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There’s been a bit of a shortage of Guinness in the UK lately. In the run-up to Christmas many pubs were left high and dry; and several months on, supplies are still on tight allocation. Guinness said it was blindsided by “unprecedented demand”. Perhaps it should have seen it coming – stout sales in the UK, the drink’s biggest market, grew 24 per cent between…