Heineken Green Can

Chong

Bloody love this version, the full 5% so much better than the p1ss they make down in Cork. All the way from the Browerijn in Amsterdam.

Mr Magnolia

Also available in Norn Iron*.








*(Northern Ireland)

armour87

5% Heineken? Where can I obtain said beer?

Chong

Most places I think its comes in the full green coloured can.

yoyo

armour87 wrote: »

5% Heineken? Where can I obtain said beer?

The can is all green and no silver bars on it (or the new all silver heino cans), it clearly says Import 5% on it and I agree totally its class, not all offies got it although Tesco had last time I checked

Nick

Chong

Its crazy the difference between this and the lower strenght Heineken made here in Ireland.

texas star

Well my local Offy told that the higher % is when its imported from Northern Ireland dont know how true true but I love it

yoyo

texas star wrote: »

Well my local Offy told that the higher % is when its imported from Northern Ireland dont know how true true but I love it

Interesting, why is stuff low % here generally

Nick

Chong

On the can said its made in Amsterdam and Imported via London .

noby

yoyo wrote: »

Interesting, why is stuff low % here generally

Nick

To keep it in line with the strength of the beer served in pubs, I would imagine.

the beer revolu

Funny thing is that it's hard to sell the 5% Heineken in Ireland.
People don't like it - it taste's different!

Holsten

Interesting.

Gonna have a look for this stuff today.

yoyo

the beer revolu wrote: »

Funny thing is that it's hard to sell the 5% Heineken in Ireland.
People don't like it - it taste's different!

Lol Id take it any day over the normal stuff, just wish it was easier to find

Nick

Chong

I have noticed mostly the offys in my area have it, but not the bigger supermarkets like Tesco and Dunnes.

hcnyla

Can it be gotten in bottles? I think beer from a can tastes like p1ss. Warm p1ss at that.

armour87

hcnyla wrote: »

Can it be gotten in bottles? I think beer from a can tastes like p1ss. Warm p1ss at that.

Maybe you should cool your cans?

hcnyla

armour87 wrote: »

Maybe you should cool your cans?

Jeez I never thought of that.

Still prefer bottles though.

Chong

I always find beer from a bottle tastes a litte more flat in comparison to cans. I always find cans have more gas.

hcnyla

SO nobody knows whether it can be gotten in bottles?

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hcnyla wrote: »

SO nobody knows whether it can be gotten in bottles?

Give it time.

Also, try relaxing a bit on the attitude will you, thanks.

rubadub

They had both types in Dunnes in Sanyford Ind estate. €1.85 per can, for both tyes. There were alongside each other but no signs pointing out the difference. Was 5%.

For bottles (usually a paper label) I would try places like oddbins or molloys.

heggie

they always seem to have this import now in the Londis and Costcutters with offlicences. Its the same stuff you get in Amsterdam, and is much nicer than the 4.3% crap, hopefully it'll be here to stay, if only it was on draught

the beer revolu

Differentiating between different types of Heineken is where all this beer nonsense starts:)

BeerNut

Cruijff wrote:

All the way from the Browerijn in Amsterdam

Not really.

oblivious

BeerNut wrote: »

Not really.

ha, savage Heineken replicating home brewing techniques, final they see the light:p

BeerNut

Yeah, I'd definitely brave the full force of Heineken's propaganda machine to see that. The exhibition is closed at the moment, though.

armada104

The 4.3% stuff is imported as well, just that its meant for the Irish market. I much prefer the British 5% stuff, it's a mystery to me why they alter it for Ireland.

oblivious

BeerNut wrote: »

Yeah, I'd definitely brave the full force of Heineken's propaganda machine to see that.

Bet you felt dirty

BeerNut

armada104 wrote: »

The 4.3% stuff is imported as well, just that its meant for the Irish market. I much prefer the British 5% stuff, it's a mystery to me why they alter it for Ireland.

No, I'm pretty sure the 4.3% stuff is made in Cork. What makes you think it's imported? The 4.3% Beck's Vier is an imported Ireland-only special, however.

