Cheapest/Most Expensive Pint in Ireland?

Colonel Sanders

I currently live in Dublin and am usuly shocked every time I enter a pub at the prices some publicans have the cheek to charge.

Was in Galway this wekend and was amazed to still get pints of Guinness for around the 3.40 mark.

This compares quite favourably to the most expensive pint I have ever bought (5.20 in the Auld Dubliner in temple bar!!!)

Just wondering which pubs are decent value/a complete rip off in peoples experience?

Sonnenblumen

Colonel Sanders wrote:

I currently live in Dublin and am usuly shocked every time I enter a pub at the prices some publicans have the cheek to charge.

Was in Galway this wekend and was amazed to still get pints of Guinness for around the 3.40 mark.

This compares quite favourably to the most expensive pint I have ever bought (5.20 in the Auld Dubliner in temple bar!!!)

Just wondering which pubs are decent value/a complete rip off in peoples experience?

Do any Dubliners drink in the kippy 'Auld Dublin' and pay €5.00+ for crappy pints? IMO its more like the Local Lone Rangers meet the Touring Lonely Hearts joint and they're happy to pay over the odds.

Temple Bar is one big pisser of a place to go pinting. 10-15 mins any other direction for much better pints and prices, buzz etc etc.

uncle ernie

I paid a shockin €11 for two guinness in oliver st. john gogartys in temple bar last wednesday nite. that has to be up there as most expensive in the country...

littlehedgehog

I paid 5.70 for a pint of Bulmers in the Jackson Court Hotel, and 3.60 in a pub in Ballygarrett in Wexford!

wba88

The most annoying thing a pub can do IMO is charge €5.10 for example, queues get longer as ppl start searching thier pockets for the 10c or you got a pocket full of change from a note :mad:

Lord Nikon

Hoenestly, if you care at all what you put into your gut, cost should be the least of your worries. 3 quid muck or 5 quid quality???

You wont get a cheap pint in Dublin, unless there is something wrong with it. I'm guessing your talking about Guinness, and this is not worth drinking unless it's of top quality.

Colonel Sanders

Sonnenblumen wrote:

Do any Dubliners drink in the kippy 'Auld Dublin' and pay €5.00+ for crappy pints? IMO its more like the Local Lone Rangers meet the Touring Lonely Hearts joint and they're happy to pay over the odds.

Temple Bar is one big pisser of a place to go pinting. 10-15 mins any other direction for much better pints and prices, buzz etc etc.

I agree but was meeting ex college friends who had friends over from different countries who wanted to see the 'famous' temple bar.

Ruu_Old

Not really a Bargain Alert, not sure if it belongs here either.

podgeandrodge

pint bottle of bulmers in the Auld Dub last week - €6.30 before 10pm then went up to €6.70 !:eek:

AARRRGH

Bought a pint of Staropramen and a Vodka and Tonic for €12.80 in Dakota last night.

Never again.

craichoe

neuromancer wrote:

Hoenestly, if you care at all what you put into your gut, cost should be the least of your worries. 3 quid muck or 5 quid quality???

You wont get a cheap pint in Dublin, unless there is something wrong with it. I'm guessing your talking about Guinness, and this is not worth drinking unless it's of top quality.

That is absolute rubbish.
General rule of thumb
The crappier looking the pub, the better quality of stout they have, what else do you think they have going for them ?? Also, in real dives all they drink is stout, and theres a much shorter run to the kegs. Some of these larger bars have a 10 - 15 pint run from the taps and their bar staff are not even properly trained. I've rarely seen a pint of stout poured properly in any uppety bar in Dublin City Centre.

If your paying 5 euro for a pint, your paying for the renovations and funky blue lights and decor they've stuck in.

Seriously... El dumpo usually equals excellent stout.
Superpub - Oh ... god ... Can't pour it, can't clean their lines properly, can't chill it ...

MOH

Samsara, 6.20 for a pint of lager - at about 10pm.

Think a Guiness was about 5.80, and a pint of Erdinger was something like 6.60.

Only pub I know that's dearer than Cafe Insane.

Tazz T

Not the dearest but the price of a pint of Guinness in Bruxelles has just increased from 4.35 to 4.90. Why?

Lord Nikon

craichoe wrote:

That is absolute rubbish.
General rule of thumb
The crappier looking the pub, the better quality of stout they have, what else do you think they have going for them ?? Also, in real dives all they drink is stout, and theres a much shorter run to the kegs. Some of these larger bars have a 10 - 15 pint run from the taps and their bar staff are not even properly trained. I've rarely seen a pint of stout poured properly in any uppety bar in Dublin City Centre.

If your paying 5 euro for a pint, your paying for the renovations and funky blue lights and decor they've stuck in.

Seriously... El dumpo usually equals excellent stout.
Superpub - Oh ... god ... Can't pour it, can't clean their lines properly, can't chill it ...

Your missing my point completely. Whether it's a danky little pub(Brogans, Grogans, Mulligans), or a "superpub"(Samsara), price should be irrelevant.

