Can you afford to drink in a pub anymore?

scholar007

Maybe its just me, being the unsocial creature I am (and keeping strange hours) but can anyone really afford to drink in a pub anymore? I mean why pay 4 to 5 yo yos for a pint in a pub when you can buy 3 or 4 in a supermarket for the same price? Its also easier to smoke at home so I would have no incentive to go to the pub when you can sit at home and have a pint for about 1 yo yo and a smoke inside. Also you can drink for as long as you like without someone shouting at you "Time now ladies and gents, have ye no homes to go to?" - Well yes I have that is until the Government aka the banks take it off me to pay the gamblers debts the way things are going! :mad:

mackg

As a single guy I can think of one major advantage going out has over drinking cans in my sitting room, women. Also you can drink cheap at the house both pre and post pub cutting costs. I'm not going to argue that pints are overpriced though.

hairyprincess

What's a pub?
What are yo yos?

And more to the point, what is drink??

Trash Ninja

As a single guy i find women tend not to congregate at my gaff. So I'm pretty much forced to go to pubs to meet them, no matter how economically preponderant the former situation would be. True story.

IM0

scholar007 wrote: »

Maybe its just me, being the unsocial creature I am (and keeping strange hours) but can anyone really afford to drink in a pub anymore? I mean why pay 4 to 5 yo yos for a pint in a pub when you can buy 3 or 4 in a supermarket for the same price? Its also easier to smoke at home so I would have no incentive to go to the pub when you can sit at home and have a pint for about 1 yo yo and a smoke inside. Also you can drink for as long as you like without someone shouting at you "Time now ladies and gents, have ye no homes to go to?" - Well yes I have that is until the Government aka the banks take it off me to pay the gamblers debts the way things are going! :mad:

you have answered your own question there and women dont come and do laps around your living room do they?

senorwipesalot

Have ye no homes to go to?

NEScart

The price of drink in a bar is a joke.

We've all done it. Paying 5+ euro for a pint. Best one had to be Pravda just off Ha'penny bridge. Pint was like €5.20 at 11pm. €5.50 at 12am. €5.80 at 1am. Such a joke :rolleyes: Then you have places such as Qbar who charged you €10 in for the privilege of being ripped off.

All while you can go to your local off-license and get 8 beers for €10.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I've kinda started to enjoy drinking at home now, like you said no smoking ban, no closing time, control over the music etc. I already have a ball and chain so I'm not allowed to be looking at other woman anyway and the town where I live is not exactly a social mecca. We still do the pub once every couple weeks or so but that's a drast reduction on what it once was. Times are hard.

scholar007

Trash Ninja wrote: »

As a single guy i find women tend not to congregate at my gaff. So I'm pretty much forced to go to pubs to meet them, no matter how economically preponderant the former situation would be. True story.

For fups sake! Think youself lucky my friend - Nothing more costly than a woman (yes I have one - just about) - At least u know where you stand with the economically preponderant pints!

Trash Ninja

scholar007 wrote: »

For fups sake! Think youself lucky my friend - Nothing more costly than a woman (yes I have one - just about) - At least u know where you stand with the economically preponderant pints!

Don't get me wrong, I had a woman for the last 4 years up until recently, and I really didn't need pubs during those halcyon days. But getting back to the OP and speaking as someone who's on night 3 of a bender, pubs are real overpriced bad!

KERSPLAT!

Yep I go the pub usually once a week, or say 3-4 times a month, it's expensive but always good craic

sonyvision

You need more pubs to start price wars, back in September venues dropped prices to as low as 2 euro for all drinks with 2 euro on the door,

But now pints are 3:50 thats what I was charged tonight and 4 euro for a pint bottle of cider in a club

KERSPLAT!

sonyvision wrote: »

You need more pubs to start price wars, back in September venues dropped prices to as low as 2 euro for all drinks with 2 euro on the door,

But now pints are 3:50 thats what I was charged tonight and 4 euro for a pint bottle of cider in a club

A long neck bulmers in Dublin city centre club* is about €5.50-6, in my local in Meath it's €5 for a pint bottle so €4 seems pretty cheap, I'd be happy to pay that!!!

sonyvision

Was a fiver door charge, but again im not complaining about the price its much better then a year ago tenner in. And 5+ for a drink

guitarzero

6.50 for a pint of Paulaner in a Temple Bar pub tonight, very sobering.

arybvtcw0eolkf

I love the pub, love my local.

Have the craic with the lads, or hook up and talk ballox with total strangers.

Packet of Tayto Pub crisps, mix in some peanuts if you wanna be exotic about it.

Curry/chipper on the way home then a mug of scald to the scratcher

My local has Carling and Bavarian on draught at €3 a pint - deadly stuff, although since I'm only home from work atm I'm skulling a few Druids

mikemac1

sonyvision wrote: »

I was charged tonight and 4 euro for a pint bottle of cider in a club

Pretty good realy

I haven't seen that price in a long while, not in Dublin and not in Tipp so it's not just city prices

Cider should be cheaper in Tipperary seeing as we make it all, Bulmers in Clonmel and Druids and Devil Bit and Lindin Village up in Borrosleigh
Others counties getting our cider :P

John Doe1

Drinking is for losers, Crystal meth is where its at

Trash Ninja

I believe it's quite moreish.

