Drink Prices in Galway

Jugs82

Inspired by the Local Rip Offs thread, I thought that I would start a thread on Drink Prices in Galway to see if there were any places offering good value or ripping us off.

I'd say using Guinness would give us an accurate picture (plus its the only thing I drink ) but feel free to add whatever drink that is relevant to you.

I'll start with the few pubs that i have been in over the past 2 weeks:

Freeneys - Guinness €4.00
Arus na Gael - Guinness €3.70 (Thanks JustMary)
Dew Drop - Guinness €4.10 (up to 2 weeks anyways)
Murty Rabbittes - Guinness €4.00

Also, any good deals can be added - Fosters is generally €3 everywhere while Tenants is also €3 in the Hole in the Wall. That said wouldnt be a fan of either!

List of Guinness Prices:

Freeneys - €4.00
Arus na Gael - €3.70
Dew Drop - €4.10
Murty Rabbittes - €4.00
Garavans - €3.80
An Pucan - €3.70
Tig Ceoli - €4.10
The Skeff - €4.10
O'Connells - €3.70

Deals to date:

Blue Note - Bavaria €3.00
The Cellar - Pitcher of Fosters €8.00 (€5.00 on a Tuesday)

More:
Bunch of Grapes - €4.00
Garveys - €3.90
Kellys - €3.90
Richardsons - €3.90
The Crane - €4.00
The Quays - €4.25

KevR

I usually stick to Fosters or Carling. Crazy paying €4.50 or €4.60 for a Budweiser or Heineken when you can get Fosters or Carling for €3; you get to like it after a while. A good few places don't sell either though - the sly bastards!

I think drink prices in pubs could start coming down soon though. Wasn't there some recent ruling in the High Court about the 'price freeze' that the publicans had?

dilallio

Garavans - paid 3.80 for a pint of Guinness last Fri

oneofakind32

KevR wrote: »

I usually stick to Fosters or Carling. Crazy paying €4.50 or €4.60 for a Budweiser or Heineken when you can get Fosters or Carling for €3; you get to like it after a while. A good few places don't sell either though - the sly bastards!

I think drink prices in pubs could start coming down soon though. Wasn't there some recent ruling in the High Court about the 'price freeze' that the publicans had?

Where do you Carling for €3? In fact, where do you get carling in tap in galway?

Verbal_Kint

tuesday in cellar fiver for pitcher of fosters. about 3.5 pints.

Fionn MacCool

Verbal_Kint wrote: »

tuesday in cellar fiver for pitcher of fosters. about 3.5 pints.

Still cheaper to get a carry out though, and let's face it you'd have better craic drinkin at home with mates than out in Galway on a Tuesday. Only time I'm ever out then is when the football is on and like I said you'd still save if you just drank cans in the house before going out.

Verbal_Kint

so instead of going out with your mates for a pint and chatting up some of the local talent and having a laugh with random strangers you would rather sit in your living room like you have done for the previous few days and have a subdued chat with your friends over some aldi beer?

Its works out to be E1.40 a pint, get your arse out of the house boy.

Superhoops

Clayton Hotel €5 for pint Heineken/Budweiser :mad:

Mrs OBumble

Guinness:

An Pucan 3.70
Tigh Coilis 4.10

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Yeah I was out a couple of nights there thursday and friday nights and Taaffes, Buskers, An Tobar and Kelly's all had outside bars, fiver for a pint out of a plastic glass. Muck. I'm sure that was to pay for the outside bar licences and doesn't reflect on the price of a pint in that pub in general. Pint of Guinness was 4.20 in The Skeff.

Obleroza

Verbal_Kint wrote: »

tuesday in cellar fiver for pitcher of fosters. about 3.5 pints.

how much is a pitcher every other night of the week?

moonflower

Obleroza wrote: »

how much is a pitcher every other night of the week?

I think it's €8

Fionn MacCool

Verbal_Kint wrote: »

so instead of going out with your mates for a pint and chatting up some of the local talent and having a laugh with random strangers you would rather sit in your living room like you have done for the previous few days and have a subdued chat with your friends over some aldi beer?

