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The Price of Alcohol in Pubs

  • 22-11-2007 3:09pm
    #1
    abakan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 546 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    This question has been on my mind lately, I was wondering the break down of the price of a pint and the spirts in pubs,

    How much does the government take of the price and how much the pub actually gets and also the same of spirts.

    It just strikes me that alot of the pubs charge the same price if not more for alcohol, is this the base line that they can afford to sell for or are all the pubs not trying to get into a price war with each other

    Hope I can get some answers here,

    Thanks a mil


Comments

  • #2
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    abakan wrote: »
    It just strikes me that alot of the pubs charge the same price if not more for alcohol
    The same, if not more, than what?

    This article is a few years old, but has some of the sort of figures you're looking for. As does this, but it doesn't include the retailer's take.

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  • #3
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    BeerNut wrote: »
    The same, if not more, than what?

    Most pubs charge more than the RRP. When there is a price increase on guinness the news usually states the RRP as stated by guinness themselves. The funny thing is that guinness charge way more than there own stated RRP in the guinness brewery itself! and the guinness there is crap.


  • #4
    abakan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 546 ✭✭✭abakan


    just on this subject

    I heard at the weekend that the publician gets 2 10 approx of each pint. there is 90 pints in a barrel.

    bottles and spirits have i think 60% mark up aswell.

    I hear of some pubs closing in my town and last week one of the licences went to auctions and sold for 180,000 euro. standrad closing hours and lounge and bar license

    and there is another 4 pubs to close within 2008 in my area.

    go figure!!


  • #5
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    abakan wrote: »
    bottles and spirits have i think 60% mark up aswell.

    35.5ml in a shot, 700ml in a normal bottle, so 19.7 shots per bottle. Now I have seen stoli for €5.50 a shot, and in supermarkets for €21 a bottle, while in a pub it would be €108 for the same bottle- massive markup. Bottle of smirnoff red would be €69 in my local pub, and was €18 in tescos.

    Not sure how the duty works, a mate got a bottle over xmas from the pub as a takeout, allowed him to replace it the next night, when the barowner asked how much it costed my mate he said he pays more than that.


  • #6
    noby
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    rubadub wrote: »

    Not sure how the duty works, a mate got a bottle over xmas from the pub as a takeout, allowed him to replace it the next night, when the barowner asked how much it costed my mate he said he pays more than that.

    I'd say that has little to do with duty and more to do with supermarket below cost selling.


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