Booze deals [Megathread #2]

Lidl doing 4 cans of Beamish for €6.79 from next Thursday.

Never seen a 4 pack below €8 before, and I'm in Cark bai so I see and drink tins of Beamish often.

I see Franziskaner is €2 a 500ml bottle in Dunnes at the moment, good value compared to UK non mup where LIDL and Tesco are selling 4 for £6 (€1.72 a bottle). Single bottle pricing is more in UK than Dunnes.

Decent prices, but worth noting that Bulleit is cheaper in Dunnes at 32 at the moment, and Buffalo Trace seems to be 30. Some of the others are more expensive in Dunnes, of course, so it pays to shop around.

Thats the worst side effect I've heard of.

On the bright side, does that mean cheap shite smells / tastes the same as the good stuff to you?

The cheap stuff tastes kinda the same as it always did, but a big part of the pleasure of drinking a more expensive whiskey for me, and I imagine many others, is taking a good sniff of it before tasting, and also appreciating the smells while tasting. I do have a mid-priced bottle of Black's tucked away for Christmas so I'll see if I get anything more out of that than ordinary Jameson / Powers.

It's a pain but it's far from the worst side effect some people have, I never had any symptoms until one day I realised I hadn't lit the gas hob properly but could barely smell the gas. Got a PCR test and it was negative. That was last October.

25% off 6 bottles starts again tomorrow in Sainsbury's. Tesco clubcard prices in NI run until tomorrow so probably something coming up there too.

Anyone been to the UK by ferry in the last while and have any experience of customs to share? The allowances to bring back into Ireland are very small (e.g. only 1 litre of spirits) and just wondering to what extent that's being enforced on the way back. Going out from Dun Laoghaire, not Rosslare, if that makes any difference. Thanks.

https://book.aferry.com/action/search?searchid=11977142602005494936 Stena Line? Dublin Port?

Yes Dublin Port is in the city, and Dun Laoghaire is another place and its port used to compete with Dublin and have ferry services but Stena line pulled out and moved to Dublin.

Sorry but you need to read again as my 2nd reply was not to your post so nobody is beating you up.

As for your question, you're asking people about the chances of getting away with smuggling and tax evasion so I don't think that should be asked.

Tesco selling a lot of the more "premium" lagers at what i presume I presume is MUP prices. The likeS of Corona, Madri, Peroni have had some unusual pricing so I presume that MUP minimum pricing. EG 12 X Corona is E14.06 in my local tesco anyway, which is cheaper than what it was most times pre MUP

Have not travelled by ferry for a long time but if it is like airports the ferry operator might restrict you to 1 litre limit per person by scanning your boarding pass. Not saying this is fact, but more than likely.

10 euro in Tesco too now.

Not for the connoisseur i know but bud light(3.5%) is a tenner for 12 bottles in tesco.

E.g 1 litre of Absolut £16 on ferry, roughly €18-19. 70cl here €22.50 on offer, 27 otherwise. Similar difference for Jameson. Not exactly a runaway bargain but if I'm travelling with the car anyway it would be nice to save something on a couple of extra bottles on the run up to Christmas. Plus I have a soft sport for a good port and there's never much of a range here, I usually find more to choose from in the UK. The ultimate prize if I can find it while I'm over, and no one in Ireland sells it that I've found, is Lemon Hart rum...