Lidl - Franziskaner 4 for €5

Blankety

Just noticed this today in Lidl - Franziskaner 4 for €5, it's a good beer for €1.25 each.

groom

Yeow!!!

TheDriver

Excellent!!!

Banjo String

Just as I was polishing off my tyskie these beauts come along.

Certainly beats 5 for €9 at my local esso garage.


I fcuking love the German discounters.:)

Atlantic Dawn

Sound OP, I love the stuff

groom

Brace yourself! The 'Is Franziskaner nice?' crowd will be invading

TheDriver

Ah sure its like a cloudy bud......

RayCon

Mezcita

(Cradles his two crates)

My precious......

cerastes

Was in Lidl today. didnt see this offer,

Is there a few variants of the beer, I thought its a wheat beer, which If so, I dont drink, more for everyone else.

.G.

This stuff is great, especially at this price!

antodeco

Up I go tomorrow to get my 4 boxes!

munchkin_utd

cerastes wrote: »

Was in Lidl today. didnt see this offer,

Is there a few variants of the beer, I thought its a wheat beer, which If so, I dont drink, more for everyone else.

theres a few different types, regular, dark, light, alcohol free and Royal (special brew that is actually cr@p) - but all are weissbiers

groom

munchkin_utd wrote: »

theres a few different types, regular, dark, light, alcohol free and Royal (special brew that is actually cr@p) - but all are weissbiers

But the only one I've ever seen on special in Lidl is regular.

sheroman01

Also, from what I recall, they're 500ml Will be stocking up on these

RayCon

Got some today ... very little left in Celbridge

willietherock

Don't drink much beer but remembered this thread as I was in Lidl and got eight bottles.

Blankety

About 10 boxes in carrickmacross a while ago. No thirsty men around there.....

Stevecw

Lidl are really spoiling us these days. First Tyskie now this, great price again for a good beer

zweton

just grabbed a box yum yum:D

TheDriver

Grabbed 2 boxes, thanks OP.

duckysauce

just got a box cheers OP

Snowc

Would these be good beers for making a shandy ? Have a party at the weekend and don't want to spent too much :mad:

degsie

Snowc wrote: »

Would these be good beers for making a shandy ? Have a party at the weekend and don't want to spent too much :mad:

Nooooooooo! Sacrilege.

TheDriver

I throw lime juice into mine sometimes....

cerastes

Snowc wrote: »

Would these be good beers for making a shandy ? Have a party at the weekend and don't want to spent too much :mad:

excelsior their canned beer is 89cent per 500ml, better value still, not sure how wheat beer responds to that.

mik_da_man

Grabbed a box in carrigaline, only one and a bit left

Tasty stuff

paulyg123

Franziskaner is a cloudy wheat beer with a pretty distinctive flavour, I wouldn't say it would work too well in a shandy (and a bit of a waste of a decent beer). As cerastes said probably best to just use a basic larger since you're not really going to taste the difference after mixing it with lemonade anyway.
I picked up 8 bottes in Rathmines earlier, a good few bottles left around 7ish but looks like they had gone though a few boxes.

cerastes

Add to that, I've just had a can of grafenwalder, its 4.8%, its a Pils, Ive just googled the Pils v Lager, so I now know the difference .
It was €1.25 per can if the wheat beer doesnt take your fancy, bit of a premium on the excelsior.

I bought a can of each for comparison, I think I had the excelsior before (lager at 3.9%), both are ok, the above Pils is nice.

Better than some of the other bottled beers Ive tried from Lidl/Aldi in the past and a nice quantity, stays cold in the can (in fridge, plus sustains damage).
I didnt take a liking to Zyweic or Tyskie (come to think, not sure if they are sold in Lidl/aldi), Its been a while since I bought bottled beers there, some of the stranger bottled versions are ok and might provide a nice quantity/price but others I havent been too keen on, one called Rheinbacher?, I might do a test again, cant recal what Lech was like. Perlenbacher is ok.

For shandys I think there are trays of small bottles of beer anyway, Lidl even had bottles in at one point that resembled the spitfire/bishops finger bottle in their brand, I recal that being nice but didnt see much of it, cant recal what it was called now.

I prefer darker beers, but its a nice change and cheap too.
Bit trial and error, and some can only be bought as 4 packs so you cant pick and choose one or two which would be nice.

TheDriver

Lidl stocked the actual spitfire and bishops finger but unfortunately have stopped stocking them. They used to do 2 for 3 on them regularly too

Banjo String

Snowc wrote: »

Would these be good beers for making a shandy ? Have a party at the weekend and don't want to spent too much :mad: