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Tiniest / hardest to read print I've ever seen on a beer can though

The other can I bought on Monday was May Contain Sixpence, no Re-Turn symbol on that though.

Presumably the brewer still has to pay up for these labelled cans released early?

Must remember not to crush this one after I drink it 😁

Anyone tried Kinnegar Low Tide?

Other half opened one last night and asked me to taste, we weren't sure if it was gone off or not which is really not a good sign.

I wonder will we see Irish breweries offering discounts to shift beer that doesn’t have the new recycling/return systems built in.

I can guarantee that some retailers are going to start asking for the deposit on every container long before all their stock is logoed up. Teething problem that can't last beyond June but will be annoying.

And not something a random check out staff member will be able to fix either so they're not the ones to complain to

Surely there is a different UPC number on the product with logo as opposed to the same product without.

Yes, but I expect messing / incompetence (more likely the latter than the former really) nonetheless.

Its the same as used in multiple other EU countries, multiple US states and basically the same (but with computers) as what we had here til the 70s.

There's people over in AH/CA claiming older people won't ever understand the scheme when they pretty much lived through the exact same thing, before it was decided that binning plastics was a better idea.

I used RVMs in Oregon in 2014 on a basically identical system; and higher capacity ones with Germans's awkward system back in December. It isn't hard.

Pretty much every glass bottle and sometimes even jars had a deposit element to their pricing; every shop of any scale handled returns - entirely manually. Companies that didn't operate that system would have "no deposit - no return" on the label or even embossed in the glass. I remember an Irish soft drinks brand still having that on their labels in the 90s, possibly TK, and on 2L PET bottles that were never returned!

It was for reuse first, recycling second (heavily worn or damaged bottles would break on cleaning, that glass would be recycled).

Germany has a deposit rate for reusable glass, its 8c I believe, but they have to go back to where sold them which is a faff - albeit exactly how it used to bed.

The shops own the machines so the voucher is tied to the shop.

You can get cash for the voucher and spend that anywhere nearly anywhere.

The price of all glass bottles for minerals/soda (if not more? I don't think it used to include milk bottles) used to have a deposit included. Don't know when it stopped. Giving away my age, but in the early 80s, getting the deposits back funded our sweets and comics buying during the school holidays - especially when we found a way in to a local building site that didn't have a security guard. We'd clear it out of bottles every evening, bring them to a local shop, and get the equivalent of our weekly pocket money! Next day, rinse and repeat.

Something similar with us.

The supermarket (Five Star) used to put the empties in crates and throw them outside the back door.

The same Lucozade bottles were recycled about six times a day 😂.

Speaking of Kinnegar, never seen it priced as keenly anywhere before.

Canned in Oct. and Nov. BB dates in Jun and Jul.

Fans and the curious might be tempted.