Supervalu Craft Beer Station

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

I was in Holyhead last weekend and bought a flagon (2lt) bottle of Old Rosie cloudy cider for a fiver, purely for the yeast 😎
Not much difference in that and a growler except for the colour, and incedentially clear glass or flint as it's known is more expensive than brown glass



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[Sorcerers Apprentice]

I was in Holyhead last weekend and bought a flagon (2lt) bottle of Old Rosie cloudy cider for a fiver, purely for the yeast 😎
Not much difference in that and a growler except for the colour, and incedentially clear glass or flint as it's known is more expensive than brown glass


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[Pheeel]

€14 for 2 litres of KPA! So I can easily find it for less than €3 a 500ml bottle meaning 2L = €12....

[brendy_éire]

Very strange pricing.  There's plenty of shops in Russia sells draught 'growlers' (1L sterilised PET bottles), where the bottle kind of clicks into the tap.  There'll be a decent saving on the draught bottles over cans/glass bottles of the same beer though, which is why they are popular.
That Supervalu set-up, dispensing from a hose and overly priced, looks dreadful in comparison.  Are the Supervalu ones served chilled?

[Qs]

€14 for 2 litres of KPA! So I can easily find it for less than €3 a 500ml bottle meaning 2L = €12....

I wouldn't mind paying that if the growler filling was properly sorted as the quality of bottled beer isn't as good as draft from most places.

[Eoin]

I noticed the same in that Supervalu, your man hadn't a clue, the only reason I bought a growler was because it was on a half price deal. Go up the road to the growler station in Carry Out in Tyrrelstown, they have a sterile counterpressure filler setup, top class.
That said the beers don't last as long as they say and I think all of these setups lead to house infections eventually as they don't look after them as well as a pub would and just change from one keg to the next.

[ronnieb]

I was in Holyhead last weekend and bought a flagon (2lt) bottle of Old Rosie cloudy cider for a fiver, purely for the yeast 😎
Not much difference in that and a growler except for the colour, and incedentially clear glass or flint as it's known is more expensive than brown glass


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you monster! 5 quid?! One of my favorite ciders but the only time I have seen that flagon here it has been over 20 euro.

[Eoin]

I'm a big fan of the old rosies too, fantastic scrumpy, but it'll kick your ass if you drink a few pints of it.

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

Sure does, I have the yeast dregs sitting on my stir plate with some apple juice and yeast food. The last time I tried this it didn't work. I put it down to the export bottles are probably pasteurised, so now I'm trying with some UK bought cider to see if it makes a difference.

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[Eoin]

Sure does, I have the yeast dregs sitting on my stir plate with some apple juice and yeast food. The last time I tried this it didn't work. I put it down to the export bottles are probably pasteurised, so now I'm trying with some UK bought cider to see if it makes a difference.

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You might be lucky to get that to come back to life.

I used buy that stuff all the time, it's a savage pint.

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

No joy on the yeast, dead as a Dodo 
http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=75678

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[Eoin]

No joy on the yeast, dead as a Dodo 
http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=75678

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ah well, drink up, just make sure you have some solpadeine on hand for the next day, it's not the kindest on the head.....