Dial-a-pint delivers fresh Guinness in COVID-19 lockdown

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'Cans are great, but they're not pints.'

In Belfast's coronavirus lockdown Guinness still flows freely, as vans kitted with kegs visit driveways to pour pints for drinkers parched since pubs shut their doors.

The sleek vehicles have been travelling the length and breadth of Belfast, delivering 300 pints of Guinness a day by appointment. Although"the black stuff" can be bought in cans, connoisseurs of the Irish stout insist it tastes vastly different when properly served -- in an unhurried, two-part pour from a pub tap."Cans are great, but they're not pints. There is something about that, like an intrinsic value in what it is.

Industry body Hospitality Ulster estimates one in 20 jobs in Northern Ireland are in the now largely defunct hospitality sector. "They give people a place to socialise. They bring a lot of well-being benefits. They help combat loneliness and isolation."

 

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