drinkfeckgirls.com Website - Tracking Alcohol Prices

egan007

HI All
I have started website to track prices of alcohol In pubs, clubs and offies around the country.
Please submit your local prices - hopefully i will be able to build some statistics with enough input.
Apart from anything it will highlight the astronomica l price of a Pint!

www.drinkfeckgirls.com

Thanks

p.pete

I've no prices to offer but the layout of the site looks excellent, fair play!

egan007

Thanks! - Hopefully people will dive into their pockets sunday mornings and pull out a fist full of receipts!!

p.pete

Originally posted by egan007
Thanks! - Hopefully people will dive into their pockets sunday mornings and pull out a fist full of receipts!!

Excellent point - usually have loads of receipts. Some pubs don't give them though, or they become less frequent later in the night (do pubs still have hikes in prices at 11, I just don't notice).

egan007

Some do - i was dragged to Cafe 'Insane' a week ago - they put up by a euro in some cases!

dudara

wow, that's a bit of a sharp increase.

I'll definitely keep track of the prices and send them in. It's a great idea. Keep up the work

egan007

Paid 4.25 for a pint of miller last night....on a wednesday night in Blanchardstown!

bambam

Really like the look of the site. Have you thought about adding a (rough) time to the price of a drink - seeing how, many pubs hike the prices after 12

egan007

Thanks
That's a good idea - it's something i'll introduce in the future - right now i just need to establish the site and get content.

MadsL

Nice Site, well done.

Just a comment on your content though, perhaps doing two things would make it a tad more 'professional'.

1. Get permission to reuse the articles on alcohol if you haven't already.
2. List the authors and original source. (I assume that you are not American)

p.pete

I was in over 10 establishments selling alcohol over the weekend yet strangely had no receipts in my pocket. Mostly due to being on a pub crawl / scavenger hunt which required us to get a receipt from each pub => had to hand them in. Also due to being in Laois for second half of the weekend, not sure they have receipts.

From memory:
Flowing Tide, Abbey St Dublin, pt Guinness = €3.60 (19/8/03)

Washout

fantastic idea for a site.

layout is tres coolio as well
i tend to have a load of recipts in a drawer at home...will dig them out

egan007

Cheers everyone for the input all will be taken -

p.pete

The site is great but I have a few logistics queries (hopefully constructive:D)

Is there any database software being used with the site? SQL server or something, I don't know too much about what would be a good (and cheap) option.

Your probably able to cope with the volume at the moment but if you have info coming in from sources all over the country on a regular basis it would become a pain for you fairly quickly. If it's not an option at the moment hopefully when the site grows you may get sponsors interested who would cover costs.

Another consideration is, what happens in a situation where 2 conflicting prices are entered for the same pub on the same day. Eventually you will get people with vendettas that will want to submit an inacurately expensive price for their disfavoured pubs.

You could possibly try to take some details from the people submitting the prices, ie. name and email address but with the reasurance that this info won't be displayed anywhere or given out to anyone. At least you would be able to go back and query the relevant people in the case of a conflict.

logic1

Really sweet site, I've passed it around in work so hopefully a few ppl will be updating it.

One thing you might consider doing aswell as the suggestions by p.pete is break it into subcategories because as the site gets alot bigger it will become hard to navigate.

For example you could have:

Cider

---

1. bulmers
2. scrumpy jack
3. cashels

Beer

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1. heineken
2. coors
3. budweiser

so on and so forth....

.logic.

egan007

Hi P.pete & logic1
To answer some of your questions -

At the moment there is no Db in the background
The reason for this is as you say, I wanted to guage interest first. Hopefully some caring ISP will sponsor me and then i can use a db. (At the moment i am testing a Db version )

After a db is being used to manage the site it would be easier to start taking e-mail addresses & Names.

I understand that it needs development and perhaps broader categories. Again as volume increases it will be easier to decide what these categories should be.

Thanks for the interest!
Keep submitting!!!

TightCornerBack

One small thing.

The links for Wexford and Waterford both point to the Wexford page.

egan007

Fixed now - cheers!

p

Hey,

it's a great idea for a site, and a great name.

I think that it's a bit impractical for the moment now.

It's a shame we don't have a nice zip code system like in some countries.

Anyway, breakdown by country isn't that useful.

If possible you should break it down by locale. e.g. Dublin City Centre, should be seperate from Dublin, Swords. Just as Wexford Town should be Seperate from Enniscorthy or Gorey.

For me, living in dublin, seeing that the cheapest prices are in mayo, isn't that much use to me. It's nice to know, but i'd like to knwo cheapest prices in when I am regularly.

Also, you should include the north as well, while you're at it.

In the future you could ad things liek differentiating between a pint & a bottle, or things like week specials. e.g. Handels is only 3.50 monday to friday, but more expensive on weekends.


A really useful thing to get peopel going ot teh site again & again would be where you could sign up for a newsletter, select the areas your interested in getting prices for and getting them mailing out to you every month.


Great idea though, has a lot of potential. good luck!

egan007

Hi
Thanks for the input
The site is going through a complete redesign
It's only a week old and already has generated alot of interest.
Now that the interest is there i am in the process of automating, and finding new ways to represent the data.

