Booze deals [Megathread #2]

I'm finding it funny how this was brought in as a play fair for the supermarkets, yet all the deals are still in the supermarkets and the pubs are jacking up prices as normal. I was away there the weekend in Austria, its only till you walk into a Spar shop over there that you realise how much we where previously sky high before any MUP and are now thanks to MUP reaching x3 x4 times the price of some items vs mainland Europe, I looked at a 6 pack of Heno bottles 330ml in SV yesterday, 12€, they had 500ml bottles in Austria in a pack of 6 for 6/7€ and minus the stupid saloon swinging gates and a boxed off section in the shop. We are been governed by morons.

As a BA if flying from Austria, they have 2x1lt Bottle of Smirnoff and Bacardi for 31€.

I had thought about offering to collect spirits for people in this thread at cost price for people in my local area in Dublin before heading over, but totally forgot and wasn't sure of the practicality of it, but we can bring back 8lts from within the EU. Is it feasible to do something like that on this thread for people heading away for weekends here and there to collect a bottle or two for people on the thread?

Good to read that there is still some success via MyBooze.

What was the size of the order? How many bottles?

Sainsburys doing 25% off if you buy 6 or more for anybody going up North.

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/gb/groceries/drinks/all-wine-?storeId=10151&langId=44&krypto=v5mB4jW0YQ7pHE6mclaLUQ4f4IG3F88PSdPpCgw5d8Pyalm%2BJ%2BoT2qNi7F9uXdnY5CEeOxGbJjSVYQ%2Fm7vO2oZkjFpcFjiSt7WD5DDDQ05Ntc%2Bv1Pd0YAUePKZ1OnX8A%2BZ9pWt2KnV573vaa6ixStZKDlaz6uaUooAaT8n4brAE%3D&ddkey=https%3Agb%2Fgroceries%2Fdrinks%2Fall-wine-

Max 36 bottles, from 23rd March 2022 until and including 27th March 2022.

It's reminiscent of when pub / off licence sales were banned on Good Friday. Result = lots of people went mad at house parties and they'd be practically queueing around the block at the offie the evening before. Buying loads too "just in case" they run out when they can't get more. Would they have drunk as much that day if the pubs and off-licences had been open - no. It'd just be another Friday on a bank holiday weekend, which is what it's become now.

Same as the aul "closing time drink up" - get a couple of pints in quick as you can, and maybe some shots too, as they'll be chucking you out in half an hour - along with everyone else in all the other pubs. All drunk, hungry and looking for chips and a taxi at exactly the same time. What could possibly go wrong with that genius plan?

Are the powers that be ever going to realise that restrictions on alcohol are counter-productive, the more you try and make it hard to get, or even hard to hear about (advertising) then the greater the illicit pleasure in evading the hurdles the busybodies have put in your path.

Over-18s should be able to buy alcohol whenever they like and not pay a ridiculous price for it either. If things get any more stupid then poitin will take off in a big way - don't these people study history at all?

I did notice last week in Dunnes that all of the wines which would have been below MUP with a 20% reduction were off the shelves.

I completely agree that MUP turns people completely opposite . I recently had a neighbour visiting , we usually drink a beer together and talk about the world. After the introduction of MUP we spoke the complete 2 hours he was here about alcohol! BUT ! I would not go too public about deliveries from overseas here. I agree that it is an act of self defence . The Charm and the Cruelty of our little Island is that the public works are insufficient and badly organised. It starts withe the TD you vote for and ends with the Council Clerk who organises the filling of the pot -holes. But if the public eye gets to interested in some type of deliveries from over seas, some guy out there might take his hand out of his pocket just to prove that his wages are justified! My advise is : KEEP A LOW PROFILE ABOUT IT! protect the others.

Just picked up 8 cans of 500ml 4.2% Prazsky for €10 in my local off-license in D15 (one of the name chains of off-licences). Should be €1.66 under MUP.

Flashed priced, and best before 31/08/22 so I guess it's more of a case of using a sunny day to get rid of medium-aged stock rather than the start of a rebellion by the market.

Won't post the name of the offy which might get them into trouble, but happy to PM anyone who wants it (unless I recognise you as one of the MUP-is-good puritans)

2 slabs ordered from my booze on Monday and delivered Friday.

Lidl

From Thursday 31st.

Tuborg 8x 500ml cans €12.65.

(that's €1.58 per can, it is 4% so that is rock bottom MUP price)

Cool. You've said basically the same thing in 2 posts now so you've put your point across. Maybe drop it now? If someone is happy to pay €10 then it's up to them.

4 slabs ordered last week and delivered this Wednesday. Including the delivery each can works out at 1.75 EUR but good quality beers I have to say.

Packaging was very good and they split the order into 2 boxes. Will keep ordering from them for as long as customs are leaving me alone lol.