Has The Price Of Drink Gone Down In Your Local?

Big Nasty

With the drop in excise duty in the budget there should be a few cents knocked off the price of drink in all pubs (and off-licences). The changes came in to affect from midnight last Wednesday night, the 9th. Even if they had stocked themselves to the hilt last Tues before the price drop their new stock prices should be in affect by now.

Has your local got cheaper yet? And if not have you asked why?

electrogrimey

Offos have gotten cheaper, Hollandia is now 6 for €4.50, when it used to be €6/€7. Long live Fianna Fáil.

The Master

down by 20c , still a robbing **** hole though

SoWatchaWant

Haven't noticed yet, bud.

Degag

Down 15c to €3.65

Danbo!

There was a sign in the Orchard in Rathfarnham saying "Thank you to Mr Lenihan" for dropping the price, which "we will pass on to our customers". Even with the drop, its 5.10 for a bloody pint tho.

ciano1

SoWatchaWant wrote: »

Haven't noticed yet, bud.

What about Heineken ? :rolleyes:

donkey balls

my local droped it by 15cent another pub by 10 cent and the third one did not bother

Jet Black

Was in fitzsimons last week and it had a sign saying it has reduced the price

Although it was 5.25 or something close for a pint and 6.05 after 11. Nice one!

Stee

Stee wrote: »

There was a sign in the Orchard in Rathfarnham saying "Thank you to Mr Lenihan" for dropping the price, which "we will pass on to our customers". Even with the drop, its 5.10 for a bloody pint tho.

They have some f***ing cheek having that sign and then charging 5.10 for a pint.

Liam Byrne

Stee wrote: »

There was a sign in the Orchard in Rathfarnham saying "Thank you to Mr Lenihan" for dropping the price, which "we will pass on to our customers". Even with the drop, its 5.10 for a bloody pint tho.

That'd put me right off drinking there, anyways......I mean, big fvukng deal; a few cent off a pint, and yet hundreds out of our pay packets to bail out his buddies in the banks and golden circles! :mad:

admiralofthefleet

i havent been in my local in ages but the pub i work in dropped it staight away

John Mason

the hole in the wall in cabra dropped theirs immediately

was there last thursday night and overheard a wonderful conversation withe owner and another pub owner

hole owner: so have you dropped your prices

other owner: no and i am not going to. have you dropped yours?

hole owner: yes, we we done it today

other owner: jaysis, fair play to you, a bit stupid but fair play

liah

Certain beers have gone down as much as 50c around here depending on the pub, which is really, really nice.

artanevilla

We put ours down day after.

Guinness 4.20 down to 4.05
Lagers 4.65 down to 4.50
Cider 4.50 down to 4.35
Large Bulmers 5.00 down to 4.85
Smitwicks 4.30 down to 4.15

minidazzler

liah wrote: »

Certain beers have gone down as much as 50c around here depending on the pub, which is really, really nice.

Fosters and other such I assume? Drinkable, but I don't like it!

I'm not sure about the price of drink but the girl behind the bar has gone down on half the punters in the pub.

admiralofthefleet

rarnes1 wrote: »

I'm not about the price of drink but the girl behind the bar has gone down on half the punters in the pub.

lol wut?

where is this watering hole?

laugh

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

lol wut?

where is this watering hole?

Ah don't be so coy! :pac:

Mimikyu

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admiralofthefleet

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

lol wut?

where is this watering hole?

At the top of her legs just below her waist.

kenneth5

A pint is gone down by ten cent in my local. they cost 4.20 - still a rip off

Captain Morgan

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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He's taking a lead from sofa stores, jack up the prices for a few weeks (or days) then put up huge banners saying 15% off of similar while in reality only dropping the price back to where it was.

Gringo180

Deleted User wrote: »

He's taking a lead from sofa stores, jack up the prices for a few weeks (or days) then put up huge banners saying 15% off of similar while in reality only dropping the price back to where it was.

Thats what argos always do:rolleyes:

Anyhow big bleeding deal 10-20c off a pint there still robbing fcuks, were getting analally raped in this city on the price of a pint

Mimikyu

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iguy

In my local in kildare bud has gone down from 4.35 to 3.85.carlsberg down from 4.49 to 4.05.guinness down from 4.65 to 4.45.beamish down from 4.40 to 4.25.heinekin down from 4.55 to 3.99!. All alcopops down from 4.85 to 4.30 plus many other price drops.

Big Nasty

iguy wrote: »

In my local in kildare bud has gone down from 4.35 to 3.85.carlsberg down from 4.49 to 4.05.guinness down from 4.65 to 4.45.beamish down from 4.40 to 4.25.heinekin down from 4.55 to 3.99!. All alcopops down from 4.85 to 4.30 plus many other price drops.

How the Feek is Guinness and Beamish more expensive than any other beer in Kildare?

kenneth5

MCMLXXV wrote: »

How the Feek is Guinness and Beamish more expensive than any other beer in Kildare?[/quote


Was wondering that myself. Around my neck of the woods a pint of guiness is usually about 30 cent cheaper and Beamish up to a euro chraper.

The_Thing

I gave up drinking alcohol when the pension levy was introduced for public sector workers back in march or april. I thought "fcuk you, Lenihan, you've taken it off me in one way, I'll get it back in another" As a result of this I am more or less as well off as I was before the levy was introduced.

Listening to Ryan Tubridy this morning I heard one woman say that she'd been out in Dublin over the week-end and had paid something like €8.30 for a vodka and coke.

