A cheap pint D15

RasTa

Weatherspoons...

vicwatson

It's pisswasser but it's a bargain. Nice one op !

Bret Hart

Nice one OP,perfect day too knock back a few nice cold lovely pints of Bud.

RasTa

Yeah I wouldn't drink it for 10c a pint but someone might enjoy one in the sun as the weekend starts. Don't expect it to last long

brightkane

Was same price may bank holiday weekend

T-Bird

brightkane wrote: »

Was same price may bank holiday weekend

(was the same drink but recycled)

rob316

Great price but I wouldn't drink it if it was free.

893bet

What's pretty funny really is that most of the people that say its is "piss" instead drink Heineken, Carlsberg, or other piss poor drafts that are typically available!.

I don't drink Bud by the way Guinness or cider!

vicwatson

893bet wrote: »

What's pretty funny really is that most of the people that say its is "piss" instead drink Heineken, Carlsberg, or other piss poor drafts that are typically available!.

I don't drink Bud by the way Guinness or cider!

Currently having crafty brewing Irish pale ale. Lovely

magentis

893bet wrote: »

What's pretty funny really is that most of the people that say its is "piss" instead drink Heineken, Carlsberg, or other piss poor drafts that are typically available!.

I don't drink Bud by the way Guinness or cider!

Ah shure don't ya know you are nothing these days if you are not drinking hipster craft beers.

rubadub

it could be 5% stuff as its spoons, they import some from the UK at different percentages. Their heineken is 5%.

Dunno what attracts all these Bear Grylls type people to these threads, I am guessing they are survivalists or something as many seem to have tasted piss at some time or another.

Quackster

rubadub wrote: »

it could be 5% stuff as its spoons, they import some from the UK at different percentages. Their heineken is 5%.

Dunno what attracts all these Bear Grylls type people to these threads, I am guessing they are survivalists or something as many seem to have tasted piss at some time or another.

Budweiser is 4.8% in the UK compared with 4.3% here but this is a remarkable price regardless of which version of Bud it is.

Now it's not a beer I'd normally part with a fiver in a pub for a pint of but at this price I wouldn't be turning my nose up at it, particularly in this weather!

strangel00p

All these pretentious beer snobs- get over yourselves. More money than sense, there's not much difference between a pint of bud and some trendy craft beer.

ThisRegard

You might need some new taste buds.

OldMrBrennan83

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strangel00p

ThisRegard wrote: »

You might need some new taste buds.

Not really, had a craft beer there recently - it genuinely tasted like dishwater. I form my own opinions and don't follow the crowd.

ThisRegard

strangel00p wrote: »

Not really, had a craft beer there recently - it genuinely tasted like dishwater. I form my own opinions and don't follow the crowd.

You'll be aware then that the term craft beer is a generic term and they don't taste alike. It's like saying you don't like alcohol because you don't like babycham.

I doubt it genuinely tasted like dishwater as it would be disturbing to know there's people out there that drink dishwater.

And you do follow the crowd, more people drink macro beer than they do craft.

Berty

I work for a small batch brewery and I'll say this:

Like it or love it a pint of Bud for €1.95 for the general consumer is incredible value.


Putting on my salesman hat:

It's hardly sustainable for the supplier. Someone is doing it for cost price and I'm sure its not Wehterspoons.

OldMrBrennan83

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MayoSalmon

magentis wrote:

Ah shure don't ya know you are nothing these days if you are not drinking hipster craft beers.

Hipster??? Ehh no how about not commericialed watered down taps of ****e..

GreatDefector

Jaysus lads

Do you like Budweiser. Yes? Do you like saving money. Yes? Go out and enjoy the sun and great value beer. €20 and you'll be truly steamed after 10 pints

Do you like Budweiser. No? .... OK, no problem. Go back to drinking your €6.50 pint bottle of bulmers or whatever else and carry on

It's a bargain, bud drinker or not, and competition that is oh so badly needed for us overcharged drinkers

Stop arguing and go on off and get a bit of sun out on the beer garden at your local

magentis

MayoSalmon wrote: »

Hipster??? Ehh no how about not commericialed watered down taps of ****e..

