SINGAPORE — Already a popular celebration worldwide, St Patrick’s Day revellers in Singapore have something else to raise a glass to during Guinness’ week-long St Patrick’s Festival, which started on Wednesday. On top of a wide range of activities taking place island-wide — live music performances, food and drink specials, oyster-opening championships (at Muddy Murphy’s on March 15) and the St. Patrick’s Street Festival at Boat Quay complete with a street parade (until March 15) — Guinness will be treating Singapore to a pint. Or rather, a generous offering of 20,000 complimentary pints — which amounts to more than 11,000 litres — to fans of the bold brew, will be given away free over five days (until March 17).

Pints can be redeemed only by using SingTel’s mWallet app, available for download to smartphones via Apple’s App Store or Android’s Google Play. Once logged into the app, customers aged 18 and above will see a prompter that allows them to click through to complete their pint redemption and view the list of island-wide outlets where they can pick up their complimentary Guinness.

“To celebrate the spirit of the Friendliest Day of the Year, we are thrilled to be running our biggest ever giveaway,” said Rene de Monchy, head of marketing, Asia Pacific Breweries Singapore. “What better way to get everyone in on the celebrations than to invite over 20,000 people to join us for a pint?” Don Mendoza

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