The John Hewitt Bar Real Food, Real Beer, Real People

Located in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter, The John Hewitt first opened its doors in December 1999. The bar is unique in its ownership as it is owned by The Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre. The Resource Centre's managers had always relied on various grants to fund its work, when in the mid ninties, they came up with the idea of generating some of their own funds by going into business... And why not a pub! John Hewitt, the late poet, socialist and Freeman of Belfast officially opened the Resource Centre on Mayday 1983, hence the name of the bar.

Bitburger on Draught

July 25th, 2006

The John Hewitt is delighted to announce the arrival of the No. 1 draught beer in Germany - BITBURGER. After several months of negotiations we are delighted to be the first bar in Ireland to have this great Pilsner Lager on draught.

We took delivery of the first kegs on Tuesday and will be ready for dispensing on Monday 17th July 2006. We had hoped to be ready for the FIFA World Cup kicking off in mid June, but as Bitburger had the pouring rights at all the World Cup stadiums (a much blander American beer had the advertising rights) it was not possible to buy kegs from them without first returning empties - we, of course, didn’t have any!

We just know you will enjoy this beer - Prost!

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