Tuborg
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crimsonghost747
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I can easily find the green one here and I do buy it quite often. I don't consider it to be one of the regular beers in this area but it makes for a nice change and it's priced pretty similarly to the local ones.
Do you mean it was pretty strong, right?
Well, sometimes drink the stuff which is over 10% and it doesn't feel strong whatsoever! I have no idea why.
I love them both. I don't usually drink flavored beer but that one is sick! Love it.
That's cool if the price is not much different from the local products that are probably way cheaper than any foreign stuff. One of the goals of this company is making their stuff available for people regardless of their income.
SirJoe
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Normal beers are normally 5% so it is a little stronger. I think that it has to do with the brewing process, the Tuborg used to be a bit rough.
Hm... I remember drinking some beer that was like 10% or so. It didn't feel like anything strong at all. That's kinda weird. Has it even happened to you?
SirJoe
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I never drank anything stronger then 8%, I don't remember that name of the beer was, only that it was made in Scotland. It was really rough, the Tuborg wasn't rough it just had a full bodied taste and the hops taste was really strong, so it was very bitter.
djordjem87
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I do drink it sometimes when domestic beers are not available. It is okay actually. I like it. I like more the Tuborg fests they have from time to time but once I had a bad experience. While I was waiting to take a piss a crazy drunk Serbian girl bit me on the neck. But it wasn't a sexy kind of bite. She told me in a freaking scary voice that she was a vampire and she would suck my blood out and then she bit me strongly enough to make me bleed. I had to check myself for aids and stuff tomorrow.
crimsonghost747
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Well how it goes here for a can of beer is, you can get the basic (local and some foreign ones) for about 1 euro per can. 50 cents of that is alcohol tax, another 20 cents or so is value added tax. Ohh and 15 cents is the price of the can which you will get back when you take it to the store. So the actual "legal crap" is already about 85 cents per can, the rest goes to the producer, transporter, store. So that is why most beers have a pretty similar price range unless they are selling it at a much higher margin. (which is the case for more special beers sold individually)
crimsonghost747
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ohh wow. If there is not tax then alcohol must be dirt cheap, right?
SirJoe
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Our VAT is pretty high, 23% so a six pack will be about €5.
crimsonghost747
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Hmm yeah not as cheap as I was expecting. That is a pretty steep VAT, makes everything quite expensive. (so I guess beer is relatively cheap then.
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SirJoe
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It's impossible to run away from taxes, if they don't make one tax up they will find another way to get their money. Wine on the other hand only has 13% vat, the reason has to do with some cultural thing.Hmm yeah not as cheap as I was expecting. That is a pretty steep VAT, makes everything quite expensive. (so I guess beer is relatively cheap then.
crimsonghost747
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I like it how in France, Italy etc... basically the wine countries, there is no alcohol tax on wine.
SirJoe
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It's a way of them defending their local market and they hide behind this fact with the excuse that it's defending their cultural heritage. If they didn't do this people might start drinking something else instead of wine or at least reduce their consumption.