Aldi/ Lidl own alcohol brands

DS86

Does anybody reckon that these brands can live up to the standard of the beer, cider and wine companies they are up against, or is it the case that when you buy cheap, you get less taste and quality in exchange?

questionmark?

You dont shop in Aldi or Lidl then because they sell mostly very good quality beer at low prices. Now tesco value beer is a differant story!

MS.ing

cheap generally means truck loads of orphans pay the price instead

efb

MS.ing wrote: »

cheap generally means truck loads of orphans pay the price instead

Orphan tears are so tasty tho

Galwayguy35

The whiskey is ok, I don't drink beer so can't comment on that.

El Weirdo

DS86 wrote: »

... or is it the case that when you buy cheap, you get less taste and quality in exchange?

Care to explain Budweiser then?

Neon_Lights

El Weirdo wrote: »

Care to explain Budweiser then?

Heineken is coloquially reffered to as "P1$$" in holland too

beano345

Stay away from the aldi vodka....you could skin animals with that stuff

cml387

Lidl bottled beer (I don't know about Aldi but I guess is the same) is brewed according to the German reinheitsgebot code and is better than all you Heinken's, Carlsbergs et al and don't even mention Budweiser (which is not actually a beer so the comparison is not fair).

preston johnny

Aldi st etienne lager is really good IMO

Frankie Lee

The O'Sheas Stouts and Ales in Aldi are produced by O'Haras and are of a high standard.

Talib Fiasco

The Rachmaninoff vodka in Lidl is bloody great stuff...the first time you drink a bottle of it you'll puke your guts up but that's the cleansing phase. After that it goes down very well. Essential to any student's weekly budget.

Augmerson

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

The Rachmaninoff vodka in Lidl is bloody great stuff...the first time you drink a bottle of it you'll puke your guts up but that's the cleansing phase. After that it goes down very well. Essential to any student's weekly budget.

Are you a student/burgeoning alcoholic?

Panthro

I got too drunk to notice.

bnt

Haven't tried many of them, but the "Highland Black" 8-y.o. Scotch in Aldi is very good, I thought. Not a "shots" spirt, more of a sipping whisky.

alias no.9

Perlinbacher [sp?] Pilsner comes in 500ml bottles, €7 odd for 6 bottles in Lidl and is one of my favourite beers right now, better than any of the mass market brands.

DrGreenthumb

I used to get their rum but it gives a rough hangover I guess that's the price you pay to save a few quid

Padraig Mor

Aldi's Taurus cider pisses all over Bulmers (despite being allegedly made by them).

Aidric

Unless I'm after double vision I'd stick to premium brands when it comes to whiskey. Their beers are good, however, piss all over the market leaders for taste.

Iranoutofideas

The Aldi Irish whiskey is made by Cooley Distillery. Or was anyway.

Talib Fiasco

Augmerson wrote: »

Are you a student/burgeoning alcoholic?

Thought it was pretty clear that I was from my initial post

goose2005

MS.ing wrote: »

cheap generally means truck loads of orphans pay the price instead

either that or your small intestine does.

sammy37

preston johnny wrote: »

Aldi st etienne lager is really good IMO

Would agree with you there i love the stuff.

cml387

alias no.9 wrote: »

Perlinbacher [sp?] Pilsner comes in 500ml bottles, €7 odd for 6 bottles in Lidl and is one of my favourite beers right now, better than any of the mass market brands.

Yep, that's the one. And it's actually 7 euro for eight bottles at the moment. Supremely good value.

Banjo String

Clarkes bourbon is every bit as good as Jack Daniels or Jim Beam (Aldi) can't remember the price, 13 or 15 euro.

Rheinbacher / Perlenbacher (4.9% German pils) 7.29 for 6 500ml bottles, Aldi and Lidl respectively. Excellent stuff.

Lidl do a very very good Prosecco for (I think) 13€

Lidl also do a fairly decent alternative to bacardi. €13.50 a bottle.

Aldi do a very decent wheat beer called schaufer (i dunno, something like that:p)
Is also lovely, 5% and 1.79 a bottle.

