Booze deals [Megathread #2]

Oh it's a no from me on the Waterloo stuff. Had two last night and feeling the effects today. In fact it was one of those beers that you just know from the first sip is going to give you a bad head!!

Mine came very fizzy even after being chilled over night, large bubbles too so the head was a mess and not a tight creamy one as should be on these beers.

Initial taste was very chemical, but that calmed down a little after the beer had been in the glass for a while, which it had to do to let the bubbles calm the fcku down...

Think I'll stick to the Bornem stuff if getting a tripel/blonde from lidl

Long shot.

Tesco are currently selling 12 x 330ml bottles of Kronenbourg 1664 Blanc for Eur16.

Accompanying this promotion, Tesco were selling 1664 Blanc classes. I got the last one in Artaine today, & there were none in Clearwater. Looking to pick up a couple more. Anyone know where I could find them ?

Have you tasted the 1664? I had it in France a few months back and really liked it. Bought some here and very disappointed.

You'd need a magnifying glass to see where some beers are actually brewed, passing off a beer as something it isn't shouldn't be legal.

Scary subject title in the weekly email from Tesco: €25 bottles of beer...

Yikes.

Apparently it is €25 for 20 x 330ml bottles of Heineken.

Full list here of beer offers:

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/en-IE/buylists/rugby-essentials/beer-cider?sc_cmp=eml*ire*mar*tec*ROI_GHS_231012&utm_source=GHS&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=2023-33-GHS&utm_content=beer-CTA

Some of them are nice enough at the 'bargain' price but I "pity the fool" that pays full whack for one. They are really more like €10 - €12 bottles to start with.

No, it is not the likes of Santa Rita, those big brands, they are on offer but it's usually couple of euros off. Same as any other supermarket selling them.

It is the "brands" that you can only buy in Tesco, nowhere else, which are frequently half price. If you see a bottle half price in Tesco, and nowhere else stocks it, it is one of them.

I bought 660ml Birra Morretti bottles in North a few months ago without realising they were UK brewed. I still had a couple of the Italian brewed bottles and it was staggering the difference drinking one bottle of the smooth Italian brewed bottles followed immediately with one of the gassy more bitter almost flavourless UK brewed bottle of the so called exact same beer

I can't understand what they are at, they are destroying their brands by brewing mickey mouse stuff on the cheap that tastes nothing like their home brewed stuff, I've actually blacklisted beers I'd normally have had switched over to from time to time as it's just not worth drinking the pure piss. Corona, Birra Morretti, Heineken (more recently) and probably more at it.

The Grolsh brewed Tyske is awful stuff altogether. Like drinking sand.

the foreign Guinness breweries are still owned by Guinness though, aren't they? These continental lagers brewed in the UK are "brewed under license", they're really just licensing the brand, the local brewers alter the recipe to cater for the local market.

It's the same with Carlsberg and Budweiser brewed here under license by Guinness (though Irish Heineken is brewed in Cork, by Heineken, and is also **** compared to the Dutch version).

Any decent gin offers? Also suggest some gins

The Prague brewed Staropramen is lovely, the UK brewed is muck. As things stand the 500mL bottles come from Prague, 660mL from the UK, but it's very hard to tell without a close look at the small print on the back label. This shíte shouldn't be allowed, it's deceiving the customer.

Foxes Bowe whiskey was reduced to €29 from €40 earlier this week in SuperValu- not sure if it’s still available as my local store doesn’t stock it