Cheap Beer in the Mother Country!

[rodman]

Came across this from a news blog this morning:

Drunk for a Pound

Lucky Poms? Quality's probably crap!

[Chris]

I don't see the big problem. Surely people can make up their own minds. Just because it is cheap, doesn't mean everyone is going to go get slaughtered every day. Well, some might (Macca from youtube...) Telling supermarkets that their prices are too low! That's good for a laugh.

If everyone's so concerned about drinking, why not just ban it? The problem with that statement is that they might... except that they like the excise.

[Iron-Haggis]

Well us homebrewers can get drunk for the equivalent amount of money anyway.

And obviously the quality is crap I saw XXXX in amongst all that.

Macca probably wouldn't get slaughtered on it because there is no VoiBoi for him.

[Kevnlis]

About 4 years ago in the states we could buy 16 can slabs of Guinness for $15. Not sure what they cost now, a 24 bottle slab of megaswill was about $11 with a 5 cent return per bottle, and if you wanted to drink the nasty stuff (equivelant of your VB) you could get 30 cans for $9-10.

[earle]

Sounds like this home brand beer is so bad you can't drink too much of it anyway. (As you might expect)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1770

The daily mail is obviously a quality production

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1773

Cheers
Earle

[earle]

BTW, is that XXXX for dummies. I'm sure it says 'Open & Drink' on the label. Just in case you weren't sure what to do with it

[MOFO]

Its 3% anyway! So it's a light beer,comparable with Cascade/Rogers etc...i.e. for the 1 pound spend you would get 5 cans, and that is really only 2.5 beers...

Yeah, that "Open & Drink" is pretty ridiculous, a) cos its pretty unnecessary but b) that encourages bulk drinking more than price...

[Chris]

Like the three pronged approach to advertising?

Subliminal- put "join the navy" backwards in a song.
Liminal- run recruitment ads for the navy.
Superliminal- "Hey you. JOIN THE NAVY!"

[Danis]

As previously said, the beer is really all that strong. And another thing: I've recently lived/holidayed in England, and I used to take advantage of the Tesco brand cola and lemonade, which cost 12p for 2L. So I've no idea why they thing a 22p 440mL can is cheaper than the soft drink.

[drsmurto]

I lived in the old dart for 2 years and yes, tried a few of the cheap homebrand beers on offer. Tesco lager was 2% abv and tasted like fizzy stale water. Yes, beer is cheaper than it is here but its all relative. Good beer is still pricey there, you can buy ESbs etc by the bottle and they are anywhere from 1-2 pound per pint bottle.

Quality costs money wherever you go.

[Chris]

And then there's the cost of living.

[Old Gil]

I cant Believe that chick got drunk off 4 1/2 cans, even for a woman thats pissweak. My missus would drink that bitch under the table

[drsmurto]

For a starters they are pint cans not the regular size and i think most non beer swilling girls get much drunker on fizzy lagers than they do on there normal drink of choice, in this case, wine.