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Nobby's Salted Beer
Ian BlackCentral Queensland, QLD
No More Nuts.
I used to enjoy a packet of Nobby's beer nuts with a few beers after work for many years and they were oily and roasted just right but they have become dry and tasteless in recent years and I have put many packets in the rubbish bin and vowed to never buy them again.
Purchased in January 2021 at Woolworths for $3.50.
micaDarwin, NT
Rancid
Tastes and smells rancid,DZVD 19:51 Exp 21 Mar 21, Coles happily swapped with same expiry and code but still tastes the same.
Purchased in November 2020 at Coles for $3.90.
Nobby’s beer nuts
What’s with the beer nuts now. Absolutely terrible won’t be buying another packet of these again. They use to be great but not anymore.
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MarkLandSouth East Queensland, QLD
- 3 reviews
- 4 likes
What on earth have you done to these once great beer nuts.!!
My wife just brought me home a packet of Nobbys Beer Nuts as a treat. What a major let down. Why is it the big corporates buy smaller company's because they make great products and then they get control and think they either know better or the bean counters suggest changing the source product or recipe to save a little money to maximise profits. In the end they bugger the product, lose their loyal customers and end up not making the money the analysts told them they would. They either wake up and have to rebuild the customer base or sell it back to the original owners at a loss. Wake up before you bugger this great brand and stop listening to the noisy minority.
Purchased in June 2020 at Woolworths Physical store.
cloak n daggersDarling Downs, QLD
A politically correct (healthy) beer nut.
It’s 2020 and what have we come to. A healthy beer nut! It tastes bland and isn’t the slightest bit moorish, ever when quaffing a beer.
If this is the future of nuts then Nobby is going to be getting his nuts nibbled a whole lot less around here I’m afraid.
Purchased in May 2020 at Woolworths.
Absolutely discussing I complain to the company a couple of years ago and all they could do was send me a $10 voucher
No oil no salt and under cooked they taste stale I throw away full large packets in the bin
RogerSouth East Queensland, QLD
They have definitely changed for the worse
I used to love Nobby’s beer nuts. They were roasted so the oil oozed out over the nut and the salt stuck along with the husk.
Now dry hard and tasteless. Sad
Purchased in May 2020.
Mark
- 3 reviews
- 1 like
Dog wont even eat beer nuts
What has gone wrong with Nobby's salted beer nuts. They are dry , tasteless and have no salt. Another good product gone bad. I cant say gone to the dogs because they wont eat them either.
Purchased in May 2020 at Woolworths for $3.80.
FredBitSouth East Queensland, QLD
- 2 reviews
- 1 like
After four years ... Improvement? - No! Worse
I wrote a review on these nuts four years ago and said I'd never buy them again. Against my better judgement I recently decided to buy a packet. They're even worse now - dry, lacking in salt, hard, tasteless! Nobbys ... take your product off the market, it really is rubbish!
@[name removed] - You say Smiths (who currently own and manufacture Nobbys) is a New Zealand company. No, Smiths is an English company that in turn is owned by PepsiCo.
Purchased in April 2020 at Coles for $3.50.
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Simply the best but no longer
Sorry ues 2 be a huge fan but the lack of oil and salt has created the taste and appearance of old stock sad as nothing could top them in their day p.s. would have consumed 200 + bags in my life now one bag a month if lucky just 2 see if something has changed
Purchased in January 2020 for $4.70.
Clayton H.Greater Melbourne (Metropolitan), VIC
Please change back
Not enough oil not enough salt.Before it was hard to stop eating them now I just threw them in the bin
Purchased in January 2020 at Woolworths.
Carolyn G.Sydney Surrounds, NSW
NOBBY'S ORIGINAL BEER NUTS ARE BACK!
Have been disappointed with Nobby's beer nuts in the last few years. They were small, too salty and tasted stale.The pack I bought today at Coles were perfect... plump, slightly salty and tasty with good skins.
Thanx
Purchased in November 2019 at Coles Supermarkets for $3.00.
BecGreater Melbourne (Outer), VIC
- 3 reviews
- 1 like
Nibbling Nobbies Nuts
Every couple of years or so I get a massive craving for Beer Nuts and I have to say Nobbys are the best choice for me. They are packed with flavour, the skin is dried perfectly and there’s not too much salt on everything, in fact they sit on the line pretty tightly cause anymore salt and I wouldn’t be able to eat them and any less I’m sure they’d loose a few customers.
Thanks Nobbys! I love your nuts!
Purchased in October 2019 at Coles.
Jeffrey G.
- 2 reviews
Nobby's Salted Beer Nuts
Being a New Zealand company they have been taken over by the left wing PC, you will do what I think is best nut jobs.
