She’s raising a pint to her Irishman’s beer — and cracking open the internet.
Dutchwoman Juul Heijnen, 27, is famous for her TikTok handle “Juul & The Irish boyfriend” and videos of her beau Patrick Mulligan, aka Paddy, and his affinity for Guinness beer.
The first video that went viral — “My Irish boyfriend teaching my Dutch stepdad how to test a Guinness” –racked up 31.2 million views. It came about when the couple was on vacation with both of their families and testing out the Irish nectar.
“There’s certain tests that you do to a Guinness and one of them is a tilt test. You tilt it, and if the foam falls over the glass, it’s a bad Guinness,” she explained.
“So he made my stepdad do that test and I videoed it and it got a lot of views quite immediately.”
Another of her videos — “You’ve been with your Irish boyfriend 2.5 years so he finally lets you pour his Guinness” — garnered 17.4 million views.
In the clip, she deftly turns her beer glass upside down over the can and then turns the can over, allowing it to froth — a delicate Guinness-pouring skill she learned by watching her Irish boyfriend.
Heijnen is able to poke fun at her man’s love for the famed Dublin-born stout — and on Valentine’s Day posted a video of him chugging it, with the caption “my Irish boyfriend and his Valentine.”
The playful pair met when Mulligan, 23, a native of Laois, a county in the middle of Ireland, came to the Netherlands — where they now live — to study physiotherapy, and they both ended up working at the same restaurant.
They will be celebrating their three-year anniversary on March 16.
“He asked me to be his girlfriend the day before St. Paddy’s Day so that he wouldn’t forget when we got together,” she said, laughing.
Many have expressed their disapproval at Mulligan being the focus of Heijnen’s TikTok page, but she just gulps down the negativity.
“Is your only personality trait that your boyfriend is Irish?” one hater asked, to which she wrote back:
“and that he drinks Guinness!”
