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Booze deals [Megathread #2]

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,575 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    Can confirm Dunnes have both 470 and 500 slabs of Guinness for €23.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 669 ✭✭✭tallaghtfornia


    TheDriver wrote: »
    Can confirm Dunnes have both 470 and 500 slabs of Guinness for €23.

    Jesus thats a good price !! My presses will be bulging at this stage :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,283 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Jesus thats a good price !! My presses will be bulging at this stage :D

    I actually can't drink anymore of it. 2 slabs in the boot of the car and 2 in the press at home.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭rogeyspoint


    I think that i saw 24 x Coors Light Cans for €25 in Dunnes the other day.


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,300 ✭✭✭✭casio4


    TheDriver wrote: »
    Can confirm Dunnes have both 470 and 500 slabs of Guinness for €23.

    Just back from Dunnes 500ml slabs Guinness €25


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭adam240610


    Yellow Dog wrote: »
    Lucky you.

    When I go to site it says not available.

    Went to local Tesco and could not find any.

    Mine also said not available when going to order which is annoying


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,064 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    I wonder will dunnes still give you a 10 off 50 voucher if you spend 50 on booze?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,407 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    Seve OB wrote: »
    I wonder will dunnes still give you a 10 off 50 voucher if you spend 50 on booze?


    No it's excluded from gaining points/vouchers too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,300 ✭✭✭✭casio4


    Seve OB wrote: »
    I wonder will dunnes still give you a 10 off 50 voucher if you spend 50 on booze?

    No I bought 2 slabs and didn't get a voucher I even scanned my clubcard and then realised there is no point


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,560 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Tesco have Lomza Export Lager €5 for 4 500ml cans.

    It's 5.7% so be careful :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    elperello wrote: »
    Tesco have Lomza Export Lager €5 for 4 500ml cans.

    It's 5.7% so be careful :)

    That is only lovely beer. I don't think I ever managed to drink all four though. (Female)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    That is only lovely beer. I don't think I ever managed to drink all four though. (Female)

    Would it be anything like the old XXL beer?

    Hey us women can drink just as well as the men lol...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,289 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    casio4 wrote: »
    Just back from Dunnes 500ml slabs Guinness €25

    Just back from Dunnes Jetland SC in Limerick, 500ml slabs are €25 and they also had a stack of 470ml slabs marked @ €23.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    fin12 wrote: »
    Would it be anything like the old XXL beer?

    Hey us women can drink just as well as the men lol...

    I never had that. The Lomza Export is a really nice tasty beer. It's not cheap, usually about 8 euro for a 4 pack. It would be higher end, but not craft.

    And yes, us women can knock a good bit back :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,289 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Lomza Export is lovely, I actually find it nicer from the can than the bottle.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Lomza Export is lovely, I actually find it nicer from the can than the bottle.

    I'm not gone on bottles. It is one nice beer with a good kick to it but not like the cheapo ones where you'd be dying afterwards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,752 ✭✭✭beachhead


    casio4 wrote: »
    No I bought 2 slabs and didn't get a voucher I even scanned my clubcard and then realised there is no point

    Discounts-vouchers banned by law since 11th Jan That includes no points awarded with store cards.Guinness 500ml slabs in my local Dunnes for e23.None at all in Tesco.


  • Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭Hespy


    I think that i saw 24 x Coors Light Cans for €25 in Dunnes the other day.
    €25 is a lot for 12L of gone off water. :P


  • Registered Users Posts: 197 ✭✭headnorth


    Supervalu

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭Poor_old_gill


    Glad to have you back headnorth


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭93Cab


    Hespy wrote: »
    €25 is a lot for 12L of gone off water. :P

    These posts are becoming quite tiresome! If someone goes to the trouble to post a bargain alert on beer snide comments on the beer in question are not really contributing any thing. Yes, everybody knows that the beer in question does not meet universal approval, yes we know it doesn’t conform to the reinheitsgebot, so unless you have a meaningful contribution stfu!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭CWF


    elperello wrote: »
    Tesco have Lomza Export Lager €5 for 4 500ml cans.

