Get the beers in !

[lazyitus]

What are peoples view on this?

Do you fill your boot up before you leave or do you take a little bit and get more when there.

Do you take nothing and buy it all in France at a mini-market?

Presumably, beer is over-over priced inside the circuit.

What to do for best? :)

[mr_tony]

carrefour - in le mans. much cheaper than the uk, and keeps your power to weight ratio up for the journey

>> Edited by mr_tony on Thursday 2nd June 12:16

[hobo]

I assumed (probably incorrectly) that the best option would be to buy in one of those Mega-Stores in calais.

Suppose it depends on how much room is in the car. Don't really fancy filling the boot in mine up & then driving 4/5 hours with it all 'banging' against the rear screen though, so will personally probably just buy some at a supermarket nearer to LeMans.

[williamp]

buy at Le Mans. Either the carrefeur (north, into Le Mans on the N138 Mulsanne straight, or south, away from Mulsanne straight towards Ecommoy). The latter is closer and quieter, but the car park in the former is something else- an RS200 on speed bumps!

Petorl: caution. Most say they take credir cards, but this is only french ones.

[Mark B]

We always get it there, unless you run the risk of arriving when the shops are shut.

[rralston]

Yep - buy when you are there

Lots of supermarkets around the area. Although we managed to clean the one in Arnage out of bread and desperados last year !

[RichUK]

Aahhh, Desperado.

[lazyitus]

Mark B said:

We always get it there, unless you run the risk of arriving when the shops are shut.

I might take a few bottles/cans to see us right incase we're stuck when we arrive and shops have shut.

I can get stockpiled then when the next shop opens.

[rsvmilly]

You don't take sand to the beach so don't take expensively taxed, UK beer to France - unless you like real ale, of course.

[up-the-dubs]

Another unasked questioned answered!!

Cheers, I was going to bring beer!

Any other questions I can't think of, that I need answers to?

[ettore]

Certainly don`t bother to take any lager - it`s filthy cheap and running like water at Le Mans!.If however, you don`t have cooling facilities at the campsite,it can be worthwhile taking some real brown beer - tends to be a bit tastier warm...

[up-the-dubs]

Theres a good question!.... Besides the swimming pools full of water, how do you keep beer cool?

Cool boxes? Ice? Ice Packs? Plug in Jobbie?

[Sortie 10]

Keep it cool? With the Jimmer Le Mans crew, it's not around long enough!

(Could be tempted to take a barrel of "Somerset Champagne" aka Thatcher's Scrumpy)

[maxf]

Coolbox stuffed full of ice packs. Then take the ice packs to Carrefour in a suitably pikey plastic bag - leave in deep freezers - do shopping - return for lovely cold icepacks and another day of chilled beer!

/pikey mode

[MrV]

RichUK said:

Aahhh, Desperado.

Its the devils drink dont touch it

[supaspark]

Over the fields to Arnage...Ice cold and smooth as silk

[Balmoral Green]

I will be having a few beers, from the supermarket, but for wine will be stocking up on the way home, and a few bottles of single malt too.

God I love my big boot

[supaspark]

BG can I rent some space in your boot please

[andy4200]

maxf said:

Coolbox stuffed full of ice packs. Then take the ice packs to Carrefour in a suitably pikey plastic bag - leave in deep freezers - do shopping - return for lovely cold icepacks and another day of chilled beer! /pikey mode

Fantastic, never thought of that one.

[r0880]

We have gone down the electric cool box route for the last couple of years, but may not have room for it this year - four up in a M3.

In the past we have overcome the cold beer problem, by buying cool box/es at carre four (dirt cheap) and buying frozen veg to cool (also dirt cheap).

Frozen Veg replenished regularly when restocking beers, and cool box/es abandoned when returning home.

Considering swapping M3 for M5 before departure so may have room for electric cool box after all.

>> Edited by r0880 on Thursday 2nd June 20:37