Went through a phase of drinking this stuff in the late 90's
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Regularly drank cans of this during college
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Be like drinking acid now I'd say
I was pretty partial to cans of carling or dutch gold.
Still am, but they give me a hangover from hell...
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Started on this stuff, it used to come in a wine box, and was the Wicklow "Dutch Gold" of the day, explains a lot of mental issues in later life :)
this stuff and sparkling cider for about 1.10 a bottle
Think these were £1 each. I'm feeling queasy just looking at it now. :-[
Sorry Ive no pic..... STEIGER de predecessor to Duch Gold!
Ha!! Carling, Dutch Gold. Ya snobs ;D
In typical bray fashion,
Yellow pack lager, Flaggons of Linden village and then graduated to Green cans of Bavaria.
Oh, D'memories, D'joys and D'hangovers from hell :'(
Jazus Damo I 4got yellow pack... wel dun.. I worked wit tesco in tallaght ....was dat 80's....dey used to store dat out in the yard instead of de warehouse cos no one wud bother robbin de stuff.... was it 3% and watery? couldnt even get drunk on dat..
Tube........damo deserves a free homebrew kit for da post!
was Yellow Pack not Crazy Prices?
I think this beer Long life was specially brewed for cans http://www.canmuseum.com/Detail.aspx?CanID=28039 .. and who would of thought of a can museum
Oh an add too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmVe6bAEBIs
I think yellow pack was both Quinnsworth and crazy prices.
I can remember hangin about quinnsworth waiting for someone to bribe into buying a four pack for me. :-[
It was either that or assuring my older brother that I wouldnt tell Dad what he was up to while he was supposed to be lookin after me ;D
@Bren: At 14/15 it didnt take much to get pissed! Cant actually remember what it tasted like, Dont imagine I cared too much back then.
BTW: My first kit was purchased in quinnswort back then! didnt end well, 2l bottle bombs goin off in the attic. a mate of mine heard from somewhere that more sugar at bottling meant more alcohol.
Funny thing was parents saw the funny side, didn't get grounded :P
ooh, i forgot about the flaggons of linden village and old summerset. they make the occasional appearance still when the sun is blasting (about once a year) ;D ;D
Quote from: delzep on April 20, 2013, 11:38:38 PM
was Yellow Pack not Crazy Prices?
Didnt Crazy Prices have a white pack?? Quinsworth was bough by tesco after quinsworth originalltt bought tesco from H-Williams...
anyway their beer was all horrible. I remember we went on an Irish ferries across to hollyhead and we had tennants and Skol...we thought dat was gorgeous compared to de usual Irish rubbish
Carlsberg. :-[
linden villgae, Harp, Steiger, anything i could get from my partents drinks press.
Drink these if I was short on money and the amstel lager(more expensive) if I had little money spared.
I'm a big "white spirit"(vodka,gin,cane) drinker :P
I had the benefit of living near Derry so could go to Wetherspoons and get dirt cheap pints of real ale when I was young. There were times when they were £1.29 (about 5 years ago). Made for a very cheap night out.
I never liked lager and I worked part time so I could afford to get drunk without needing to load up on cheap tins before heading out. Normally my carryout would be a few bottles of Whitewater. Then when I was 18 I worked in a bar that sold Peroni and Warstiener. I'd never liked lager before but when I eventually started getting into it I couldn't start drinking things like Fosters or Carlsberg.
Would sometimes buy a litre bottle of Bulmers to start off and then drink a few cans of Druids after that. In the pub, if they didn't have decent beer, I'd have drunk muck like Smithwicks or Guinness.
Once I developed a proper taste I started buying the cheap O'Hara's from Aldi. Haven't looked back since. ;D
On the grape side it was Buckfast or Thunderbird.
On the grain side it was Tartan Special, McEwans Export or Tennants Special.
I spent a lot of time in Germany in my early twenties so luckily the stuff we drank was quite high brow comparatively, it was cheap too relative to here.
The whacky one we used drink was called Friesengeist, it was a 65% spirit that we used to light.
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They even sold the kit with a little brass pan to put the fire out.
Man that stuff was crazy and lead to many many stupid things being done.