Cheap and Cheerful Booze

Jack Vegas

Im assuming everyone here has at some stage consumed a bit of budget alcohol in their time, so with all snobbery aside, whats the verdict on cheap and cheerful booze?

Obviously Dutch Gold is horribley bland, same for Bavaria, but I do like Tuborg and my favourite Foster's.

Opinions?

pdebarra

Let's see... Ah, yes, I remember! My staple was Holsten Export, cans of. Haven't tried it in donkeys' ages.

admiralofthefleet

that czech lager; prazky, is lovely and lech (poland) is the nicest beer i have drank in ages. a bit of a bargain alert: lech and many other beers are 5 500ml bottles for €10 in centra westmoreland street and o' connell street in dublin

plasto

i agree prazki is a good one..........cant go wrong for a euro 500ml can!

admiralofthefleet

plasto wrote:

i agree prazki is a good one..........cant go wrong for a euro 500ml can!

or 6 for €7 in the local off-licence:)

rubadub

warsteiner €1 a bottle, staropramen sometimes the same, €7 for 6 in obriens at the moment. Grolsch is acceptable at €1 a bottle.

In pubs I go for fosters if there is nothing but the usual bud/carl/hein on offer since it is €1+ cheaper and tastes as bad as the rest IMO.

I would also consider erdinger a cheap beer in pubs when you take into account the % and the fact you usually get over a pint at a time, it works out cheaper than guinness. Also "expensive" bottles in pubs are usually fairly cheap in comparison to usual longnecks since they are usually 500ml vs 330ml.

Beamish is fine too & cheap in pubs.

Linden village(my dad got me into drinking it),

Druids in different flavours
I'll still drink these if i'm staying in and prefer cider

or tesco rose wine

Frankiestylee

Cheap 6 for 7 beers: Prazsky>Tuborg>bavaria>dutch gold

Castlemaine is usually a euro... it's disgracefully watertastic.

Bass is also normaly a euro ... I haven't really tried it.


A box of Warsteiner is normally the biz when it comes to cheap beer land though.

noby

Stella artois is my summer bbq beer of choice. €20 for 24 at the moment. Shameful I know, but hey.

I would also consider erdinger a cheap beer in pubs when you take into account the % and the fact you usually get over a pint at a time

Do you normally get over a pint? Because I usually get a half litre, perhaps a touch more, and the head.

rubadub

noby wrote:

Stella artois is my summer bbq beer of choice. €20 for 24 at the moment.

€20 in tesco but only €17 for 24x330ml in o'briens, and weighs in at 5.2% so is 1.2+ times as strong as hein/bud/carls.

noby wrote:

Do you normally get over a pint? Because I usually get a half litre, perhaps a touch more, and the head.

I usually get them well past the 500 line, and since it is a wide top at the line a little past is a lot of liquid. The head is also quite thick and huge, if allowed to settle you get a lot.

rediguana

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but O'Briens' Stella 24X33cl is back up to E24.

Yanjing Beer (4.5%) is E15 for 24X33cl

rubadub

rediguana wrote:

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but O'Briens' Stella 24X33cl is back up to E24.

Yanjing Beer (4.5%) is E15 for 24X33cl

Damn forgot it is over. I got the chinese beer, not too bad compared to others that cheap. the label is class,

The Official Beer of High Manifestations

or something like that!

rediguana

rubadub wrote:

Damn forgot it is over. I got the chinese beer, not too bad. the label is class,

The Official Beer of High Manifestations

or something like that!

Haha, yeah. I work for O'Briens, even the directors are laughing at that one.

Seriously though, the punters are SO suspicious of it because it's Chinese. I don't get it, they can't get enough pisswater Bud/Heineken into them but they baulk and scoff at the Asian stuff.

shane86

Bavaria isnt all that bad, though drinking it becomes tiresome after a bit. Dont know how we used to drink Dutch, its like canned earwax. 3 euro big flagons of Devils Bit cider was the business back in the day. Miller bottles are selling quite cheap these days, I dont drink it draught or canned but bottled is very nice if cold. Stella and Druids are brutal. That Kinsey vodka they sell in Dunnes used to do the job in the days when we had little money and carried a naggin into nightclubs/pubs.

Frankiestylee

Molloys are doin' the aul stella quite cheap... think it's 20 bottles for 14.99 and 6 500ml cans of stella for 7.99.
I bought a case of it the other day... I dunno why, it just seemed so cheap. I brought it to a party and let the piranhas go at it, thankfully I didn't get to touch a drop, I was on tastier stuff for the night.