    It's 5.7% so be careful :)

    Nice one I'll give that a go


  • Registered Users Posts: 595 ✭✭✭dubstepper


    My brother raves about Lomza Export. I think he has shares in the company.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Does anyone reckon they might eventually get around this by selling beer brewing kits at some off licenses and supermarkets? I've been brewing for a few years (hence being far less active on this thread than pre-2018 :D:D:D ) so I'm biased but it does seem like a no brainer - replace or augment the bottom shelf stuff with simple ingredient kits which make 40 500ml bottles for c.€15 in a month or so. I'm actually amazed breweries haven't started making their own pre-hopped malt extracts for this purpose, it would be literally impossible to regulate as all of the ingredients are used every day in regular cooking - particularly if you're making homebrew cider.

    Imagine walking into an Offie and buying a box for €30 which would make 40 bottles of Brewdog or O'Haras in a couple of weeks? Would be a complete game changer. Apart from the sugar tax I really don't see any way they could regulate this price-wise without it also effecting basic cooking and baking ingredients.

    Very much thinking of those grape packages they sold in the US during prohibition, upon which there was apparently a note to the effect of "WARNING: Do not boil the contents of this box, add yeast, and leave in a sealed container for several weeks - you may inadvertently create an illegal alcoholic beverage" :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,553 ✭✭✭murphyebass


    Does anyone reckon they might eventually get around this by selling beer brewing kits at some off licenses and supermarkets? I've been brewing for a few years (hence being far less active on this thread than pre-2018 :D:D:D ) so I'm biased but it does seem like a no brainer - replace or augment the bottom shelf stuff with simple ingredient kits which make 40 500ml bottles for c.€15 in a month or so. I'm actually amazed breweries haven't started making their own pre-hopped malt extracts for this purpose, it would be literally impossible to regulate as all of the ingredients are used every day in regular cooking - particularly if you're making homebrew cider.

    Imagine walking into an Offie and buying a box for €30 which would make 40 bottles of Brewdog or O'Haras in a couple of weeks? Would be a complete game changer. Apart from the sugar tax I really don't see any way they could regulate this price-wise without it also effecting basic cooking and baking ingredients.

    Very much thinking of those grape packages they sold in the US during prohibition, upon which there was apparently a note to the effect of "WARNING: Do not boil the contents of this box, add yeast, and leave in a sealed container for several weeks - you may inadvertently create an illegal alcoholic beverage" :D

    This sounds a lot like what actually happened in prohibition times


  • Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭undertaker fan 88


    24 500ml guinness still 25 euro in dunnes. Was in dunnes Douglas cork today full pallet. I now have enough to do me for a few weeks I hope.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,064 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    Does anyone reckon they might eventually get around this by selling beer brewing kits at some off licenses and supermarkets? I've been brewing for a few years (hence being far less active on this thread than pre-2018 :D:D:D ) so I'm biased but it does seem like a no brainer - replace or augment the bottom shelf stuff with simple ingredient kits which make 40 500ml bottles for c.€15 in a month or so. I'm actually amazed breweries haven't started making their own pre-hopped malt extracts for this purpose, it would be literally impossible to regulate as all of the ingredients are used every day in regular cooking - particularly if you're making homebrew cider.

    Imagine walking into an Offie and buying a box for €30 which would make 40 bottles of Brewdog or O'Haras in a couple of weeks? Would be a complete game changer. Apart from the sugar tax I really don't see any way they could regulate this price-wise without it also effecting basic cooking and baking ingredients.

    Very much thinking of those grape packages they sold in the US during prohibition, upon which there was apparently a note to the effect of "WARNING: Do not boil the contents of this box, add yeast, and leave in a sealed container for several weeks - you may inadvertently create an illegal alcoholic beverage" :D

    nice idea but would people really be bothered?
    i mean you could be doing this for the last 30 years, yes im sure the quality is much better nowadays, but how many people do it to save a few quid, little to none i imagine. id say the only people who do it are doing it as a hobby as much as anything.
    also, you might think it is an easy process but i think you'd be surprised at how many people would make a balls of it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,560 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Does anyone reckon they might eventually get around this by selling beer brewing kits at some off licenses and supermarkets? I've been brewing for a few years (hence being far less active on this thread than pre-2018 :D:D:D ) so I'm biased but it does seem like a no brainer - replace or augment the bottom shelf stuff with simple ingredient kits which make 40 500ml bottles for c.€15 in a month or so. I'm actually amazed breweries haven't started making their own pre-hopped malt extracts for this purpose, it would be literally impossible to regulate as all of the ingredients are used every day in regular cooking - particularly if you're making homebrew cider.

