Is off license beer/spirits getting more watered down than usual these days?

veryangryman

Either lockdown has made me a trooper of an alco or the supermarkets are riding us ragged. Almost a full 700ml bottle of Smirnoff last night and I am sans hangover today.

Bad enough with the shrinkflation (latest being those 330ml cans are now 250ml. CoconUNTS.

Lately It has made me want to go into politics as a single issue candidate and resign the minute I achieve it. Of course to do that, I need a name that nobody else in Ireland uses, like Roderick. Or Joespha. Or Norma.

L1011

Vodka must be 37.5% minimum by law; and Smirnoff has been bare minimum for as long as I can remember.

Some stronger beers have been cut to make them more supermarket-friendly, usually craft brewers when they get bigger - but I suspect you've just managed to get dangerous tolerance.

The 330ml soft drinks cans that have changed to taller cans are still 330ml, they're fatter than the 250ml Red Bull cans of the same height.

Fils

Craft beer is for knobs who can’t handle a few pints.

Thelonious Monk

I don't think I've ever seen a 250ml can. If you're not getting a hanger off 700ml of vodka yes your tolerance must be through the roof.

veryangryman

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I don't think I've ever seen a 250ml can. If you're not getting a hanger off 700ml of vodka yes your tolerance must be through the roof.

Lots of ice, lots of chaser I guess. I still think I'm being screwed

L1011

Fils wrote: »

Craft beer is for knobs who can’t handle a few pints.

Craft beer is generally significantly stronger than whatever your "few pints" are - 6% common compared to sub-4.3% for nearly all mass market pints.

athlone573

L1011 wrote: »

Craft beer is generally significantly stronger than whatever your "few pints" are - 6% common compared to sub-4.3% for nearly all mass market pints.

You don't get Fosters or 4X here anymore but the cheap central European beer in tesco isn't awful and it's near 5%

Fils

L1011 wrote: »

Craft beer is generally significantly stronger than whatever your "few pints" are - 6% common compared to sub-4.3% for nearly all mass market pints.

Drinking a few pints versus a lad in pointy shoes supping a craft beer for the night. Do your maths again now on that.

Thelonious Monk

Fils wrote: »

Drinking a few pints versus a lad in pointy shoes supping a craft beer for the night. Do your maths again now on that.

wtf are you on about

athlone573

American "pints" in an Irish pub, now that's more of a joke.

Fils

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

wtf are you on about

I’m using very basic English, do keep up.

Mimon

Fils wrote: »

Craft beer is for knobs who can’t handle a few pints.

Are you serious?

So in your mind drinking watery 4.5% piss lager or mellow Guinness is more hardcore than drinking craft beers which are often 6, 7, 8 %.

You wouldn't last an hour on the stuff I drink

Badly Drunk Boy

veryangryman wrote: »

Lots of ice, lots of chaser I guess. I still think I'm being screwed

If it's from the off-licence, is a full bottle and is at least 37.5% alcohol, then your tolerance has increased. well, unless somebody in your house is watering it down after you open it, for whatever reason.

Surreptitious

If I drank nearly a bottle of vodka I'd be in a bad way.

Real Donald Trump

veryangryman wrote: »

Either lockdown has made me a trooper of an alco or the supermarkets are riding us ragged. Almost a full 700ml bottle of Smirnoff last night and I am sans hangover today.

Bad enough with the shrinkflation (latest being those 330ml cans are now 250ml. CoconUNTS.

Lately It has made me want to go into politics as a single issue candidate and resign the minute I achieve it. Of course to do that, I need a name that nobody else in Ireland uses, like Roderick. Or Joespha. Or Norma.

The childer must be watering down your hooch. Good shoe in the arse should sort out your problem.

The one time I've had a session on craft beers in the last five years, it landed me in hospital. If you drink them like regular pints, you are going to be sideways. Through a bathroom door. With glass panes.

Anyways, yeah you could have worked yourself up to a bottle of vodka. Or someone is stealing some, or someone like the wife is diluting it to help you, which is completely fair if you're polishing off bottles of vodka at home.

joeguevara

The OP suggests the bottle of vodka had more of an inebreating effect than you may have realised. Not often would someone meander from discussing the consumption of a bottle of spirits to changing their name to Norma via opining about decreasing volume of undisclosed cans and political intentions.

TXPTGR1

Fils wrote: »

Drinking a few pints versus a lad in pointy shoes supping a craft beer for the night. Do your maths again now on that.

I can see your frayed bootcut jeans and 10 year old super dry hoody from through the screen

L1011

Fils wrote: »

Drinking a few pints versus a lad in pointy shoes supping a craft beer for the night. Do your maths again now on that.

You've got your stereotypes all mixed up

The pointy shoes wearers drink bottles of Heinomite. Maybe the zero version if they've got the Range Rover with them

The craft beer drinker has a beard. Either a beat hipster one or a ridiculously bushy real ale bore one.

And the lad who moans about everyone else while believing he's somehow better for drinking unspecificed pints in high volume is posting from 1983

Eldudeson

OP, this needs more research. Get yourself back to the offy and buy 2 bottles of vodka. Report back the results!

Mimon

Deleted User wrote: »

The one time I've had a session on craft beers in the last five years, it landed me in hospital. If you drink them like regular pints, you are going to be sideways. Through a bathroom door. With glass panes.

Anyways, yeah you could have worked yourself up to a bottle of vodka. Or someone is stealing some, or someone like the wife is diluting it to help you, which is completely fair if you're polishing off bottles of vodka at home.

Yeh :pac: , learned my lesson after doing the same, didn't end up in hospital but ended up walking down the quays the wrong way in Dublin after the session and was opposite the point before I copped that I should have been walking the other way.

Fils

Fils wrote: »

I’m using very basic English, do keep up.

It certainly looks like basic English, but it doesn't make any sense.