a computer lab way beyond its time when one ex-pupil donated a couple of Apple Macs and a dozen Apple IIe's. That's were I cut my teeth on some - probably BASIC - programming, learning myself. On Topic - Guinness were always canny and ahead of their time. Getting a job there was like winning the lotto, you were pretty much made for life.