As a historian of beer I am, of course, delighted that Guinness is progressing with its latest Open Gate project in Covent Garden, London, bringing brewing back to the site of the former Woodyard brewery, once one of the biggest porter breweries in London. But if I read once more that porter got its name… Read More No, porter was NOT named after ‘the porters of Covent Garden, Smithfield and Billingsgate’