Nectar Of The Gods

[Ducky]

Forgot how malty the Brown Bear Indian Pale Ale is, hmm 🤔

[Carnage]

Just at the end of my first bottle now, it's tasty stuff alright.

Edit: Downed 5 of them and have moved onto Guinness West Indies. Black Bear is far too nice and drinkable.

Of course I'll stock up next time I'm in Aldi.

[Slaughterday]

Aldi could do with changing up their selection every once in a while. Although the Einsedler mentioned a few posts back was fucking class. I cleaned the local Aldi out of it not so long ago, but they haven't restocked it since. Grand to get Spaten there for under €2 though. Class summer beer.

The Brown Bear stuff has improved a lot since it first came out, I think it's made up in Newry at Station Works.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Aldi could do with changing up their selection every once in a while. Although the Einsedler mentioned a few posts back was fucking class. I cleaned the local Aldi out of it not so long ago, but they haven't restocked it since. Grand to get Spaten there for under €2 though. Class summer beer.

The Brown Bear stuff has improved a lot since it first came out, I think it's made up in Newry at Station Works.

It's brewed in the Pearse Lyons Brewery in Dundalk. In the old McArdle's Brewery plant....
Really nice bang off it, love the stuff.

As for Aldi. Have you tried their Helles beer? Same price as the Brown Bear IPA, €1.99.... Delicious stuff....

[astfgyl]

Right I know we are all proper connoisseurs here, but what is anyone's favourite of the dirt cheap shite? The proper jakey stuff I mean. Or being the sort who is above such low standards what is the worst you have drank? Fancy beers included.

Favourite shit stuff is Excelsior.

Worst good stuff is (I'm so cheap I'm struggling here) I dunno, I actually don't.

[Melmoth]

For dirt cheap Tesco lager isn't too bad, once you have it cold it's no worse than any other cheap lager

[astfgyl]

To  be fair the old tesco 4 cans for 2.50 is as grand as any of them if you happen to be scaldy enough to drink it. I often let back 12 of those cunts. The small can is a bit of a bastard though. No sooner have I the first slug gone out of it I am ready to open the next one and I end up drinking them right fast.

[Emphyrio]

I've mostly moved on from the cheap stuff but jayziz, I spent many a year only able to afford that stuff. My old reliable before going out was a bottle of bucky and 2 cans of Dutch Gold. Even went through a phase of a 3 litre bottle of Devil's Bit cider. Think that was £3 at the time. Aldi do a decent drop, St. Etienne. For summer festivals a slab of that was cheap but was actually lovely. Then in college a case of the 24 stubby bottles of headache beer always did the job.

[astfgyl]

Ah the fuckin 3 litre of Devil's Bit was some ordeal, the spit used to be welling up under my bottom lip from the very first mouthful but because of the price it was all I used to drink for my first few years at it. I still enjoy the Dutch Gold as well but I can't hack the cider at all.

[Caomhaoin]

Jaysus the flagons of devils bit...Christ. Myself and three others drank one each after the Junior Cert marks came out, and it put me off cider for life. Linden Village was also god awful shite but when you were underage you took what you could get. Myself and a buddy once robbed a bottle of Remy Martin cognac from his mother's cabinet, but far too young to appreciate it. We ended up getting into a ruck afterwards whilst listening to 'Dry Kill Logic', who we thought were cool at the time.

[Trev]

Ah the good auld cheap stuff! The offie near me used to do a deal every second week or so of 10 cans for €8 on one of the usual suspects, Bavaria, Tuborg, Karpackie, Prazsky, Oranjeboum, Hackenberg...good times, at least the bits I remember. No way I'd be able for that now

[astfgyl]

Did any of ye ever come across the plastic bottles of Martens Pils before? They used to sell em in Costcutter near me, 6 x 500ml for 4 quid. 5% as well if i remember correctly. They weren't the best but they'd get you there. Also the same brewery used to make Damburger. Came in a red can at 5% and a green can at 4%. The green can was actually nice but I haven't seen it anywhere in years.

I completely forgot about Oranjeboum as well but that's probably for the best. I went on a right buzz of drinking Holsten Pils when Dunnes used to sell it at 4 for 6 quid. I remember it being lovely but again I haven't seen it in years.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Did any of ye ever come across the plastic bottles of Martens Pils before? They used to sell em in Costcutter near me, 6 x 500ml for 4 quid. 5% as well if i remember correctly. They weren't the best but they'd get you there. Also the same brewery used to make Damburger. Came in a red can at 5% and a green can at 4%. The green can was actually nice but I haven't seen it anywhere in years.

I completely forgot about Oranjeboum as well but that's probably for the best. I went on a right buzz of drinking Holsten Pils when Dunnes used to sell it at 4 for 6 quid. I remember it being lovely but again I haven't seen it in years.

The Brouwerij Martens in Kaulille (Belgium) was right behind the apartment I was living in during the 90's.
We used to go up to the brewery and buy crates of 24 bottles. Cheap as chips too....
Grand stuff out of a glass bottle but when I had it here in those plastic bottles it was never the same (obviously).

[Emphyrio]

Hackenberg! Jaysus, haven't heard that name in a long time. The last time I drank that was coming down on a bus from Dublin to Limerick. This was before the days of the motorway and no toilets on buses. The journey would have been 3 hours easily. As my bladder filled, I'd to swally the cans so I had a receptacle to piss in. Leaving the bus with a small bag leaking with piss-filled cans wasn't too pleasant. Still, better than leaving em on the bus for some other poor fucker to deal with.

[Caomhaoin]

Oranjeboum was a tasty sup but the hangovers were horrendous from even a moderate amount of it. Grand if you're of the 'the morn takes care of the morn' school of philosophy.

Whenever I have visitors here in madrid from home, they are astounded by the cheap beer in the supermarkets. You can get the equivalent of 6 cans for less than 2 beans. And it's probably better than most of the cheap stuff you can buy in Dunnes etc.