Do we like them?

Do we like Guinness?

Irish dry stout brand, brewed at St James's Gate, Dublin, and owned by drinks giant Diageo (London).

Our score: 6 out of 10. A well-loved, strong brand that is investing in cutting carbon at its home brewery. It is still alcohol, and it comes with the usual cost-cutting and a few minor legal blemishes.

Guinness is the famous Irish stout brewed at St James's Gate in Dublin. It's now part of Diageo, one of the biggest drinks companies in the world, and it's one of the few Diageo brands still growing strongly.

Diageo says it will spend just under $1 billion to roughly double Guinness production by 2029. A turnaround plan comes with job cuts across its workforce of about 30,000. It is also closing the Guinness Open Gate Brewery in Baltimore.

On the green side, Diageo announced about €100m to decarbonise the Dublin brewery, aiming to cut direct emissions by over 90%. On the other side, it pleaded guilty to breaking night-time noise limits there, and a US class action accuses it of misleading marketing about where the stout is brewed.

Our score: we like the product and the climate spending, but it's a big-corporate alcohol maker with layoffs and some legal scrapes, so a middling-good 6.