What is a fair price for a pint of Beer?

Doni Mack

Guinness €2.75. Beer maybe €3.

Discuss the issues.

bluto63

Here in London I can get a pint for £1.25

Pretty fair IMO

Guy:Incognito

bluto63 wrote: »

Here in London I can get a pint for £1.25

Pretty fair IMO

A pint of what?

Doni Mack

Stekelly wrote: »

A pint of what?

Probably disgusting Carling

bluto63

bluto63 wrote: »

Here in London I can get a pint for £1.25

Pretty fair IMO

In Aberdeen. The lowest I have seen it in the student bar was £1.55 for a pint of Tennants.

smellslikeshoes

3 is a nice number, be handy to give a 5 and get a two euro coin back instead of a bunch of change.

The_Kew_Tour

3.50 to 4 Euro max depending on drink.

raptorman

I'd be happy with €3.30, basically three pints for a tenner.

ScumLord

€3 That's probably still a 50% mark up.

Dravokivich

I think it should be more around €2.50, thats what i noticed the average to be for a decent point up north...

Don't see why it's practically twice the price here. There'd be more imported... bigger market....

It's all the bleeding taxes they have on it.

I mean seriously, it's cheaper to get a Guinness up North then it is down the bleeding road.

krustydoyle

I pay 4 euro in my local for a pint, but it can be found for bout 3.85 in the workmans club..

Holsten

Guinness = €2.
Other common largers = €3.
Speciality beers = €4.

meditraitor

2 euro is a fair price for a beer, considering its mostly just water. How much does it cost to make. I know, I know the taxman blah blah

But €2 is fair

Sea Sharp

3 euro seems like a fair price to me. It's good to see a lot of places are making the price changes.

On another note, I was told that that crappy Meath night-club 'The Vortex' is now offering 1.50 drinks. :eek:

Bonito

My local

Guinness €3.65
Beamish €3.50
Budweiser/carslberg/heineken €3.50
Bavaria €3.00
Fosters €3.00

Caoimhín

I think it should be on a sliding scale (impossible to enforce though), for example, your first few should be 2 or 3 Euro, after that it goes up 1 euro a pint. Maybe that way the drunkenness and all the associated problems that afflict this country would be curbed.

Well at least the extra revenue could be saved up for all the liver transplants that will be required in 20 years.

Naos

Ah The County Club (The Vortex).

They give you the cheapest of the cheap there, no pint of beer either if I recall was all bottled. Also there is/was a 15e - 20e admission price.

Considering everything, I think 3.50e would be a fair price to pay. The publicans get more than their fair cut and we're not being shafted too hard.

Hmmm, thinking about this it was only about 2 - 3 ago when Fosters were doing 3.30e a pint so you could get 3 for a tenner. Just a pity it was Fosters.

RobbieTheRobber

I keep being told this recession is like the 80's so lets have 1980's prices which is somewhere between 1.37 and 1.87 in euro

http://www.finfacts.ie/Private/bestprice/guinnessindex.htm
link has table with price of beer and some index half way down the page in black and red (proably linking to average wage or something) which Im too lazy to uderstand

James Forde

Bonito wrote: »

My local

Guinness €3.65
Beamish €3.50
Budweiser/carslberg/heineken €3.50
Bavaria €3.00
Fosters €3.00

are the toothpicks free?

Bonito

meditraitor wrote: »

2 euro is a fair price for a beer, considering its mostly just water. How much does it cost to make. I know, I know the taxman blah blah

But €2 is fair

Off topic but it costs dominos €2.50-€3.50 to make a 16 inch pizza, that's including their expenses of esb bills and renting premesis and wages. Anything else is all profit for them.

Mimikyu

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Bonito

bryanjf wrote: »

are the toothpicks free?

Dunno what pub you're drinking in :rolleyes:
Very poor effort of a personal attack to get you some thanks thinking you're hilarious.

Doni Mack

Bonito wrote: »

Dunno what pub you're drinking in :rolleyes:
Very poor effort of a personal attack to get you some thanks thinking you're hilarious.

Lets not have this thread degenerate into a slanging match between products of incest please.

Alessandra

3.50eu is a fair price for a pint. It's about that in other European countries.

That_Guy

Pubs should do what Radiohead did with their last album. Give the public a choice as to how much they would be willing to pay for the album or in this case the pint.

TheZohanS

Doni Mack wrote: »

Lets not have this thread degenerate into a slanging match between products of incest please.

It will be a while before you see this thread again.

meditraitor

Bonito wrote: »

Off topic but it costs dominos €2.50-€3.50 to make a 16 inch pizza, that's including their expenses of esb bills and renting premesis and wages. Anything else is all profit for them.

