Originally Posted by
Chris Kebab
Ah yes, recall filling the boot of the (tax free) car up with crates of this to give to folks back home as Xmas presents (wasn't easily available in UK then) and leave them to get the deposit back. As I recall they were 40p a bottle in the NAAFI and most off licences in the UK gave you 50p deposit for an empty! Mind you I do recall drinking with a Dutch guy once who said that Grolsch to them was "...the same as your Watney's Red Barrel", i.e. throwing beer!
When it was first sold, in the very early 1980s, it used to cost the equivalent of 17p a bottle. Then we got 30p back on an empty bottle in UK. It was better to drink the beer overseas because there was no customs restriction on how many crates of empty bottles you could import.