Jack Vegas

coolsmileygirl wrote:

Linden village(my dad got me into drinking it),

Druids in different flavours
I'll still drink these if i'm staying in and prefer cider

or tesco rose wine

Oh god.....

Linden Village : Cheap Cider + salt
Druids : Flat cidona + goatspit

*Tripper*

I'm a studento so still on the cheap booze!!!

Baveria would be my first choice at 6 for 7 beer wise.

Then cider has got to be Devils Bit, 8 for a tenner can't beat that now.

Ohhh also one can get a shoulder of scotch in my local offo for 7 euro!

Alter-Ego

Ugh, i gag everytime i think of linden village. And Devils bit just tastes like rotten apples.

You can't beat a case of "Frink Brau" from your local lidl.

melekalikimaka

Baveria all the way, then Pratsky, if i want to go coocoo a bottle of buckfast, really coocoo, buckfast and vodka, coocoo but standing, buckfast and a bottle of martini, all very reasonable priced nights

*Tripper*

Fink Brau, euaghh, gets me straight to a hangover, totally bypasses the drunkeness thats makes drinking cheap booze worth while!

scojones

coolsmileygirl wrote:

Linden village(my dad got me into drinking it),

Yes!! G'wan the Lindo. I miss the cider days, back when you could get 10 cans of old summerset for 7 euro! Bliss.

Carling does the job. 8 cans for €10 in my local off license. Can't beat it.

um7y1h83ge06nx

Bought 6 500ml bottles of Martens Pils 5% vol. Friday for €7. Comes in plastic bottles!

It's actually damn nice stuff as far as cheap stuff goes!

Other good cheap beer is Perlenbacher 5% vol. in Lidl. 6 500ml glass bottles with handy twist off tops for €7 as well.

JIZZLORD

Tuborg is a grand beer, and at 6 for €7 i cant complain.

johnnyskeleton

rediguana wrote:

Haha, yeah. I work for O'Briens, even the directors are laughing at that one.

Seriously though, the punters are SO suspicious of it because it's Chinese. I don't get it, they can't get enough pisswater Bud/Heineken into them but they baulk and scoff at the Asian stuff.

I was in Beijing and did my fair share of drinking, but I didn't see this little gem there. I wouldn't be surprized if it is moonshine cooked up by a Chinese-Irish bloke who speaks perfect english and is playing a joke on us. Kinda like the way you don't see fosters in oz, or dutch gold in holland.

sioda

My local offie is doing slabs of San Miguel 24 x 330 for 24 buck bargain imo and good stuff to boot

Shamrogue

Has anyone tried the Dunnes brand Larger? At 88cent and not a bad taste i think its a students dream come true.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Yup San Miguel is top. I think Super Valuarre doing it at that price at the moment.

and Buckfast of course, as mentioned. You can never go wrong with good old Buckie!

Labatts Ice is great stuff, i think it's about €15 euro per 18/24 bottles in Dunnes, not sure though.

sioda

sioda wrote:

My local offie is doing slabs of San Miguel 24 x 330 for 24 buck bargain imo and good stuff to boot

wheres this?

sioda

Centra at the top of william street in Limerick

doonothing

costcutters in raheny, 5 for €5 on kopparberg!

red_ice

buckfast!!

rubadub

I thought buckfast is pretty expensive? never understood how it was so popular. How big is the bottle? %? and price?

Thomas_S_Hunterson

rubadub wrote:

I thought buckfast is pretty expensive? never understood how it was so popular. How big is the bottle? %? and price?

It's 700ml, 15% and ~€8 as far as I know, so percentagewise it's not the cheapest thing going but it's a bargain for that gorgeous syrupy Calpol taste

Cheez

Royal Dutch looks fierce dodge but don't judge a can by its encasing!! Its actually not that bad and blows the head off you in a less chemically way. Dutch Gold on the other hand seems full of bad crap because after a can i feel like my brain fell out or somethin. Quite similar to the effect Budweiser has on me but not half as bad. I'm convinced Budweiser is evil - i go mental after i drink even a drop of that flat tasting muck.

Pratski tastes like fukin toothpaste backwash but it does the job better than Dutch Gold. The only people i know who drink it are in their early to late teens and love whiskey. Tuborg is ok but gets quite boring as its not half as nice as the full strength Danish stuff. Jesus im suprising myself with my extensive knowledge of beer. Bow to your master!