Tuborg cheap pints

Help!!!!

Why is Tuborg sold cheaply in pubs? My Local is €3.10 & was in Kilkenny yesterday & found a pub doing a pint for €4 which is great value.

john kinsella

Because it is piss

Help!!!!

john kinsella wrote: »

Because it is piss

Have you actually tried it? If you like lager its actually quite nice

BeerNut

Help!!!! wrote: »

Why is Tuborg sold cheaply in pubs?

Presumably Diageo decided they needed a budget brand to compete with the likes of Fosters. They picked Tuborg.

JoseJones

It's no worse than other similar lagers like Carlsberg/Heineken. Better than Budweiser for sure imo, but a lot of people are snobs so will write it off straight away.

Help!!!!

its such great value tho....compared to paying €5+ a pint

JoseJones

Help!!!! wrote: »

its such great value tho....compared to paying €5+ a pint

It's not €5 a pint for a pint of lager in Kilkenny is it? Around €4.20 in most places I think though I could be wrong, not much of a lager drinker.

draiochtanois

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Help!!!!

JoseJones wrote: »

It's not €5 a pint for a pint of lager in Kilkenny is it? Around €4.20 in most places I think though I could be wrong, not much of a lager drinker.

Depends where you go but most are closer to €5 & some even over.
Was surprised to find a pub doing Tuborg for €4

Barely There

JoseJones wrote: »

It's no worse than other similar lagers like Carlsberg/Heineken. Better than Budweiser for sure imo, but a lot of people are snobs so will write it off straight away.

Talk about damning with faint praise.

oldyouth

€3.65 in my local. Drinkable

irish_goat

It falls loosely into the economic strategy of Price Discrimination.

Basically, beer companies know that some lager drinkers can't afford to go out and have a heap of "premium beers" so they bring out a "cheap" lager. They market the premium beers well enough so that those who can afford to will still tend to drink them and not switch to the cheaper beers, whilst still ensuring that those drinking the cheaper beers still go out and spend their money. In reality, the beers are of similar quality in terms of ingredients and production.

munchkin_utd

wheres it brewed?

aside from Harp which is very drinkable (and 99.9% of those who says otherwise havent ever tasted a sip of the stuff in their lives), theres not one palatable irish brewed lager and I cant imagine an irish brewed tuborg being any better.

but in Copenhagen (where its brewed I believe) it was drinkable.

BeerNut

irish_goat wrote: »

In reality, the beers are of similar quality in terms of ingredients and production.

Yep. Having come from Ireland where Carlsberg is the premium one and Tuborg the budget option, I was surprised to find that their parent company in Denmark treats both brands as equal status.

Help!!!!

BeerNut wrote: »

Yep. Having come from Ireland where Carlsberg is the premium one and Tuborg the budget option, I was surprised to find that their parent company in Denmark treats both brands as equal status.

Long may it continue....I love going down my local & having 3 pints & some change from a tenner

Glebee

Nothing wrong with Tuborg. Because its cheap the first thing you think is that its rank I guess. Ive had plenty of expensive pint that were only fit for the sink.

drumswan

munchkin_utd wrote: »

wheres it brewed?

aside from Harp which is very drinkable (and 99.9% of those who says otherwise havent ever tasted a sip of the stuff in their lives), theres not one palatable irish brewed lager and I cant imagine an irish brewed tuborg being any better.

Try

5 Lamps Summer Steam
Eight Degrees Bohemian Pilsner
Trouble Brewing Kill Lager
Metalman Sahara
O'Hara's Irish Lager

rubadub

JoseJones wrote: »

It's no worse than other similar lagers like Carlsberg/Heineken. Better than Budweiser for sure imo, but a lot of people are snobs so will write it off straight away.

+1, beamish suffers the same thing, I still maintain beamish would be more profitable if they price matched guinness, or were a little closer.

Some people think of tuborg "jaysus its €1 less than the other beers, it must be really bad", as if they are using really substandard ingredients even though the cost is minimal.

when really the comment should be "jaysus, it tastes similar to all the other ones, why are people paying €1 extra to those rip off merchants".

Help!!!!

rubadub wrote: »

+1, beamish suffers the same thing, I still maintain beamish would be more profitable if they price matched guinness, or were a little closer.

Some people think of tuborg "jaysus its €1 less than the other beers, it must be really bad", as if they are using really substandard ingredients even though the cost is minimal.

when really the comment should be "jaysus, it tastes similar to all the other ones, why are people paying €1 extra to those rip off merchants".

Well said....why pay more for a name

Ravelleman

Since no one has mentioned it:

Tuborg, the beer of Danish kings.

Technocentral

Tastes like any other lager in the whole world, ie bloody awful, watery piss.

Bongalongherb

I drink Tuborg all the time, it is a lot nicer than budweiser for sure. Now fosters is damn bad, it's up there with dutch gold, can't drink that stuff at all.

Yep, Tuborg is a nice drink, but like it says on all beers... serve chilled, because all beers taste bad when warm. As for Heiniken/budweiser and fosters, Tuborg beats them hands down.


