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Feb 2022
9:38am, 1 Feb 2022
9,256 posts
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BaronessBL
Maybe we should do a Fetch relay from the brewery in Suffolk to AC using a bottle of St Peters as the baton 
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Feb 2022
9:41am, 1 Feb 2022
27,353 posts
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Nicholls595
Given my track record with Fetch relays, I'll make myself unavailable
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Feb 2022
10:27am, 1 Feb 2022
33,036 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
That's a good subject fir a blog/thread. How bear are the main supermarkets to your house!
I used to partake a lot of St Peter's beer, but when I lived in Cirencester Waitrose was 400 yards away, now it is a trip around the motorway!
I liked the beer so much I would occasionally go out of my way, when in london, to The Jerusalem Tavern, their 'tap'. Clerkenwell.
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Feb 2022
10:33am, 1 Feb 2022
27,355 posts
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Nicholls595
I have tried a couple of St Peter's bottled beers, didn't like them. Found their plum porter to be quite "wishy washy" in comparison to the Titanic version.
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Feb 2022
10:43am, 1 Feb 2022
24,439 posts
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Dvorak
Waitrose is around seven miles from me, but I don't tend to buy beer there. I did think of starting a beer blog, featuring all the cheap beers which were ignored by all the other blogs *(Punterbräu) but, as with most of my thoughts, it failed to launch.
And then minimum unit pricing came in and raised the floor, so the specifically cheap beers weren't any cheaper than some "normal" beers.
An interesting side effect is just what you can get at m.u.p. Quite a few stronger beers like Guinness West Indies Porter, Broadside, King Goblin, McEwans Champion, Old Jock. No more expensive abv for abv than any slab of macro-gak.
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Feb 2022
11:08am, 1 Feb 2022
1,045 posts
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Sam Jelfs
The nearest supermarket to me is about 5 miles away and doesn't have a great beer selection, but luckily only about 3 miles away is the Achelse Kluis, which is still a Trappist monastery where they brew the Achel beers and also has a shop selling lots of different Trappist / Belgian / Local beers...
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Feb 2022
12:02pm, 1 Feb 2022
2,450 posts
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cackleberry
Tesco and Lidl are 2.25 miles, Aldi 3 miles. Off-license 1.7 miles.
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Feb 2022
12:42pm, 1 Feb 2022
33,038 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
Dvorak. Shanme you didn't write that blog because you could have done like for like comparisons. I have wondered what the effect of m.u.p. is in terms of on problem drinkers (my guess would have been maybe some) on health of people who like qyire a bit of tipple (little to none) but quite handy on profit and tax. I haven't really looked into it.
Nico. Not many Porters stack up well compared to Titanic!
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Feb 2022
12:45pm, 1 Feb 2022
33,039 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
Surprised at the number and make up of supermarkets near me. Well worth a blog.....
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Feb 2022
1:11pm, 1 Feb 2022
24,447 posts
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Dvorak
I think that I have everything that would be classed as a mainstream supermarket within seven miles drive, most within five. My small town has Sainsbury's, Iceland and Co-op: the rest are in neighbouring Big Towns.
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