Beer on special offer

[Wowbagger]

Waitrose are currently offering 3 bottles for £4.50 on many bottled ales, including most of Fullers. Most remarkably, 1845 Strong Ale is part of this offer, although they didn't have any when I was there earlier. I had to make do with ESB. 1845 is properly bottle-conditioned and is normally well over £2 a bottle.

I understand that the offer is on pretty well until the end of the month. A good opportunity to stock up for any festivities you might be planning over the next couple of months.

[Ewan Houzami]

Thanks! It hardly seems worth the effort of making my own ESB at that price.

[Wowbagger]

Correction to the OP: it's 4 bottles for £6. Such a shame...

[tiermat]

Not so much a special offer, but a good deal for decent beer, Morrison's have a range (if you count 4 as a range) of beers brewed for them, two by Black Sheep and two by Marston's. The Golden Ale is very nice and the IPA is a proper one, 5.6% and very choppy, like it should be. All are £1.50 a bottle.

[Ruth]

Not so much a special offer, but a good deal for decent beer, Morrison's have a range (if you count 4 as a range) of beers brewed for them, two by Black Sheep and two by Marston's. The Golden Ale is very nice and the IPA is a proper one, 5.6% and very choppy, like it should be. All are �1.50 a bottle.

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Bargainacious and good drinking too.  I bought some for my curry night.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Oh dear! Now I won't know whether to go up the hill to Waitrose or along the sickle track to Morrison's. Tragic. 

[Ewan Houzami]

Don't forget that the in-house IPAs (and the others in the range) from Tossco and Sainsberries are also brewed by Marston's. As far as I can tell they've just given the Pedigree recipe a little tweak. Besides that, Lidl seem to have Pedigree permanently on a four for a fiver offer.

[Marco Stefano]

I stocked up on Adnams Broadside & Meantime London Stout last night using this offer. I also bought some nice cheeses (Mrs Kirkhams' Lancashire & Colston Bassett Stilton) & had a ploughmans lunch for tea with a bottle of each to wash it down. Excellent.

Only Fullers available was London Pride though. Will look again through the month.

[Wowbagger]

Sadly we don't have a Morrisson's within easy reach of us. Last week Mrs. Wow and I went round the Grays version, which is close to my Thursday morning school, and they did in deed have lots of very good ale at 3 bottles for £4.50. We also bought some excellent pies from their pie shop. We left all the groceries we bought with my daughter, unfortunately, including some very tasty-looking sausages.

[nicknack]

We have 2 brand new Morrisons near us now. Something to do with the massive distribution depot they built in Sittingbourne a few years ago. They are indeed not at all bad for booze.

Which reminds me.

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[Wobbly John]

This summer I've mostly been drinking...


... Badger brewery's Hopping Hare - £1.39 from Aldi - Very hoppy & refreshing. 

Just tried the, more seasonal, Wychwood Pumpking ale, which Aldi have at 99p!
Not bad. 

[Tigerrr]

This promotion is part of the ongoing aggressive war being fought by the supermarkets for footfal, with the sideaim of driving the specialist off licence out of business completely. The specialists are on their last legs anyway now, and had moved into local regional beers as something teh grocers wouldnt bother to kill.  However the grocers have now gone in there too. It started with 3 for £5.50 and has escalated to 4 for £6. 5 for £7 is next, and 10 for £10 should be here pre Xmas.
The supermarkets have defined the role of beer in their trading strategy as a footfall generator, and are prepared to lose money on it because there is clear EPOS data to show that a multipack beer purchase is a door opener to a big shop overall.  It triggers selection of a bigger trolley and then the shopper fills it.
As we get into the winter pre Xmas frenzy this becimes pretty essential to winning so we can expect this year to see a price war in beer again.
Nobody is making money in this beer market, and eventually it will collapse on itself, as the grocers will pass their losses back onto the producers.

[fuaran]

I'm surprised these multibuy beer offers are still legal. Or is that ban only in Scotland?

[Titan]

We will look back and wonder where the pubs went in 10 years.

[nicknack]

Quite.

I blame all the miserable buggers who rather stay in and watch the box with their 6 pack of Stella that they got for three and ninepence than go out and socialise in a proper pub.

Boring bastards.

[CAMRAMan]

Tossco have a 4 for£5 offer on until Tuesday. I have stocked up for Christmas, but whether it lasts till then is another matter.

[Wowbagger]

I have just asked the chap in charge of the wine & beer display whether they have any 1845 in the warehouse, as there has never been any on display when I've looked for it.

"We don't stock it any more."

How can they have a special offer for beer they don't stock? Is that legal, even if they do have the rider "Subject to availability"? It seems that they don't stock bottle-conditioned ale any more because too many people were taking the beer back because it has sediment in it, so it never will be available.  :face palm:

This isn't a Waitrose-wide policy but varies from branch to branch, apparently.

[Martin]

It seems that they don't stock bottle-conditioned ale any more because too many people were taking the beer back because it has sediment in it, so it never will be available.  :face palm:

do these people know anything about bottle conditioned ale? 

reminds me of a trip to Vienna many years ago; I was bought a bottle of Trumer Pils IIRC; the idea is you pour the beer carefully without disturbing the sediment (tasted sublime  ) then shake up the dregs and pour it on top ( ) WTF?

[TimO]

... The supermarkets have defined the role of beer in their trading strategy as a footfall generator, and are prepared to lose money on it because there is clear EPOS data to show that a multipack beer purchase is a door opener to a big shop overall.  It triggers selection of a bigger trolley and then the shopper fills it. ...

Doesn't work with me, all of my supermarket shopping is either on foot, or by bike.  A four pack is about the limit I want to carry in a carrier bag, or pannier.

I can, and do, take the trailer to the supermarket from time to time, for a big shop, and then can fit almost an entire trolley's worth of shopping in it.  I am tempted to get some of Sainsbury's beer special offers next time I do that, but I wouldn't swap from a basket to a trolley on the fly, it's not an option for me (or many others on here).

[RW]

Banks's bitter was £1.00 at Tesco for most of the summer.  At 3.8% it's an acceptable every-day beer, which accompanied my watching of TdF and Vuelta.  I have one in front of me as I type.  Its price has recently been increased to £1.09, but that's still good value.  I time my visits to Tesco carefully to make the most of reduced price food bargains.  I've got to the stage with enough food in the freezer, that if it's not cheap enough I don't have to buy it.  I am on a fairly tight budget.

[Thor]

Banks's bitter was £1.00 at Tesco for most of the summer.  At 3.8% it's an acceptable every-day beer, which accompanied my watching of TdF and Vuelta.  I have one in front of me as I type.  Its price has recently been increased to £1.09, but that's still good value.

Bank's currently on offer at £1.00, from Morrisons 

[Ewan Houzami]

I see that my local Budgens are doing Wychwood King Goblin (also Wychcraft and Brothers toffee cider) on a three for a fiver offer. Wychwood brew some interesting stuff - combining chocolate malts with Fuggles and Cascade (in the case of King Goblin) sounds a bit bonkers at first but curiosity will no doubt get the better of me..

[Ewan Houzami]

Timmy Taylor Landlord and others now at four for a fiver at Tesco  .  Would Christmas be approaching by any chance?

[RW]

I recently bought some St Austel Proper Job on that offer, good stuff.

[CAMRAMan]

Lots of ales on offer at Tossco at 4 for £5. My favourites are St Peter's Stout - a lovely, creamy 6.5%-er and McEwan's Champion Ale at a whopping 7.3%.