8 beers, to your door, for less than 5 English pounds - sounds like a deal to me!
Some people The whole of England was delighted to hear that Off-licences have been added to the government's list of essential UK retailers allowed to stay open during the coronavirus pandemic.
It makes sense. If you want the public to 'stay at home' for weeks on end, you have to give them something to pass the time with. And that my friends, is likely to involve beer.
My friends who aren't working, have started cracking the beer and wine open earlier each day - teaching kids, even your own kids, sounds pretty tiring and I'm not judging at all. My favourite pub though is closed, and i'm not so keen on the local supermarkets drink any more (the locals awesome brews have turned me into a beer snob) and so when I saw this offer online yesterday, I had to give it a go.
The company is beer52, (based in Edinburgh @meesterboom) and website is beer52.com. They are offering new customers 8 beers for the cost of delivery - 4.99, which can be 8 light beers or a mixture of light and dark. You are automatically set up for an order costing 24.99 a month later, but you can cancel this (like I have!) once the first 8 beers have arrived.
I ordered my beers yesterday at around 2pm, and they arrived today at 4.30. The dude brought them to the door of my apartment, knocked, and waited (about 3 meters away!) until I opened the door. Good thinking, I don't want any corona in my box, or from you sir!
Can I interest you in some beer talk?
To the beers!
So the beers arrived in the box below. They were reasonably packaged and separated to avoid disaster - not sure about the pony tail on the guy holding the glass though...
It wasn't clear if I was going to receive bottles or cans, but as it turns out, there are a mix of each. I also went for the mix of light and dark beers, and the below is my reward for sitting on my backside for a day or so.
Out of the 4 cans, I am most looking forward to the Salted Caramel Pastry Stout. The sweet, but still bitter tasting beers (how do they do it?!) are mostly lush in my opinion, and this one stands out. I've not tried any of them before though and so hopefully they'll all surprise me and be worth the calories.
As a nice touch, the box also included a packet of roasted sweet chilli chick peas which are high in protein, apparently. This is good as I've worked out twice today, in advance of blowing the training plan away on these beauties :)
The bottles are a mix of two dark, and two light ales. Winning on name alone is the Knockmealdown Irish Stout by 8 degrees brewery, again though, I've not tried any of these and so I'm looking forward to giving all of them a sup.
Along with the chickpeas and beer was a booklet, which will likely become a coaster before being recycled in the next week or two. You never know though, I might have a flick through :)
Alright then, to the fridge they go while I make some dinner. I'm definitely going to try a couple later this evening, but I'll be saving most of them for the weekend where friends and I have a date on an app called Houseparty. I guess it's a bit like Skype or Zoom, but my non-tech-savvy friends suggested it and so I'm happy to go with whatever is on offer. I wonder if there are any games to play that are built into the app?
Has anyone tried any of these beers before?
Cheers!
Asher
And meanwhile in South Africa - https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@cryptoandcoffee/no-booze-or-cigarettes-are-allowed-to-be-sold-during-lockdown
Great contrast that!
Never tried any of those, some of them do sound interesting!
My friend whose a teacher sounds like she's having a fucking terrible time, her schools got her doing virtual lessons (which most students don't attend, but enough that she has to still do them) and marking a whole load of work which has clearly been plagiarized or written by the parents.
Solo living and no work really do have a lot going for them!
Might have to go buy some cheap beers tomorrow.
I think a revolution is triggered in a matter of hours if alcohol and cigarettes were banned in the UK! 😆
There would be a riot!
Lol South African's don't like to be without their alcohol its really the only thing keeping us from burning more of our country down than we usually do
Lol 😁
Seems illogical - need some taxes coming in surely?!
Well they already heavily tax petrol, sugar, tobacco and alcohol, they also put up VAT on all purchases and devaluing the currency as if it were a race to the bottom and we want to be the first to get there. Now with all the additional QE I won't be surprised if they bump up those taxes once again will nailing people with inflation!
I've already started holding dollars and Euros, Stable coins and other cryptos and i'm trying to make peace with the fact that my local savings won't be worth shit and thats hard to take
Hahaha,
It me wondering about what's happening to drug supplies too.