The guy was looking for a cheep drink, my point is that just because it's cheep doesn't mean it's better, and just because it's more expensive doesn't make it any better either(this contradicted my earlier comment).

Drink it if it tastes good regardless, that's what i say.

sitout

neuromancer wrote:

Your missing my point completely. Whether it's a danky little pub(Brogans, Grogans, Mulligans), or a "superpub"(Samsara), price should be irrelevant.

The guy was looking for a cheep drink, my point is that just because it's cheep doesn't mean it's better, and just because it's more expensive doesn't make it any better either(this contradicted my earlier comment).

Drink it if it tastes good regardless, that's what i say.

are you for real lad? seriously we are complining about the price not the taste here! obviously if you pay 5.10 for a pint your going to drink it , id drink carmilised monkey balls on a night out if i taught it would get me langers. this is not however, the point , the "pint" (pardon the pun), is super pubs charge more due to the fact that their costs are higher (rent,rates,nice jacks,sexy barmaids,neon lights all over the gaff , big fu ck off tv screens every 2 inches.....i could go on but i wont bother )and smaller pubs that have been in the families for at least two generations are cheaper because(they most probally own the premisis, 5hitty jacks probally an out house, old bearded lady working since the famine and accepts stew for payment ,candle lit, and an auld wireless hooked up to the tractor out in the yard.... i could go on but......).hence the price in temple bar is approx 2 euro dearer than "the why not" in knocknagree in north vwest cork!

9th

Most expensive is a tie

The Vaults/Howl at the Moon 5.80 a pint of beer.
One is 30euro in/the other is free.

Cheapest I saw recently was 2euro (fridays only) Place in Naas very near to TIME NIGHT CLUB AND THE MOTOR TAX OFFICE.

stansgone

9.60 for a pint of Heiniken in McGraths Drumcondra before yesterdays Match in Croke Park. That's what u call exploiting people. robbing feckers.

winston82

stansgone wrote: »

9.60 for a pint of Heiniken in McGraths Drumcondra before yesterdays Match in Croke Park. That's what u call exploiting people. robbing feckers.

I highly doubt that. Do you have proof?

Chris_5339762

If that is true, its so ridiculous that I'd have to applaud them for something so brazen.

rubadub

winston82 wrote: »

I highly doubt that. Do you have proof?

And proof as in a receipt, sounds like he was short changed.

Dicey reilys still have €2 pints/bottles/jagerbombs some days, all day. Including pints of Paulaner, a 500ml bottle of that is 2.49 in o'briens wines.

dodzy

stansgone wrote: »

9.60 for a pint of Heiniken in McGraths Drumcondra before yesterdays Match in Croke Park.

Not a hope, you were charged for 2.

Michael D Not Higgins

Most expensive I've paid was 7.50 in Cafe en Seine.

Abroad I've paid €9 for a pint in Amsterdam and over 10 in Copenhagen.

Gandr

Century bar in Dundalk selling Tuborg at 3 euro a pint.lovely pint and a great pub.some diff from 4.30 euro in other not so great pubs.

L1011

€3 Tuborg is common outside cities.

Back home (Donegal) the nightclub has the gall to charge the huge price of €3.75 for a pint of Heineken - that's a whole 35c dearer than the pubs :pac:

Gandr

a pint of Heiniken in the same pub here in Dundalk is 4.30 Euro,carlesburg is the same.other pubs in the town sell Fosters on tap at 3Euro also.a big difference!!!

sandin

stansgone wrote: »

9.60 for a pint of Heiniken in McGraths Drumcondra before yesterdays Match in Croke Park. That's what u call exploiting people. robbing feckers.

TOTAL and UTTER BULLSH1T

MOH

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

Most expensive I've paid was 7.50 in Cafe en Seine.

Abroad I've paid €9 for a pint in Amsterdam and over 10 in Copenhagen.

If you paid €9 for a pint in Amsterdam you were massively ripped off

boarsboard

I saw some ads outside bars in Dublin

happy hour 3.20

Caonima

Just to add a bit of variety to this thread, a pint of Guinness in the Blarney Stone bar in Shanghai, China, costs Y75, which is, according to XE.com, e9.29. And that's why I don't go there anymore.

frag420

boarsboard wrote: »

I saw some ads outside bars in Dublin

happy hour 3.20

That's when it starts. Finishes at twenty past four!

anto9

Caonima wrote: »

Just to add a bit of variety to this thread, a pint of Guinness in the Blarney Stone bar in Shanghai, China, costs Y75, which is, according to XE.com, e9.29. And that's why I don't go there anymore.

In Chiang Mai Thailand ,a pint of Guinness varyies between pubs .The cheapest a Brit pub right in the City center called the Red Lion costs B180 or E4.50 , to the dearest the bar called Number one B240 or E 6 .

andrew1977

stansgone wrote: »

9.60 for a pint of Heiniken in McGraths Drumcondra before yesterdays Match in Croke Park. That's what u call exploiting people. robbing feckers.

