Celebrate Guinness' 250th Anniversary with Fado!

2009 marks the 250th year since Arthur Guinness signed the lease on St. James Gate Guinness Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. Toast to the man who started the phenomenon and join Fado in Buckhead for the launch party of the new, limited edition Guinness 250 Anniversary Stout.

The Event will begin TONIGHT, Friday, April 24, 2009 at 5p.m., but the official launch will be at 5:59p.m. (That's 10:59 Ireland time -- the exact time Arthur Guinness signed the famous lease good for thousands of years on St. James's Gate Brewery.)

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Admission is free. Fado's Friday night DJ will provide entertainment, and other surprises throughout the evening.

Sláinte! Contest at Fadó

Guinness Lovers at pubs around the globe will collectively raise a pint and enthusiastically shout Sláinte! (Cheers!) next Friday, February 20th in celebration of the velvety beverage's 250th Anniversary. Fadó Irish Pub will simultaneously kick off St Patrick's Day Season at the Midnight bash.

Fadó in Buckhead is challenging patrons to make this the Greatest Toast Ever by submitting their most original, clever and creative Toasts at the Pub or online at www.FadóIrishPub.com/Atlanta

The Top 5 submissions will each win a prize at the top of each hour starting at 7pm. The Toast Master will honor each winner with a live reading. The Overall Best Toast will be read at midnight. The winner will receive a party hosted by Fadó for 10 of their closest friends. Submitters must be present to win.

Bushmills Anniversary Etched in Glass

At FADO Irish Pub in Buckhead, Atlanta, Irish businessman and inventor Basil Haslett displays the etched and gilded Bushmills logo, which he enhanced with 23.5 carat gold leaf using his US patented process for etching and engraving tempered glass.

This logo is just a small portion of the entire work he completed using the Glass Craft process at the Bushmills Distillery in Northern Ireland. Haslett's family business has manufactured and supplied memorials in Ireland since 1745, and the unique glass etching method is derived from techniques that originate in production of memorials and monuments.

FADO celebrated the 400th anniversary of Bushmills Whiskey in June. Its distillery was established in 1608 in County Antrim (Haslett's home turf) when King James I granted a license to produce whiskey.

Haslett's US patent was granted in January 2008 for his process of frosting, etching and engraving tempered glass, which before now was not possible because etching caused tempered glass to shatter. With high profile work throughout the United Kingdom, Glass Craft is etching glass for major monuments in the U.S., including Atlanta's Millennium Gate. To learn more, visit www.glasscraftusa.com.