Booze deals [Megathread]

Irish Whiskey sale in O'Briens presently, ordered Writers Tears €40 and a couple of Jacobs Creek Double Barreled

Ohmeha wrote: »

Definitely have not seen slabs of Heineken selling for €20 in about 10 years

Scary to think if our government have their way that this time next year €44+ for a slab will be the cheapest we will see anywhere. Stock up folks!

Just on the issue of stocking up,how long after the best before date will cans of beer last,if stored in a cool dry place?

Indestructable wrote: »

Tesco has 24 cans of Heineken for 20 euro. Cheapest ive seen

I bit on this offer in my local Tesco today.(Longwalk Dundalk) Didn't notice until i got home but was €24.More annoyed that i didn't notice at the time more than anything else tbh So jus be aware BA hunters.

The Tesco 2 litres of Smirnoff for €40 is a great offer,that one buzzed through ok.

vicwatson wrote: »

If it was meant to be 24 cans for €20.00 then claim back double the difference

Clearly stated on all the signs €20 for 24 cans Guinness and Heiniken and i think Carlsberg.

I'll be back on to them either for the double cash there and then or points on the value club card in the future 👍👍

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

By my reckoning if you go for the 'ooh, danger Will Robinson' spirits you get not much more than HALF of the units of alcohol for your €40 than you would if you went for the beer.

this makes sense, since excise per unit on spirits is almost double what it is for beer.

https://www.revenue.ie/en/companies-and-charities/excise-and-licences/excise-duty-rates/alcohol-products-tax.aspx

This is why the proposed MUP will see a very small rise for spirits, typical naggins would not have to change price at all, and this is the reason I think the proposed "health bill" would backfire badly. Young lads and alcoholics will turn to spirits.

Anyone spot a deal on a box of peroni I'd appreciate a heads up!!

I see sunday world confirmed there is a dunnes (or tesco!) 10/50 voucher this weekend. Some other poster said it a few days ago but I saw no confirmation. 2 week tv guide too. Paper is 2.50 and you could buy mulitples

Sunday World
December 13 at 1:58pm ·
In this week’s Sunday World, get €10 off your grocery shop in Dunnes Stores when you spend €50. You’ll find your voucher alongside Sunday World’s Magazine+ this Sunday, December 17th.

Heniken in ballybrack is bb 11/2018.
Slabs of Bulmers 26 euro

damian139 wrote: »

Anyone spot a deal on a box of peroni I'd appreciate a heads up!!

Tesco Extra in Drogheda have 12 x 330ml bottles for €15 right now. It's likely to be in all Tesco stores. One of my favourites, I'll be stocking up for xmas!!

rubadub wrote: »

this makes sense, since excise per unit on spirits is almost double what it is for beer.

That makes sense arithmetically, but in terms of policy it makes no sense at all. If we are 'sin taxing' alcohol it makes no sense at all to favour some forms of it and disfavour others - all should be taxed the same per unit.

MUP makes no sense either but it's not about public health, it's about subsidising publicans.

Naggins are shockingly bad value as it is. The moral of the story for the pennywise spirit drinker - look out for offers and buy litres of vodka if you can - is again a public policy that works against the supposed aim of limiting consumption. IF they really wanted to limit consumption, it would not get cheaper per unit to buy a pint of beer instead of a glass, or a litre of spirits instead of a naggin.

My tesco had 4 max quotas on the 1L smirnoff, which is fair enough, they had loads.

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

That makes sense arithmetically, but in terms of policy it makes no sense at all. If we are 'sin taxing' alcohol it makes no sense at all to favour some forms of it and disfavour others - all should be taxed the same per unit.

it makes perfect sense to me, there are loads of countries with varying duty according to % or type. I doubt there is any country with lower excise per unit for spirits than weak beer.

Spirits can be made cheaply, cheap to brew, cheap to transport due to low weight. I am surprised there are not more which are high % and in plastic bottles to make them cheaper to transport. Most vodka is distilled past 90% and diluted back down. So if as a sin tax you wanted it such that drinks would be a similar price per unit you can put more tax on spirits. But for health reasons they would usually want to deter people from drinking high % stuff.

If you look at licencing ages you will see similar, in the UK 16s can drink if they are having a meal, i.e. effectively not getting as drunk. Countries like belgium, germany, denmark have different legal ages for different drinks, all allowing younger people drink stuff below a certain %.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age

I would not mind seeing 35%+ being over 21s here, I have never heard of someone getting their stomach pumped after drinking 4% beer. In sweden there is no age limit if the drink is under 2.25%. It would be very hard to drink to a state of blackout on 2.25% beer.

This is the biggest issue I have with MUP, it is not excise, it is all the same price per unit, and the supermarket profit. Young lads get overpriced naggins now as they often do not have the money for a full bottle. Most do not even realise or calculate which is cheapest per unit, but if MUP comes in they will certainly see the fact that they have not risen in price and so appear "less of a ripoff".

If MUP does come in will we be prevented from using vouchers if solely buying alcohol?
10 euro off a 50 spend would bring it under the minimum price so I presume alcohol would be excluded similar to baby food, lotto, tobacco etc.

Thanks for you reply rubadub, it was very informative! It will be interesting to see what the retailers can come up with if it does come in.

Back to the deals. My GF got 12 of a 60 spend in tesco coupons. We bought 2 slabs of guinness and 1 of Heineken for 48 Euro today.
72 cans for 48. Shudder to think of next year