I'm 100% sure that the 5% ABV UK Heineken is the Dutch original. Until a couple of years ago Heineken had a 3.5% version brewed under license in and for the UK by Whitbread. When they saw sense and dropped it they made a big song-and-dance about Heineken now being imported, and they were still singing and dancing about it last time I saw it in an English pub back in January.

kmart6

yoyo wrote: »

Interesting, why is stuff low % here generally

Nick

Prob cause of our lack of drinking ability as a nation!;)

TestTransmission

kmart6 wrote: »

Prob cause of our lack of drinking ability as a nation!;)

Its done for tax reasons as far as i know,

rubadub

BeerNut wrote: »

No, I'm pretty sure the 4.3% stuff is made in Cork. What makes you think it's imported?

All my bottles are brewed and bottled in amsterdam for heineken in cork, they are 4.3%. I checked some cans yesterday and they were the same too, brewed and canned in holland 4.3%.

Many breweries are said to Brew under licence to suit local tastes, so you get weaker 3.4% heineken versions in the UK.

A 5% beer costs more, more ingredients, usually longer brewing, more tax & duty. So they might want to keep it closer to other market brands, and most here are 4.3% on tap. Many consumers have no idea what % the beer they drink is, and would think a 5% was expensive.

oblivious

rubadub wrote: »

A 5% beer costs more, more ingredients,

I would bet that Heineken like many commercial breweries do high gravity brewing, and water it down to the gravity they want and will take no mare time than usual. Yes it would cost more money to go form 4.3 to 5% but in the grand scheme of things in mega brewing pales in comparison to their marketing budgets.

its funny this misnomer that people associate an increases in alcohol with a premium product, when most will be brewing a higher strength beer and just adding water to product the range

BeerNut

rubadub wrote: »

All my bottles are brewed and bottled in amsterdam for heineken in cork, they are 4.3%. I checked some cans yesterday and they were the same too, brewed and canned in holland 4.3%.

Odd. Must take a look at that.

Edit: armada104 and rubadub are quite correct. Heineken NL do indeed brew and can Irish-strength Heineken specifically for this market. Makes you wonder what they do be doing down at Lady's Well.

rubadub wrote: »

so you get weaker 3.4% heineken versions in the UK.

Not any more, according to Mr Protz anyway.

kraggy

yoyo wrote: »

The can is all green and no silver bars on it (or the new all silver heino cans), it clearly says Import 5% on it and I agree totally its class, not all offies got it although Tesco had last time I checked

Nick

Both designs come in the two strenghts.

I've just drank silver ring cans that were 5% so don't rely on that to tell the difference.

The Machine

Companies tend to keep their beer under 5% in Ireland as if they go higher than this they end up paying a lot more duty on the product.

rubadub

oblivious wrote: »

Yes it would cost more money to go form 4.3 to 5% but in the grand scheme of things in mega brewing pales in comparison to their marketing budgets.

Why pay the extra when most consumers are completely ignorant. Not only can they charge the same for the watered down stuff, the average punter ends up drinking more to get the same effect. They do spend a fortune on adverts, and I expect they do a lot of market research too, and find out most could not care less about the strength.

Never knew about the diluting, do guinness do this?

The UK heineken was over here a while ago, 3.4%. I remember mates got it, they just glanced and saw 4.3%. It said 3.5% in the link above but it was definitely 3.4%

BeerNut

rubadub wrote: »

Why pay the extra when most consumers are completely ignorant

Usually, the higher-alcohol product will have "imported" splashed all over it as a way of encouraging people to pay more. I don't know what Heineken are playing at at the moment. Mind you, you can also get your pint of Murphy's in a stemmed glass from a tap with a naked chick on it, so who knows?

rubadub wrote: »

Never knew about the diluting, do guinness do this?

Yes. I'd say industrial brewers that don't do high-gravity brewing are few and far between. AFAIK, Foreign Extra is derived from the same high-gravity base beer as the other Guinness stouts.

oblivious

rubadub wrote: »

Never knew about the diluting, do guinness do this?%

Oh and more, there process is more akin to a pharmaceutical plant to traditional breweries, from the methods i have been shown used


A lot use hight gravity brewing as it allows then to increased their out put with out having to increased the size of the breweries. Some add water after the brewing process when its been transfer to the fermentor other after the fermentation is completion on the way to packaging.