Sorry for orientation. Everything is tilted 90 degrees in this hemisphere. Not a lot of people know this
Just drink Mercury's, $19 for a 6 pack, 8.2%, 2.4 standards. Keep in mind though I am a bisexual male so I can put up with the taste longer than most
Strong username to post correlation. I drink vodka and beer that tastes good when I can afford it. Stouts are good
Would you believe me if I told I came up with username while drunk
Best time to. I came up with this one because r/redscarepod annoyed me
naming your alcohol after a poisonous heavy metal :thinking-about-it:
No no no, you've fucked it all up. This is what you were trying to do I think
Having no frame of reference as to what Korean and Japanese drinks cost, this usefulness is zero.
Also it's sideways. Just correct the orientation before posting, people. No we don't all use tablets that auto-rotate.
A can of Strong Zero shouldn't be >10AUD. Price is 50%+ tax. Wine is taxed by value in Australia, everything else by alcohol volume. It's bullshit
Soju in occupied Korea is cheaper than bottled water sometimes so theres about a 10x markup here
Strong Zero goes for about 150 yen a can. That's like $2 Australian.
Tangentially related: Americans, is two buck chuck still $2 a bottle? How bad is it?
it says $3.99 online per bottle, but i hear it's $2.99 if you're in CA. last time i got some, i bought it by the box and it came out to something like $2.15/bottle. i don't think it's bad at all, but some people say it gives them a headache. expensive champagnes give me a headache, so whatever.
it's interesting... the guy who owns that brand [died in fall 2022, RIP] is the big dog by volume in terms of US wineries. nephew to another big bulk wine producer (Gallo). i read some interview with him and he legit is the only vintner in the US i have ever heard talk plain. and by that, he wasn't trying to sell anybody anything with a pitch. he worked out of some shitty trailer on the side of the road. he complained about ants in his trailer. he said sommeliers are con artists. he straight up said "terroir is bullshit." he said expensive wines are fraud. he said his wines are cheaper than other CA wines mostly because he's in San Joaquin instead of Napa where property is cheaper.
anyway, one can imagine how deeply US wine snobs hated this guy. doubly so because multiple times have some of his wines crushed pricey fancy wines in blind tests. i've worked enology adjacent for a while, so i've been to the puppet show and seen the strings, and imo he was more often right than wrong.
And Japanese too. I didn't know Strong Zero even existed outside of Japan
We probably drink more beer and wine. This was in the city, not representative. You'd think Australia would be a beer country, but if you're broke a lot it has to be a wine country for you. It's a tax thing. I'll research why next time I'm angry about it
The cheapest wine (not in a bag) is stuff called Bowler's Run. $3. Highly unrecommended. I'd prefer not to get drunk if I can only afford that
I find that the tomato juice and tobasco sauce cover up the goon taste pretty well. Recent discovery (approx 1/2 goon 1/2 tomato juice, dash of tobasco, dash of lemon juice, crack of pepper and salted rim).
Oh I understand now. Hm... not that desperate. Wine hangovers are the worst. I'm a believer in methanol theory of hangovers, so makes sense that beer/wine ones are worse than vodka/gin. The cheapest thing would be to have an academic licence to buy ethanol
Just drink two tall glasses of water before bed. Hangovers are mostly dehydration.
Substitute two bottles of sugarfree Gatorade for electrolytes.
I do that but there's more to it than dehydration. Sort of only matters if you're drinking 10 pints or something though which I tend to avoid nowadays. Methanol and congeners are part of it. Vodka, if 3x distilled, should just be ethanol and water
You'll come crawling back. shakes fist
Spirits are so expensive here :(
I know it sucks. I hate Australia so much
Read "Quadrant" if you ever forget how much Liberals suck. Can't say what should happen to the people who write that filth
Not to be confused with the Quarterly Essay, which is fine usually
Passion pop used to be $3.50 :cowboy-cri:
bottle of penfolds for <$20 is solid.
Also, redistilling cheap shit can be fun if tiresome
bottle of penfolds for <$20 is solid.
So for about $100 I could get a penfolds five?
Yeah I don't think distilling is worth the time. Seen it done but I don't have the equipment. Big Clive on YouTube does it I think
It's very diy friendly, but quickly becomes a numbers game/time sink to see appreciable/replicable/sustainable results.
I do like Clive. Came for the teardowns, stated for the carbonation
The vodka prices have almost driven me to distill my own in the past
These prices are bad, but Norway is worse. That soju on the shelf? Double that price for the same bottle here
I haven't lived here long, so I don't have much personal experience with it, but it seems quite generous still with like sick leave, m/paternity leave, pensions. The healthcare system is almost completely free and not politically threatened from what I can tell, so that's more secure than in Australia. Dentistry is not free, which makes no sense to me personally
The downside is getting on some benefits, you deal with bureaucratic bullshit like any other bourgeois state. With unemployment benefits especially. I know people who've had trouble getting them, and they definitely try to get you back into work very quickly.
There's also a high rate of unionization here but my understanding is they tend to be pretty collaborative and not radical. There are strikes and wildcat strikes that happen pretty often though, but sometimes the government forces arbitration and ends them.
The dentistry thing is the same in Australia. Amazingly I've never had a cavity but I'm not above punching Anthony Albanese in the dick if I got one
I got the Strong Zero. Vodka based stuff doesn't give you hangovers like beer/wine. Wine is taxed differently than other drinks in Australia and therefore cheaper. I fucking hate it
If you want to drink cheap in Australia you must drink wine