IMO.

quadrifoglio verde

JoseJones wrote: »

It's no worse than other similar lagers like Carlsberg/Heineken. Better than Budweiser for sure imo, but a lot of people are snobs so will write it off straight away.

A lot of people on here don't like lager end off.....if you like lager, branch out to pale ales

JoseJones

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

A lot of people on here don't like lager end off.....if you like lager, branch out to pale ales

I'm not a lager fan myself, I would drink it if there's nothing else on offer but from drinking the various lagers Tuborg is certainly not the worst of them and I wouldn't dismiss it as piss just because it's cheap.

Insect Overlord

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Yep, Tuborg is a nice drink, but like it says on all beers... serve chilled, because all beers taste bad when warm. As for Heiniken/budweiser and fosters, Tuborg beats them hands down.

All pub beers, maybe. Plenty of stuff is nicer when it's closer to room temperature.

TheCoolWay

BAVARIA

oblivious

An File wrote: »

All pub beers, maybe. Plenty of stuff is nicer when it's closer to room temperature.

Room temp is +18c, there is no beer I want to drink at that temp

oblivious

Technocentral wrote: »

Tastes like any other lager in the whole world, ie bloody awful, watery piss.

There is alot of Euro lager crap, but there the are still a few that are a thing of beauty such as Augustiner

Hidden Cyclone

I see very little if any difference between Tuborg vs the likes of Carlsberg etc

If I'm somewhere with nothing decent (IPA etc) and I'm not in a stout mood I'll often drink Tuborg or Fosters

miece16

generally its €4.80 for a pint of bud in kilkenny

i've had €2.50 fosters in carlow and my god that stuff was hard to get down. would rather spend the extra €2 and get a decent pint

Heroditas

miece16 wrote: »

generally its €4.80 for a pint of bud in kilkenny

i've had €2.50 fosters in carlow and my god that stuff was hard to get down. would rather spend the extra €2 and get a decent pint

Funny, I used to drink Fosters by the hectolitre when I was in college. God be with the days when we had the Fosters dollars!
Wouldn't be too keen on it now.

Tuborg though - always thought it was much nicer than even the likes of Carlsberg, its sister beer.
I wouldn't be mad on any lager nowadays but if I had a gun put to my head if I was in a local Central or Spar, I'd pick it.

munchkin_utd

oblivious wrote: »

There is alot of Euro lager crap, but there the are still a few that are a thing of beauty such as Augustiner

indeed, "watery crap" its isnt and slating all lagers as being the same as budweiser is just ignorant.

Along with Augustiner, theres plenty of other non watery brews about the place like Tegernseer, Chiemseer or even going down the avenue of proper pilsner like Rothaus or the better beers from Czech republic. And thats without going into unfiltered lager beers.

I'll admit that I steered away from the lagers there for a while in favour of weissbiers and unfiltered keller beers (in order to preserve the stash of Belgian beer if anything) but in the summer there's nothing like a cool (not frozen) bottle of decent lager beer.

Help!!!!

miece16 wrote: »

generally its €4.80 for a pint of bud in kilkenny

i've had €2.50 fosters in carlow and my god that stuff was hard to get down. would rather spend the extra €2 and get a decent pint

are there many pubs in Kilkenny doing pints for €4

Ravelleman

miece16 wrote: »

i've had €2.50 fosters in carlow and my god that stuff was hard to get down. would rather spend the extra €2 and get a decent pint

Was this in Tully's? I believe I have also availed of said €2.50 pints in the past.

rubadub

Technocentral wrote: »

Tastes like any other lager in the whole world, ie bloody awful, watery piss.

munchkin_utd wrote: »

indeed, "watery crap" its isnt and slating all lagers as being the same as budweiser is just ignorant.

I am wondering how many pints of "bloody awful watey piss" were purchased and suffered through, before he could form an opinon on all of them "in the whole world". If I hated my first that much I am not sure I would have even tried another brand.

Thundercats Ho

Ravelleman wrote: »

Was this in Tully's? I believe I have also availed of said €2.50 pints in the past.

I think they've turned into rip-off merchants and are charging €2.70 now....
Off topic: I hadn't been in there for years, and popped in last Saturday afternoon. They've 5 craft beers on tap (€4 on Fridays), and more on bottle.
Nicely surprised.

suicide_circus

In Denmark Tuborg is absolutely all over the place, they also make soft drinks. It's also massive in eastern europe.

Swampy

It's a good beer.

Herb Powell

munchkin_utd wrote: »

indeed, "watery crap" its isnt and slating all lagers as being the same as budweiser is just ignorant.

Along with Augustiner, theres plenty of other non watery brews about the place like Tegernseer, Chiemseer or even going down the avenue of proper pilsner like Rothaus or the better beers from Czech republic. And thats without going into unfiltered lager beers.

I'll admit that I steered away from the lagers there for a while in favour of weissbiers and unfiltered keller beers (in order to preserve the stash of Belgian beer if anything) but in the summer there's nothing like a cool (not frozen) bottle of decent lager beer.

Don't forget Radeberger!

Lager is class when it's done right, I don't understand the hate at all