booze update

Smallman1

Que?!

LT42

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

Smallman1

Oh yeah that, bunch of mad bastards.

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

Old-Dutch

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

LT42

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.

Along_the_Wire

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

Dan

Along_the_Wire All the best, Mucker.

-si-

Along_the_Wire

All the best for your ops, mate. Back at it in no time!

seanc80

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.

vinnyt77

seanc80 She’s only allowed to shop at cash and carry?

Kells77

seanc80 Sorry to hear Sean. Hope there’s some treatment she can have to help with that. Sounds awful 🙁

I’m kinda off the booze indefinitely. A drink here or there, but not hammering it home like I used to. I’d much rather smoke these days, plus we just lost my mom this past month to liver disease from her drinking, so that’s kinda put me off it as well.

seanc80

vinnyt77 🤣 well in Vinny!

Smallman1

Hope Mrs Comer makes a full recovery Sean.

Old-Dutch

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

Smallman1

All the George with your ops Grant.

LT42

Back in no time, Granto

Amps

Got a friend some Polish Wodka the other day, it had a picture of an angry bear on the front. Reports indicate it was absolute dynamite.

jonattonyeah

Kells77

Sheesh. Sorry to hear that Kels. A friend’s mother basically drank herself to death. Cleaning out her apartment wasn’t fun. Bottles everywhere. What can one do.

RichM

Kells77 sorry to hear that, must be so hard. Hope you are doing ok

seanc80

Kells77 wow Kells my sincere sympathies.

Along_the_Wire

Kells77 Sorry to hear that - shocking

Kells77

jonattonyeah

Thanks. Yeah, it was the same cleaning out my mom’s place. Bottles hidden in the closet, under her bed, in her dresser, behind the refrigerator, etc…it was heartbreaking.

mono-stereo

Kells77 Sorry to hear that Kells. Must of been very difficult.

Cankles-McJeggings

Sorry to hear that Kell. Hope things brighten up for you soon.

Kells77

Cankles-McJeggings Thank you. It’s been a rough month, but things are looking up 🙂

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