With spelling like that I think you have been on the beer already.

ThisRegard

Patww79 wrote: »

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Smiley face all you want, that's what it's called, you're just not aware of what it means, no harm. And I never insinuated anything is swill.

OldMrBrennan83

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ActingDanClark

And tomorrow you'll be older, Budweiser.

Berty

Although I like Craft Beer and I'm drinking an IPA right now.

My "go to" beer used to be Heineken when I couldn't get something "Craft" but now my "go to/default" beer might be Hop House 13.

It's amount of Hops is much lower than most other Craft beers but still it's got enough to satisfy my need for more flavour.

I noticed an Ad on TV for Smithwicks Blonde and they are now mentioning the types of Hops they have in their beer which IS important for people who like a point of difference between their beers.

BUT this thread is about Budweiser at €1.95 and I'll say it again It's Incredible Value for the Consumer. Lap it up, it's a beer made by excellent professionals and getting into your gob for very little money!!

vicwatson

Ok so here it goes, 1.95 for a pint of Budweiser is a bargain in a pub. I like craft but who gives a ****, this is a great bargain at 1.95. Take it or leave it. Simples.

Atlantic Dawn

vicwatson wrote: »

Ok so here it goes, 1.95 for a pint of Budweiser is a bargain in a pub. I like craft but who gives a ****, this is a great bargain at 1.95. Take it or leave it. Simples.

Exactly, sometimes Bud is better than some of this obscure "craft" beer sheite that you have to drink through a roast ducks foreskin to appreciate it as was intended by some up his own hole bellend who invented it. So far myself I have to say in general the craft stuff is very mixed, some places you go and the use is so low so it has been lying in the pipes for days or weeks it can taste similar to pure warmed up piss but if you don't smile and nod your taken as a complete outcast to recognising "quality" beer, man up and tell it as it is please.

endacl

Overpriced at €1.95, by €1.95. A crap product is a crap product. No matter the price.

dodzy

endacl wrote: »

Overpriced at €1.95, by €1.95. A crap product is a crap product. No matter the price.

It amazes me how many Bud haters feel compelled to throw their oar in every time the drink is mentioned. If you don't like it, just walk on by.

We get it.
You don't drink Bud.
Why don't you bugger off and annoy a craft beer thread.

Cheers Op, I'll be there later on to sample a few.

antodeco

Petrol in the station up the road from me €1.26 a litre! But it's horrible stuff. Horrible smell off it and makes the car run like a limp donkey. Diesel all the way for me! €1.26 is €1.26 too much for me. I'd never touch the stuff.

#uokhun?

mightybashful

antodeco wrote: »

Petrol in the station up the road from me €1.26 a litre! But it's horrible stuff. Horrible smell off it and makes the car run like a limp donkey. Diesel all the way for me! €1.26 is €1.26 too much for me. I'd never touch the stuff.

#uokhun?

What you on about?

Davy

Move on,,, enough said about piss water etc.

Refrain from posting in the thread unless something new regarding the bargain, thanks

RasTa

I was drinking Jaipur for €2.75 a pint last night and it was delicious. Check out the price of it in the off license https://www.obrienswine.ie/thornbridge-jaipur-50cl-bottle.html

mightybashful

RasTa wrote: »

I was drinking Jaipur for €2.75 a pint last night and it was delicious. Check out the price of it in the off license https://www.obrienswine.ie/thornbridge-jaipur-50cl-bottle.html

What pub were you getting that in?

A Neurotic

RasTa wrote: »

I was drinking Jaipur for €2.75 a pint last night and it was delicious. Check out the price of it in the off license https://www.obrienswine.ie/thornbridge-jaipur-50cl-bottle.html

Where!? Jaipur is f*cking delicious.

