Booze deals [Megathread #2]

18-03-2022 02:29PM

I was robbed yesterday. Apparently you can't get 8 packs anymore. So 2 x 6packs cost me 26euro. That's a joke if I'm being honest.

I wonder will any of the political parties be willing to revisit this farce when it comes to the next general election.

eh i dunno · 18-03-2022 03:09PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118801630#Comment_118801630

Just saw it online. Just Coors for 30 and bud for 32

elperello · 18-03-2022 03:13PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118801773#Comment_118801773

What did you buy and where did you buy it?

18-03-2022 03:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118801956#Comment_118801956

Local off license.

6 pack of heineken in tesco is 12 euro. Madness.

elperello · 18-03-2022 03:24PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118801970#Comment_118801970

€1.70 is the MUP price for 4.3% Heineken so they are charging you more than they have to under the legislation.

Nothing illegal about it but they could do a better deal.

18-03-2022 03:34PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118801995#Comment_118801995

Yeh whatever about the local offo who have thinner margins no reason why tesco couldnt charge €10.20.

I'll be up the North soon so will stock up on Heinos.

elperello · 18-03-2022 03:39PM

If you can't get a 500ml can for less than €2 you could try this lager in Lidl.

It's 5% and brewed in Kildare, €1.99 per 500ml bottle.

I like it but you might not but it sells by the bottle so you could try 1 or 2 for a start.

https://www.lidl.ie/p/grocery-range-craft-beer/irish-lager-5/p2893

1992ChainGang · 19-03-2022 04:24PM

Lidl near Knocklyon are doing 12 Guinness for 19.90c.

Probably the lowest price they can be sold at these days I assume? The same 12 packs are going for 24/25 in Tesco and Super Valu.

elperello · 19-03-2022 06:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118805971#Comment_118805971

Spot on, they actually have it in the leaflet for €19.88 as well as Baileys at €10.

Lowest price per can of Guinness under MUP is €1.66.

12x €1.66 = €19.92.

People need to shop around.

MUP is bad enough without being gouged by retailers.

Lidl and Aldi appear to be offering better value currently.

ablelocks · 19-03-2022 08:58PM

supervalu have 15 Guinness at €24.85 - presume this is MUP price, but have neither the inclination or calculator to work it out.

elperello · 19-03-2022 10:14PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118807142#Comment_118807142

It is.

This is the calculator.

It works for wine and spirits too.

https://www.irishwinereviews.ie/minimum-unit-pricing-calculator

L'prof · 20-03-2022 11:48AM

I have a template made up for it in Converter+ for anyone that has an iPhone. I think if you just search for MUP it’ll come up

Hoboo · 20-03-2022 08:47PM

Tesco. Piccini Memoro. €10 normally €20. Very nice red at a decent price.

Peter File · 21-03-2022 09:35AM

Lidl have superbock 6 packs of 330ml bottles for €8.99. it is 5.2% and would have cost €6.99 pre mup. Lots of boxes in store

Hotblack Desiato · 21-03-2022 11:48AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118811179#Comment_118811179

It's Tesco so beware of the "normal" price being jacked up to a ridiculous level.

Hoboo · 21-03-2022 03:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118813140#Comment_118813140

Absolutely, I’d normally get it for just over a tenner in sainsburys.

That said, it’s exceptional value at that price, this isn’t an eagle hawk that’s now at a price point that reflects its lower quality, it’s at a price point that makes it an absolute bargain.

elperello · 21-03-2022 03:28PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118814270#Comment_118814270

That's the essence of a Booze deal.

You find something that suits both your palate and your pocket.

Seve OB · 21-03-2022 04:02PM

Need to get a heap of Sancerre. Anyone spot any deals around it would be appreciated please

cadaliac · 21-03-2022 04:52PM

Anyone see Spaten for sale lately? Not on the shelves in Aldi or SV currently..

Thanks

TallGlass2 · 21-03-2022 05:11PM

I'm finding it funny how this was brought in as a play fair for the supermarkets, yet all the deals are still in the supermarkets and the pubs are jacking up prices as normal. I was away there the weekend in Austria, its only till you walk into a Spar shop over there that you realise how much we where previously sky high before any MUP and are now thanks to MUP reaching x3 x4 times the price of some items vs mainland Europe, I looked at a 6 pack of Heno bottles 330ml in SV yesterday, 12€, they had 500ml bottles in Austria in a pack of 6 for 6/7€ and minus the stupid saloon swinging gates and a boxed off section in the shop. We are been governed by morons.

As a BA if flying from Austria, they have 2x1lt Bottle of Smirnoff and Bacardi for 31€.

