Beer

[rdemn]

Can you buy buckets of beer If so how much are they and how much is a single beer?

does anybody have a list of beers that you can purchase?

thanks

 

[neverbeenhere]

Here's a start. The pub will have other selections.

 

As for the bucket, on Royal, I don't know.

[smokeybandit]

Best subject line ever.

 

Beer tends to be $7.50 or so.  Your typical domestics plus Stella, Fosters, Red Stripe and Heineken

[Eddie Wilson]

Don’t brand limit yourself on the islands.  I love to stop at local or street bars on islands and ask for their most popular local beer, as long as it’s cold, cold cold.  Had many a great beer, only a few duds.

 

Problem is without digging out my camera I can’t name them. Caribe is a nice been down in the Caribbean, only name I remember off the top of my head.

 

Growing up in Cincy, a beer drinking town with deep German Heritage, 

 

Eddie, 

 

[smokeybandit]

There are a lot of good local beers that are only good because it's local.

 

I'd never buy them at home but look forward to them on vacation

[SG65CB]

1 hour ago, Eddie Wilson said:

Growing up in Cincy, a beer drinking town with deep German Heritage,

 

Went to school near Cincinnati. You must be referring to Hudepohl, Wiedemann's, and of course Little Kings!

 

[SeattleAl]

I'm a big fan of craft beers (especially ales), but I looked at the beer list in the Ovation pub and was totally underwhelmed. Seems like they could pick up a few kegs of good craft beer at their ports.

[ericosmith]

I hope they have something better than the beers on that list or I wasted my drink package money.  Maybe I should have stayed with Celebrity, at least they had some decent ones.  

[rj59]

3 hours ago, SeattleAl said:

I'm a big fan of craft beers (especially ales), but I looked at the beer list in the Ovation pub and was totally underwhelmed. Seems like they could pick up a few kegs of good craft beer at their ports.

I was disappointed by Ovation beer options too, especially for a supposed pub. I guess I was spoiled by the real craft beer pub on the newer NCL ships. Instead I found craft beer spots in Juneau, Skagway, and Sitka, and I got to talk to locals and had a cat sleep in my lap at a Juneau brewery. The only pleasant beer surprise on Ovation was finding Newcastle on tap in the covered pool bar. I suppose they make more profit on cocktails and wine and don't want the storage/recycling problems with bottled beer, although even on wine/cocktail-centered HAL and Princess I can still find Grolsch to carry around with me, and on Princess a few weeks ago I got to know a cute Serbian bartender who found unique beers that aren't on the menu, like a Piraat Triple (10.5% abv!) or Goose Island Sofie. 

[PigsCanFly]

I became a fan in the Oasis pub of Pilsner Urquell.  The Symphony Pub also had it.

[caisseold442]

Just off the Symphony  In playmakers you can get a pitcher of beer for 18.00  used diamond voucher & paid difference about 6.00  they had stella , new castle , heineken , and late in the week  blue moon I brought my Yeti tumbler  to fill and walk. with it managed the week with out a drink package  

[orville99]

14 hours ago, rdemn said:

Can you buy buckets of beer If so how much are they

6X the cost of a single beer - they don't do discounts any more. BTW, the prices shown are before they add the 18% auto gratuity.

[billslowsky]

13 hours ago, SG65CB said:

 

Went to school near Cincinnati. You must be referring to Hudepohl, Wiedemann's, and of course Little Kings!

 

Little Kings in the quart bottle!

[crewsweeper]

13 hours ago, SG65CB said:

 

Went to school near Cincinnati. You must be referring to Hudepohl, Wiedemann's, and of course Little Kings!

 

Don't forget Rhinegeist!

[crewsweeper]

13 hours ago, SeattleAl said:

I'm a big fan of craft beers (especially ales), but I looked at the beer list in the Ovation pub and was totally underwhelmed. Seems like they could pick up a few kegs of good craft beer at their ports.

At one time pre-Covid, Royal was carrying Funky Buddha selections, even on Coco Cay.  All I saw on the Harmony in January was Sierra Nevada, Stones , and Terrapin's awful fruity concoction, plus Newcastle on tap in the Pub which was NOT the brewed for American tastes in bottles you see around. Coco Cay did have Red Stripe permitting beer drinkers to somewhat avoid the Big Beer swill.

[markbach]

44 minutes ago, crewsweeper said:

At one time pre-Covid, Royal was carrying Funky Buddha selections, even on Coco Cay.

 

Do they not have Chilla Thrilla anymore on Coco Cay?

[crewsweeper]

22 minutes ago, markbach said:

 

Do they not have Chilla Thrilla anymore on Coco Cay?

I didn't see it at the bar near the cabanas where we were..  Not a fan of fruity beers but remember it was pretty decent.  Reminded me of Proof's Mango Wit.

[Sobro]

On Explorer at the beginning of the month the pub was out of several selections. I ended up drinking beer onshore and whiskey sours aboard. 

[DrewFoundLander]

I was on Symphony in Nov of 21 and could get buckets no problem 5 beers for the price of 4. Wasn't advertised but was available upon request. Maybe someone currently on board any Royal ship can ask. I was also able to get this deal in Coco Cay.

Edited February 23, 2022 by DrewFoundLander

[jcc1025]

22 hours ago, Eddie Wilson said:

Don’t brand limit yourself on the islands.  I love to stop at local or street bars on islands and ask for their most popular local beer, as long as it’s cold, cold cold.  Had many a great beer, only a few duds.

 

Problem is without digging out my camera I can’t name them. Caribe is a nice been down in the Caribbean, only name I remember off the top of my head.

 

Growing up in Cincy, a beer drinking town with deep German Heritage, 

 

Eddie, 

 

I agree, I always like to ask what the local beers are and thy them since you will never find them back home. 

[Mooguy]

Chilla Thrilla. Anyone see it again at Coco Cay?  I missed its debut by a week or two back in ‘19. Just wondered if it survived Covid and made a return.  Never had a chance to try it. 
  On another note has anybody tried the Rip Ty’d brewery in Nassau?   Been to Pirates Republic multiple times and thought might try something new. 

[Tin can]

On 2/23/2022 at 1:16 PM, caisseold442 said:

Just off the Symphony  In playmakers you can get a pitcher of beer for 18.00  used diamond voucher & paid difference about 6.00  

 

Now that's a proper use of a Diamond voucher 👍

[neverbeenhere]

For some reason this thread title called my name.

[crewsweeper]

42 minutes ago, Mooguy said:

Chilla Thrilla. Anyone see it again at Coco Cay?  I missed its debut by a week or two back in ‘19. Just wondered if it survived Covid and made a return.  Never had a chance to try it. 
  On another note has anybody tried the Rip Ty’d brewery in Nassau?   Been to Pirates Republic multiple times and thought might try something new. 

It wasn't there last spring.  Kinda thinking that post COVID, the Funky Buddha contract went bye, bye.   Would love to hear differently.

[Donsyb]

Didn’t see Chilla Thrilla on coco cay. They had red stripe and sands.

 

just off Oasis, they had funky Buddha listed at playmakers, but not all of it in stock. There were a lot of beers and wines listed that they didn’t have.  Beers they did have were stone IPA, terrapin luau krunkles, funky Buddha Floridian, terrapin hopsecutioner.