The building was far from the brewery of her fantasy.
She bought Oldershaw brewery with her husband in 2010; he still works in London while she oversees the business.
Guinness's father is Jonathan Guinness, a baron and an heir to the Irish brewery fortune; her grandmother was Diana Mitford, whom she resembles in appearance.
"We never manipulate our beers to make an easy product," said Julie Van Roy, who runs the brewery with her brother Jean, removing a cheesecloth covering from a clay jar filled with Faro, a sweetened lambic so effervescent it defies bottling.
Karpus, a Michigander and beer lover got a T-shirt, "a sticker and a brick in the wall" for chipping in 25 bucks to support the Brickside Brewery in her home state.
She was notorious enough in the nation that, in January 2015, a local brewery used her name and signature thick-rimmed black glasses to advertise, "we are both rated 18+." So in addition to the spike of interest driven by US controversy, she got a boost in traffic from Lebanon and countries nearby.
"Back in the late-Edo period, my family used to make candles for the Matsue castle," Ms. Harada, a 47-year-old who took over from her father 15 years ago, said, recounting the origins of her brewery in the 1860's.
Ms Cutts used a combination of personal credit cards and borrowing secured against brewing equipment to ensure that her brewery could expand and take on a full-time worker.
Barton, who founded her brewery in 1998 and has been a trailblazer for women in the industry, agrees that imagination is what women bring to brewing and it is a big part of their increasing success.
In the announcement, Regan Long, co-founder and brewmaster at Local Brewing Co., said that with her brewery's location near the Giants' AT&T Park in San Francisco, there's usually "a rush of customers all ready to close out their open beer tabs at the same time".