I don't drink wine, but Mrs String assures me Aldis wine is decent, she goes for the Chilean sauvignoin blanc.

Ditto with their cider, Aldi does Taurus and she swears the pear cider is better than Bulmers.

Eeden

preston johnny wrote: »

Aldi st etienne lager is really good IMO

sammy37 wrote: »

Would agree with you there i love the stuff.

Another one for St Ettienne. I'd much prefer it to Heineken, Carlsberg, and all others of that sort.

Die Bart Die

Rachmaninoff vodka from Lidl is lethal, half a bottle and I'm anybodies.

Aldi whiskeys/bourbons are usually fine, the Highland Black/Earl is grand, ditto Marshalls. Don't think it compares to any of the real stuff though.

Would never drink Taurus again, tastes like a €1 energy drink from Spar.

Get Real

Eeden wrote: »

Another one for St Ettienne. I'd much prefer it to Heineken, Carlsberg, and all others of that sort.

Fourth one for St.Etienne. Its lovely, better then the leading market beers here. Alot of it is down to branding and image.

Theres some pretty slick Heino ads out there, and the whole Carlsberg/Premier League & Heineken/ rugby thing going on.

But in reality St Etienne is up there, and 4 cans (440 ml) for 3.80 whos complaining? I actually prefer 440ml cans too, as if you're at a bbq or whatever, we all know of that horrible warm bit left in the bottom.

So 8 cans of lovely beer for 7.60 as opposed to 8 cans of advertised "okayness" for 14-16 quid? No brainer really.

MsBubbles

My favourite wine is Aldi's Freeman Bay Sauvingon Blanc. At €8.99 it's as good as more expensive NZ Sav Blancs

Joe prim

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

The Rachmaninoff vodka in Lidl is bloody great stuff...the first time you drink a bottle of it you'll puke your guts up but that's the cleansing phase. After that it goes down very well. Essential to any student's weekly budget.

Have you tried injecting it directly into your eyeball? Absolutely superb old chap!

vicwatson

Whats Aldi's "Taurus" cider like vs Bulmers ?? Is it made by Bulmers ?

KTRIC

Die Bart Die wrote: »

Rachmaninoff vodka from Lidl is lethal, half a bottle and I'm anybodies.

I got alcohol poisoning drinking that stuff last year when it separated in my freezer, vodka shouldn't separate !! :mad:

Nearly killed me

vicwatson

Sorry. saw post 18. So Taurus is better than Bulmers ?

Talib Fiasco

Joe prim wrote: »

Have you tried injecting it directly into your eyeball? Absolutely superb old chap!

Na only absinthe and tequila are suitable for eyeball ingestion. I couldn't waste precious Rachmaninoff on such an endeavour.

ChunkyLover54

This thread is making me thirsty.

fleet_admiral

Do the adld beers have a good cut to them? I like a beer that catches the throat if you know what I mean

Banjo String

vicwatson wrote: »

Sorry. saw post 18. So Taurus is better than Bulmers ?

It probably / possibly is Bulmers. Just in a rebranded can.

Arnold Layne

MsBubbles wrote: »

My favourite wine is Aldi's Freeman Bay Sauvingon Blanc. At €8.99 it's as good as more expensive NZ Sav Blancs

Can't agree more. Lovely wine.

Killer for me at the moment though is that I am on holiday in France and the wines for 2.80 plus are superb. Thinking of letting the OH and kids make their own way home while I fill the car

Banjo String

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Do the adld beers have a good cut to them? I like a beer that catches the throat if you know what I mean

Aldi and Lidl sell tyskie.

Also, the O'Haras range of ale is pretty good. (oshea)

fleet_admiral

Banjo String wrote: »

Aldi and Lidl sell tyskie.

Also, the O'Haras range of ale is pretty good. (oshea)

Im not a fan of tyskie, Lech is a great beer. Im going to give them a try though

Cedrus

KTRIC wrote: »

I got alcohol poisoning drinking that stuff last year when it separated in my freezer, vodka shouldn't separate !! :mad:

Nearly killed me

The marketing term is "Ice Filtration". I think it was Coors who used to brag about doing it.

