The company is to stop using fish bladders

It’s official — Guinness is now good for vegans.

The company is to stop using fish bladders in its filters, so for the first time in its 256-year history it will be offering a vegan friendly pint of stout.

Vegans and strict vegetarians have long petitioned the St James’s Gate Brewery to stop using isinglass, which is a by-product of the fishing industry, to remove extra yeast from the stout.

A spokesman for Guinness said yesterday that a new filtration plant, set to be built next year, will spell the end of the substance, obtained from the dried swim bladders of fish, finishing up in the black stuff.

“Whilst isinglass is a very effective means of clarification, and has been used for many years, we