Thats what Im talking about, value for money is thin on the ground in this country.... Domino's is pretty rank all the same:pac:

Iwasfrozen

GaNjaHaN wrote: »

3 euro seems like a fair price to me. It's good to see a lot of places are making the price changes.

On another note, I was told that that crappy Meath night-club 'The Vortex' is now offering 1.50 drinks. :eek:

It isn't crappy anymore.

AnonoBoy

INT. LOCAL PUB - DAY

AnonoBoy: Can I have a pint?
Barman: 5 euro
AnonoBoy: Aw, c'mon, now! Look out for a brother, man, c'mon, yeah. Check this out: why don't you let me get a sip for fifteen cents?
Barman: My pint glasses cost more than fifteen cents!
AnonoBoy: All right, f*ck the glass. Pour it in my hand for five.


True story.

artanevilla

Where are you all getting these prices from? You do know that you're paying for more than the liquid in the glass?

meditraitor

artanevilla wrote: »

Where are you all getting these prices from? You do know that you're paying for more than the liquid in the glass?

enlighten me young brother?

itsallaboutheL

There's a number of bars around cork that have 3 euro pints....


In before the: But they're in cork....

artanevilla

meditraitor wrote: »

enlighten me young brother?

Mortgage/rent on the pub, staff wages, utility costs, electricity/waste etc, the furniture has to be bought, the TV (the cost of SKY is a joke), cleaning supplies etc, etc. When you go to a restruant it's not just the food you are paying for.

meditraitor

artanevilla wrote: »

Mortgage/rent on the pub, staff wages, utility costs, electricity/waste etc, the furniture has to be bought, the TV (the cost of SKY is a joke), cleaning supplies etc, etc. When you go to a restruant it's not just the food you are paying for.

I pay for all those those things already in my lovely little abode, maybe I should stay at home and drink cheap beer.......

I can see this idea catching on:D

ScumLord

artanevilla wrote: »

Where are you all getting these prices from? You do know that you're paying for more than the liquid in the glass?

No I'm not, I'm paying for what's inside the glass if the publican wants to tack on extra for Sky sports and plasma screens well then he won't get my money.

I appreciate he's running a business and I'm not telling them they can't make a profit but the fact is they're stuck in the past and they can't expect people to pay such a high price for so little and expect to be still in business.

They need to go back to the original concept of a "Public house", there's so much potential in that concept they deserve to go out of business for being so narrow-minded in being little more than alcohol dealers.

xw2lj9uspm1eyh

The real issue is charging €4.50 for a can of red bull in a pub:eek:.How can they charge that when ya can buy a 4 pack for €5 in Dunnes there is no justice in the world!

It would drive you to drink!

Sleepy

I find it strange that so many people are happy to pay more for a pint of something other than Guinness. I know traditionally it's always been cheaper but there's not really any good reason why if determining the value of a pint of beer, a pint of Guinness should be considered of lower value than a pint of Budweiser when the latter is clearly an inferior product.

artanevilla

meditraitor wrote: »

I pay for all those those things already in my lovely little abode, maybe I should stay at home and drink cheap beer.......

I can see this idea catching on:D

This idea has been "catching on" for the past ten years.

ScumLord wrote: »

No I'm not, I'm paying for what's inside the glass if the publican wants to tack on extra for Sky sports and plasma screens well then he won't get my money.

I appreciate he's running a business and I'm not telling them they can't make a profit but the fact is they're stuck in the past and they can't expect people to pay such a high price for so little and expect to be still in business.

They need to go back to the original concept of a "Public house", there's so much potential in that concept they deserve to go out of business for being so narrow-minded in being little more than alcohol dealers.

If we didn't have Sky in our pub, our customer numbers would drop dramatically. A lot of people come in to watch matches etc. And they're paying for it in the cost of their pint. If a pub is charging the same, but doesn't provide theses means of entertainment, then you start complaining. Most people don't go to the pub to simply sit their and drink, they go for the social aspect, and to be entertained, and we hire bands etc to keep them entertained.

You should start up your own pub with this original concept of a "public house", with no overheads, people sitting in the dark and cold, drinking warm drinks, with nobody serving it to them. You'd probably do quite well, but it would only be a one in a thousand thing, all pubs can't do this with the cost required to run a pub. You should really see the profit margins of running a pub these days.

Mimikyu

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dublin 16 lad

3 Euro for a pint is fair enough. As someone already said, it would be nice to give in a fiver and get back a 2euro coin

Maybe 4 quid for the more upmarket drinks like Erdinger etc

I genuinely think if a pint was 3 quid or less I would drink in a pub far more often rather than drink cans in someones house

kraggy

Bonito wrote: »

My local

Guinness €3.65
Beamish €3.50
Budweiser/carslberg/heineken €3.50
Bavaria €3.00
Fosters €3.00

Feckin hell. I pay 4.40 for a pint of Heinken in Galway.

toiletduck

Gotta laugh at all the "two euro" suggestions. The last time, about three or four years ago, I actually saw how much Guinness costs the publican (a letter reimbursing him for free pint vouchers) it was e1.83 a pint. I have to assume it's a bit more now.

