Choose 8 from 219 beers for just $28.32 @ BWS (incl. Cash Rewards). Save up to $23.68
A friend was able to get Dans Murphy's to price beat and scored some beers up to $9 each in value.
Bundle + Save - 8 Pack of Craft and Specialty Beers for $30 @ BWS
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Was just thinking the same thing. Pirate Life tends to be on the expensive side, but an 8 pack using this is pretty good.
Yeah, for the IPA, and to a lesser extent the Pale (Throwback IPA cheaper by the slab at Dan's).
This deal is good if you wanted to sample a bunch of the pricier beers, but otherwise not many of them are cheaper then buying by the slab.
Pirate Life IPA is a bargain though! Moo Brew too, if you like that. Couldn't see many others, in my quick look (search by price doesn't seem to work properly?)
Wouldn't mind trying the Wicked Elf Porter, but doesn't seem to be available anywhere near me.
Any other finds?
Can't see the Moo Brew available anywhere in Sydney :(
Went to my local and not too many interesting ones. Tried most, but grabbed some Pirate Life. No Moo Brew here either, or anything uncommon.
$30 for 8 beers still sounds expensive to me.
Compared to buying a slab, yes. But if you want to purchase a mixed selection to taste a bunch of different beers (before investing in a whole slab), it's not bad (for craft beers).
I was thinking the same thing, $30 for 8 beers! I'm guessing that you're paying for the verbal mastubation material you receive for your local niche cafe circle jerk over breakfast @ 1pm on Saturday afternoon while sipping a coffee that took longer to order than to consume…
Unfortunately I also don't have a huge beard, undercut hair style with pony tail, tight jeans, canvas slip on shoes, sleeveless lumberjack shirt, black rimmed glasses without lenses, 1920's style sailor tattoos all up my arms or a single speed bicycle, so "craft beers" are usually lost on me.
Haha.
I hate that these people without knowledge of decent beer play the "hipster card." I hate hipsters, but I love great beer. Why give hipsters the credit for having good taste in beer, when anyone with an ounce of appreciation for quality enjoys a craft beer?
I guess you're one of these guys who believes a McCain pizza is every bit as good as the authentic Italian joint down the road? Why go to your local Indian restaurant when you can buy a jar of Butter Chicken in Aldi, right?
Honestly, if you've tasted - for example - a Beechworth Bling IPA, or Stone's Ripper Pale Ale, or any of the Pirate Life range… for a start… and you still think your Tooheys New or Extra Dry - whichever urine you're still clinging onto - tastes better, good luck to you. It just means there will be more good beer left on the shelves for those who actually enjoy beer that tastes good rather than just beer for the sake of beer.
For the record, I have been to about five Dan Murphys now and all are honouring this deal, which gives you access to a much larger range. Plus I've been getting a further 10% off the $30 too. Good times. It is still pretty pricey, I admit that, but it's a great way to taste all the beers you've been wondering about, so you can make an informed decision about where to put the big bucks next time you buy a case.
Unless your Pegaxs. Cat urine is much more cost effective.
And for the record, I think all beer looks, smells and tastes like cats urine. And while I will consume said cats urine when offered in a social setting (so as to not upset the delicate fabric of masculinity), what I can't cope with is the self copulation that people get involved in over "craft beers". They are not fine wines, they are bottles of bogan juice. There is a stigma attached to craft beers, and that, unfortunately, is the hipster culture trying to out do each other with stories of some obscure ale that they drank "before it was cool."
Craft beer is quickly becoming the new chai double shot, low fat soy skim, oven roasted, free range, fair trade latte all the cool kids want to impress their mates with at the next verbal stroke off with their like minded upperclass, bogan at heart, hand gripped, pull me in for a hug and a hearty slap on the back festival of the "bro" get together…
If I have to pay $30 for 8 of these just to give me something to "bro" off about next time I'm socialising, I think I'll find something else. Or maybe I'll just sit back and laugh at all the big boys talking about how awesome their "big boy" drinks are. :)
Bring on the negs! :D
@pegaxs: What a great attitude you have. "I don't like it = all beer tastes bad". Beer has been treated seriously in Europe for hundreds of years. You are just showing your ignorance if you think it's somehow a lesser drink than whatever you prefer. I don't really like rum, but I'm not going to pigeon hole it as a "bogan" drink because it's not to my tastes!
@Poimandres: almost right… what you should have written is…
"All beers taste bad = I don't like them".
I have not gotten a dislike for all beers from tasting one or two, I have a dislike for beers, because of the wide and varied range of beers I have sampled, they all either taste the same, or taste like slight variations on cats piss.
And I'm sure beer is a very serious thing. I only have to stand around with my mates and listen to them crank on about the latest in craft brew and how we should all try this "Penguins Foot lightly brewed cold filtered free range hops pale ale". Even the names they gives these "craft beers" are some of the most pretentious rubbish I have ever had the misfortune to hear.
If I had a dollar for every time I heard some "I'm not a hipster, I swear!" type tell me all about this awesome "craft beer" that is the best they have ever tasted and add to the end of the sentence… "but you've probably never heard of it…" I would have enough for a few cases of whatever they are waxing lyrical about.
So, as I said, it's either bogan juice or hipster swill. One only has to look at the advertising and marketing of any of these beers to know they are only aiming at either of those two groups.
And as it goes, back to my original point, $30 for 8 beers sounds a bit pricey, but I guess once you factor in the "oh have you tried this, you've probably never heard of it." Saturday afternoon breakfast circle jerk, for some it might work out as a great investment.
@pegaxs: Double down on your ignorance. Really dig those heels in. You moan about hipsters and fill your posts with snarky judgement, but really the one who comes across looking like a pretentious tool is you. You're the one banging on about what is/isn't a "classy" drink and painting whole groups of people with the thickest possible brush. Nobody else is talking in such absolutes. Get over yourself.
@Poimandres: No ignorance here, just general, real world observations. I have not gone into what I would consider a classy beverage, I have merely stated an observational fact. $30 for 8 bottles of what could only be described as beer that is at best verbal masturbation for a group of wanna be upper middle class bogans to try and one up each other with stories of this texture, flavour and brewing heritage. The endless drivel that pours from the mouths of the "bro" about this amazing new "craft beer" after work on Fridays is depressing. Is it about the drink, or trying to find the tipple with the stupidest name? I just don’t know any more.
And like I said before, it isn’t just me taking this "hipster" brush to "craft beers", it's marketing and advertising companies. They know who buy it. They know why they buy it. So the names get sillier and sillier and the brewers get more an more obscure…
"Oh, yeah, Thr333 Yaks and a Vat, I loved their Desperate Blonde IPA, well, that's before it became mainstream. Oh, you haven't heard of it?"
And I'm the one that sounds pretentious…
And keep down voting, because every down vote I get validates exactly what I am saying.
@pegaxs: Look at the comments in this thread. The only one talking smack is you.
Yes, you sound pretentious. Everyone else in here is having a level headed discussion and you're trying to spout that beer is literally only appreciated by bogans or hipsters? That all beers taste the same? That beer tastes like "cat piss"? Your evidence for the objective truth of these notions is "look at the ads" and "I heard some people having a conversation"? Maybe you should contemplate the subjectivity of experience and stop trying to pass your opinions of as some kind of objective truth.
It's fine if you think $30 is expensive for 8 beers… I feel the same way, but I'm not going to follow that up with spectacularly ignorant statements about the merits of beer and bitch about people who enjoy something I don't.
A whole $3.75 for decent beer? A schooner of cats piss at a pub would cost you more than that, so hardly expensive…….
Awesome deal on the Pirate Life beers!