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The Guinness brewery in Ireland is using its hundreds of thousands of unused kegs of leftover beer to fertilize Christmas trees.
When lockdown began in Ireland, the Guinness brewery at St James’s Gate in Dublin reduced its operations to a minimal level to maintain its yeast stocks, the first time it has done so since the 1916 Easter Rising rebellion.
The firm retrieved millions of litres of stout beer and ale from pubs and bars that had closed their doors, repurposing leftover beer to fertilize Christmas trees as part of an environmentally friendly forestry project.
The brewery's director of operations says, "We decant it and we disperse it. The vast majority of the beer goes to willow and Christmas tree [farms]."