Safeway Altona Gate...we hardly ever shop in Safeway, but were amazed to find bottles of IrnBru and very nice it is too.

H thinks it is a perfect discovery for World Cup celebrations (apparently a hangover cure)

Sassenachs drinking Irn Bru, whatever next, Fraser eating Haggis.

Better still, our Woolworths is selling 1.5L bottles of DIET Irn Bru which tastes a damned sight better

Woolworth's Inderphilly, Brissy and woolworth's, Bundaberg is selling both the fat and thin varieties....much to my family's delight....just found it a few weeks ago!

Is that just the pop iron brew and not the wkd iron brew? cause we have been looking for wkd's out here but dont think they sell them

I believe we're talking about 'pop' IRNBRU , made by Barr's, Glasgow, from GIRDERS!!!!!

Its not POP it's Ginger!! Sorry, I've lived in England too long-gets to you some times! Good to see that the stuff that's made from Girders has made it to the other side of the world!

PS the best hangover cure in the world!

Abso-bloody-lutely!

OK.....

Mrs Scossie is an Irn Bru connoisseur.
If there was an international Irn Bru tasting circuit like they have with wine, she would be a Grand Wizard or something like that.

With that in mind, she, "in her expert capacity" informs me that the Irn Bru sold in bottles in Australia is not the real thing!!
Well it kind of is, but Barrs, (Praise be to their name) send out the ingredients from Scotland and it is bottled in Australia under license using Aussie water.

If you want the real stuff, it has to be in a can.
The cans are exported directly from Scotland to Oz.
They are bloody hard to find though. Mrs Scossie can detect one molecule of Real Irn Bru in a cubic kilometer of air, and the only place in Perth she has found, (so far) which sells the cans is the British shop in Harbour Town.

And it's not cheap. About $3 a can.
It may even be so rare that it ends up on the menu of very posh restaurants!
Can you imagine....
"Would you like a wee can of our finest Barrs 2006 with your Roll & Sausage and Tattie Scone sir?"

Why thank you sir & I'll have a macaroon bar to follow.

Certainly Sir. "Lees" of course.

I've got a Lees macaroon bar in the fridge and I'm scared to eat it cos then I'll not have a Lees macaroon bar in the fridge anymore!

Indeed. I bought a bottle of Irn Bru for $3 at a "British" cafe & shop near Bentley off the highway in 2002.

Ah well, 3 bucks is a bit much, but they have to import it, right?

Wrong. Got it home & found out it was made in Karratha or somewhere similar.

Conned!

yep I'll second that. Had some when we were out last year and there is a difference in taste due to the water but I have to say it's pretty close to the real thing.