Its works out to be E1.40 a pint, get your arse out of the house boy.

You must have some pretty ****e friends if that's your image of "a few cans at home".

Verbal_Kint

well i might be old fashioned but i try to leave the sodomy to the priests but its a new world, you go ahead and enjoy yourself.

Malice

Bavaria is €3 in The Blue Note. It's at least as drinkable as Carlsberg and Heineken (and after about eight pints it all tastes the same .

Verbal_Kint

Verbal_Kint wrote: »

so instead of going out with your mates for a pint and chatting up some of the local talent and having a laugh with random strangers you would rather sit in your living room like you have done for the previous few days and have a subdued chat with your friends over some aldi beer?

Its works out to be E1.40 a pint, get your arse out of the house boy.

+1

I have never understood the appeal of drinking at home. You are just sitting in the same room as every other night watching TV but with a can instead of a cup of tea. Its alright to have a can or two before heading to the pub and of course house party's after the late/bar club but for a night out the pub is the place to be and of course you cannot get a proper pint of Guinness at a house.

Melty

yep - drinking at home definately rates lower than having a nice few pints with freinds in a (quiet) pub. it's good for what it is - cheap!

pint of guiness in o'connells is 3.70 and it's excellent stuff there

Verbal_Kint

lovely beer garden in oconnells and not a vodka and red bull in sight. top marks for a pub with an outhouse:)

oneofakind32

Agreed! O Connell's is the nicest pub in town! Didn't realise Guinness was only 3.70 there! That is very reasonable. Didn't notice despite all the pints of Guinness I'v drank there over the past year at the detriment of my degree result!

Obleroza

€3.60 for a bavaria in the roisin dubh!

mercuroman

Got a shock in Kelly's on Thursday - 4.70 for a pint of Heineken - 4.70!! The whole sh*te 50's Ireland theme doesn't apply to the prices obviously.

Not impressed with that place at all - never going back.

Fracture

I discovered a great money saving scheme recently.

Bring your carry out into the pub! You get that atmosphere you can only get in a pub but with the cheap drink included!

Kevin11

In the Dail during the week..
3 pints Lager
3 jagermister
3 vodkas and 3 bottles 7up

52.50euro thank you..

Trying to guess the pricing..

Lagers 5
Jager 4
Vodka 5
7up 3.50

At least Dick Turpin wore a mask..
Blacklisted.. :mad:

steve 0

Didn't think to ask if it's every Monday (or any other beers) but Carlsberg and Budweiser pints were €3 each in Fox's Porterhouse last Monday.

Jugs82

steve 0 wrote: »

Didn't think to ask if it's every Monday (or any other beers) but Carlsberg and Budweiser pints were €3 each in Fox's Porterhouse last Monday.

Sound likes a good deal - haven't been out for pints on a Monday for a good bit!!

Seaneh

Pints of bavaria are €3 in Bar903 and The Cellar every day.

No idea how much the Guinness is in either though.

dec25532

Kevin11 wrote: »

In the Dail during the week..
3 pints Lager
3 jagermister
3 vodkas and 3 bottles 7up

52.50euro thank you..

Trying to guess the pricing..

Lagers 5
Jager 4
Vodka 5
7up 3.50

At least Dick Turpin wore a mask..
Blacklisted.. :mad:

That's a scandal. And to make matters worse, their food is crap as well. Avoid like the plague.

bigeasyeah

I love Bavaria

bodhrandude

I dont like the new Foxs bar, I remember back in the early 90s Foxs bar was an auld fellahs pub, and the pints of Guinness was supreme, now its just a raz and daz pub. Sorry for going off topic, I was having pints with a few friends in the Garavogue in Sligo on Friday night. My mate paid 5.50 euro for a pint of that Bulmers pear cider, Guinness was 4.50.

dilallio

I remember the Advertiser did a very good article where they printed the prices of drinks for most of the pubs in Galway.

