Poster: A snowHead
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40p per pint in the supermarkets
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I didn't have you down as a Tesco Value Bitter man. Boredsurfing.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Is there a great alpine beer? My OH thinks not. It's just weak stuff in bottles.
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erica2004, you're right. And it's hardly revealing to compare the cost of a pint of Grolsch with a pint of Tesco Value Bitter. Apples and pears. Cider and perry.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Hubby would disagree, having just finished the last of his beers from the microbrewery in Briancon. La Tourmente . Also Luc Alphand beer brewed locally too. Available bottled, and also draught in many of our local bars. Certainly not weak offerings either.
You need to cross the Col du Lauteret and stop heading for the Tarentaise guys.
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I love a cold Kronenbourg on the side of the Piste on a nice blue sky day, and coke seems to cost the same amount so why not
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Boredsurfing wrote: |
gortonator,
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BTW, how much is a pint in UK nowadays
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Pub prices towards £3.00 a pint in the provinces. 40p per pint in the supermarkets and the Government is continuing to blame pubs for binge drinking |
Not in these "provinces".
There are certainly still plenty of pubs where you can get decent beer for under/around £2 per pint.
And you can't get anything decent in the supermarkets for much under £1.
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Though I know Bansko is not in the Alps, £2.50 for a pint is just fantastic. The main Apres Ski bar is Happy End and the beer is good, surroundings are good and it generally has a great atmosphere up to around 8pm then its pretty much dead. I think if you are paying over the odds and the bar is a shithole its probably time you found a new bar.
BTW at a Covent Garden bar I frequent the pints are £5.90! It is the best beer in town though IMHO. Brugse Zot for those who need to know....
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microbrewery in Briancon. La Tourmente . Also Luc Alphand beer brewed locally too.
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Will second the quality on those Helen Beaumont, Very nice wheat beer, and the Alphand brewery have some really nice hearty dark beers. That's in Vallouise, isn't it? Didn't know that Tourmente were Briancon though.
Cannot wait to go back...just deciding on trip booking strategies now.
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I thought of this thread when I heard a media report from Ibiza the other day when a cost of €7 for a drink was mentioned. It seems the continentals don't just fleece punters for drinks when they're up a mountain!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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MarjMJ, Tourmente is just opposite the DIY place (Bricomat/Mr Bricolage).
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Helen Beaumont, are they the ones that make the beer with added Genepi - very nice in a slightly pervy way
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Arno, yes, they do.
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You know it makes sense.
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Helen Beaumont, thanks for confirming
funnily enough, my memory of trying it is not perfect...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Megamum wrote: |
I thought of this thread when I heard a media report from Ibiza the other day when a cost of €7 for a drink was mentioned. It seems the continentals don't just fleece punters for drinks when they're up a mountain!! |
In the tavernas in Stoupa (Mainland Greece) last week, 500ml Amstel varied between €2.50 - €3.00. Not quite as cheap as apint in Wetherspoons at home, but OK for a holiday resort.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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alex_heney wrote: |
In the tavernas in Stoupa (Mainland Greece) last week, 500ml Amstel varied between €2.50 - €3.00. Not quite as cheap as apint in Wetherspoons at home, but OK for a holiday resort. |
0.5L of Amstel in the citys in Holland cost between 3.50 & 5.00
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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stanton wrote: |
alex_heney wrote: |
In the tavernas in Stoupa (Mainland Greece) last week, 500ml Amstel varied between €2.50 - €3.00. Not quite as cheap as apint in Wetherspoons at home, but OK for a holiday resort. |
0.5L of Amstel in the citys in Holland cost between 3.50 & 5.00 |
Ouch! I wouldn't be drinking at the upper end of that range. I haven't yet ever paid as much as the bottom end of it, but I probably would if I was in a place it wasn't available cheaper.
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So £2.50 for a pint in Bansko, vs £lots£ for a pint somewhere decent to ski? I'll stick with £silly£ thanks.
Seriously who cares what the beer costs? That's not why you're there. If that IS why you're there, give up skiing, and take up sitting on park benches drinking thunderbird out of a bottle.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Axsman wrote: |
So £2.50 for a pint in Bansko, vs £lots£ for a pint somewhere decent to ski? I'll stick with £silly£ thanks.
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Hang on. I thoughht you were a fan of Austria? Where it is generally IME no more than than €3 per 0.5L.
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Seriously who cares what the beer costs? That's not why you're there. If that IS why you're there, give up skiing, and take up sitting on park benches drinking thunderbird out of a bottle. |
It isn't really about beer specifically, but more about prices in general. Beer just happens to be one item most of us can relate to.
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