Guinness to open brewery in Baltimore County

Baltimore and Maryland simply aren't the same places that I left in 1966 to join the Army and no, I'll never return. Still, I have a curiosity about them. For example, when I grew up there, Baltimore was a beer-drinking town. Some claimed that it consumed more beer per capita than any city in the world. You have to know history to understand why. During the Civil War, Union agents prowled Europe looking for recruits and found many in Germany. When the war ended, the boys from Massachusetts marched home. So did those from all the other Northern states. Now where was a boy from Germany to go? Countless numbers of them settled in Baltimore, smack in the middle of a Southern State. (Yes, Maryland was a Southern slave-owning plantation state). And those Germans wanted their beer, so some built small neighborhood breweries. When I learned to drink I discovered that most of them were swill. Gunthers. Arrow 77. National Bohemian ("Boh"). The hometown folks loved them. I didn't. And the hometown folks were loyal. Their strong propensity to drink beer attracted outsiders many with better beer, but the hometown boys rejected them. Carlings made a major investment in building a brewery there, but I think they had to ship most of their product elsewhere (in one ad they joked about their ICBM "Intercity Beer Missile") Another brewery gave up trying to sell their product and purchased one of the local breweries and sold their beer under the hometown label. Believe it or not, the Balti-morons fell for it. Now comes Guiness to "The Land of Pleasant Living" (An old National Boh ad campaign). Maybe someone who still lives there can let me know how it does...