Good quality cheap beers

Gone West

Your local Aldi or lidl has tons of cheap beers.(ie- student-cheap)
Pity that most of them are horrible. Has anyone any advice on which brands are good? I know that theres 2 or 3 decent beers available on the cheap in Ireland, but their names escape me.

Dont be at yourself

Bavaria.




Seriously.

nesf

Brew your own... Or so I've heard...

The Sweeper

Tesco used to do a Bier D'Alsace - stubbies. Drinkable. Won't guarantee a lack of chemical hangover. Cheap. Possibly what you're looking for...

WhiteWashMan

ducth Fúcking gold all the way baby!

Thraktor

I'd generally go with Grolsch or Warsteiner (both €1 a bottle), which, as cheap beers go, are probably the best. Wouldn't touch Bavaria or Dutch Gold with a ten-foot beer-pole.

Gone West

WhiteWashMan wrote:

ducth Fúcking gold all the way baby!

Not quite as cheap as its popular image.
/me dons burberry cap

nesf

Thraktor wrote:

I'd generally go with Grolsch or Warsteiner (both €1 a bottle), which, as cheap beers go, are probably the best. Wouldn't touch Bavaria or Dutch Gold with a ten-foot beer-pole.

Warsteiner is nice stuff imho. Good to keep a case in the kitchen for when people drop over and all that

steveland?

Prazski is nice enough and 6 for €6.99

Tastes a little like Stella

c - 13

Galahad from aldi for me, not too bad, even better after you get the first few into ya
E1 a can too.

Gone West

Wait.
Did I just complain about the price of Dutch gold?
/me knows its gotten bad now.

Crucifix

NekkidBibleMan wrote:

Bavaria.




Seriously.

Agreed. It's quite cheap, and I find it quite drinkable. Appreciation for it differs from person to person, but everyone agrees, it beats Dutch Gold hands down.

Viscosity

Castlemaine XXXX, 6 for €8

Tom Dunne

Just tried the premium pils from Lidl - very pleasantly surprised. Went back today and bought myself 12 more. Even herself tried it and drank a bottle - you can't get a better compliment than that!

6.99 Euro for 6x500ml bottles.

Blisterman

Spar in bayside has Castlemain XXXX for €1 a can. Can't beat that.

Funkstard

Hollandia, seriously. Dutch is Dutch and Bavaria is just horrible, but Hollandia actually isn't that bad. €1 a can usually and I would probably prefer it over Dutch, which I've been drinking for years

honru

Hollandia and Bavaria are horrible, and for some reason Dutch has gotten rather sour of late (perhaps it's that makeover).

Tuborg's yer man.

Robbo

The 'borg. 7 quid for 6 cans.

"Quaffable, but far from transcendent"

the_rook

Bottles of Rolling Rock
Bavaria
Tuborg.

humbleCounty

molloys are selling 6 cans of Pravski for 7 euro. Its a Czech beer, no additives/chemicals in it and it tastes lovely. Been drinking just that at home for the last while now.

DundalkDuffman

Lidl are knocking out 660ml bottles of Stella for 2.49€

byte

tom dunne wrote:

Just tried the premium pils from Lidl - very pleasantly surprised. Went back today and bought myself 12 more. Even herself tried it and drank a bottle - you can't get a better compliment than that!

6.99 Euro for 6x500ml bottles.

Yeah, it's good stuff. Bergadler it's called.

One day, I bought 50 of them for €25 (they were loose but put in an apple box). Best spend ever!

Crucifix

byte wrote:

Yeah, it's good stuff. Bergadler it's called.

Ahh, I was drinking that recently myself. Not too bad, and I like the screw top lids; very handy.

Chris P Duck

Bavaria or Tuborg

Amstel is nice aswell and its not overly priced at €1.59 a can in superquinn

Blub2k4

DundalkDuffman wrote:

Lidl are knocking out 660ml bottles of Stella for 2.49€

that price is actually a pretty bad litre price for Stella, the small bottles are a better litre price even in Lidl.

rubadub

Robbo wrote:

The 'borg. 7 quid for 6 cans.

"Quaffable, but far from transcendent"

never far from transients though

grolsch, warsteiner, hollandia all €1 in o'briens

I saw a new 5% beer in tescos, 20 33cl bottles for €17, have to give it a test drive, the 4% french stubbies are nice.

Lauragoesmad

Tuborg: Ya love it like ya love yr horse!!

Bateman

Surprised Bier D'France in Dunnes hasn't got a mention. The large boxes of stubbies are perfect for outdoor drinking at barbeques etc, because the bottles are small, and you're opening the next bottle before the beer even thinks about going dead.

Bavaria or Rolling Rock are fine by the bottle IMO, but I wouldn't go near Tuborg.

DrIndy

Tuborg, quality brew sold at knockdown prices because they don't have the brand name of carlsberg.

Officially denmarks second beer and by far my favourite in scandinavia - imagine my delight to find it ridiculously cheap in ireland!

Sleepy

Tuborg or Rolling Rock bottle would definitely be my beers of choice come the last week of the month

pdunno

Supervalue -€15 for 15 330cl bottles of Stella, can't go wrong with that

quattfa3

byte wrote:

Yeah, it's good stuff. Bergadler it's called.

One day, I bought 50 of them for €25 (they were loose but put in an apple box). Best spend ever!

That's a lovely beer. Nice taste, twist off tops, 500Ml bottles, cheaper than chips and a relatively small price to pay the next day.

sound_wave

Tuborg gets another vote here, very popular in Europe too as i found out on the train going from Nuremburg to Prague they had cans of super Tuborg 8%!

Fink gets another vote for cheap as chips beer, if you can handle the particularly bad hangovers they give you.

Civilian_Target

The Tesco cheap stubbies are disgusting, undrinkable even when cold (quite an achievement!)
The Dunnes ones aren't half-bad though.

My recommendation is Labbat Ice - extremely tasty when chilled!
Other good ones (mostly mentioned above) are Grolsch, Warstiener and Tuborg

I recommend not touching Rolling Rock with a very long pole indeed.

brianw

i only usually drink from bottles. cans are piss. and the stella is crap - bottle or can. its brewed in england and tates nothing like the real stuff in belgium. the english cant brew lager, worse than us even.

so for my taste the best value beer by a mile in ireland is bergadler from lidl.
when i saw lidl in germany recently i noticed the germans were buying tons of the stuff. and they like their beer!
warsteiner is a good deal now at 1€ for a 33cl. biggest selling beer in germany.
superquinn are also doing cases of san miguel and nastro for 24€. good quality stuff, although the san miguel is stronger than normal beer and too tasty to stop! beware

all we need now is for a brewery in ireland to start doing real beer on draught so we can stop puking up on all this chemical pish like bud, heineken etc etc.