VB 30 Can Prices

[mwd]

if only LCPA came in cans, its a superior beer.

IMO Spearhead is better very good for a 'budget' craft beer except it comes in 330ml cans or bottles which is a waste.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Coopers Mild at my nearest Bottle shop $34.....

Sheaf Stout 6pack $17

Evans & Tate 2013 Shiraz $12



To be honest...I dont even know what they charge for VB......Its in the coolroom out of site

 

[Bribie G]

I'll bring Tun to Grafton next year and sneak it into Coopers glasses.

 

[komodo]

Why does the ad blame CUB? It's the retailers who are playing with the price and this isn't a thing that happens exclusively to VB.

This is not entirely true. Whilst yes the retailers will play with the price the brand will offer deals to their resellers.
My wife used to work in this industry.
They will do things like offer a certain buy quantity to get a certain buy price for a certain period. Naturally the two giants in the supermarket industry have huge buying power that independants and the smaller chains can't match so certain offers would be offered exclusively to them too so that they too could compete against the big two.
They also do things like specialised packaging of certain product to certain buying groups too "exclusive" branding/packaging etc.

So whilst YES ultimately its upto the retailers to pass on savings a lot of the time those savings come from the suppliers themselves and they do it to get more predictable sales throughout the year.
They also do POS merchandising on behalf of the stores and provide planograms to entice buyers to buy their preffered sellers etc (and then there are the in store **** fights between merchandisers/reps of opposing companies fighting for their space)

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

I know here than a lot of publicans buy spirits from Dans because it is cheaper then buying from their own wholesaler...I have even been shown the Liquormart wholesale catalog....and they are dearer than Dan's retail price

Something definately not right with that picture

 

[Brew Forky]

I bought a red carton of Tun once and it was so unpleasnant, I would have swapped the whole case with someone for a 6 pack of Vaginal Backwash.

Sometimes the breweries have sales, so if you buy a certain amount of pallets you get them at a cheaper price and this saving can be passed onto the consumer. You can actually buy beer cheaper at a merchant than what brewery charges it's customers. There is also a recommended retail price, so it is the store that changes the prices in relation to the OP.

 

[Topher]

For the price do yourself a favour and buy a 30 can case of Cricketers Arms Spearhead Pale Ale it is beut and has the hops that LCPA should have. Available at Dans but don't tell anybody.

Just bought a 10pk. Best before February 2016. Maybe I got a bad batch.......

It's light copper and fizzy and smells nice and malty and a bit hoppy, but the flavour is wrong. Yes I get the nice passionfruit from the Nelson, but it matches badly with whatever they did with the beer. Stale sweetness is sticking to the sides of my mouth. Never again.

Just googled the address on the box and it is Asahi.

 

[Tahoose]

Asahi Australia, own and make cricketers arms, and are responsible for importing the proper asahi from Japan. Which is a different company.

The other asahi is brewed in aus under license by CUB. This also tastes nothing like the real thing.

 

[panzerd18]

What about the 250ml VB grenades?

 

[Topher]

What about the 250ml VB grenades?

Memories.......

Back in school in the 90s we could split a case of throw downs with some mates and two of us with cargo pants and a good flanno could sneak all the booze into those great under18 band nights.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

What about the 250ml VB grenades?

Back in the days, when life was simpler and we had no internet, the boys and I would chip in to get a carton of throw downs for about $16 and head of to the river. In those much younger days, I swear there was a shop that sold beer at the distance that the carton would run out

 

[gezzanet]

B

 

[spog]

Coopers Mild at my nearest Bottle shop $34.....

Sheaf Stout 6pack $17

Evans & Tate 2013 Shiraz $12



To be honest...I dont even know what they charge for VB......Its in the coolroom out of site

$ 34:00 for a slab of Coopers Mild, I'm in the same state it's made in and the best price ( Coopers Mild being my drink apart from home brew ) is $ 37:00 a slab,not happy about that ! Oops wrong topic.

 

[sponge]

B

I agree entirely.