Origins
Arthur Guinness, brewer
A family business
Generations and dynasties
Bottlers and the export trade
Building sales while building rails
A public company
The Guinness world travellers
To the ends of the earth, and Manchester too
War at home and abroad
Trouble, triumph and the toucan
Brewed in Britain, and America too
World war II
The postwar years
Great men and great ideas
A family business at two hundred
Nitrogenation, the really great idea
A lager called Harp
Into Africa, Malaysia and beyond
Diversification and expansion
The watershed decade
A widget in the pint
A growing company and the perfect pint
Guinness in the twenty-first century
Inside the gate with the master brewer
Epilogue : the world's greatest beer.