Price of a pint

huberto

Having a pint of Galway Hooker in Ballsbridge - 6 euro, no receipt. Is this normal?

Ruu

Don't know but you'd be mad in the head!

dobman88

huberto wrote: »

Having a pint of Galway Hooker in Ballsbridge - 6 euro, no receipt. Is this normal?

An over priced craft beer in an over priced part of Dublin!

Seems quite cheap actually.

The Backwards Man

Yes, it is perfectly normally for people to complain about the price of things after they have already paid for them

anncoates

Expensive area and a so called craft beer, so par for the course.

dodderangler

You'd nearly get a Galway hooker for that price

Chucken

Ruu wrote: »

Don't know but you'd be mad in the head!

I feel there should be more to this sentence..... :pac:

Icemancometh

Drinking the same stuff in Smithfield for 4.70. Change your watering hole!

Depends what are drinking.

Been years since I paid over 4 euro for a guinness. I'll pay extra for craft beers I enjoy, generally still around the 5 euro mark.

Donkey Oaty

From a Dublin Evening Herald survey, June of this year:

Our survey found Galway Hooker for sale at €4.60 in Fitzgerald’s Bar on Aston Quay. At the weekend it goes up to €4.90.
But in the Old Stand pub on Exchequer Street, a pint of the same beer costs €5.80.
In The Temple Bar pub, the pint of Galway Hooker will set you back €6.95.

Via Indo.

-=al=-

Well overpriced for one of them but I guess it's the location... but it is a pint so would you even call it normal these days?

I used to love a few sneaky Brewdogs a few years ago but they have gone up soooo much in the last few years... Everything is craft beer this and that too

I was away in Aus for a while too and only came back recently and the prices of the stuff have gone up quite a bit!

Err'body jumping on the craft beer train, choo choo

super_furry

"Craft beers" are often just an excuse for publicans to add an extra euro or two to the price of a pint.

Bars will only charge what people are willing to pay.

huberto

I'll cross the road and continue the research

huberto

huberto wrote: »

I'll cross the road and continue the research

Pub crawl thread!

SIX PACK

Government should lower the excise duty by €1 a pint €3.50 to €4 is enough to give. More people might have a drink in pub then Instead of buying at Off licence.

huberto

Still a walk at this point

The One Doctor

SIX PACK wrote: »

Government should lower the excise duty by €1 a pint €3.50 to €4 is enough to give. More people might have a drink in pub then Instead of buying at Off licence.

You want the government to lower their tax income to give the pubs more profit?

Yup, makes sense.

Nothing wrong with buying from an off licence, I only go to the pub once a month now. If Wetherspoons can cut their costs then so can the 'traditional' publicans.

I got tired of Galway Hooker after a few bottles. Tastes oddly metallic.

anncoates

huberto wrote: »

I'll cross the road and continue the research

Head into town. Not far and better prices.

Tokyo

Galway Hooker is a craft beer now??

-=al=-

If it's not Heineken it's a craft beer :pac:

Herb Powell

It's after getting ridiculous alright.

Still recovering from living in Germany, where I got it into my head that anything over €3.50 is cheeky :(:(

Lapin

huberto wrote: »

Having a pint of Galway Hooker in Ballsbridge - 6 euro, no receipt. Is this normal?

Steep.

Its €5.10 here in Galway and even that way too much.

Nice tack though.

huberto

Bit late to be asking, but is there a decent pub in Ballsbridge? So far fairly dreary spots. Waiting for wife and daughter to emerge from Craft Fair, 45 mins to go......

fleet_admiral

huberto wrote: »

Bit late to be asking, but is there a decent pub in Ballsbridge? So far fairly dreary spots. Waiting for wife and daughter to emerge from Craft Fair, 45 mins to go......

You arent far from Ryans in Beggars Bush - a great boozer

anncoates

huberto wrote: »

Bit late to be asking, but is there a decent pub in Ballsbridge? ..

Smyths on Haddington Road isn't far. Just down from Baggot Bridge.

Great boozer.

Duck's hoop

The One Doctor wrote: »

I got tired of Galway Hooker after a few bottles. Tastes oddly metallic.

It's rank.

Amirani

Searons on Baggot Street is reasonable, though it probably wont do much for your pint pricing problems

downonthefarm

Craft beer ****

delahuntv

In Cleveland Ohio I did not find a single bar that had a craft beer under $8+tax+tip.

Cleveland is no tourist or snobby zone!

After a fair bit of travel this year I found prices here quite reasonable.

Lapin

SIX PACK wrote: »

Government should lower the excise duty by €1 a pint €3.50 to €4 is enough to give. More people might have a drink in pub then Instead of buying at Off licence.

And put your username out of a job. :pac:

VinLieger

€3 pints in wetherspoons blackrock, I for one welcome our cheap new pub overlords and cant wait for the dun laoighaire location to open.
The vintners association have been ripping us off for far too long and they deserve a kick up the backside for it

TheSheriff

huberto wrote: »

Having a pint of Galway Hooker in Ballsbridge - 6 euro, no receipt. Is this normal?

