BEER ANYONE?

jarvis

From Monday next (Dec 1st) for one week, Tesco are running a special offer on Alcohol slabs.

Guinness
Budweiser
Carlsberg
Heineken
Bulmers

Two slabs for €50

The bulmers is 18x500ml cans but the others are 24x500ml cans and the Guinness is draught.
It's Special "Christmas wrapped" slabs only and will not work on 24 loose 500ml cans. 24 loose will work out around €46.
As with similar offers of this type there probably won't be a quota at the beginning but as soon as they realise how fast they're selling they'll enforce a quota, then they'll probably run out by the middle of the week, so get in early to be guaranteed getting what you want.

New laws forbid selling alcohol from anywhere but the alcohol section so you won't find these at the entrance and the space might be limited in stores alcohol section so there'll be a good chance of stock out the back .

Cheers

Jarvis

Ron DMC

Nice, will defos pick up a few slabs of Ken.

Ste.phen

Is it still cheaper to make the trip to Newry when you're looking for bulk beer?

IrishIrish

Is this 24 cans for the €50 or is it x2 and therefore 48 cans for €50

Saint_Mel

IrishIrish wrote: »

Is this 24 cans for the €50 or is it x2 and therefore 48 cans for €50

48 for €50 I imagine ... otherwise this thread would be in Consumer Issues instead of Bargain Alerts :pac:

IrishIrish

I only drink bulmers so not sure of the other prices! If its 36 cans of bulmers for €50 its a great deal. Pretty much 2 for the price of 1.

Hopefully there will still be stock by the time I get to go in

h57xiucj2z946q

2 x 24 cans for €50

lucky i didnt get the 24 cans in SuperValu for €30

Messed Up Mind

Sweeeeet. Cheers for the heads up. I think it's gonna be a good Christmas this year!

Ronan Raver77

Depends how much stock they have.They may only have a certain amount then drip feed it till xmas so they have people constatnly coming in looking for the cheap booze.

andrew1977

Excellent tip off , thanks a lot,.. tesco here i come as early as possible 1st december.. stock up for xmas .. at that price though..it might not last in my house until xmas:D

brettmirl

jarvis wrote: »

New laws forbid selling alcohol from anywhere but the alcohol section so you won't find these at the entrance and the space might be limited in stores alcohol section so there'll be a good chance of stock out the back .

You sure about that?

Cause Dunnes and Tesco in Ashbourne have HUGE stacks of beer just inside the entrances of their stores at the moment.

jos28

Dunnes have reduced boxes of Miller to 17.99. I saw it in Donaghmede but I presume it is all branches

Davy

mick_irl wrote: »

You sure about that?

Cause Dunnes and Tesco in Ashbourne have HUGE stacks of beer just inside the entrances of their stores at the moment.

Tesco have the same with the deal on heineken

Davy

jos28 wrote: »

Dunnes have reduced boxes of Miller to 17.99. I saw it in Donaghmede but I presume it is all branches

20 miller €14.99 tesco

24 miller €17.99 Dunnes stores

crazy_spider

Cheers OP. This is a great offer.

gsxr1

the problem is.

if I have 50 tins of beer sitting in the kitchen, catching my eye every time I go anywhere near. I will start drinking them uncontrollable.

Kat1170

davton wrote: »

20 miller €14.99 tesco

24 miller €17.99 Dunnes stores

Both work out at the same price per bottle.

jarvis

mick_irl wrote: »

You sure about that?

Cause Dunnes and Tesco in Ashbourne have HUGE stacks of beer just inside the entrances of their stores at the moment.

100%
New legislation kicks in Monday. I live in Ashbourne too......a local boardsie....cool.:D

andrew1977

This recession will have us all raging alcoholics with the amount of cheap booze on the go , either this side of the border or the other side:D

IrishIrish

IrishIrish wrote: »

Is this 24 cans for the €50 or is it x2 and therefore 48 cans for €50

24 for 50euro. Bargain !

IrishIrish

rarnes1 wrote: »

24 for 50euro. Bargain !

:pac:I thought it was 24 cans of Bulmers for €50, which would still be cheaper than some places sell it normally.

pissed

I live in Ashbourne too......a local boardsie....cool.

That makes three of us so ...... see you in the queue

Mimikyu

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bazwaldo

What time on Monday can you start buying booze at? 10am is it?

Col_Loki

You're a legend, thank you very much!! It really will be a merry christmas

Gryzor

tis the season to be jollier

nice one OP

Do-more

bazwaldo wrote: »

What time on Monday can you start buying booze at? 10am is it?