I had thought about offering to collect spirits for people in this thread at cost price for people in my local area in Dublin before heading over, but totally forgot and wasn't sure of the practicality of it, but we can bring back 8lts from within the EU. Is it feasible to do something like that on this thread for people heading away for weekends here and there to collect a bottle or two for people on the thread?

Thargor · 22-03-2022 10:13PM

Tried mybooze.eu as a bit of a group buy with a couple of friends, Ill work out the numbers later but 100% success, basically got us back to pre-MUPpet pricing no hassle, in fact way better seeing as we're now buying 1L bottles for what were previously 70cl prices, cant complain at all, free minibar bottle of peach shnaps and a nice Jack Daniels glass in the box aswell, no customs or anything, great site.

Dingaan · 23-03-2022 12:41PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820988#Comment_118820988

Good to read that there is still some success via MyBooze.

What was the size of the order? How many bottles?

Thargor · 23-03-2022 04:20PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118822911#Comment_118822911

About €400 split between 2 houses delivered by UPS in Limerick, about a dozen bottles in each, nothing more expensive than a liter of JW Green Label. The rest was a collection of random vodkas and whiskeys in the €15-20 a liter range, no research was done or anything, just whatever caught our eye was thrown in the cart.

I have a ridiculous amount of alcohol in my house atm, I need to unsubscribe from this thread 🤣

okidoki987 · 23-03-2022 10:54PM

Sainsburys doing 25% off if you buy 6 or more for anybody going up North.

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/gb/groceries/drinks/all-wine-?storeId=10151&langId=44&krypto=v5mB4jW0YQ7pHE6mclaLUQ4f4IG3F88PSdPpCgw5d8Pyalm%2BJ%2BoT2qNi7F9uXdnY5CEeOxGbJjSVYQ%2Fm7vO2oZkjFpcFjiSt7WD5DDDQ05Ntc%2Bv1Pd0YAUePKZ1OnX8A%2BZ9pWt2KnV573vaa6ixStZKDlaz6uaUooAaT8n4brAE%3D&ddkey=https%3Agb%2Fgroceries%2Fdrinks%2Fall-wine-

Max 36 bottles, from 23rd March 2022 until and including 27th March 2022.

Seve OB · 24-03-2022 12:26AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118824512#Comment_118824512

I was only thinking this morning, MUP and last year the vouchers being stopped both caused me to buy a sh1t load more booze than I ever would dream of buying. I could genuinely open a pub for a night and nobody would go home sober 😂🤣

on top of that, these measures implemented to curtail drinking………. Well I’m definitely drinking a hell of a lot more now, 🤪

Hotblack Desiato · 24-03-2022 02:23AM

It's reminiscent of when pub / off licence sales were banned on Good Friday. Result = lots of people went mad at house parties and they'd be practically queueing around the block at the offie the evening before. Buying loads too "just in case" they run out when they can't get more. Would they have drunk as much that day if the pubs and off-licences had been open - no. It'd just be another Friday on a bank holiday weekend, which is what it's become now.

Same as the aul "closing time drink up" - get a couple of pints in quick as you can, and maybe some shots too, as they'll be chucking you out in half an hour - along with everyone else in all the other pubs. All drunk, hungry and looking for chips and a taxi at exactly the same time. What could possibly go wrong with that genius plan?

Are the powers that be ever going to realise that restrictions on alcohol are counter-productive, the more you try and make it hard to get, or even hard to hear about (advertising) then the greater the illicit pleasure in evading the hurdles the busybodies have put in your path.

Over-18s should be able to buy alcohol whenever they like and not pay a ridiculous price for it either. If things get any more stupid then poitin will take off in a big way - don't these people study history at all?

reubenreuben · 24-03-2022 02:01PM

Dunnes. 20% off wine and champagne

Hotblack Desiato · 24-03-2022 03:59PM

I did notice last week in Dunnes that all of the wines which would have been below MUP with a 20% reduction were off the shelves.

avfc1874 · 24-03-2022 05:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118824512#Comment_118824512

Put your address up and a few of us will call around and help you with a tidy up and such 🙄

La Madame · 24-03-2022 07:11PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118824512#Comment_118824512

I completely agree that MUP turns people completely opposite . I recently had a neighbour visiting , we usually drink a beer together and talk about the world. After the introduction of MUP we spoke the complete 2 hours he was here about alcohol! BUT ! I would not go too public about deliveries from overseas here. I agree that it is an act of self defence . The Charm and the Cruelty of our little Island is that the public works are insufficient and badly organised. It starts withe the TD you vote for and ends with the Council Clerk who organises the filling of the pot -holes. But if the public eye gets to interested in some type of deliveries from over seas, some guy out there might take his hand out of his pocket just to prove that his wages are justified! My advise is : KEEP A LOW PROFILE ABOUT IT! protect the others.

Booze deals [Megathread #2]

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