If you have a clubcard,it's fairly drinkable i think?🤔
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.
Tesco have some good deals on whiskey currently. Got a 1l bottle of jameson for 32 and a bottle of method and madness single grain for 40 earlier today.
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.
To expand on that... they have until 29th November:
€30 Tullamore Dew Rum Cask, Powers 3 Swallow, Chivas Regal 12
€32 Jameson Black Barrel, Sexton Single Malt
€35 Buffalo Trace, Makers Mark, Bushmills Single Malt
€36 Johnnie Walker Black, Bulleit Bourbon
€42 Talisker 10yo
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.
If I could just get my covid-ravaged sense of smell back I'd be well away 😪 no point spending money on nice whiskeys anymore and it's been over a year now.
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?
Dunnes
Carlsberg or Budweiser
20x300ml bottles e20.36
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.
Lots of dunnes spirits are at MUP, various flavoured absoluts and other vodkas, jack daniels, jameson variants, too many to list.
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.
Bailey's 70cl currently €10 in Dunnes Stores.
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.
Dun Laoghaire? Hasn't been a ferry from there since roughly 2015.
https://book.aferry.com/action/search?searchid=11977142602005494936 Stena Line? Dublin Port?
Yes, Dublin port. Apologies! Only ever gone before from Rosslare but have booked Stena Dublin to Holyhead.
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.
I've acknowledged I made a mistake with the port name. If anyone has any answer to the original question, and is not here just to beat me up because I made an error, I'd appreciate it.
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.
That was aimed at me, I didn't bother responding because I know where both ports are . They are BOTH in Dublin and Dun Laoghaire is not in another place. My original post was suggesting to the poster that you meant Dublin port, I should have made it clearer. I would imagine with Christmas on the horizon they might be checking a bit more but wouldn't know other than that.
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
I was only taking about an extra couple of bottles, not a container lorry load. Plus given how many threads are already here on people shopping across the border and buying from websites why am I the one getting the smuggling-and-tax evasion line? I'm sorry I asked, my mistake (based on experience from other Boards forums) in thinking that the people frequenting this one might be inclined to be helpful. Mods, please feel free to delete my posts.
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.
I used to travel via Dublin Port every year or so for a while and it was reasonably common to get searched by customs for no apparent reason. That being said, they usually only did a cursory glance, and it was more typically done if you had a full-looking car.
On the other hand, I flew in from London to Cork airport last year and customs were checking everything as you went through the green channel, and they were strict about allowances.
If I were to muse aloud, I’d think that as long as you clearly weren’t taking the piss, no-one is going to care. If you had a few bags in the boot, they’re probably unlikely to search them. And if they did, we’ll naturally assume that you’d be perfectly happy to comply and pay any duty necessary so I’d guess it would be a fairly safe endeavour.
That all being said, can you buy duty free on the ferry now or are you proposing to buy from normal shops? If it’s the latter, you’d be as well off just going across the border!
10 euro in Tesco too now.
Travelled through last weekend and no checks.
Not for the connoisseur i know but bud light(3.5%) is a tenner for 12 bottles in tesco.
So where's the booze deal here?
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...