10.30am

Do-more

Do-more wrote: »

10.30am

far too late, I have a lip on me at 9am

Murt10

Is the strength 4.3%?

I have sometimes seen bargains which at first glance seemed great, but if the alcohol content is lower, then the vat and duty liability will be lower, so the bargain is often not as good as seems.

jos28

gsxr1 wrote: »

the problem is.

if I have 50 tins of beer sitting in the kitchen, catching my eye every time I go anywhere near. I will start drinking them uncontrollable.

Store them in someone else's house until Christmas. I always stash mine in my Mam's house. She won't let me touch them until Christmas.

Dave!

Excellent... Will pick up 4 or 5 methinks! :eek:

yoyo

Murt10 wrote: »

Is the strength 4.3%?

I have sometimes seen bargains which at first glance seemed great, but if the alcohol content is lower, then the vat and duty liability will be lower, so the bargain is often not as good as seems.

Heineken is 4.3% the stuff brewed in Cork and I'm guessing the one on offer, There is also a more expensive 5% Heineken, Imported from the UK afaik

Nick

DenMan

Lovely stuff man. Thanks for that. Carlsberg looks like a great deal.

TJJP

Well rare and like velvet, but at €16.99 for six it ain't a bargain...

coldfire1x

Did anyone find if its actually going to be on today?

brettmirl

It's on alright. There was ads for it in the papers yesterday.

Ronan|Raven

TJJP wrote: »

Well rare and like velvet, but at €16.99 for six it ain't a bargain...

fecker! where did you get beer laos over here?

ruprect

yoyo wrote: »

Heineken is 4.3% the stuff brewed in Cork and I'm guessing the one on offer, There is also a more expensive 5% Heineken, Imported from the UK afaik

Most heineken you get now is brewed in holland, I am pretty sure this stuff on offer is too, and so is the 5% ones (brewed in holland).

What confuses people is the can is made for the irish market, so people see cork mentioned and presume it is brewed there. Sometimes beer is canned here, but still brewed there.

AFAIK they just brew regular heineken and dilute it down to 4.3% for here, and some times to 3.4% in the UK (like some other poster mentioned about apparent bargains). This is meant to be a common practise. I think guinness foreign export is 7.4% and is not diluted, but i think this same 7.4% is diluted down to make either draught or extra stout, at 4.2%.

My mate was in tesco today, 2 crates per customer quota, which is good in a way, better chance of getting some.

adamski8

Do the slabs have to be of the same beer ie can i get one slab of guinnes and one of heniken for 50 or does it have to be two slabs of guinness?

Gumbo

adamski8 wrote: »

Do the slabs have to be of the same beer ie can i get one slab of guinnes and one of heniken for 50 or does it have to be two slabs of guinness?

the GF just picked up a tray of bud (24x500ml) and a slab of bulmers (18x500ml) for 50 euro. ie you can mix and match!

adamski8

kceire wrote: »

the GF just picked up a tray of bud (24x500ml) and a slab of bulmers (18x500ml) for 50 euro. ie you can mix and match!

sweet im off now then

sedohre

The Heineken on offer in Tesco is 4.3%

boopolo

€25 per case is not a bad price at all.
Asda was selling 24 x long necks for £14.98 (no special offers)

This Heiniken is 5%

For small quanties of unusual there were several 3 for £4
3 pint (550) bottles of newcastle ale for 4 quid. Hadn't drank it for a while.
The 7.5% Guinness (the one mentioned by ruprect back in this thread) was £4 for 3 small (330) bottles.

Boo

Gumbo

nearly sold out in finglas, my bro was in there an hour ago, but phibsbourgh is stacked to the ceiling if that helps anybody.

mickoneill30

I was just in Clarehall and they have none. There was one pallet with one case of Guinness on it.

adamski8

got two guinness in omni, sold out of heniken,bulmers,carlsberg. quota is 4 crates per customer there!

lad12

Anyone been up to clearwater store?

Irishpimpdude

lad12 wrote: »

Anyone been up to clearwater store?

Would say there nearly sold out by now, got 6 crates up there...

h57xiucj2z946q

My friends are after been to tesco...

EAFC_rdfl

Aaron Yellow Chrome wrote: »

My friends are after been to tesco...

Got a guiness and a heineken in athlone, bud seems to be cleaned out but they might have more in the stores. didnt seem to be any quotas in play, people were taking them by the trolley loads. Mighty Stuff!!!!:D

Jet Black

lad12 wrote: »

Anyone been up to clearwater store?

Yeah was there at half ten, there was 4 pallets of bud and I came back a half an hour later and there was only 1 left. Max of 6 slabs per customer. Got my six anyway thanks op.