Ghandee

sonyvision wrote: »

You need more pubs to start price wars, back in September venues dropped prices to as low as 2 euro for all drinks with 2 euro on the door,

But now pints are 3:50 thats what I was charged tonight and 4 euro for a pint bottle of cider in a club

We had price wars from the pubs in Dublin before though, remember?

Complain to the barman, that six euro fifty for a pint of Luke warm beer is very expensive, barman replied by telling you "all the pubs charge the same on Dawson street" :rolleyes:

Only in rip of Ireland would a price 'war' mean competing to see who could charge the most !:pac:

Paddy_Smith

Pints in pubs are bloody ridiculous when it comes to the price of them. 4.80 for warm, watery sh1te... Seriously?!

Might have to do the oul trick and sneak a few cans into the place itself, because it's that bad. :rolleyes:

Insane reading the prices on here.. When I manage to visit Ireland again, Id like to head out a few nights but I doubt I'll be able to justify it. Doesn't matter, how much I have in the bank, that money goes further almost anywhere in the world.

franciebellew

NEScart wrote: »

The price of drink in a bar is a joke.

We've all done it. Paying 5+ euro for a pint. Best one had to be Pravda just off Ha'penny bridge. Pint was like €5.20 at 11pm. €5.50 at 12am. €5.80 at 1am. Such a joke :rolleyes: Then you have places such as Qbar who charged you €10 in for the privilege of being ripped off.

All while you can go to your local off-license and get 8 beers for €10.

How do you notice this? Do you actually check your change everything time you come back from bar?

The increase is only a few cent. Try to enjoy yourself the next time

franciebellew

Consider yourself lucky folks. I pay 7 quid a pint of stout in sweden

franciebellew

John Doe1 wrote: »

Drinking is for losers, Crystal meth is where its at

Can u actually get meth in Ireland though?

kraggy

franciebellew wrote: »

Can u actually get meth in Ireland though?

Yes, but you'd be more foolish to try Meth than Heroin.

oldyouth

2/3 pints in the local for company and craic with the pals then home for more cheap beer or wine in front of the telly with the missus. Affordable a few times a week

Yep, turned 50 recently

Grayson

A load of my mates are in long term relationships and they always have more money than me. One asked how it is, when we're in the same job. I pointed out that he has a GF and he said it can't be that. A single female friend of mine then pointed out that my mate and his GF go out maybe once a month and are home by 11 every time. Whereas we who are single go to the pub regularly and it costs money.

Being single in Ireland is expensive. Although it is cheaper than it was.

Grayson

btw, €5.60 for a pint of Heineken in the hairy lemon two weeks ago. ouch

MonkeyTennis

there is only one way Im going back to the pub and thats if they HUGELY drop their prices.

When I look back I cant believe the amount of money I spent on a friday, saturday and often a sunday afternoon.

I feel guilty even having 1 or 2 with the price of them now.

Although I feel sorry for the pub trade/small owners the ball is in their court, they have a powerful lobby that imho are their own worst enemies.

Grayson

It would be nice to see that cafe bar legislation reintroduced.

Zebra3

franciebellew wrote: »

How do you notice this? Do you actually check your change everything time you come back from bar?

Just maybe he/she isn't a total mug. :rolleyes:

Also many place hand out receipts.

Maybe we should ask the barkeep can we pay even more than the regular price. :rolleyes:

bbam

It's all about how much and how often you drink..
We go out about twice a month for a few drinks, 4-5 usually.. Price doesn't come into it then... I don't even know how much a drink is in our local..
Two of us can have 4-5 drinks for about €50 I suppose..

Now if your drinking 6-8 drinks 3 nights a week as some of my friends do it's a totally different matter... Combine that with smoking and it's a serious drain on any income..

kfallon

I'm off to the pub in another hour, love the all day Saturday sessions with cracking sport on

Only drink once a week tho majority of the time! I could afford more nights if I wanted but it's not a healthy lifestyle as I found out before.

The majority of my drinking is done in pubs. I'm not a big fan of drinking at home, going out some where is much better. It's expensive enough as Im out at least one and maybe twice a week and often go to a club too.

Also you can't beat draught, who wants a can if Guinness like.

It's not as cheap as people appear to think to drink in pubs in other countries, well not in big city's anyway. You couldn't get a half litre if beer for less than 8 euro in Geneva, drink is around the same price as here in US city's, London is similar or more expensive to here etc etc.

I'm comparing to outside Dublin by the way where 4:50 is the most you will pay for a pint of Guinness.

tigger123

guitarzero wrote: »

6.50 for a pint of Paulaner in a Temple Bar pub tonight, very sobering.