At the risk of repeating myself and making the hint blatenly obvious - if there is any ISP to sponsor a db and a wee bit of space they are welcome to contact me

PrecariousNuts

cheappub.htm and dearpub.htm pages have all the links underlined, the rest of the pages do not. I noticed that every page ends in the .htm, do you update this by hand?

egan007

Hi
Yeah it is updated manually - an automated service is currently being designed

Beruthiel

I think this should be made a sticky as I have been adding prices to it as the weeks go by...

eirebhoy

I noticed that a pint of Fosters in Coyote is just €2.50 on this website. Was this a special offer? I haven't seen a pint that cheep unless its a special offer.

egan007

Im currently checking it out - promotions won't be included

egan007

Should be on around 10 to 11

MadsL

Quick correction to the Dublin section;

Morrison Hotel Ormond Quay Budvar €5.70 14th Oct

Budvar is the name for a beer made in Èeské Budìjovice in the Czech Republic. They are still fighting AB (brewer's of US Budweiser) for the rights to use the name Budweis (the German name for Budìjovice) in Europe.

Please don't confuse these products. Budvar is a fine beer of beers, fine hoppy aroma, crisp and dry with good bite, very balanced and goes down extremely well.
I wouldn't wash my car with AB's Budweiser.

For the historians amoung you; Anheuser-Busch first brewed Budweiser in St Louis in 1876 while the Budweiser Budvar brewery was launched in 1895. But for centuries previously, beers from the town of Budweis were known as Budweiser beers.

The American giant, and Budweiser Budvar have been at loggerheads for more than a century. The Czech beer is sold in the United States under the name Czechvar, and in fact Britain is the only country where, following a court ruling, both beers are allowed to be sold as Budweiser.

In some countries, such as Italy and Spain, where the Czechs registered their trade mark first, Anheuser-Busch has been forced to sell its beer as Bud. Anheuser-Busch lost a court case in London when it took criminal action against the importers of Budweiser Budvar, which claimed on the back label of the beer that it was the "original Budweiser".

In Ireland, Guinness blocked the sale of Budvar for a number of years, so they could sell more 'Budweiser' muck.

egan007

I have added the above to the new 'Your Comments' section of the site
if you want to have a rip at some bar drop me a mail!!

egan007

Typedef
Any chance of making this a sticky the website is used alot and i would like to use this as a forum for the site

LFCFan

yeah, I agree. This thread should be stickied!

Sleipnir

Crackin' website Egan007. I'll bet you'll get into a few places and be offered cheap booze when word get's around more.
I'll be in the palace bar on Saturday night so I'll be sure to check out the price of Guinness ten separate times just to be sure!

egan007

thanks - yes i agree ten times is good research
I shall be resrearching myself this weekend - i have responsibilities to find the prices and damn i'll die trying

yossarin

Great site idea + good luck with it.

I think that there would also be scope later on for a WAP version so that people could use their 2.5/3g mobiles to see where to go while out and about (in town anyway).
If you get it running right, you could investigate selling a WAP site service to a vodaphone / o2 as a going service that they can portal and charge on the call for. this would equal a nice kickback (hopefully ) for you.

anyway, cracking idea. well done !

egan007

Thanks fo everyone for all the submissions - we are going to be putting stats up soon

Anyone who was charged a high entry and a hight price for drink in clubs over the christmas please submit to the site - we are investigating a number of clubs for ripping punters off at the new year

Genghis

Originally posted by bambam
Really like the look of the site. Have you thought about adding a (rough) time to the price of a drink - seeing how, many pubs hike the prices after 12

Great site, looks really good and has great information. In relation to this suggestion, I would argue that you do not need it - there is only one price you should publicise for any establishment, and that is their most expensive!! That way the site does need to become overly complex - 95% of pubs have standard pricing, why change the model to suit the 5% that really go to town with their prices! And besides, if I know a place that charges €6.50 for a pint even if it is after a certain time, then I don't really want to be buying beer off them at any time.

LFCFan

what about putting an asterix (*) beside the pubs that are known to increase their prices after 11??? No need to go into details of how much they increase, just let people know that they are thieves!

egan007

Sorry all this has been down for a few weeks - been researching prices
I hope to got many more submissions for 2004 so i can pit some stats together - comparing 2003 and 2004 figures

Please start submitting

Cheers

DFG

egan007

Finally DrinkfeckGirls V2 is here
I launched the new version today. it includes the following improvements:

- 6 Northern Counties ( Welcome northern Folk!)
- Search for your local
- All Ireland List
- New Submit screen
- Immediate displaying of your price
- Sortable data by column name

Thanks for your input so far - there have been over 75'000 Hits since last september's launch.

Hopefully there will be no hitches with the new site but bear with me if there is!!

I hope to promote it more this year in order to make some noise about the price we are charged i pubs.

Thanks to everyone for your kind comments to the site.


http://www.drinkfeckgirls.com

p.pete

Looking good:D fair play.

Any plans to make the all Ireland list sortable by column?

egan007

Cheers!

Yeah i'm gona add this in next week
few more features in the bag too!

Johnny_the_fox

Originally posted by egan007
Finally DrinkfeckGirls V2 is here
I launched the new version today. it includes the following improvements:

- 6 Northern Counties ( Welcome northern Folk!)

good stuff - ill get the lads on to it

egan007

Hi
I'm looking for a volunteer!
I have this website www.drinkfeckgirls.com but i really don't have the time anymore to keep it up to date.
I'm looking for someone that would be interested in keeping it up to date. This would probably suit a student that is interested in web design or that wants to get involved in web design.
It will require someone with good level of competency as it uses perl cgi backend.
What do you get out of it?
-Your name in lights!!!
-A live environment for you to develop your skills.
-You can have an artistic licence with this one- express yourself!
-An audience

What's to do?
Mainly a clean up / refresh- you can decide to arrange the data differently / present it differently - add/remove features - add new areas - one possibility is a pub rating system - Smoking facilities etc.....

If you are interested post a reply

Cheers!