Sono

antodeco wrote: »

Petrol in the station up the road from me €1.26 a litre! But it's horrible stuff. Horrible smell off it and makes the car run like a limp donkey. Diesel all the way for me! €1.26 is €1.26 too much for me. I'd never touch the stuff.

#uokhun?

Thanks for sharing.

Great bargain cheers OP

RasTa

Same pub, guess it's in all the weatherspoons

OldMrBrennan83

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ROVER

Was in wetherspoons Blanch last night no Bud left. I bet there was only 1 keg on special. I am sick of getting my third choice of drink there. Shocking low stock levels.

mightybashful

RasTa wrote: »

Same pub, guess it's in all the weatherspoons

Arrrrrgh if only they put one in Naas..

dodzy

ROVER wrote: »

Was in wetherspoons Blanch last night no Bud left. I bet there was only 1 keg on special. I am sick of getting my third choice of drink there. Shocking low stock levels.

Yeah, I guessed that. At 1.95, it's a definite loss. They are paying more than that from the supplier.

antodeco

mightybashful wrote: »

What you on about?

Was just showing how pointless of an argument was going on!

Anyway,would love one out by me. €20 would get me and the missus scuttered!

rubadub

dodzy wrote: »

Yeah, I guessed that. At 1.95, it's a definite loss. They are paying more than that from the supplier.

Spoons appear to be secretive about their prices. Have you seen it stated somewhere?

They import it from the UK so would be paying those prices. The Aviva stadium did disclose prices they paid guinness before, guinness charged far less in the UK for their product so the Aviva threatened to reimport it.

It is quite feasible for beer to be supplied very cheaply, like I presume the likes of heineken and guinness do during the year when you see 1 euro cans in supermarkets.

Murt10

RasTa wrote: »

I was drinking Jaipur for €2.75 a pint last night and it was delicious. Check out the price of it in the off license https://www.obrienswine.ie/thornbridge-jaipur-50cl-bottle.html

I was drinking Jaipur in Spoons in Blanch over the weekend and it was E3.10 a pint 🺠there. Other beers and ales E2.75 a pint

VincePP

dodzy wrote: »

Yeah, I guessed that. At 1.95, it's a definite loss. They are paying more than that from the supplier.

Keg beer is about €1.50-€1.70 +vat a pint.

But obviously if you do volume you will get discount and rebates, so at €1.95 there's still a small gross profit, but when you apportion costs of operating a pub, its sold at a loss at that price.

OldMrBrennan83

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rubadub

VincePP wrote: »

Keg beer is about €1.50-€1.70 +vat a pint.

But obviously if you do volume you will get discount and rebates, so at €1.95 there's still a small gross profit, but when you apportion costs of operating a pub, its sold at a loss at that price.

Have you info on wetherspoons accounts? like the other poster I am guessing not.

They are importing it from the UK, it may be far cheaper wholesale over there, especially to them. As budweiser is often available at 1 euro a can it would not be too strange to think that the brewery might offer it at a knock down price to a pub like they obviously do to supermarkets. I have heard of spoons getting short dated beer cheaper, but don't recall ever seeing actual prices.

Its amusing to see publicans moan about below cost selling in the off trade with no proof, as though everyone is paying the same, sadly some publicans and barmen really are that fcuking stupid, but most are trying to make a idiot out of the public.

this was regarding the aviva, in the sunday business post.

Diageo has agreed to slash the price of Guinness to the company which runs the bars in Dublin’s new Aviva Stadium at Lansdowne Road, after the company threatened to import supplies from Britain.

Irish publicans pay €131.66 for a 50-litre keg of Guinness. The ex-duty price of the same keg to the on-trade in Britain is half that, at £54.15 (€66). Even after payment of Irish duty, the cost of importing Guinness to Ireland would be only €99.33 per keg, a saving of 33 per cent.

Tazz T

'Importing' Guinness to Ireland is cheaper than buying it here. Says it all really!

RichardoKhan

Seen Baileys often at half to a third of the price it is here at US airports & others. Its just seems to be the nature of things here. If in doubt. GOUGE...........