If any pub can get people to pay 9.60 euro for a pint and pack the place out, i am quitting my job in the morning and opening a pub

9.60 for a pint.. no chance ..has to be for 2 pints surely.

If a barman asked me for 9.60 for a pint, i reckon i would have to be carted out of the place in an ambulance with the laughter.

xpletiv

Looking forward to the Wetherspoons opening, finally make it worth going to a pub instead of just getting cans. Places charging more than €4 a pint is a disgrace, no matter how you look at it. It just gets greedy past that. No wonder so many places have closed down.

Vitners are a shower of absolute b*stards that have ruined the pub trade in this country.

CiaranIRL

€5.70 for a pint of Seven-Up in the Spawell!

tiernanobrien

paid 6.40 for a heineken in Fitzsimons there on Saturday... my own fault for going there

TimeToShine

stansgone wrote: »

9.60 for a pint of Heiniken in McGraths Drumcondra before yesterdays Match in Croke Park. That's what u call exploiting people. robbing feckers.

You were definitely charged for two, I've drank there several times and found it a very nice pub. I remember talking to the owners and they were lovely people so I really can't see them hiking the price THAT much, I mean 9.60 is absurd!

Geuze

xpletiv wrote: »

Looking forward to the Wetherspoons opening, finally make it worth going to a pub instead of just getting cans. Places charging more than €4 a pint is a disgrace, no matter how you look at it. It just gets greedy past that. No wonder so many places have closed down.

Vitners are a shower of absolute b*stards that have ruined the pub trade in this country.

4 in Dublin is ok.

Note that while I don't have much sympathy with publicans, it must be pointed out that its the dominance of the large brewers that also causes high retail prices.

Geuze

tiernanobrien wrote: »

paid 6.40 for a heineken in Fitzsimons there on Saturday... my own fault for going there

That is robbery.........where is this pub?

It's maybe 4.40 where I am. I have seen it for 4.30 within 1 km of Eyre Square in Galway.

That's 2.00 extra, with little extra cost??

Davidth88

Geuze wrote: »

That is robbery.........where is this pub?

Its a tourist rip off joint in Temple Bar ...... similar to the Oliver St John Gogerty and ' The Temple Bar ' ........ bars to avoid TBH.

MOH

CiaranIRL wrote: »

€5.70 for a pint of Seven-Up in the Spawell!

That's pretty much standard for a pint of any soft drink - it's just two bottles in a pint glass, and €2.85 each is not unusual.

Always strikes me as daft, given all the calls for people to drink responsibly, that at the end of the day it's invariably cheaper to drink alcohol in a pub than soft drinks.

rubadub

MOH wrote: »

it's just two bottles in a pint glass, and €2.85 each is not unusual.

Yeah, so usually only 400ml, it takes 3 bottles to get a pint of coke, €8.55 in my local.

Rory1

CiaranIRL wrote: »

€5.70 for a pint of Seven-Up in the Spawell!

Drinking a pint of 7up is disgusting, think of all the sugar. I can't understand how any one cold drink that much.

rubadub

Rory1 wrote: »

Drinking a pint of 7up is disgusting, think of all the sugar. I can't understand how any one cold drink that much.

A pint of 7up has the same sugar as 3 pints of heineken, which many would drink.

Actually in most cases they have only filled the pint with 2 miserable bottles of 7 up, so its only 400ml or so. So only the same sugar of about 2 pints of heinken.

DUB77

tiernanobrien wrote: »

paid 6.40 for a heineken in Fitzsimons there on Saturday... my own fault for going there

Was there myself the other week, can't remember the exact price fora pint, but remembered it was very expensive. I go there an odd time, usually just for 1-2 before heading elsewhere.

It was always on the expensive side, but they definitely put up their prices recently.

The Pheasant2

€6 for pint of Carlsberg in Leopardstown Pavilion - they having a ****ing laugh?!

anto9

MOH wrote: »

If you paid €9 for a pint in Amsterdam you were massively ripped off

Paid around E6 a pint last time i was in Amsterdam ,around 6 years ago ,so E9 is possible .Amsterdam is an expensive City .

smee again

It's €3 for a pint of Carling in the pub up the road. I was very surprised, it's not a bad pint at all.

irish_goat

Pints of cask ale in Wetherspoons, Derry = €2.24

AnonoBoy

irish_goat wrote: »

Pints of cask ale in Wetherspoons, Derry = €2.24

Yeah but every time I drink in a Wetherspoons I feel a tiny bit of my soul die.

Lawrence1895

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Yeah but every time I drink in a Wetherspoons I feel a tiny bit of my soul die.

What's the story with Wetherspoons anyway? Sorry, but I don't have a clue

adocholiday

The Odeon at the top of Harcourt St. in Dublin has to be the most expensive kip there ever was. I was in it a few weeks ago and got a pint of Heineken and a bottle of Corona. Was charged over €12! Said it to the barmaid and she told me that they increase their prices as the night goes on. It was €6.70 for the Corona and €6 for the Heineken. Couldn't get over it.