Talk:Eight Ace

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I've always wondered, where the heck does Eight Ace get his beer so cheap? It is about £0.19 per can, which is currently about €0.27. Beer in Finland costs almost ten times that much. I realise Finland is an expensive country, but so is the United Kingdom. Does Eight Ace have some sort of special deal with the Indian shopkeeper? — JIP | Talk 10:44, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

I remember when I was 16 and I once spotted cans of lager for 49p a can; it was called Stripe or something. This was back in 1991, when 49p was a lot of money :) It was about 2.5% ABV anyway, so even eight cans wouldn't get you drunk. I recall someone wrote to Viz demanding an explanation as to why the price of eight cans of beer in this strip was so low, and there was a supposed competition to get people to send in the price of the cheapest, nastiest beer they could find. But Viz never followed it up.

For what it's worth, when I lived in Northern Ireland me and a mate bought 2-litre bottles of 5.5% ABV cider for £1.49, that got us reasonably drunk. But we used to have a second bottle just to make sure. :) Robert Mercer 00:16, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

When I was 18, during the 1994 world cup, Winemark in Northern Ireland were selling Ostbrau. A cheap lager with a red can and a two headed eagle on it. It was 25p for a 440ml can. In those days, a can of coke was 28p for 330ml.

Tesco's do their ultra value bear for 18p a can. Unfortunatly it is without doubt the worst thing I have ever tasted. Something tells me 8 Ace doesn't care about that though.

Tesco value lager is also very low in alcohol at 2% ABV though... DWaterson 20:24, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Let's not lose sight of the fact that this is a comic, and the price is exaggeratedly low for comic effect. For the lager to have the effect it does, it would have to be at least 6% alcohol, which would rule out the sort of low-alc beers talked about here, unless Octavius has a particularly low alcohol tolerance threshold, which, given the frequency of his consumption, is very unlikely.