Mixed fruit Kopparberg

Monkey61

Ok so there have been posts about this in the past, but does anybody know what pubs in Dublin still serve this? The Porterhouse has now stopped and replaced it with a rather vile alternative.

Also any idea why its gone? Heard t was something to do with taxes but not sure what.

Thanks!

Crucifix

The porterhouse has stopped serving it? ****. I pretty much went to the porterhouse just for it.
I did notice that they've lower the alcohol content on it a while ago.

ferdi

the palace had it a while back. its in a load of offys

Funkygreendogs

yea i heard from the girl in our local offie that it was something about they couldnt sell it for that price when it was 7%, and that it was going to be taxed so that youd end up paying almost a tenner for the one bottle, but as far as i know the 4.5% bottles are still around at practically the same price as before.

Frankiestylee

Yeah the 7% one is gone afaik and has been replaced by a 5.6% (could be 5.3 maybe?). The lower alc content variety should obviously be cheaper,but if a change in taxing has forced the 7% to be too expensive, ya might find the lower alc version being the same €3 something.

There are a fair few similar drinks on the market that are quite nice. Rekorderling have a strawberry type thang. Kiss have some nice flavours. There's a druids mixed berry that tastes rather similar.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Frankiestylee wrote:

There's a druids mixed berry that tastes rather similar.

Yea the Druids one is lovely, €2 a bottle in most off licences.

Kinetic^

5.3% so it is, I was disgusted!!! :mad:

WindSock

I think maybe Pravda has it.

happy_acid_face

Its 5.3% now. The reason being our government wanted to class it as an alcopop and slap some more tax on it. As it stands Cider and Alcopops have heavier taxes on them (hence the high price) than beer,ale,stout etc. This is because it is seen that these drinks are more inviting to the underage youth of irish society. Higher the price, the less inviting it is. Or at least thats the excuse they're using!

caffrey

the baltika bar on cathal brugha street still serve it

badgerbadger

rikorderlig is a nice pear cider tastes as good as pear kopparberg
shame bout the 7% mixed fruit but on the plus side the only night i got the 5.3% it was the same prise as pear which is 4.5%

monkeyfudge

For reasons I won't go into I ended up in Barcode on Friday evening.... I ordered a Kopperberg only for it to be served in a long neck 33cl bottle... for the same price that you'd normally pay for the nice chunky 50cl bottles.... shocking!

Nice looking bottle though.

Adyx

We stopped selling it there a while ago too, although I heard the government wanted to class it as a "wine"!! Got it back in now its down to 5.3%. Have to say I thinks its nicer now.

JIZZLORD

i remeber during rag week in galway this year they replaced it with another 7% mixed fruit cider as nobody bought it in the coooege bar once they stopped selling it in its lower form

Frankiestylee

Rekorderling do a high % one too, about 7%. It's not mixed berry though, as far as I remember it's like starfruit and raspberry or something. Has a red berry taste of it anyway. The starfruit gives it an interestng aul twist I recall, though I haven't seen it in awhile so it might have suffered a similar fate as the mixed berry kopparberg.

I had non-alcoholic kopparberg in Sweden... twas very odd.

McGuckien

They still do rekorderling in The Bull and Castle, Dublin. They have put a beer hall upstairs so not sure they still do it up there (might be beers only) but downstairs its still available. And mighty nice it is too. Le Terroir is another cider they have. Its not mixed fruit but it does come in a big bottle (think its 750ml) so its quite good value.

Frankiestylee

Ah yeah, Rekorderling is still being sold in loads of places, but it's the high alc volume one that seems to have gone missing.

Oh and now that I think about it... does anyone know the exact reason why the 7% Kopparberg disappeared? Taxing it as a wine doesn't really seem to make sense as there's stronger % wines for less money. The alco pop classification that someone mentioned might make sense since ye olde alcopops are madly over priced. It'd be nice to know the exact reason though.