If I wanted unsalted un-oil roasted nuts I would have bought Cole raw nuts. A lot cheaper and tastes the same.
I will not be buying them again.
Purchased in June 2019 at Coles Supermarkets.
NutsMetropolitan Adelaide, SA
what happened to Nobby's nuts?
The packet looks the same, but the content is an inferior imitation of the original. How can a food product just simply change without explanation? "Made in Australia from at least 97% Australian ingredients"but by a NZ. company. Please explain.
Purchased in April 2019 at Foodland for $4.00.
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Mee2
- 21 reviews
- 6 likes
Inconsistent quality
I often buy the Nobby's beer nuts as they have in the past been very reliable in flavour, a bit like the place with the golden arches. But lately it has been very hit and miss. I actually find myself questioning if its worth buying. This last lot I bought are almost tasteless apart from the salt. For the price, I would rather experiment with other brands and try my luck, It's not like i'll lose much.
Purchased in February 2019 at Woolworths for $3.00.
Lawns N AllHurstville
- 8 reviews
- 3 likes
What happenned??
At this moment I am watching the third match of the State Of Origin for 2018. Thought I would enjoy some Nobby`s salted beer nuts in the 375g packaging and a few beers.
Apart from NSW being down by 6-0, the nuts are a major disappointment. The nuts are dry, small and flavourless.
Most of the husks are separate from the nuts due to the lack of oil, as well salt seems to be lacking.
This might sound like a rant about nothing, but when you know the quality has been there in the past it is disappointing to have to highlight it as an online review.
The best analogy I can make is that it is like eating an Easter egg made from carob.
ToeyNorthern Region, NSW
- 3 reviews
- 2 likes
Nobbys nuts verses Coles brand
The idea of beer nuts is to make you more thirsty so you drink more beer, it’s obvious and the intention is in the name of the product. I have not noticed any change to the taste of nobbys nuts, however they are smaller than they were. The same can be said for the Coles brand. In summary, I eat beer nuts to enhance the taste of beer.
Nobbys, please change back.
Have enjoyed Nobbys beer nuts since the early eighties. Returned from overseas to enjoy some local kraft beer and my old favourite, Nobbys beer nuts. Enjoyed the beer (XIPA) but was very disappointed in the nuts, dry, not enough oil, not enough salt, the nuts were small, tasteless, completely different to the original nuts. I noticed on the package, in very small print, Nobbys now may use imported product instead of the big Kingaroy nuts, which are probably more expensive. Shame Nobbys, shame. Please make an effort and give us a decent product.
PipSouth Australia
- 23 reviews
- 15 likes
- Verified purchase
Never Buying Them Again.
As the rest of the reviewers are saying these used to be premium quality nuts. Now they are using imported peanuts (whatever happened to supporting Australia growers?) and they taste absolutely vile. They taste stale and bitter.
Like many I've tried buying them a few times in the hope that I got a bad batch but no, it's just Nobbys ripping off their loyal customers after we've supported them for so many decades. Unfortunately the same thing has happened with the Nobbys Mixed Nuts, which are around $8 a packet. I complained on their website ...
Read moreand they sent me two free packets, which, surprisingly, were okay. My daughter joked that they had a separate factory for 'grievance nuts', lol. So how can they send complaining customers good quality products while everything on the supermarket shelf is rubbish? I'm no longer going to support this company, they can go take a jump and I'm taking my packet back to Coles tomorrow for a refund.Questions & Answers
Peterasked
Have you go some new guy fresh out of uni trying to make a name for himself with a new formula for your beer nuts.?... Get bloody rid of him.. I just bought a packet it it tastes like used sox...... what the hell are you guys doing !!!???
No answers
Michael K.asked
Are they Australian grown and produced?
2 answers
Newzeland
No, Nobbys is owned and manufactured by Smiths Snack Foods. They are a UK company who are
now owned by the US company PepsiCo.
Em Eljisriasked
Why the salted beer nuts peanut was the best in Australia and now is the worst?
4 answers
Original nuts were larger tasty slightly oily salty excellent now small hard tasteless a different breed of nut probably for more profit Regards Jim
Jklw is totally right. Nobbys beer nuts used to be large, tasty and flavorsome and I believe Australian peanuts and Australian made, now they seem to be the worst quality imported nuts to increase their profits. Small peanuts, tasteless and rancid with a ton of salt. To me it seems the worst business strategy they ever made as they will be losing customers. The happy nut co sells beer nuts made from Australian peanuts and of better quality than Nobbys current rubbish quality peanuts.
What made noobys peanut from the best in Australia to the worst:
Less oil, less roasting, almost raw, hard, not crunchy, smaller low quality peanuts and hard to chew.
Who did this?
I think nobody in the production line tasted it, didn't your kid or wife tell about this?
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