Beer news - Coopers Vintage Ale now in the UK
Posted on Sunday, January 6th, 2008 at 8:58pm. #
I do promise some small discussion of beer in this blog, and rarely deliver, what with all this talk of radio and occasional rants against Demon Internet, purveyors of my current 128k connection through no fault of my own, blah blah.
However. When I was in Australia recently, I was taken aback with the quality of the beer there. In my beer review posting, I describedCooper’s Vintage Ale as delicious - a bottle-conditioned, treacly, full-bodied, slow-drinking treat. Almost certainly worth hunting out again when I next visit.
With that in mind, I thought I’d let fellow lovers of the hop know that Cooper’s Vintage Ale is currently for sale in Tesco. Tesco have been steadily improving their beer selection, to the point where my local Tesco has three sets of shelves full of different types of ales and foreign beers, and that’s before insipid lager kicks in. It is now certainly one of the best supermarkets for choice and price.
Confusingly, Tesco sell Coopers Vintage with an additional sticker on them saying “Tesco Drinks Awards: Best Import”, and in a cardboard six-pack (much like you buy bottles of beer in American supermarkets). Given that I love this stuff, I simply picked up the six-pack without thinking.
At the self-service till, though, the machine failed to recognise the barcode on the bottom of the six-pack. A man came over. “Any idea how much these are, mate?” I’ve learnt to say “No” every time someone says that, so man tells woman to go and find out. Woman toddles off, gets the price-tag off the shelf, and comes back. Man scans it.
There you go, mate, £1.99 (AU$4.46).
Well, I wasn’t arguing. So I’ve actually managed to pick up six bottles for the bargain price of 33p (74 cents) each. Bargain…
