Nectar Of The Gods

[astfgyl]

Won't be too long now I can feel it in my bones.

I often went for the hop house if a place had no large bottles of Guinness. Great times

[Kurt Cocaine]

8 cans of hop house for 8 quid in tesco. I'm coming up in the world

That's a class deal. Might pop in tomorrow, Hop House is well tasty.

Tis clearance so get in quick. Very nice cans

Checked their website, it's €13 for 8 cayans.
Must be just your local store then. Oh well...

https://youtu.be/Z-C6p-GwHfA

[astfgyl]

Had all the appearance of something they wouldn't be restocking like it's not going out of date or the  likes but I don't know how localised that is. Ah well

[Caomhaoin]

I used to work in an offy as a teenager on Saturdays, and one of my duties was to take a Brillo pad to the dates on the bottom of out of date cans and whack them out under the guise of AMAZING DEALS! So have a quick look at the arse of them.

Not sure how much of a difference it makes anyway after you've got a few into you.

[astfgyl]

Drank many a stale can over the years and never noticed any difference. Not saying there wasn't anything wrong with them but I was cheap enough to ignore it

[ochoill]

I used to work in an offy as a teenager on Saturdays, and one of my duties was to take a Brillo pad to the dates on the bottom of out of date cans and whack them out under the guise of AMAZING DEALS! So have a quick look at the arse of them.

Not sure how much of a difference it makes anyway after you've got a few into you.

Worked in Gleesons years ago, they made stuff like Finches, Score, Cadet, Devil's Bit Cider, Tippersry Water, Country Spring, and practically every in-house brand soft drink for supermarkets.  One job I was given in my last week there was to use acetone to take the dates off of about 10 pallets of Country Spring Orange 3 litres, and rip the labels off the bottles, so they can be redated and labelled on the line.  I have plenty of stories about that place but that one stands out to me.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

The Abbott's Ale House in Cork used to have the off licence downstairs and the pub upstairs (the downstairs has since been converted to a cosy little pub, no off licence any more).

Fairly commonly known as The Gone-Offie cos they always had loads of drink that was past its date at very nice prices.

Myself and my friends took advantage regularly, never came to any harm off it, I've heard some people claim they got sick from it once but I don't really believe tbh. I think it's safe enough, it'd wanted to be badly gone, like beyond drinkable, before it'd be harmful. That's my relatively uninformed opinion, YMMV, but gatt on, I say

[ochoill]

Forever ago they used to sell crates of Labatt Ice in the Superquinn in Castletroy that were either on the verge of going off or just past the date.  It was 24 bottles for less than a tenner - think it was €8 at the peak of it.  Completely stupifying price, we bought heaps of the stuff.

Used to drink the St. Bernard lager at one point too, it was about 60c a can back then so it was worth it for being cheap and going on a rip.  Also worked in Dunnes at the time so many an evening was spent getting battered on Dunnes' lager in a Dunnes' uniform, after a dinner of Dunnes' pizzas.  What a fuckin existence

[astfgyl]

Used to drink the St. Bernard lager at one point too, it was about 60c a can back then so it was worth it for being cheap and going on a rip.  Also worked in Dunnes at the time so many an evening was spent getting battered on Dunnes' lager in a Dunnes' uniform, after a dinner of Dunnes' pizzas.  What a fuckin existence

Jesus

[StoutAndAle]

The Abbott's Ale House in Cork.

The Abbot is one of my regular haunts in Cork. Between there and The Bierhaus - you can't go wrong.

The Abbot reminds me of a great story. It used to be called Rumpelstiltskin's back in the 90s. Same layout as now but a lot more rough and ready (like the first version of the Abbot).

They used to put on bands upstairs way back when in Rumpel's. A band that I was in at the time played a support gig there to a full room, the gaff held about 40 people but it felt like Knebworth.

In between us finishing and the main band setting up there were two fellas lurking about the place. Right scobey-looking fuckers in a tracksuits. "You being served there?" asked the barmaid.

"Just hanging around" says one.

"You'll have to go" she says.

"Bunch of faggots!" roars one of the boys and the two of them help themselves to whatever handbags, packs of smokes, jackets etc that was nearest to them on tables and run back down the stairs and through a door.

Unfortunately for them, in their hash/glue haze, they'd only run down one flight of stairs and had run though a door on the landing - not an exit but rather the ladies toilet.

When they emerged meekly the kicking that they received was substantial - to the point where people who were only arriving to the pub joined in.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Ahahaha, Metal Militia justice: New Rocks & Docs... 

[StoutAndAle]

I was in Dunnes after work last Friday evening getting the shopping - popped into the beer/wine section for a few tipples.

Spotted a rough enough (possibly traveller) lad in there wearing his mask under his chin. Basket of shopping in front of him blocking my path.

"Fuck sakes" I thought "another looper".

Then I copped that the reason the mask was off was because he was downing cans of Murphy's stout. He was two into a four-pack.

Our eyes locked.

"Murphs... way eaaaasier to drink - no fizz". says he.

He was still at it when I left through the cowboy saloon doors that all supermarkets have in the off-licence section now.

[Emphyrio]

What a man. Better than popping a few grapes going through the fruit and veg section.

[Kurt Cocaine]

That 18 x 500ml Hop House 13 deal in Lidl is excellent value. That's about €1.35 a can.
It's the perfect mix of a craft beer and a lager beer. Nice and hoppy but crisp and fresh so no bother drinking 10 or a dozen of an evening...

[Emphyrio]

It's the perfect mix of a craft beer and a lager beer.

Aye, a tasty drop alright.