Yes, Guinness, the beer is connected to Guinness, the world records. In 1951, the managing director of Dublin's Guinness brewery, Sir Hugh Beaver, had a pub argument about the fastest game bird in the U.K. The conversation prompted the idea of a reference book about all the "superlatives" debated in pubs. A few years later, the first Guinness Book of World Records was published in 1955.