Banjo String

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Im not a fan of tyskie, Lech is a great beer. Im going to give them a try though

I really like the pale ales, the only difference I see in oshea (aldis) and the O'Haras brand is the ABV.

4.3, and 5.3%.

I have it, literally from the horses mouth that O'Haras rebrand to Oshea for the Aldi market.

(true bill)

humberklog

cml387 wrote: »

Lidl bottled beer (I don't know about Aldi but I guess is the same) is brewed according to the German reinheitsgebot code and is better than all you Heinken's, Carlsbergs et al and don't even mention Budweiser (which is not actually a beer so the comparison is not fair).

Anyone that holds the Reinheitsgebot method as the only good and pure form of brewing has been sold one of the beer maketing oldest ploys sideways. Like a brick of nonsense stuffed down their throat that must be true.

There's far more to decent beer than a centuries old marketing ploy.

Last_Minute

Anyone have any experience with Aldi's Radler? It's a lemon shandy type drink.

Banjo String

Last_Minute wrote: »

Anyone have any experience with Aldi's Radler? It's a lemon shandy type drink.

Not exclusive to Aldi, it's a brand by Amstel.

I think it's 2% or less. So, there's hand gel out there will get you drunk quicker lol.


Apparently it's super popular in Greece, where I assume holiday makers sup it by the pool all day.

Last_Minute

Banjo String wrote: »

Not exclusive to Aldi, it's a brand by Amstel.

I think it's 2% or less. So, there's hand gel out there will get you drunk quicker lol.


Apparently it's super popular in Greece, where I assume holiday makers sup it by the pool all day.

I had 1 can of the Amstel brand - it was one of those tiny little cans and it was gorgeous. I'm not sure where i even got the can from.

Going to buy a couple tomorrow and see how i get on. Thanks!

Get Real

Banjo String wrote: »

Not exclusive to Aldi, it's a brand by Amstel.

I think it's 2% or less. So, there's hand gel out there will get you drunk quicker lol.


Apparently it's super popular in Greece, where I assume holiday makers sup it by the pool all day.

Sorry if I'm mistaken, but is it by Amstel? I thought it was just Aldi Radler? Called Brasserie?

Amstel Radler is only on the scene perhaps a year? Radler has been around for generations. Its basically just a German word for shandy.

Amstel have been very smart in marketing here. A few friends refer to "Radler" as if its a brand name. They've now made it equivalent to using the colloquial term "Hoover" for vaccum.

But if you went into a pub in Germany and asked for a radler, it wouldn't be Amstel, it'd just be half lemonade half beer, and about 1.50- 2 quid too :P yum yum.

Talib Fiasco

Southern Belle from Aldi used be great too

Banjo String

Get Real wrote: »

Sorry if I'm mistaken, but is it by Amstel? I thought it was just Aldi Radler? Called Brasserie?

Amstel Radler is only on the scene perhaps a year? Radler has been around for generations. Its basically just a German word for shandy.

Amstel have been very smart in marketing here. A few friends refer to "Radler" as if its a brand name. They've now made it equivalent to using the colloquial term "Hoover" for vaccum.

But if you went into a pub in Germany and asked for a radler, it wouldn't be Amstel, it'd just be half lemonade half beer, and about 1.50- 2 quid too :P yum yum.

Not sure tbh, just know I was given a few cans of Radler in Tesco's one day as a free sampler.

It was definitely Amstel branded though. The girls giving them out told me about the Greek popularity.

I know the brasserie you're referring to also, but have never tried it.
Hope this is of some help.

suicide_circus

Big fan of everything aldi/lidl however their rums are absolute gut rot. And I've consumed some questionable beverages in my time.

Lidl's Putinoff (seriously) vodka would beat a lot of the top shelf vodkas in a blind tasting I would say. I only comes in 500ml bottles. Try it, you will not be disappoint.

stmol32

DS86 wrote: »

Does anybody reckon that these brands can live up to the standard of the beer, cider and wine companies they are up against, or is it the case that when you buy cheap, you get less taste and quality in exchange?

Aldi and Lidl don't have own brands of anything as far as I know (and I know as far as they're the only place I ever shop and I also buy way too much alcohol).