General / Off-Topic Woe is me! (Cheap Aldi beer)

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Aldi have stopped selling my "cooking lager".
It was the same price as the normal fosters/Carling pish (2.99 for 4x500ml cans) but was a decent 4.5% pilsner.

I contacted Aldi to see if it is temporary but no Rheinbacher is no longer being sold in cans and the bottles are 30% more expensive. I now need to find another cooking lager.
 

-VR- Max Factor

-VR- Max Factor
Mad Mike said:
Aldi have stopped selling my "cooking lager".
It was the same price as the normal fosters/Carling pish (2.99 for 4x500ml cans) but was a decent 4.5% pilsner.

I contacted Aldi to see if it is temporary but no Rheinbacher is no longer being sold in cans and the bottles are 30% more expensive. I now need to find another cooking lager.
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That is a disaster. It wasn't bad beer either.
 

Sir.Tj

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Don't mind a pint of either.

Bombardier Burning Gold is for me one of the best bottled beers out there.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Bigmaec said:
*shudders* at the thought of canned beer.
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I used to think that too but it's not true, it is all in the mind. IfI find the link, a blind taste was made under controlled conditions and the myth about beer tasting different out of a can was debunked ...... Drinking beer out of a can definitely had a negative effect on the experience but pouring into a glass, or out of a bottle, nope!. .

Look at it this way ....... Draft lagers all ultimately come out of a giant can anyway. (Of course you won't believe me, none of my friends entrenched in this view do either ;) )

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1575730
 
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[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Max Factor said:
Ahhh, the days of drinking Kestrel Super Lager and Diamond White Cider.
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I was too cheap for diamond White. Megawhite (same crap just in 3l bottles) is what ruined cider for me.

Oh and anyone remember maddog 20:20 bleugh...... Oh and thunderbird fortified wine. I used to get drunk on that when I was 16 (26 years ago!!!)
 
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Winterwalker

Winterwalker
Mad Mike said:
Oh and anyone remember maddog 20:20 bleugh...... Oh and thunderbird fortified wine. I used to get drunk on that when I was 16 (26 years ago!!!)
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I once drank a 110 proof (brandy by name of Stroh, allegedly illegal in Sweden. Don't know why I know that, we were in Nottingham at the time) Anyway, Maddog 20/20 was used as a mixer and needless to say .. rather messy. And I do say drank but I mean, one glass only before the probable ambulance.

Also yes, Thunderbird Wine Trivial Pursuit as pre-pub sharpener, the "Blast Away" Diamond White / Cast Away fruit cooler aperitif (slash cocktail tastes like Lilt, three pints and you're anybody's) and at one party two bottles of Bailey's Irish Cream on which you should be fine, until you try to go outside. Thank goodness these days the youths are more responsibule!

A stout for me. Not always Guinness, though ginger beer gives me a poise advantage, later into the 6 nation match day proceedings lately. Thing is .. I can still drink like I did when I was 20 but my body, can't.

/hic
 
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Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
Mad Mike said:
I used to think that too but it's not true, it is all in the mind. IfI find the link, a blind taste was made under controlled conditions and the myth about beer tasting different out of a can was debunked ...... Drinking beer out of a can definitely had a negative effect on the experience but pouring into a glass, or out of a bottle, nope!. .

Look at it this way ....... Draft lagers all ultimately come out of a giant can anyway. (Of course you won't believe me, none of my friends entrenched in this view do either ;) )

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1575730
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Yes, it's like the Coca Cola, no difference between a glass bottle, a plastic bottle, a can
 
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