I’ve made Vodka filtered through a coconut and it tasted better than anything you’d spend a 100 quid on. You realise the level of marketing and how easy it is to dupe people with it. When I think of these places that do bottle service with roped off tables filled with idiots spending literally hundreds it just makes me laugh. “I only drink Grey Goose”. Thats fine but allow me to think of you as a complete idiot.

It was either Aldi or Lidl who did a blind tasting exercise in Dublin around 2013 for some magazine. They used all the top brands of vodka and their own “house” brands with names like Blawovski and Red Eagle. They used some socialites and a few experts for the tasting. One of the house brands came first. I’m sure all the fancy tasters were mortified. The cost of a bottle was under 20 euro at the time. It just goes to show the power of branding and I’m sure you can apply that to most spirits, beers and ales are obviously more complex.

    Your whole campaign is a psy-op, Ed

      I’d like to smack Ed in the neck with a red hot branding iron.

        LT42 Your whole campaign is a psy-op, Ed

        Even though I don’t know what this means, I concur!

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            bosstrabs I’d like to smack Ed in the neck with a red hot branding iron.

            Lol, thanks Dave!

              You said you couldn’t stop watching it. MORE LIES.

              Oh yeah that, bunch of mad bastards.

              What’s that got to do with a psy-op campaign though?!

              LT42 It was either Aldi or Lidl who did a blind tasting exercise in Dublin around 2013 for some magazine. They used all the top brands of vodka and their own “house” brands with names like Blawovski and Red Eagle. They used some socialites and a few experts for the tasting. One of the house brands came first. I’m sure all the fancy tasters were mortified. The cost of a bottle was under 20 euro at the time. It just goes to show the power of branding and I’m sure you can apply that to most spirits, beers and ales are obviously more complex.

              The Aldi gin definitely came out very well from the blind tests (probably just as well they didn’t let people know it was called Oliver Cromwell gin):

              https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/22/aldi-own-label-gin-taste

              My mate used to only drink Belvedere vodka. He’d spend £40 on a 70 cl bottle. One day I brought the Aldi Tamova vodka over to his and made him a Belvedere and a Tomova and asked him to guess which one was which. After about 5 minutes he guessed correctly, but he actually preferred the Aldi vodka which is £14 a litre. Lol

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                  Old-Dutch he guessed correctly

                  Exactly. Its not like there’s this massive taste difference that’s undeniable. The vodka I made tasted so good it didn’t even need a mixer. I could take a holiday on the money I’ve saved this year on Spirits alone.

                    I’ve got a couple of big ops coming with the first on Friday. I’m gonna knock booze on the head for a few weeks.

                    The second dose of the rona has left me with a horrible smell and taste that’s comes and goes which doesn’t help

                      The auld rona is a complte balls . My missus has just been diagnosed with Costochondritis as a result of COVID (basically the inflammation of the cartilage that joins your ribs to your breastbone).

                      Hope the procedures are a success for you Grant.

                        Hope Mrs Comer makes a full recovery Sean.

                        Sorry to hear of the COVID complications lads. What a shitter.

                        All the George with your ops Grant.