    Imagine walking into an Offie and buying a box for €30 which would make 40 bottles of Brewdog or O'Haras in a couple of weeks? Would be a complete game changer. Apart from the sugar tax I really don't see any way they could regulate this price-wise without it also effecting basic cooking and baking ingredients.

    Very much thinking of those grape packages they sold in the US during prohibition, upon which there was apparently a note to the effect of "WARNING: Do not boil the contents of this box, add yeast, and leave in a sealed container for several weeks - you may inadvertently create an illegal alcoholic beverage" :D

    Not disagreeing with you on the mechanics of home brewing, you are obviously an enthusiast and good luck to you.

    However, I would prefer not to have to take up a new hobby to be able to drink in moderation in my own home

    I only want the marketplace to decide the price of the drink I enjoy not some over zealous neo-prohibitionist politician.

    Clearly too much to expect in our Republic.


  • Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 5,842 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quackster


    dubstepper wrote: »
    My brother raves about Lomza Export. I think he has shares in the company.
    I am quite partial to the unfiltered Lomza myself. If only that was available in four-can multipacks...


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,099 ✭✭✭BringBackMick


    MOLSON 1 EURO A CAN IN TESCO


  • Registered Users Posts: 343 ✭✭Frank_1969


    Does anyone reckon they might eventually get around this by selling beer brewing kits at some off licenses and supermarkets? I've been brewing for a few years (hence being far less active on this thread than pre-2018 :D:D:D ) so I'm biased but it does seem like a no brainer - replace or augment the bottom shelf stuff with simple ingredient kits which make 40 500ml bottles for c.€15 in a month or so. I'm actually amazed breweries haven't started making their own pre-hopped malt extracts for this purpose, it would be literally impossible to regulate as all of the ingredients are used every day in regular cooking - particularly if you're making homebrew cider.

    Imagine walking into an Offie and buying a box for €30 which would make 40 bottles of Brewdog or O'Haras in a couple of weeks? Would be a complete game changer. Apart from the sugar tax I really don't see any way they could regulate this price-wise without it also effecting basic cooking and baking ingredients.

    Very much thinking of those grape packages they sold in the US during prohibition, upon which there was apparently a note to the effect of "WARNING: Do not boil the contents of this box, add yeast, and leave in a sealed container for several weeks - you may inadvertently create an illegal alcoholic beverage" :D

    Great Post.. Reminds of my late teenage years in the late 1980's when we were all on the dole and penniless.
    A few friends of mine were into the home brew scene and other substances I can't mention here.
    We used to have great sessions trying out the lagers and ales, I must admit they were stronger than the piss water we all buy nowadays in cans and bottles.
    I agree with you in that the home brew would be virtually impossible to tax, but I feel we have become too lazy to even try it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 31 NickB1337


    Will these new regulations impact the typical 4 for €10 or 3 for €9 beers? Or even the price of slabs compared to individual cans?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭Peter File


    NickB1337 wrote: »
    Will these new regulations impact the typical 4 for €10 or 3 for €9 beers? Or even the price of slabs compared to individual cans?

    the multi-buy offers are finished. Unless tesco etc reduce the price back to around €2.50 a bottle will there be any demand for the bigger beer and cider bottles?
    Slab offers can continue as long as they are for more than 3 days.
    minimum pricing is the final dagger though which is still TBC


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,575 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    NickB1337 wrote: »
    Will these new regulations impact the typical 4 for €10 or 3 for €9 beers? Or even the price of slabs compared to individual cans?

    Dunnes have dropped a lot of their prices to around 2.60 a bottle, tesco still wants 3 a bottle.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭andrew1977


    NickB1337 wrote: »
    Will these new regulations impact the typical 4 for €10 or 3 for €9 beers? Or even the price of slabs compared to individual cans?