Kind of related. Back when I was a smoker (about two years ago) I was in The Temple Bar and went to the bar to get change for the cigarette machine (and that little coin thing that allows you buy the cigarettes). I gave the guy a tenner and he handed me back €9.80. When I queried it he said they charged 20c for giving change for the cigarette machine.

Cantona's Collars

Don't go to the pub so much anymore as I have more important things to spend my money on,but my local is packed on Mondays and Tuesdays,the day before dole day & dole day.During the boom,the same lads went drinking all day Monday as they could afford to work only 4 days a week but now they can still afford to do it on €188 a week,go figure

The drinking habits of folk I know have changed with people going for the cheaper beers @ €3 a pint,Tuborg and Bavaria have seen a huge upturn in popularity.

Cork24

In my local in cork it's only 3 euro for a paint 3.20 for cider that till 7 pm then the price goes up you see every one leavening the pub after 7

I can't afford to drink any more the last time I went to a pub I took in my own. Vodka just got coke all night which was 2.50 and just added my own vodka other wise it would have cost me around 8 euro

Old Tom

In my local off licence I get 5 bottles of Franziskaner for 10e, instead of 4,7e per single pint.
I can drink them beers at home - no extremely loud music, lack of annoying people around, no TV's with fecking sport all the time, nice food in the fridge whenever I want it. No further expenses on taxis afterwards.

I can't see ANY point in going to pub.

Grayson

Makenzie Defeated Juicer wrote: »

The majority of my drinking is done in pubs. I'm not a big fan of drinking at home, going out some where is much better. It's expensive enough as Im out at least one and maybe twice a week and often go to a club too.

Also you can't beat draught, who wants a can if Guinness like.

It's not as cheap as people appear to think to drink in pubs in other countries, well not in big city's anyway. You couldn't get a half litre if beer for less than 8 euro in Geneva, drink is around the same price as here in US city's, London is similar or more expensive to here etc etc.

I'm comparing to outside Dublin by the way where 4:50 is the most you will pay for a pint of Guinness.

In the Uk drink is dirt cheap compared to here. One pound drink promotions aren't uncommon.
My boss is an american who liked telling us stories about when he was in college. He worked his way in a sports bar. It was a dollar for a beer so most ppl would pay a dollar, tip a dollar. What's annoying is he made more in tips during a week than I make now. Way to motivate your workforce.
And didn't they ban (Or try to ban) all you can drink student nights in germany? It was €20 entry and all the drink was free after that.

EDIT: You're right about the cans though. I can't stand canned guinness. I have no idea how anyone can drink that muck.

Grayson

Old Tom wrote: »

In my local off licence I get 5 bottles of Franziskaner for 10e, instead of 4,7e per single pint.
I can drink them beers at home - no extremely loud music, lack of annoying people around, no TV's with fecking sport all the time, nice food in the fridge whenever I want it. No further expenses on taxis afterwards.

I can't see ANY point in going to pub.

You have a woman/man/sex doll don['t you.

bensweeney

There is a big difference between the quality of a draught pint in a pub then a can of beer in your home.

Old Tom

Grayson wrote: »

You have a woman/man/sex doll don
For the past 13 years I've been happily married to a beautiful, hot girl

Zebra3

bensweeney wrote: »

There is a big difference between the quality of a draught pint in a pub then a can of beer in your home.

Depends what you're drinking.

Heino/Bud/Carlsberg are chemical laced p*ss regardless of how they are served.

CashMoney

Zebra3 wrote: »

Depends what you're drinking.

Heino/Bud/Carlsberg are chemical laced p*ss regardless of how they are served.

Show me a drink that doesn't contain chemicals. In fact, show me anything that doesn't contain chemicals.

AngryBollix

I prefer getting sh1tfaced on the comfortable local park bench.

Flagons all the way

Born to Die

I can afford to, I choose not to. It's better that way.:)

Captain Chaos

Trash Ninja wrote: »

As a single guy i find women tend not to congregate at my gaff. So I'm pretty much forced to go to pubs to meet them, no matter how economically preponderant the former situation would be. True story.

Same here, single guy but I can't afford to go out anymore. Once every two weeks for 4 pints max. I used to go out 4 nights a week when I had a decent job and lived at home. But now with my own place and crappy job that's all gone. Finding a woman does not justify the cost of going out at all.

I've never met anyone worth while in a pub or club anyway. You don't need drink to meet the ladies.

Zebra3

CashMoney wrote: »

Show me a drink that doesn't contain chemicals. In fact, show me anything that doesn't contain chemicals.

There are loads of drinks out there that don't contain chemicals.

Old Tom

CashMoney wrote: »

Show me a drink that doesn't contain chemicals. In fact, show me anything that doesn't contain chemicals.

Conspiracy Theory forum is that way >>>>

:rolleyes:

lostboy

Zebra3 wrote: »

There are loads of drinks out there that don't contain chemicals.

you do realise water is a chemical dont you