Thousands of pints of Guinness that weren’t drunk during lockdown are being used to fertilise Christmas trees instead.

Guinness’s flagship brewery at St James’s Gate in Dublin usually produces 720 million litres a year – the equivalent of 39 pints per second.

But at the start of the coronavirus shutdown, operations had to be scaled back to the bare minimum required to keep yeast stocks alive.

Pubs, bars and restaurants across Ireland and Great Britain had to return their undrunk Guinness to the brew house – but instead of them being thrown away – they are now being used to nurture Christmas and willow trees instead.

Some is also being used to create a bio-gas, which bosses hope could help power the brewery in the future.

Asked how much was handed back to them, director of operations at St James’s Gate Aidan Crowe said: “You’d probably make me cry if I started to add it all up, but it’s hundreds of thousands of kegs and we’ve still got some products to decant and we’ve still got some markets that haven’t finished returning their beer to us.

“So a lot of beer and a lot of kegs.”

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