    Impacted alright:(

    Peroni 660ml bottle which was normally 4 for a tenner in Tesco are now 3.59 each.

    Smithwicks x 500ml which was normally 4 for a tenner also in Tesco are now 3.24 each.

    Obriens done 5 for 10 euro on the 500ml Smithwicks bottle which I am partial to, I will stick my head in the door there over the weekend to see what their price tactic is now on it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭sully123


    Shelf full of Staropramen in tesco Merrion right now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 394 ✭✭Gaw_


    I think we'll see more 6 pack SKUs particularly from Irish craft beer companies, which would ironically increase the amount of beer people buy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭Poor_old_gill


    Gaw_ wrote: »
    I think we'll see more 6 pack SKUs particularly from Irish craft beer companies, which would ironically increase the amount of beer people buy

    And packaging


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭brick tamland


    Gaw_ wrote: »
    I think we'll see more 6 pack SKUs particularly from Irish craft beer companies, which would ironically increase the amount of beer people buy

    Already see it in some of the bigger international companys. Brewdog available in a 4 pack and I think Sierra Nevada. Just cant Mix and Match :-(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    andrew1977 wrote: »
    Impacted alright:(

    Peroni 660ml bottle which was normally 4 for a tenner in Tesco are now 3.59 each.

    Smithwicks x 500ml which was normally 4 for a tenner also in Tesco are now 3.24 each.

    Obriens done 5 for 10 euro on the 500ml Smithwicks bottle which I am partial to, I will stick my head in the door there over the weekend to see what their price tactic is now on it.

    Go to Duness if looking to buy smithwicks. Got it for 2.55 last week

    2.75 a bottle in SV.

    https://shop.supervalu.ie/shopping/search/allaisles?q=Smithwicks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    Ha there might be a positive to this new rule, smithwicks bring back their 330ml blonde cans to sell it as a pack. Or sell their bottles in a pack.


  • Registered Users Posts: 311 ✭✭Wineman


    fin12 wrote: »
    Go to Duness if looking to buy smithwicks. Got it for 2.55 last week

    2.75 a bottle in SV.

    https://shop.supervalu.ie/shopping/search/allaisles?q=Smithwicks

    €2 per bottle in O'Briens


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,904 ✭✭✭DeadSkin


    Looking at Craft Central online there and they have marked beers down by 16% of the RRP, couple of examples;
    - 3 x O'Brother Sinner IPAs are usually 3 for 9 Euro, Craft Central have it at 3 Euro a can. Joyce's here in Galway have it at 3.44, where it was always 3 for 9.
    - 4 x Eight Degrees Citra are usually 4 for 10 Euro in most places, it is down to 2.50 a can on Craft Central.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    4 cans of Lomza for 5 euro in Tesco this evening


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭andrew1977


    Wineman wrote: »
    €2 per bottle in O'Briens

    Thanks for the heads up on that , picked up 500ml bottles of smithwicks 2 euro each , fair play to O’Brien’s for reducing the price to keep the 5 for 10 offer going as such , you can now choose to buy less if you want and only pay 2 euro a bottle .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    andrew1977 wrote: »
    Thanks for the heads up on that , picked up 500ml bottles of smithwicks 2 euro each , fair play to O’Brien’s for reducing the price to keep the 5 for 10 offer going as such , you can now choose to buy less if you want and only pay 2 euro a bottle .

    Pity there’s no o Brien’s near me.


  • Registered Users Posts: 41 Hy Gieni


    Guinness 500ml €23 in Dunnes this morning


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭oceanman


    Hy Gieni wrote: »
    Guinness 500ml €23 in Dunnes this morning
    which dunnes was that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭bronkobilly


    Hy Gieni wrote: »
    Guinness 500ml €23 in Dunnes this morning
    GOT SOME TODAY IN DUNNES 25 EURO A SLAB


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,560 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    GOT SOME TODAY IN DUNNES 25 EURO A SLAB

    I saw that too.

    Also Heineken and Carlsberg 24x500ml €25


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