I can't believe they are cutting off supply to taxable goods - sounds like a double disaster for the economy.
Plagiarised homework - the parents must be bored eh!
I think you should collect a few ales this evening and download Houseparty 😁
I'm wondering how we're going to manage coming out of lockdown - surely everyone's just going to cram into all the social venues and it'll be corona carnage all over again?
What's house party?
I don't think we have a single one of these available in our country, we're still too basic for these fancy pants beers! We do have a cannabis beer though, which is nice, so we have that going for us
Weed beer - I would like a go on that 👍🏽
What beers do you have? Please don’t tell me Carlsberg 🤪
LOL last time I saw a Carlsberg logo in South Africa was way back when local Liverpool fans were still brave enough to walk around with their jerseys.
Are the piss poor selection of commercial beers, but we have a growing craft beer scene that's got some pretty decent stuff
They look awesome and what a price!!! 8 degrees is normally a good brewery. That salted caramel pastry bugger looks top notch. I like the names too!
Tuck in and enjoy your webcam sex!! :0D
Webcam sex is planned for tonight but I'm going to have to shop because...
The salty dog was easily the best!
Hehe, splendid!! And all of my replies came through!!
It was the webcam sex comment I was most men to see posted, lol
Last year in Scotland I was quite surprised by the quality of the local Scottish beers! I think I drank of those you bought there! And I was particularly amazed by “Schiehallion”, if you can try that, it is amazing!
The UK has a lot of decent smaller brewery's these days - it's not all Carling and Boddingtons, thankfully!
Do not assume its gender.
Enjoy the beers. I wish I could have a good glass of wine, but alas - I have to drink cheap plonk.
Well at least you have something and some time to do so. A bit of a fuzzy head this morning 😁
Productive day ahead?
Hive should have a communal beer together...Set a time around the world for us all to hoist a beer to...Hoist a beer to celebrate...Umm, celebrate the...Ah fuck it...Just hoist a beer for the sake of it, all at the same time. I have some Corona's I got cheap last week.
That would be cool...The worldwide steem-meetup-beer.
I'm thinking about trying to set one up for this evening - but you'll be cracking one open at 8/9am 😁
Hmm, 9am might be a bit early for a beer...But maybe not too. 😉
Awesome time to have brew or two. Makes life a little more tolerable ;)
I think so too - so much so I may have sampled the lot last night 😁
Right, we're in. What else are we mean to do here? Lol. xx PS We are on the same time zone. If i had have known this was going to happen, i wouldn't have gone. Can't believe after a 5 year absence I come back AND THE PUBS ARE SHUT.
Ordered. They arrive Tuesday. Woot.
So it's your fault? :D That is a shame, I know how much you have been longing for a proper pint!
So you just join and order the first set of beers. When they arrive you have to phone to cancel the subscription and that's it! I've already cancelled - 4.99 is pretty awesome for craft ales, but I'm not paying 24.99 a month :D
Exactly. I am calling them today.
Good stuff :D
At least, you can’t cause an accident due to drunk driving
Correct, I don't have a car 😂
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Aaaargh. A bug!!
I voted on this via my notifications and commented too but can see neither. Let me know if my vote doesn't come through if you see this!!
My comment read something along the lines of.
Those beers look awesome, I love the names and 8 degrees is normally quite a good brewery!!
Tuck in!! Enjoy the webcam sex too!! ;0D
Hmm, just replied to that comment! 😁
Damn, I can't get my vote or comment to stick.
Can't vote again either as it claims my vote is identical to the one previously cast. Grrr.
Those look amazing. 8 degrees is usually quite the good brewery too. The stouts look fab!
Tuck in and enjoy the webcam sex too!! ;0D
A third!
Thanks for boosting post engagement Boomy! 😁
Lol. Yesterday was obviously a strange day!
Staying at home all day long just because of this pandemic is really feerky me out
Prost Prost - one of the best posts I have seen from you - because of the key words #houseparty and #beer probably. :-)
At least beers to get the body and mind refreshed