Guinness hopes to attract half a million visitors a year to new Covent Garden brewery

Brewing is set to return to Covent Garden after more than a century with the opening of a huge beer making, restaurant, shopping, and cultural hub before the end of the year.

Diageo, the drinks giant that owns Guinness, is spending £73 million on the project at Old Brewer’s Yard near Neal Street in the heart of the West End.