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.

Let's not lose sight of the fact that Federation Ace lager does exist, and the price is about right. It's only 3% ABV, so it's his drunkenness that is exaggerated for comic effect. Alan Davies 17:53, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

I'd point out a few things: 1. Apparently there was a lager called "Ace" in the 1980's when this strip was coined. 2. Beer would have been substantially cheaper in those days. Hence, while £1.49 may still have been cheap, it wouldn't necessarily be unfeasible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.116.106 (talk) 21:09, 29 April 2008 (UTC)