The government and the publicans are charging people for their foolishness - as long as people are willing to pay their rip-off prices and excise duties then that is what YOU will do - PAY.

ynotdu

iguy wrote: »

In my local in kildare bud has gone down from 4.35 to 3.85.carlsberg down from 4.49 to 4.05.guinness down from 4.65 to 4.45.beamish down from 4.40 to 4.25.heinekin down from 4.55 to 3.99!. All alcopops down from 4.85 to 4.30 plus many other price drops.

and that was only iguy's 'curer'! :pac::pac::D

Big Nasty

The_Thing wrote: »

I gave up drinking alcohol when the pension levy was introduced for public sector workers back in march or april. I thought "fcuk you, Lenihan, you've taken it off me in one way, I'll get it back in another" As a result of this I am more or less as well off as I was before the levy was introduced.

Listening to Ryan Tubridy this morning I heard one woman say that she'd been out in Dublin over the week-end and had paid something like €8.30 for a vodka and coke.

The government and the publicans are charging people for their foolishness - as long as people are willing to pay their rip-off prices and excise duties then that is what YOU will do - PAY.

What sort of answer is this?

How is giving up the drink a two fingers to the government? Do you enjoy drink? If so, I think the only looser there is yourself, excepting your liver of course!

In relation to the price of drink I fully agree that if the excise is reduced the price of drink should be reduced accordingly but if you think the vast majority of pubs are rip off merchants, think again. The bar trade is an extremely difficult business at the moment as people are reluctant to spend and generally only go out on a weekend night. Therefore you have to staff your pub from 10.30am Monday until closing time Sunday just to make a few bob the weekend. Plus insurance costs are massive, wage costs are pretty high with the avg bartender getting cq. €12 an hour and most pubs have to serve food now to get any level of business in at all during the week. There was a day when having a pub was a licence to print money, there were Indians tippin' round that time too!

DundalkDuffman

Went down in my local all right, pints of Harp now at 4.25 instead of 4.40. Interestingly this coincided with an across the board increase on soup and sandwiches, tea coffee and biscuits in the pub. :rolleyes:

laugh

Booze seems to be coming down a lot more than the budget cut.

stovelid

Didn't check when I was in. I'm lousy at checking my change. I assume that they would pass on the reduction as it's that type of place.

raah!

That's pretty sweet, after ten beers you'll have saved 1.50.

/kills self trying to save 1.50

drunkmonkey

€3.00 for a pint of the local brew on Mondays and 3.50 the rest of the week, couldn't care less what all the foreign drinks cost..Gypsy Blonde all the way:)

carlmango11

Pints went down 15c where I work. Don't know what it should have decreased by though

Hootanany

My local only reduced it by 10c can i report this gangster to anyone robbin Bstrd

BraziliaNZ

electrogrimey wrote: »

Offos have gotten cheaper, Hollandia is now 6 for €4.50, when it used to be €6/€7. Long live Fianna Fáil.

omfg they have Hollandia in Ireland? where do you buy it?

L.T.D

Nope

krustydoyle

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

omfg they have Hollandia in Ireland? where do you buy it?

o briens offo in carlow stock it...

NothingMan

One of my locals dropped it right after the budget. Was €4.85 now a bargain at only €4.70. We rarely go to the pub anymore. Just get a crate of beer when they're cheap and have lots of sessions.

Way more fun but our couple of single friends still wanna go out clubbing the odd time to try score. They NEVER score. So when they realise they're too ugly to ever be loved we'll all be saving loads more dosh.

zonEEE

All pints are now 4.00 and guinness is 3.90.

the_barfly1

Most pubs my neck of the woods dropped prices by 10c across the board, i decided to be an ass and pipe up asking why they didnt drop at least the 12c promised in the budget...
Was swiftly told where to go...

Ithaca

Guinness went from €4.00 to €3.50 in several pubs here, happy days.

Edit: Pubs are in Loughrea, Co. Galway.

ErinGoBrath

Any chance we can start naming the pubs in question? Some nice prices out there, wouldn't mind knowing where the cheap pints are at.

stovelid

the_barfly1 wrote: »

Was swiftly told where to go...

Another pub?

neil_hosey

Pint Bottle of Bulmers from 5.50 to 5 euro
Pint Beer 4.60 to 4.20

Beamish now at 3.25 BOO YE!!!.. i recommend it for any of the Guinness drinkers out there.

Hootanany

neil_hosey wrote: »

Pint Bottle of Bulmers from 5.50 to 5 euro
Pint Beer 4.60 to 4.20

Beamish now at 3.25 BOO YE!!!.. i recommend it for any of the Guinness drinkers out there.

Blows the arse of of me

Merod8

ErinGoBrath wrote: »

Any chance we can start naming the pubs in question? Some nice prices out there, wouldn't mind knowing where the cheap pints are at.

Hi erinGoBrath my local in city centre is a lot more reasonable than any prices I have seen on boards. Beamish 3.40 Guinness 4.00 Lagers are 4.60 and on Monday and Tuesday all the pints are 3.50.I have only finished work and couldnt resist a quick pint on my way home,(had to check out the prices ). Im sitting in my local now having my first drink since new years day. Im in a lovely warm pub with a nice atmosphere and a friendly barman. What more could you want on a freezing cold snowy January day?:):):):):)

Hootanany

Merod8 wrote: »

Hi erinGoBrath my local in city centre is a lot more reasonable than any prices I have seen on boards. Beamish 3.40 Guinness 4.00 Lagers are 4.60 and on Monday and Tuesday all the pints are 3.50.I have only finished work and couldnt resist a quick pint on my way home,(had to check out the prices ). Im sitting in my local now having my first drink since new years day. Im in a lovely warm pub with a nice atmosphere and a friendly barman. What more could you want on a freezing cold snowy January day?:):):):):)

A Blond Hooker