The (Real) Ale at Home Thread

[Onket]

Cheers for all the info, ExtraRefined.

 

[Onket]

They are doing 4 bottles for a tenner in local shops

4 for a tenner?

4?

How big are the bottles?!

 

[Dan U]

4 for a tenner?

4?

How big are the bottles?!

standard size, 500ml. its not the cheapest obviously but it is small scale brewing.

i went to a cider place in East Sussex the other day and they were selling a beer made in someones house!!!

 

[Onket]

4 for a tenner is too expensive, simple as that.

 

[Dan U]

4 for a tenner is too expensive, simple as that.

actually mate i may be doing them a disservice here. i've googled the prices and its about £2ish a bottle, so i think the offer was either 5 or 6 for a tenner.

its still not £1 a bottle though obviously but then they aren't big brewery beers being sold in supermarkets.

 

[Onket]

Go and post on the relevant thread, then.

 

[what]

Hello onket mate hows tricks?

Majestic are doing 12 Greene King IPA for £12 (500ml bottles) and I think they'll deliver for free.

 

[Onket]

Hello onket mate hows tricks?

Majestic are doing 12 Greene King IPA for £12 (500ml bottles) and I think they'll deliver for free.

Alright thanks mate, hope you are too. Cheers for the tip.

 

[Dan U]

Go and post on the relevant thread, then.

Yeah sorry I thought I was posting on a thread about drinking real ale at home

 

[Onket]

Easy mistake to make if you don't read the OP, I spose.

 

[what]

Alright thanks mate, hope you are too. Cheers for the tip.

I'm good mate. Been without work for a few months but have an offer at last. Hows your nipper?

 

[Onket]

She's good, thanks. In keeping with the thread, here she is sorting me out with a beer-

She's older than that now though, she's 18 months.

 

[ExtraRefined]

standard size, 500ml. its not the cheapest obviously but it is small scale brewing.

i went to a cider place in East Sussex the other day and they were selling a beer made in someones house!!!

If you've got to sell your wares at almost double the price of the supermarkets, you're doing it wrong: especially when you're getting tax relief on excise, as small brewers do. It's not like small breweries are a guarantee of quality, I've had some shocking beers from nanos before, not cleared or conditioned properly in particular.

 

[Onket]

i went to a cider place in East Sussex the other day and they were selling a beer made in someones house!!!

Just before Christmas I nipped in to Gerry's in Soho and they had gin that was distilled in someone's house. Good luck to em, I say. I'm not a gin fan, personally.

 

[Onket]

Also noticed they are doing-

Henry's Original IPA (500ML 3.8%)

Wadworth's.

£1.

Beer that has been watered down with soda water.

Won't be buying it again.

 

[Onket]

Have had to go back to the old faithful- 6 cans of Holsten Pils for a fiver.

Can't be arsed with paying £1 for something that's 3.something.

 

[Onket]

Star (from Nigeria) currently 50p a bottle in Tesco on Acre Lane, Brixton!

600ML 5.1%

 

[Onket]

It goes out of date tomorrow.

 

[fractionMan]

No tesco near here. I'm on the calsberg. 24 cans for 15 quid. :/

 

[DieselBar]

Been really getting into my american style pale ales & IPAs at the moment, have sampled almost everything available across town and the Kernel really does the best.

It is expensive though, will head to the brewery tomorrow to get a 'cheap' case (£2.40 a bottle!) in pubs its nudging £5

 

[Onket]

Can't bring myself to pay that much. It's only booze, at the end of the day.

 

[rutabowa]

there was a 4 for £6 on bottles in tescos recently, old peculiar being my favourite... can't really get any cheaper than that anywhere can you.
i found holsten pils for 99p the other day! the pennies add up.

 

[ExtraRefined]

Can't bring myself to pay that much. It's only booze, at the end of the day.

I think the most I've paid for beer was about €15 for a bottle of Westvelteren 12, from 1991, in a bar in Antwerp. It was mostly for bragging rights TBH, besides which it's less than the house wine in many London eateries these days. Fullers charge £7.50 a bottle for Brewers Reserve, which is certainly taking the piss.

 

[DieselBar]

Can't bring myself to pay that much. It's only booze, at the end of the day.

It is pretty harsh especially it was only recently I was drinking 6 for £5 dishwater, drinking less but better now

 

[tommers]

It's weird how bitter is generally cheaper than lager in the pubs... but more expensive in the supermarket.

I've been drinking Wychwood recently by Hobgoblin. 3 bottles for a fiver. I can get 6 cans of Stella for £5.50.

 

[Onket]

Morrisons is 4 bottles of ale for a fiver as standard, as far as I know.

Still 6 cans of lager for a fiver in most (but not all) local shops round my way.

And of course Debowe Mochne for £1, which is outstanding value really.

 

[rutabowa]

ALERT ALERT Marks and Spencers is doing 6 bottles for £5 at the moment!! notmally over £2 a bottle beers. think it's some jubilee hangover thing. anyway everyone get on this.

 

[Onket]

Nice one, cheers.

 

[rutabowa]

this is seriously insane prices. i think they must have priced it wrong.

 

[Onket]

£1.35 a 500ml bottle of Tanglefoot in Morrisons.

Is that a good deal? It's on offer at that price, anyway, instead of £1.75 or whatever it normally is. Tastes a bit like wet dog smell though, and is only 5% (I was sure Tanglefoot was supposed to be strong).

Not my favourite.

Still not got to M&S to try out rutabowa's deal.