As youngsters drink Britain dry of Guinness, OLIVIA DEAN, 25, reveals the real reason they can't get enough of the black stuff - and it's nothing to do with the taste

What drink would you expect me, a middle-class 25-year-old from Tunbridge Wells, to order in the pub? One East London hipster pub hit by the drought is handing out 'ration cards', only allowing drinkers to purchase a pint of Guinness once they've proved their mettle by buying two other alcoholic drinks. Guinness might once have been the preserve of red-faced old bar-proppers in flat caps but, according to Diageo, there's been a 24 per cent surge in the number of female Guinness drinkers in the past year, and a sharp upswing in younger drinkers generally. Olivia Dean, a middle-class 25-year-old from Tunbridge Wells, says her go-to drink at the pub is a pint of Guinness According to Diageo, there's been a 24 per cent surge in the number of female Guinness drinkers in the past year, and a sharp upswing in younger drinkers generally TikTok and Instagram are full of accounts like @schoonerscorer, which rates Guinness 'pours' at English pubs, while enthusiasts share pictures of shamrocks artfully inscribed into their pint's creamy head. It's saved my bacon before: my Irish ex admitted he could only endure my English accent because I'd had a Guinness on our first date.