It would be a brilliant idea if they were to do the same again.

jkmanc1974

4 Euro a pint in the Bunch of Grapes, Garveys 3.90, An Pucan 3.70....all perfectly good pints!

Brgds
Johnny

axiom32

did bulmers reduce the price of a pint bottle and so was the pubs suppose to pass it on, just ived noticed some places it is now and even fiver and others its five fifty..name an shame i say

quotaj

Tried Kelly's for the first time last night and really enjoyed it. Expected it to be awful from what I read here! Biggest surprise was....

Pint of Guinness: €3.90

... and it was good stuff too! Snugs are great for a group!

I do have 2 complaints tho - the place still smells of paint and varnish and the bouncer was very rude. We first went to a table that was empty apart from 1 empty glass. Bouncer standing beside it said they're gone for a smoke so we can't sit there. Total bs, not even a jacket there. Must have been saving it for some mates or something. same guy was always rude in the living room days too. Anyway just dismissed him and had good night.

Verbal_Kint

where is kellys

quotaj

Used to be The Living Room, reopened as Kellys recently.

dec25532

Verbal_Kint wrote: »

where is kellys

It is a pub that used to be something, has now tried to be something else and just hasn't pulled it off.

Caliden

agree with kelly's still smelling of paint, its pretty bad.
That said, at least their heineken is good now, twas pure muck when it was the living room.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

I was in Kelly's on thursday night and while I agree about the smell of paint, I think that comes with the territory what with it being a new pub and all, it beats the smell in the old place anyway.

Myself and a few of the lads were drinking Guinness and we agreed that it was one of the nicest pints around.

I fell in love with one of the girls behind the bar.

Good night all in all

Not too pushed about the upstairs part in it tbh but I have to say I like the place overall.

Mrs OBumble

Where is Kellys?

quotaj wrote: »

Used to be The Living Room, reopened as Kellys recently.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=living+room,+galway&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.764224,79.013672&ie=UTF8&ll=53.274145,-9.048829&spn=0.012446,0.038581&z=15&iwloc=A

--- looks like they didn't remember all the things they had to re-brand ...

yayaitsme

in Richardsons guinness is 3.90

banshee_bones

Yeah i noticed myself drink in the dail is super expensive..not impressed at all.

bigeasyeah

banshee_bones wrote: »

Yeah i noticed myself drink in the dail is super expensive..not impressed at all.

I hear that a lot

Mrs OBumble

Crane, Guinness 4.00

dec25532

Fek it, €3.70, €3.90 and €4 is still dear for a pint of guinness in the current climate. If they pulled it back to €3 then that might be a gesture on the part of the pubs who have ripped us off for years and got away with it. I have no sympathy for them if their trade is down because they stubbonly refuse to reduce the price of the pint when most other things are coming down.

manwith3butocks

I don't drink, but my mates do, and a pint of Guinness was 4.25 in the Quays pub! Poor tourists are getting a raw deal!

Tribesman29

Was down in Kerry recently on holiday and got a nice surprise in Tralee when receiving 2 euros change from a tenner after purchasing two pints of Carlsberg. And they were good pints too.
Was a decent pub as well, well kept and clean, lots of big screens for sport etc etc. Makes you think.

Des Hynes

If you tolerate this then your children will be next...

Col200sx

Pick up the Galway City Tribune today and all the work is done for you there and then.

They've an exclusive survey done on a round of drinks in over 100 different bars in Galway city & suburbs.

Interestingly there's a difference of more than €8 depending on where you go.

It's a very good read, I highly recommend it:)

toiletduck

I know Auld Lads who will do more statistical analysis on the published results there than the Census Bureau. Interesting reading though.

Jugs82

Bought the tribune earlier - Old Forge anybody

The prices of everything varies so much but I was shocked at the differences for Pint Bottles of Cider - cheapest at 4.35 and dearest at 6.20

Hopefully this might spur a few places on to lower prices

SpodoKamodo

Paid 7.50 for a bottle of Erdinger in the G hotel last week:mad: