The UK is experiencing a national shortage of Guinness, with pubs across London running dry. The shortage has sparked a media frenzy and even diplomatic jokes, with the Irish Embassy in London offering to share its supplies with the British.
Forced to improvise after its supply of Guinness dropped, at least one London pub didn’t lose it head. Kate Davidson, the co-owner of the Old Ivy House in Clerkenwell in London , where they introduced Guinness 'ration cards' last weekend. Photograph: Mark Paul’s Christmas press and political reception last week clashed with the Spectator magazine’s festive hooley, which meant it was also a clash between rivers of Pol Roger champagne.
But in yet more evidence that the black stuff has truly conquered London, the embassy in Belgravia was heaving despite the bubbly competition. Michael Lonergan, the Embassy’s political counsellor, stood to introduce the Irish Ambassador Martin Fraser. But first he brought news from the front. Lonergan told the assembled hordes that the Red Lion pub in Whitehall, a haunt of Westminster politicos, earlier that day had run out of Guinness. Pubs all across London have been drained of the stout amid a national shortage of it across Britain. “But don’t worry,” said Lonergan, as a mischievous smile crept across his face. “As this is Irish sovereign territory, I can confirm that our supplies are unaffected.”, chuckled in relief. Then Fraser addressed the room and joked that the latest Irish anxiety to arise in relations with our Anglo neighbours is “whether we’ll have to hand over some of our Guinness” to tide the British over. The embassy obliged for the rest of the evening, of course. All in the name of diplomacy.It may have been the subject of jocular exchanges at the Embassy, but the national Guinness shortage has become a media obsession recently in Britain, where the stout is the biggest selling draught drink in pubs. If Guinness is an acquired taste, Britons have well and truly got theirs. They cannot stop talking about it – even GB News ran a feature on Monday about Britain’s love for Ireland’s favourite pint. Presenter Martin Daubney declared the shortage was “stout of order”
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