Price of Guinness on Arthurs Day?

millhousegirl · 21-09-2009 2:16pm #1

Does anyone know what price Guinness is on Arthurs day. I hearing reports of prices ranging from €1 to €2.50.

Can anyone confirm this?

tippguy · 21-09-2009 3:41pm

full price i'm afraid. although guinness members have all recieved vouchers by post at this stage to get themselves a free pint at 17.59 on thursday. for everyone else it's €4.30 or whatever your local is. unless of course a pub decides to take matters into their own hands and reduce the price but guinness wont be discounting anything

Mimikyu · 21-09-2009 4:54pm

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Sleipnir · 21-09-2009 5:03pm

€17.59

the beer revolu · 21-09-2009 5:08pm

Think I just might go for a pint of Beamish on Thursday at 6.

Pubs in Cork that don't sell draught Guinness :

Callanans, Georges Quay
The Abbott's Ale House, Devonshire Street.
The Harbour Bar, Scilly, Kinsale

Anyone have any more to add to the list?

Alas Callanan's probably wont be open in time for the celebration!

BeerNut · 21-09-2009 5:23pm

The Franciscan Well.

the beer revolu · 21-09-2009 5:28pm

BeerNut wrote: »

The Franciscan Well.

I thought they sold Guinness - maybe not??

Pubs anywhere that don't sell Guinness - not just Cork.

Oliver1985 · 21-09-2009 5:32pm

Few pubs in dublin do 3euro drinks every thursday but doubt they will stick to it this week!! If they do fair play ill be hammering them back!!!:)

BeerNut · 21-09-2009 5:32pm

the beer revolu wrote: »

I thought they sold Guinness - maybe not??

I'm fairly sure it's house beers only on draught.

the beer revolu wrote: »

Pubs anywhere that don't sell Guinness - not just Cork.

The Porterhouse chain.

Anglo Upah · 22-09-2009 6:57am

BeerNut wrote: »

I'm fairly sure it's house beers only on draught.

The Porterhouse chain.

Porterhouse in Bray does sell Guinness.

Imposter · 22-09-2009 7:23am

2.50 a pint from 17:59 to 20:09 here in Linz

Usually something like 4.60 against 3.30 for a local beer. Personally I think it's be rude not to have a few at that price!

Oliver1985 · 22-09-2009 11:07am

Anglo Upah wrote: »

Porterhouse in Bray does sell Guinness.

Whats the name of there Stout??? Doing my nut in here?

guildofevil · 22-09-2009 11:51am

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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Isn't this against the law? Sounds suspiciously like happy hour to me.

Oliver1985 · 22-09-2009 12:03pm

Sure the vaults in town does buy one get one free monday to friday now for a certain time!!!

guildofevil · 22-09-2009 12:08pm

Oliver1985 wrote: »

Sure the vaults in town does buy one get one free monday to friday now for a certain time!!!

If it's all day it's not happy hour, but I think it is against the lay to discount for a short amount of time. Encouraging binge drinking and all that.

View Profile · 22-09-2009 12:10pm

Whats the name of there Stout??? Doing my nut in here?

Oyster

Trampas · 22-09-2009 12:30pm

To me this day stinks of making people buy Guinness to boost their profits

22-09-2009 12:34pm

Trampas wrote: »

To me this day stinks of making people buy Guinness to boost their profits

Obviously it's a marketing thing. They're not 'making' anyone do anything.

the beer revolu · 22-09-2009 1:16pm

Trampas wrote: »

To me this day stinks of making people buy Guinness to boost their profits

No!!:eek:
Surely, it's a celebration of all things Irish and traditional!
It's not like the brand is owned by a multinational company or that the beer is so industrialised that it bears little or no resemblance to the original product. And it's not like, over the years the company systematically wiped out regional brewing and cask dispensing in Ireland.
Is it??

Yer only man!

Oliver1985 · 22-09-2009 1:50pm

How many times Everyone is going to be saying "to Arthur" its such a money spinning idea but who cares it be great crack for a thursday night!!!

guildofevil · 22-09-2009 3:04pm

Jakarta!
*Raises pint of Goods Store IPA*

NewApproach · 22-09-2009 6:03pm

Sleipnir wrote: »

€17.59

not funny ya clown

BeerNut · 22-09-2009 11:12pm

View Profile wrote: »

Oyster

And Plain and Wrassler's XXXX.

thelynchfella · 23-09-2009 9:56am

mmmm wrasslers!!!

Dime101 · 23-09-2009 6:04pm

Yesterday on the radio I heard that 11 pubs in Dublin are doin pints for the same price as 250 years ago.

That means 1 cent pints. :eek:

They didnt name the pubs....

BeerNut · 23-09-2009 6:25pm

Dime101 wrote: »

11 pubs in Dublin are doin pints for the same price as 250 years ago.

Pints of what, though? There was no Guinness stout until about 220 years ago.

Actually, there wasn't even a Guinness brewery 250 years ago: AFAIK the lease was signed in December 1759.

aido179 · 24-09-2009 10:23am

well whether its a marketing ploy or not, you can't say it wont be a bit of craic tonight. it'll be like paddys day or something!

ferrigan101 · 24-09-2009 12:54pm

thelynchfella wrote: »

mmmm wrasslers!!!

Mmmmmm straight from the cask plain!

Ham'nd'egger · 24-09-2009 4:53pm

BeerNut wrote: »

Pints of what, though? There was no Guinness stout until about 220 years ago.

Actually, there wasn't even a Guinness brewery 250 years ago: AFAIK the lease was signed in December 1759.

Apparently it was New Years Eve 1759 but they hardly need a marketing ploy to boost sales that night, do they;)

BeerNut · 24-09-2009 5:46pm

It would "steal focus" as one of the soulless marketing executives who came up with "Arthur's Day" probably said.

