Beer thread
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@RoninWC Just looked up the availability of Deep Creek's Pontoon in a Monsoon IPA at First Choice liquor. $150 a case - that's not a displaced decimal point. That's one hundred and fifty dollarydoos.
I suppose part of that is they're 440mL cans, but sweet baby jesus this government is taking the piss.
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@duluth said in Beer thread:
@crucial said in Beer thread:
Waitemata Sparkling was an old classic. Was probably the Auckland equivalent of Waikato but drinkable.
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
If you haven't got munted on 440ml 'Ranfurly draft' or 'South Island draft' you haven't lived
My time of drinking shitty beers was late 90's/early 2000's while at Otago Uni
Waitemata was fine. I would have that ahead of most of the usual brands. It was only around for a few months at my local liquor store and only in crate bottles. I think they were offloading soon to be expired stock in the student area
Double Brown was the best of the genuinely shitty beers once you got used to it. The worst part was the last 2-3 sips because the sediment would settle leaving a watery gritty mouthful. You would have another one already open to wash away the taste
Ranfurly was just bad. Tasted metallic. It was slightly cheaper than Double Brown though..
There was one worse than Ranfurly. It had a really generic name.. 'Kiwi' or 'New Zealand' something? It was a whole dollar a dozen cheaper than Ranfurly. That $1 was very important at the time.
Was it Big Horn? Used to be $7:99/Doz at the Totara Lodge bottle store.
Purchased it once and couldn't stomach it. Awful stuff.
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@hooroo said in Beer thread:
Big Horn
Oh, I had that a couple of times. Definitely below Ranfurly
Some old NZ beer cans: http://www.canmuseum.com/Search.aspx?PageNo=1&StartRowIndex=1&Brand=&Flavor=66&Volume=&Country=173&Year=&Description=
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@duluth said in Beer thread:
@hooroo said in Beer thread:
Big Horn
Oh, I had that a couple of times. Definitely below Ranfurly
Some old NZ beer cans: http://www.canmuseum.com/Search.aspx?PageNo=1&StartRowIndex=1&Brand=&Flavor=66&Volume=&Country=173&Year=&Description=
(Maybe I was thinking of NZ Lager?? But the reviews for it seem too good)Not Leopard either? Used to be called Hawkes Bay Draft I think
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@antipodean said in Beer thread:
@RoninWC Just looked up the availability of Deep Creek's Pontoon in a Monsoon IPA at First Choice liquor. $150 a case - that's not a displaced decimal point. That's one hundred and fifty dollarydoos.
I suppose part of that is they're 440mL cans, but sweet baby jesus this government is taking the piss.
@antipodean Same for the Brewtiful Haze, way too much but I can't help myself and keep buying the 4 packs at $35.
But say when you compare this to one you would be familiar with, the Bentspoke Sprocket IPA, one of my absolute favourites, at around $25 a 4 pack for 375 ml cans, it isn't too bad as it works out to be $10 for an extra 260 ml.
Okay now that I have put it that way, I find myself slowly muttering to myself trying to justify the additional $10.
But you are spot on, the taxes on these beers is just utterly retarded! Also, I do think some Breweries and local distributors are taking the piss with the pricing.
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@roninwc said in Beer thread:
@antipodean said in Beer thread:
@RoninWC Just looked up the availability of Deep Creek's Pontoon in a Monsoon IPA at First Choice liquor. $150 a case - that's not a displaced decimal point. That's one hundred and fifty dollarydoos.
I suppose part of that is they're 440mL cans, but sweet baby jesus this government is taking the piss.
@antipodean Same for the Brewtiful Haze, way too much but I can't help myself and keep buying the 4 packs at $35.
But say when you compare this to one you would be familiar with, the Bentspoke Sprocket IPA, one of my absolute favourites, at around $25 a 4 pack for 375 ml cans, it isn't too bad as it works out to be $10 for an extra 260 ml.
Okay now that I have put it that way, I find myself slowly muttering to myself trying to justify the additional $10.
But you are spot on, the taxes on these beers is just utterly retarded! Also, I do think some Breweries and local distributors are taking the piss with the pricing.
there are a lot of beers brewed in this country that i would like to drink, but the pricing is out of control.
I love Stone & Wood Pacific Ale, but $75 a carton can get fucked, when i can get Jame Squire Swindlers, or Wild Yaks, that aren't much different, for $50.
Would love to drink Hop Hog's occasionally, but $22 for 4 stubbies? Fuck right off.
Between the taxes and cost to brew, most of these craft beers are just massively over priced. It actually stops me trying most of them, because i am unwilling to fork out when it might be shit.
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@mariner4life Is a carton a 24 pack?
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ha, I remember not long after I arrived in the UK the local offy had a box/carton of Steinlager for £24 (exchange was $3.3 then: $80) and we bought that without batting an eye...asked the owner if he'd get more and he said no, it doesnt sell, and we were like, um, duh!
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@hooroo said in Beer thread:
@mariner4life Is a carton a 24 pack?
They call it a slab in Oz don't they?
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@canefan said in Beer thread:
@hooroo said in Beer thread:
@mariner4life Is a carton a 24 pack?
They call it a slab in Oz don't they?
A box, a carton, case etc.
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@antipodean said in Beer thread:
@canefan said in Beer thread:
@hooroo said in Beer thread:
@mariner4life Is a carton a 24 pack?
They call it a slab in Oz don't they?
A box, a carton, case etc.
Maybe it's a slab here.....
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@canefan said in Beer thread:
@antipodean said in Beer thread:
@canefan said in Beer thread:
@hooroo said in Beer thread:
@mariner4life Is a carton a 24 pack?
They call it a slab in Oz don't they?
A box, a carton, case etc.
Maybe it's a slab here.....
In the same way glass sizes differ from State to State and pool rules are different.
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@antipodean said in Beer thread:
@canefan said in Beer thread:
@antipodean said in Beer thread:
@canefan said in Beer thread:
@hooroo said in Beer thread:
@mariner4life Is a carton a 24 pack?
They call it a slab in Oz don't they?
A box, a carton, case etc.
Maybe it's a slab here.....
In the same way glass sizes differ from State to State and pool rules are different.
I always find the whole pot and schooner thing interesting
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@canefan slab is cans isnt it?
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@canefan said in Beer thread:
@antipodean said in Beer thread:
@canefan said in Beer thread:
@hooroo said in Beer thread:
@mariner4life Is a carton a 24 pack?
They call it a slab in Oz don't they?
A box, a carton, case etc.
Maybe it's a slab here.....
only if it's VB?
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@hooroo said in Beer thread:
@duluth said in Beer thread:
@hooroo said in Beer thread:
Big Horn
Oh, I had that a couple of times. Definitely below Ranfurly
Some old NZ beer cans: http://www.canmuseum.com/Search.aspx?PageNo=1&StartRowIndex=1&Brand=&Flavor=66&Volume=&Country=173&Year=&Description=
(Maybe I was thinking of NZ Lager?? But the reviews for it seem too good)Not Leopard either? Used to be called Hawkes Bay Draft I think
Leopard wasn't HB Draught, as @Bovidae notes it was the regional beer back in the Bay (more highly thought of than the ones being discussed here). HB Draught was the same beer as Canterbury Draught but with a different label.
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@taniwharugby said in Beer thread:
@canefan slab is cans isnt it?
Yeah. I think I've stumbled into the middle of something.....
