Special Brew R.I.P.

I don't understand the point of getting rid of it, the alchies will just move onto something else. I myself do like an occasional Thatchers Premium Vintage, which is about 7.2%, but you can't really taste the alcohol in it. I can't have too many though, or they push me over the edge.
 
MikeTheNative said:
I don't understand the point of getting rid of it, the alchies will just move onto something else. I myself do like an occasional Thatchers Premium Vintage, which is about 7.2%, but you can't really taste the alcohol in it. I can't have too many though, or they push me over the edge.
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It's always been a taboo drink because each can contains more than the NHS guideline daily alcohol limit. Carlsberg have always maintained that people don't have to drink the entire can in one go and that it's only designed as a one off drink for special occasions, but it's always been an obvious cop out. It seems that now Tesco have taken a stand.
 
Ahh Special Brew, took 4 cans of this to a party when I was in my teens, luckily I had some good mates to carry me home.
Woke up in the morning with no eyebrows though.
 
The drink was created by the Carlsberg Brewery in 1950 to celebrate the visit of Winston Churchill to Copenhagen, following the Danish tradition of producing a new beer for special national
occasions. Knowing of the great man’s fondness for cognac, the Carlsberg brewers managed to infuse the lager with some of that brandy flavour, hence the special taste. When he returned to
Britain, Carlsberg sent two crates of Special Brew to his London address. Always a man of judgment and taste, Churchill seems to have liked the drink, which he called ‘Commemoration
Lager’ in a letter of thanks to the brewery. By the time Winston was fighting his last parliamentary election in 1959, production of Carlsberg Special was under way in Britain at the
firm’s Northampton plant. If Special Brew was good enough for Winston Churchill, it is certainly good enough for the rest of us.
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