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FOUR 'N' TWENTY Craft Beer Pies


Ulyssian27

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Hi All,

Has anyone else tried these pies. There's a few different flavours. I grabbed the pepper beef and stout. Loved them. I found them in Woolworths.

Four N Twenty have teamed up with Gippsland Craft Beer Company Grand Ridge Brewery, and have created,

Pepper Beef and Dark Stout

Smoky Style Beef with Pale Ale &

Classic Beef with Golden Ale.

Think I'll be taking pies to work for lunch. Gonna have to try them all.

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I actually bought these last week when I was wandering through Coles. they were on special and there was a NEW sticker on them, so I got a 4-pack. I got the one with Golden Ale.

 

My honest review: tasted like any other Four n Twenty pie (i.e. not good). Couldn't pick any Golden Ale flavours in there. Won't buy again.

 

If I do go for a frozen pie, the premium ones (that only come in 2-packs) are much better. Like Fergy, a real pie should use chunks of beef (with mince is OK, but not all mince). Herbert Adams make a good pie, probably the best you can buy from a supermarket. Although I did get these Mrs Macs pies that were not pre-cooked and took ages in the oven. They were nice.

 

My local pub does a classic beef and Guiness pie and you can actually taste the beer in the gravy. I suspect Four n Twenty just waved a beer past the production line and spent the money on marketing and packaging!

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... what were you expecting?

 

Well having been brought up on 'meat pies' in Australia which were often more like a gravy capsule than even a pie containing mince, it was a shock (a pleasant one) to find large chunks of steak packed together in a pastry casing separated by only the merest hint of a meat sauce. It was more like a Beef Wellington than an Australian pie.

 

It left such an impression on me I can still 'see' the shop and its surrounds in my mind even though it was probably 30 years ago!

 

I was left thinking, "oh so THAT'S a meat pie, rather than a mince, gristle and gravy pie".

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I actually bought these last week when I was wandering through Coles. they were on special and there was a NEW sticker on them' date=' so I got a 4-pack. I got the one with Golden Ale.

 

My honest review: tasted like any other Four n Twenty pie (i.e. not good). Couldn't pick any Golden Ale flavours in there. Won't buy again.

 

If I do go for a frozen pie, the premium ones (that only come in 2-packs) are much better. Like Fergy, a real pie should use chunks of beef (with mince is OK, but not all mince). Herbert Adams make a good pie, probably the best you can buy from a supermarket.[/quote']

 

I agree with you on the Herbert Adams 2-pack pie. I haven't tried the golden ale pie but I really enjoyed the pepper beef with stout.

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I never got around to trying these pies but last night my wife and I made our own pies. I smoked 2 beef cheeks for 3 hours and then put them in the slow cooker with my own IPA, salt, pepper and garlic. Once they were cooked in the slow cooker they were left to cool a bit and put in pastry and the wife put them in our pie cooker.

The final result was..............Pretty good!!

For my first attempt at a pie made from scratch I was very happy and I will definitely make them again!!

 

Youngie

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PS just happened to buy a 4pk of Four N Twenty Peppered Beef Pie With Dark Stout 4pk for my son (half price $4.35).

 

If/when I try one I'll report back.

 

I haven't tried one yet but my son 15 year old son has. "Not bad" was his verdict.

 

If you know my son or teenagers in general "Not bad" probably equates to a similar response to the one in this Aldi advert:

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PS just happened to buy a 4pk of Four N Twenty Peppered Beef Pie With Dark Stout 4pk for my son (half price $4.35).

 

If/when I try one I'll report back.

 

I haven't tried one yet but my son 15 year old son has. "Not bad" was his verdict.

 

If you know my son or teenagers in general "Not bad" probably equates to a similar response to the one in this Aldi advert:

 

Don't want to overdo it but I just noticed that the earlier version of this post didn't register. Don't have a clue why that would be.

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