ALDI are selling Marston’s Pedigree and Boddingtons in Sydney. Other deities may be applicable.
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ALDI are selling Marston’s Pedigree and Boddingtons in Sydney. Other deities may be applicable.
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The availability of bottled UK beer has improved dramatically over the past few years here in Singapore. Fairly easy to now get Pedigree, Timmy Taylor’s, London Pride and lots of the Badgers range (being Singapore it’s still far more expensive that the UK).
Do you have a Marks & Spencer in Sydney ? Their range of craft bottled beers is pretty good – including Cornish IPA, which is essentially St Austell Proper Job (one of the best bottled beers out there).
Boddies and even Marstons not a patch on their days of prime, sadly, but must be a lovely sight to see after the ubiquity of yellow drinks.
You can’t move for fizzy IPAs around here. Drives me nuts.
We would get Pedigree and Boddingtons among others at the boutique beer barns round town, but it was expensive. What made me happy was ALDI doing them at half the price. I suppose it can’t last.
Aldi selling booze? Not in Brisbane they don’t…
But it must be Brit Week – our local Aldi is selling Branston Pickle, Colman’s Mustard, Lea and Perrins and – gulp – sandwich spread.
Aldi has always sold booze down here. (Melbourne)
Turns out it’s a QLD thing. *insert little eye-rolling emoji here*
Thank God for Dan Murphy’s.
I’ve bought some stuff, cheap, was expecting it to taste worse, but yeah. I’d stick with Dan Murphy.
I did actually also buy the branston pickle smooth sandwich spread and a bottle of Lea and Perrins today, saddo that I am.
They’ve always done the booze in Sydney too to my knowledge. The wine is pretty decent too for quaffing.
That sounds more like 1970s week. Spam, anyone?
I love Spam.
This is interesting. You would never find British beer in my local Mercadona Spanish supermarket, or so I thought. But it has just started stocking Marston’s 61 Deep, and Ringwood Boondoggle. Joyous.
After a few fallow years when local supermarket and liquor store buyers would only stock indigenous kiwi craft beers, I can now get cans of Old Speckled Hen, Abbot and a bunch of other English ales in my local supermarket.
Before I emigrated, I used to drink Pedigree at my local in Beaconsfield, the Royal Standard, and at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street.
I was a wastrel drinking snakebites in the 80s, usually Foster’s and strongbow. It would have this weird particulate precipitate that sank to the bottom. That was when you knew it was going to be a good one. I hear most bars have banned snakebites now. I didn’t go loopy though.
I’d been put off ale by tinned Whitbread and the like. Tins in the 70s tasted horrible. Of tin mostly. Kids today with their plastic coated aluminium cans.
I didn’t actually discover decent beer till I went to San Francisco of all places in the early 90s, and the Edinburgh Castle in the Tenderloin (still not a lovely place) with Fuller’s and Young’s. Still one of my all time record hangovers lasting in excess of 24 hours unaided.
Just been in Dubai on business and taken full advantage of the Punk IPA being sold in the hotel bar (and at the airport too).
They are no more punk than the Monks (ex-Strawbs) or the Banned (ex-Gryphon); their business model is based more on the old days of the Big Six breweries, aggressively cutting in on any competition. Some of their beers are drinkable, but their pricing takes the piss. Talk to any other craft beer company and they won’t/don’t have a good word for them.
Glad to see that someone has found a use for Boddingtons, but rather nervous about the inevitable disappointed backlash from the antipodeans should anyone use it for anything other than cleaning shit off their surfboard.
Pacific North West reporting in. Newcastle Brown and Samuel Smiths are easy to get, usually Bass as well. I have a local shop with well over 500 different beers from around the world available, and the UK section is a bit lacking – Speckled Hen and Old Tom, some odd stuff from Prince Charles’ Estate and something with an Iron Maiden Brand, Very occasionally they have Spitfire, though not seen that for a bit. I would lightly murder someone for some Tanglefoot
Avoid Newcastle Brown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not manufactured (I refuse to define it as ‘brewed’) anywhere near Tyneside nowadays – it has moved base a few times since the old S&N brewery in Newcastle closed. It is foul, fizzy, tastes of chemicals and is utterly undrinkable. Years ago, I used to be able to spend entire evenings on the Dog – now, I wouldn’t touch it with yours.
Same problem with Boddies. Used to be half decent when I first moved to Manchester and was pretty popular… Remember the ads? Can’t remember the last time I dared try it.