Good cheap drinks

MorningStar

Hi,

New to this section but I was wondering about general good value drinks that pop-up on specials regulalry.

Godlen Sun- Burbon from lidl seems decent to me.
Tuborg- Hey it is Carlsberg to me
Dutch Gold- reasonable for the price but p*ss like Bud

Any others

Thomas_S_Hunterson

There's loads of 6 for €7s floating around
Pratzky
Bavaria
Amsterdam etc etc

Tesco do a beer called Bier d'Or and you get 24 bottles (250ml) for about €8 i think, haven't tried it though

Blisterman

Bier d'Or's quite nice actually, but the king of cheap supermarket beer is the Lidl beer. So good, and so cheap.

ruprect

warsteiner grolsch
tesco finest vodka

ferdi

scooner - a sweet wine from tesco. 15%, around €3.50 for 750ml and quite drinkable.

Nephertiti

Stongbow is nice... Fairly cheap too.. If you like cider

Publin

Blisterman wrote:

but the king of cheap supermarket beer is the Lidl beer. So good, and so cheap.

Fully endorsed! At 89c a can ya can't go wrong (€3.55 for 4 cans, 4.3% I think - not arsed going upstairs to my stash to double check).

I'll get a bit of flack for this, but Dunnes beer, at 89c a can too (4.1%... I think) has become my tipple of late, replacing the Lidl beer. Dunnes beer actually goes down a bit easier, and you've nothing like the hangover the next day, compared with Lidl beer. It's actually pretty damn nice.

If you're not quite as poor as me (being a student and all that), you may be able to afford a little better, in which case I highly recommend Rolling Rock. €20 for 20 330cl bottles (It's about 4.1% too) even in the expensive garage/convenience stores is a lovely beer. As far as I remember it's €18 for 20 bottles in Dunnes. I know people slate American beers, and I'm slightly biased having lived on the stuff over there, but it's feckin' lovely.

Anyone else got any cheap beer tips? Also, what are your experiences with hangovers drinking these cheap brews - which is best/worst in your opinion?

rubadub

Rolling rock is very bland but pretty quaffable on a hot day. Ciders are terrible for hangovers no matter what the price. Even unfermented apple juice contains lots of natural methanol, when fermented the pectins also turn to methanol. The usual higher % means you are more dehydrated too.
I get no hangover from blue bavaria and the Reinheitsgebot beers like grolsch and warsteiner

Binomate

Anyone ever try 'Finkbrau' from LIDL? It's quite nice but each bottle only has about a mouthfull in it. Quite cheap as well.

rubadub

They are the best bottles, 250ml "throwbacks", never goes dead since it never lasts that long.

kc66

Finkbrau is good stuff alright. Pretty cheap too.

Wickla in Blaa

Blisterman wrote:

Bier d'Or's quite nice actually,

Big Fan of Bier d'Or, great work, as previously stated that size bottle never goes flat, but on the other hand you do need to keep going to the fridge!!

Blub2k4

Wickla in Blaa wrote:

Big Fan of Bier d'Or, great work, as previously stated that size bottle never goes flat, but on the other hand you do need to keep going to the fridge!!

I used to like it until stella started to sell their stubbies so cheaply then it occured to me that it actually tastes like battery acid.

tommy666

hollandia beer in O'Briens off licnence's is cheap i think 1 euro or 1.10 its a lovely nice beer also

Wine_Guy

tommy666 wrote: »

hollandia beer in O'Briens off licnence's is cheap i think 1 euro or 1.10 its a lovely nice beer also

Its actually 92c for a 500ml can @ 4.3%.... i love it, also brahma a brazillian beer comes in around 1euro. Love the throwbacks, especially if your BBQ'n..

yoyo

Dunnes own brand lager (4%) is now only 79c a can, Its surprisingly drinkable, had 12 of em the other night, not bad stuff at all

Nick

Hande hoche!

Excelsior lager from lidl or taurus cider are both quite drinkable I find.