It has been a year since the nation began working from home and millions have been staring at the same four walls ever since. So, to break up the drudgery of WFH and make for a more memorable nine to five, Heineken has put a bar on the end of a cherry picker and is delivering complimentary alcohol-free Heineken 0.0 beer to people through their windows. Welcome to the world’s first ‘Wind0.0w Service’, which today came to London.

Picture the scene: a home worker is sat in their spare bedroom turned makeshift home office, on yet another video call, when there’s a knock at the window. In place of the normal view outside there’s now a bar suspended in the sky from the arm of a cherry picker, staffed by a celebrity bartender pouring a fresh pint of draught Heineken 0.0.

Heineken 0.0 could think of no more fabulous a face to staff the cherry picker bar in London today than the lockdown disco queen herself and local resident Sophie Ellis-Bextor. The Murder on the Dancefloor singer swapped the stage for other people’s windows and delivered Heineken 0.0 to homes across London from up high.

Bextor will pass on the cherry picker bartending baton to The Twang frontman Phil Etheridge in Birmingham (6th April), drag queen and RuPaul contestant Divina de Campo in Manchester (7th April) and stand-up comedian and writer Eleanor Morton in Edinburgh (8th April) who will serve pints through windows this month.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor said: “You’re certainly going to be the talk of the neighbourhood if a bar on a cherry picker appears outside your window during the working day! At times like this people need a bit of light relief and after a year of working at home, this is a unique way to make home working a bit better, give people a small break and lift their days with a pint of Heineken 0.0.”

Matt Saltzstein, Beer Unit Director at Heineken commented: “Heineken 0.0 is all about saying ‘now you can’. Now you can enjoy a beer break while working from home with a tasty alcohol-free option. We wanted to bring this message to home workers in a memorable way – and attaching a bar to the end of a cherry picker to create the first ever window service certainly fits the bill. With alcohol-free drinks more popular than ever we can’t wait to put smiles on people’s faces and 0.0 beers in their hands, through their windows!”