Ham'nd'egger · 24-09-2009 8:19pm

BeerNut wrote: »

It would "steal focus" as one of the soulless marketing executives who came up with "Arthur's Day" probably said.

I suspect they will form a focus group to look into that very issue; it will consist of three guys with goatees, two girls (also with goatees) who wear pink tights, a housewife to maintain social balance and some guy in a shirt and tie with the top buttons undone to take rainchecks and write cliches on a flip chart; none of whom who have ever drank the stuff

noby · 24-09-2009 8:32pm

So is there a 'significance' to todays date? (I'm not sure why I need to know).

Red Sleeping Beauty · 24-09-2009 11:33pm

guildofevil wrote: »

Isn't this against the law? Sounds suspiciously like happy hour to me.

Me too! Shennanigans.

noby wrote: »

So is there a 'significance' to todays date? (I'm not sure why I need to know).

BeerNut wrote: »

Pints of what, though? There was no Guinness stout until about 220 years ago.

Actually, there wasn't even a Guinness brewery 250 years ago: AFAIK the lease was signed in December 1759.

So what the hell was today supposed to be ? 250 years in adjusted marketing years

Bleedin stupid thing anyway, celebrate a decent drink.

BeerNut · 24-09-2009 11:44pm

noby wrote: »

So is there a 'significance' to todays date?

Nothing in the marketing I've seen has said the date is any way relevant to anything.

Edit: though the almost exactly six months to St Patrick's Day might have something to do with it.

My local dropped the price of pints by €1.40 for an hour this evening. Ain't no law west of the Poddle.

oblivious · 25-09-2009 7:04am

BeerNut wrote: »

My local dropped the price of pints by €1.40 for an hour this evening. Ain't no law west of the Poddle.

How did they get around the law on happy hour and such?

rubadub · 25-09-2009 8:41am

BeerNut wrote: »

Nothing in the marketing I've seen has said the date is any way relevant to anything.

On TV3's morning program they kept on saying it was his birthday

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Guinness
that lists his birthday as 24/09/1725

BUT it also says

This contradicts the date of 28 September 1725 chosen by the Guinness company in 1991, apparently to end speculation about his birthdate

28th falls on a monday, not a particularly good drinking/marketing day, so no wonder they changed it again :rolleyes:

oblivious wrote: »

How did they get around the law on happy hour and such?

Thats what I wondered, a lot of places seemed to be doing it.

noby · 25-09-2009 9:00am

oblivious wrote: »

How did they get around the law on happy hour and such?

"Arthur's Day" is above the law, don't you know. If it wasn't for him blah blah blah blah etc...

Rob_l · 25-09-2009 9:04am

It was €2:50 a guinness all night in my local bar and the guinness was great

dylbert · 25-09-2009 10:02am

€5 all night in Tripod, no free pint and only Guinness being sold before 6pm, to shame. Also, the pints seemed very watery, I was wondering if they made it even blander to try convert larger drinkers.

Mr-McBain · 25-09-2009 10:40am

Yeah Tripod was €5 per pint. All Diageo stock so no Heino, Vitamin H, H-Bombs or Pin-O-Ken. No free pint either which was bad considering they got free kegs and made money from ticket sales. No consistancy with prices throughout Dublin. Bad form but a good night.

noby · 25-09-2009 11:50am

rubadub wrote: »

On TV3's morning program they kept on saying it was his birthday

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Guinness
that lists his birthday as 24/09/1725

BUT it also says

This contradicts the date of 28 September 1725 chosen by the Guinness company in 1991, apparently to end speculation about his birthdate

28th falls on a monday, not a particularly good drinking/marketing day, so no wonder they changed it again :rolleyes:

I wondered what happened the guy who, when setting the date back in 1991, didn't have the foresight to see what day it falls on this year. Probably locked in that special vault that Guinness have to store all the stuff they like to wipe from history.

Oliver1985 · 25-09-2009 8:34pm

McGowans pints were 3.50 of the black stuff and everyone was drinking them!! They were lovely!!

moncai · 22-09-2011 2:34pm

There is no historical significance to Arthurs Day regarding a date in september, it was introduced as a celebration of 250 years since founding the company. They probably picked september as it has no other major dates of celebration to clash with around then. The date falls on the 3rd thursday in september, the only relation to Arthur Guinness is a re-interpretation of "Arthurs Day" to "Our Thursday" which might be an attempt to encourage people to go out and have a good time by making them feel like they have a sense of ownership on the celebration.

TakeTheVeil · 22-09-2011 2:56pm

Guinness €2.50 in Carberry's Dunshaughlin

celticbest · 22-09-2011 2:58pm

In my local the price will be €2.59 @ 17:59 & then it will go up 15cents every 15 mins until it returns to it normal price.......

JONJO THE MISER · 25-09-2011 3:07pm

Price was 2.50 in my local for a few hours.

thee glitz · 25-09-2011 3:16pm

I was in O'Neills in Lucan for it, €3 all night and it was yummy.

the beer revolu · 25-09-2011 3:43pm

celticbest wrote: »

In my local the price will be €2.59 @ 17:59 & then it will go up 15cents every 15 mins until it returns to it normal price.......

Slightly illegal, I'd say that was.

rubadub · 25-09-2011 6:15pm

the beer revolu wrote: »

Slightly illegal, I'd say that was.

I'd say it was too, but only because I would guess the price was more earlier in the day. The "Happy hour" law says they can increase it all they want as the day goes on, you just cannot have it reduced.

If there was any issue on the law on price display can be got around by listing some other stout, as they don't need to list everything.

Price of Guinness on Arthurs Day?

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