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Non alcohol beer prices

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  • 17-02-2012 11:04am
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    Mr. Presentable
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    Perhaps there is someone here who knows; why is non-alcoholic beer the same price as beer when there would be no alcohol duty, and why can I not buy it from a 17 year old in Tesco at 09:00 on a Sunday?
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    the beer revolu
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    1. Greed/market forces.
    2. Ignorance.


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    BeerNut
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    3. Poor data management (it gets classed as an alcoholic beverage on the stock system)

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    rubadub
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    Mr. Presentable wrote: »
    why is non-alcoholic beer the same price as beer when there would be no alcohol duty,
    I think it costs more to make it, as they brew normal beer and then have to take the alcohol out.

    In pubs a 500ml of NA is usually cheaper per ml than branded soft drinks. 500ml of coke in my local costs over €7. I think scheweppes lemonade might be over €11 for 500ml!

    Recently I was hearing campaigners for min alcohol pricing moaning that it costed less than bottled water. -I think they should have been more concerned about the high price of the water -and asking for max prices for water!


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    Johnnio13
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    Becks NA in the Laughter Lounge last night was 5.50
    That is by far the most I've spent on an NA.
    It's pure greed to charge what they do!


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    Ronan cork
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    nearly all places i've worked didn't have a separate button on the till for it.

    ie erdinger na is clocked in as normal erdinger etc

    price wise non alco beers are about 20% less than the alcoholic version (easy to check when in an off licence) so no excuse for charging full whack, other than laziness if that counts!


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    grenache
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    Where I work Becks NA is 89c, which is quite reasonable.


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    Geuze
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    I paid 3.70 for 33cl of Bavavir NA in a pub last week.

    Too dear.


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    minidazzler
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    grenache wrote: »
    Where I work Becks NA is 89c, which is quite reasonable.

    Is that of Off Licence or a pub? When I was off drink at the start of the year to save money, I was paying about 5 euro a bottle in the brog before I realised it. It was actually far cheaper to drink real beer than NA.


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    Cardinal Richelieu
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    BeerNut wrote: »
    3. Poor data management (it gets classed as an alcoholic beverage on the stock system)

    With Tesco it might have something to do with keeping people out of the alcohol aisle were non-alcohol beer is displayed outside of off-license hours.


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    Berty
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    Yes Non Alcoholic beer is cheaper to import, cheaper to sell(by importer/wholesaler than Alcoholic version) and should be cheaper to buy as a customer(at the other side of the bar).

    Think about the usual popular two out there.

    Erdinger & Erdinger N/A
    Paulaner & Paulaner N/A

    Both the Non Alcoholic products have a small bit of alcohol in them so attract import duty but N/A is less than the other.

    Why can you not them in Tesco at 9am on a Sunday by a 17year old? It could the same way a 66 year old couldn't sell you it at 10:29am on a Friday morning. The systems themselves are on lock down and those products WILL NOT scan. The same applies in Spar/Eurospar.

    On Non Alcoholic Beer prices. Some publicans are fairly good with pricing and some are just greedy. Off Licenses are invariably always around the same. €2 for a 500ml bottle and about €5-€6 for a 6 pack of 330mls.


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    happyman81
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    NA costs more to make.


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    Tigger
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    happyman81 wrote: »
    NA costs more to make.

    but it attracts no duty


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    happyman81
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    Tigger wrote: »
    but it attracts no duty

    And it is sold in a free market.


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    Tigger
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    happyman81 wrote: »
    And it is sold in a free market.

    yup but the pubs don't like that, minimum pricing for offsales ain't free market.
    thats why i don't bother drinking the 6 or 7 na beer i'd have if they were priced right when i'm driving.

    pubs need to cop on


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    grenache
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    minidazzler wrote: »
    grenache wrote: »
    Where I work Becks NA is 89c, which is quite reasonable.

    Is that of Off Licence or a pub? When I was off drink at the start of the year to save money, I was paying about 5 euro a bottle in the brog before I realised it. It was actually far cheaper to drink real beer than NA.
    Off licence.


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    n97 mini
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    Mr. Presentable wrote: »
    Perhaps there is someone here who knows; why is non-alcoholic beer the same price as beer
    For the same reason a soft drink costs more than beer. Because people will pay it.


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