Would love to see people run all the rest of the costs outta 17c :pac:

FearDark

Bonito wrote: »

My local

Guinness €3.65
Beamish €3.50
Budweiser/carslberg/heineken €3.50
Bavaria €3.00
Fosters €3.00

Where????

Bonito

thebanana wrote: »

Where????

Here ; http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=o%27sheas&init=quick#!/profile.php?id=1354198573

asmobhosca

its virtually impossible for pubs to compete on price versus staying at home.
Tesco and Dunnes often sell alcohol at below cost at a price the publicans cant even get from their wholesale suppliers.
(this was an unintended consequence of the changes to the groceries order act a few years ago)
Thats even before you start to add on overheads.
Having said that I'm sure plenty of pubs in the country are still very profitable, but alot are struggling.
The hangover from the celtic tiger property boom is the massive rents some pubs are paying, often with upwards only rent reviews.
Many of them will have to go bust and reopen later with a lower rent before they can trade with lower alcohol prices, unless landlords bite the bullet now and cut the rents.
If this happens then 3-3.50 euro per pint would be feasible for pubs.
Hopefully this will happen sooner rather than later, would be great to get 3 pints for 10 euro, I'd probably go out more!!

ScumLord

artanevilla wrote: »

If we didn't have Sky in our pub, our customer numbers would drop dramatically. A lot of people come in to watch matches etc.

Matches yes, but when it's the only thing that's on, that or horse racing all you'll get is gambling alchos.

You should start up your own pub with this original concept of a "public house", with no overheads, people sitting in the dark and cold, drinking warm drinks, with nobody serving it to them. You'd probably do quite well, but it would only be a one in a thousand thing, all pubs can't do this with the cost required to run a pub. You should really see the profit margins of running a pub these days.

That's because your solely dependant on the sale of alcohol, or sometimes food and while pub food can be very nice I just don't like eating anything more than finger food in a pub (but finger food is great when it's available).

The only reason you go to the pub these days is to drink and people will avoid that temptation during the week. The needs of the public has changed, the public that needed a public house to go to for so many reasons doesn't exist any more so the public house needs to start catering for the needs of the modern public.

James Forde

Bonito wrote: »

Dunno what pub you're drinking in :rolleyes:
Very poor effort of a personal attack to get you some thanks thinking you're hilarious.

sorry i thought this was after hours

lighten up

Red_Marauder

I spent much of last Summer in Berlin. I paid €1 for a pint bottle of Erdinger in my local newsagents.

Typical weekday evening was cycle down to the volkpark, €15 euro on pizza and beers with mates, lie around the park and soak up the evening sun, play football... the Germans really understand quality of life imo.

I was in a bar today for about half an hour and paid €9 for a budweiser and a coke.

SeaFields

I think reading back that there is a bit of a consensus that 3 pints for a tenner would be fair.

Naos

SeaFields wrote: »

I think reading back that there is a bit of a consensus that 3 pints for a tenner would be fair.

Yup, it'd be nice alright.

Also wouldn't mind price of soft drinks dropping as well. I paid 5e for a Rockshandy the other night, more expensive than a pint.

Will they ever get a grip? (Before someone jumps in with why pay that price, I didn't buy one after, stuck to my 2e f*cking blackcurrant.)

Glenster

Red_Marauder wrote: »

I spent much of last Summer in Berlin. I paid €1 for a pint bottle of Erdinger in my local newsagents.

Typical weekday evening was cycle down to the volkpark, €15 euro on pizza and beers with mates, lie around the park and soak up the evening sun, play football... the Germans really understand quality of life imo.

I was in a bar today for about half an hour and paid €9 for a budweiser and a coke.

Yeah but you were on holiday, everything is great when you're on holiday.

Besides you could theoretically do that in Ireland,

There's usually some sort of special on some nice beer in at least one off licence in Dublin. You probably couldn't get it for 1€ but maybe €1.50, get a pizza in dominoes and cycle over to the pheonix park.

Dont mythologize Germany, just cos you were on holday there. Most people in Berlin that day were chained up in an office typing away at spreadsheets until half five and then rushing home to bring kids to music lessons like the rest of us.

There's great €3-€3.50 pints in the dingy pub beside Tara Street Dart Station, granted it's not a destination pub but it's nice for some quiet discussion or to watch a match with a mate.