I would have demanded a reciept.

Chances are it was ~5.60 or so and the guy/gal behind the bar just gave you back 4e.

Ive come across this in certain bars on camden street and have pulled them over it.

Better in my pocket than their till

Agricola

Enjoyed a pint of plain in the centre of Waterford today for the princely sum of €3.85. I feel like a robber next to you poor b@stards in Dublin!

az2wp0sye65487

Was out for dinner last weekend with the wife and another couple. We decided to try the new Dean Hotel on Harcourt Street for a pre-dinner drink. I went to the bar while they got a table...

The order was 2 cocktails and 2 brewdog 'Punk IPA' beers (2 × 330ml cans)....

I handed in a €50 note and was handed back €17 and some small change.

Feckin 32 blips for 4 drinks!!!!

El Weirdo

The One Doctor wrote: »

If Wetherspoons can cut their costs then so can the 'traditional' publicans.

Well this is complete bollocks.

It's like saying, "Well if Tesco can charge €1 for a loaf of bread, I can't see how Mrs Murphy in the corner shop is charging €1.90".

Son Of A Vidic

huberto wrote: »

Having a pint of Galway Hooker in Ballsbridge - 6 euro, no receipt. Is this normal?

Only if that pint came with a happy ending.

hatrickpatrick

Genuinely misread this as "price of a joint" upon first scrolling past. I think I have a problem

Geuze

SIX PACK wrote: »

Government should lower the excise duty by €1 a pint €3.50 to €4 is enough to give.

Excise duty is approx 50c per pint.

kenmc

mike_ie wrote: »

Galway Hooker is a craft beer now??

to be fair, it was the first Irish pale ale, and still damn tasty.

lost in cork

3.30 euro a pint down here in Balligeary ,West Cork long may it continue

Idbatterim

cant wait for spoons to have a good presence all around Dublin! Talking of beer, anyone else a fan of Hoegaarden? its delicious, Solas had it on tap the other night, or 4 bottles for E7.35 in tesco...

Warper

Wetherspoons are kinda soul less places though, too much food going on for a boozer imo. Grand for a pint and a scoff but i wouldnt go on the piss in Wetherspoons, cant beat a local boozer for that. Plus no sports

Tony EH

huberto wrote: »

Having a pint of Galway Hooker in Ballsbridge - 6 euro, no receipt. Is this normal?

€9.50 for a badly pulled "pint" of 1664 in Paris.

Top Trumps.

Idbatterim

Wetherspoons are kinda soul less places though, too much food going on for a boozer imo. Grand for a pint and a scoff but i wouldnt go on the piss in Wetherspoons, cant beat a local boozer for that. Plus no sports

extra competition is always good. I wouldnt go on the piss in it, but if I had one close to me, I would go out for 2 or 3 with the lads for a quiet few, I generally wont paying E5.50 in the locals where I live...

Ah yes, nothing like Ireland to get peopled all riled up and complaining about the price of a pint in between sessions of flooring about twelve of them.
Anyway, €1.65 for a pint in Cyprus last week.

Streetwalker

Vote with your wallet OP.

VinLieger

El Weirdo wrote: »

Well this is complete bollocks.

It's like saying, "Well if Tesco can charge €1 for a loaf of bread, I can't see how Mrs Murphy in the corner shop is charging €1.90".

Wetherspoons charge €3 for a pint of Heineken while any other pub you go to in Dublin will charge a flat €5 or more explain that when vinter's are blaming the tax on booze for the high prices how one pub can charge €2 difference on the same drink?

whiskeyman

Ronnie Grumpy Pedicure wrote: »

Was out for dinner last weekend with the wife and another couple. We decided to try the new Dean Hotel on Harcourt Street for a pre-dinner drink. I went to the bar while they got a table...

The order was 2 cocktails and 2 brewdog 'Punk IPA' beers (2 × 330ml cans)....

I handed in a €50 note and was handed back €17 and some small change.

Feckin 32 blips for 4 drinks!!!!

probably tenner a cocktail, and 6 quid for each of the cans.
sounds about right for a posh / 'boutique' hotel in the city centre.

El Weirdo

VinLieger wrote: »

Wetherspoons charge €3 for a pint of Heineken while any other pub you go to in Dublin will charge a flat €5 or more explain that when vinter's are blaming the tax on booze for the high prices how one pub can charge €2 difference on the same drink?

Wetherspoons are paying a lot less for that keg of Heineken than the traditional pubs.

That's why they don't do Guinness. Diagio refused to lower their keg price for them.

VinLieger

El Weirdo wrote: »

Wetherspoons are paying a lot less for that keg of Heineken than the traditional pubs.

That's why they don't do Guinness. Diagio refused to lower their keg price for them.

Well then the other pubs should apply for the same keg prices, and I know they don't do Diageo which to me is a bonus to drinking there as I think more places should be telling Diageo to go fvck themselves due to their ****ty business practices, forward the craft revolution I say.
Irish people need to start getting over the myth that Guinness can make or break a pub.