Guinness is planning a brewery and visitor center for Relay, Maryland. (Courtesy of Diageo)

This post has been updated to reflect that the brewery’s production will not include stout

Beer lovers, rejoice! It’s about to get a whole lot easier to quench that craving for a very fresh pint of Irish beer. Centuries-old Guinness brewery today announced plans to build a working brewery and visitor center in Baltimore County, with the goal of opening later this year.

Plans call for creating a replica of the brand’s Open Gate Brewery in Dublin. It will be the first Guinness brewery in the U.S. in 63 years.

Both Guinness and local officials see the new campus as a way to capitalize on the Baltimore-Washington region’s boom in breweries and interest in quality beer over the past several years.

“This will be a world-class tourist destination that will bring new jobs and become the perfect complement to our Maryland craft breweries,” said Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz, in a statement announcing the project.

The development is expected to offer brewery tours, a tasting room pouring new and experimental beers for the U.S. market, and plenty of merchandise. The well-known stout will continue to be brewed in Ireland. It’s estimated it will create approximately 70 new jobs in both brewing and hospitality.

The site will be located in Relay, Maryland, where Guinness’ parent company, Diageo, has operated since opening a blending and packaging facility there in 2012. The international beverage company invested in the restoration of the Relay site, which was established in 1933 as the first legal distillery in the state of Maryland after prohibition.

An exact opening date has not been set, but a fall 2017 opening would mark the 200th anniversary of Guinness first being imported to America.