Pub related question

Johnstoeness

I've to go to a pub tomorrow night. I don't drink and don't spend much time in pubs at all.

Can I buy a glass of sparkling water in a normal irish pub?

If not, what non-alcoholic beverage can I buy?

Thanks for the help!

CassieManson

Yes you can buy sparkling water or any soft drink eg coke 7up etc. Some pubs also sell coffee.

Enjoy!

Barry Badrinath

You have to bring your own non alcoholic stuff.

Pubs only sell alcohol.

WHIP IT!

Johnstoeness wrote: »

I've to go to a pub tomorrow night. I don't drink and don't spend much time in pubs at all.

Can I buy a glass of sparkling water in a normal irish pub?

If not, what non-alcoholic beverage can I buy?

Thanks for the help!

Yes, of course you can.

You can also buy teas, coffee, all kinds of soft drinks, diluted orange/juice drinks and non-alcoholic beer if you like...

Franz Von Peppercorn

Johnstoeness wrote: »

I've to go to a pub tomorrow night. I don't drink and don't spend much time in pubs at all.

Can I buy a glass of sparkling water in a normal irish pub?

If not, what non-alcoholic beverage can I buy?

Thanks for the help!

Yes. They are extortionate though. There are plenty of other soft options - like coke etc. Also expensive and you get a tiny amount, a can or one of those old style bottles that don’t seem to on sale in shops.

Sometimes there is a fountain, but that’s rare.

OldMrBrennan83

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Johnstoeness

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Yeah, I'll be in the sticks haha! I don't want to appear as if I'm to cheap to pay for a drink so I'll probably just buy a sparkling water.

Thank you all for your help though

ironwalk

Wednesday night after Easter....no-one will bat an eyelid at you buying a coke/sparklng water/ pint of plain water with a dash of lemon etc

Mint Sauce

CassieManson wrote: »

Yes you can buy sparkling water or any soft drink eg coke 7up etc. Some pubs also sell coffee.

Enjoy!

None of them cheap, around €2.50 for a 250ml. Do pubs still do designated driver schemes or insentives, where none alcoholic drinks (coke/7up) are cheaper or free, might be worth looking into OP. Cordials can range from free if you or any of the group are regulars, to a couple of euro as well.

Hammer89

Johnstoeness wrote: »

I've to go to a pub tomorrow night. I don't drink and don't spend much time in pubs at all.

Can I buy a glass of sparkling water in a normal irish pub?

If not, what non-alcoholic beverage can I buy?

Thanks for the help!

You can buy a glass of water but you'll have to bring your own cylinder of bicarbonate to make it sparkle.

I go to BYOF (Bring your own fizz) parties and we test out each other's fizz on different waters. It's great fun actually. Well, until someone adds a bit of fizz to an already-sparkling water that is. We still miss Simon every day but his end is just the example of how these things can go awry.

garbo speaks

Yes, you can buy a glass of sparkling water, but be prepared for the bartender to spit in your face- this is Ireland.

munster87

Hammer89 wrote: »

You can buy a glass of water but you'll have to bring your own cylinder of bicarbonate to make it sparkle.

I go to BYOF (Bring your own fizz) parties and we test out each other's fizz on different waters. It's great fun actually. Well, until someone adds a bit of fizz to an already-sparkling water that is. We still miss Simon every day but his end is just the example of how these things can go awry.

Gas

Johnstoeness

garbo speaks wrote: »

Yes, you can buy a glass of sparkling water, but be prepared for the bartender to spit in your face- this is Ireland.

Being an Irishman myself, I'm well aware of the culture. Don't worry I've encountered in before. The good ol' "I'm a recovering alcoholic" lie usually does the trick".

Mint Sauce

Unless the pub has bars on the window, or is in some well hard estate, I think you can ignore some of the getting laughed/spat at, or risk of getting glassed comments OP.

odyssey06

I suggest Schweppes Ginger Ale if you get tried of sparkling water ... more for sipping than something like Coke.

Mrs OBumble

Mint Sauce wrote: »

None of them cheap, around €2.50 for a 250ml. .

I regarded it as 50c for the drink plus ice, slice of lemon or lime and €2 for the use of the glass and premises for an hour or two.

Looked at that way it's not so bad.

Brendan Bendar

You obviously are not too familiar with Irish pubs.

The main m.o. is to open your throat and gannet down as much dhhrink as possible in the shortest possible time, to keep pace with a barrel chested keg bellied individual who 'necks' pint after pint as if he was pouring it down an open dhrain, aided and abetted by the Publicans who frown on single orders and encourage the round system .





Enjoy

OldMrBrennan83

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saintsaltynuts

Erdinger Non-Alcoholic is nice.

Scraggs

Don't bother asking for 7up they'll only have Sprite.

Arghus

Don't listen to these words of encouragement OP. These people are all obviously hardened drinkers who love nothing more than tricking unsuspecting non-drinkers into ordering non-alcoholic beverages in a bar and then all ganging up on the poor ejit and beating seven bells out of them; with the coup de grace usually being a pint of Guinness forcibly administered that you'll have no choice but to stomach, along with your own teeth as an appetiser.

Be very, very careful.

Spanish Eyes

My favourite non alcohol drink is a Schwepps Tonic with tons of ice and a slice. Gorgeous and not too sweet.

Brendan Bendar

Patww79 wrote: »

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Don't quite know what your point is, poster.

Maybe you could tell us?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Johnstoeness wrote: »

Being an Irishman myself, I'm well aware of the culture. Don't worry I've encountered in before. The good ol' "I'm a recovering alcoholic" lie usually does the trick".

They're allegedly making more money off the soft drinks than the alcohol, but yeah - I seriously doubt you'll be the only non-drinker in the bar and you defintiely won't be the first non-drinker they've served that day.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

You obviously are not too familiar with Irish pubs.

The main m.o. is to open your throat and gannet down as much dhhrink as possible in the shortest possible time, to keep pace with a barrel chested keg bellied individual who 'necks' pint after pint as if he was pouring it down an open dhrain, aided and abetted by the Publicans who frown on single orders and encourage the round system .





Enjoy

There IS an opt-out option, ya know?

Brendan Bendar

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

There IS an opt-out option, ya know?

There is P, relax at home with a few cans.

JohnnyFlash

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

You obviously are not too familiar with Irish pubs.

The main m.o. is to open your throat and gannet down as much dhhrink as possible in the shortest possible time, to keep pace with a barrel chested keg bellied individual who 'necks' pint after pint as if he was pouring it down an open dhrain, aided and abetted by the Publicans who frown on single orders and encourage the round system .





Enjoy

Love a good night in the pub skulling back the pints like I was dying of the thirst. Afraid to say i’m Some man for talking shïte as well after about 4 or 5 pints. Had a gallon and a half of porter last Sunday night after the Dublin Galway game. Wojus bang off my farts the next morning.

Might tip away at 8 cans of an evening if I wasn’t heading out, but don’t get the same buzz off it at all. Might be cause there’s no women’s arses around to admire as they pass to go into the shïtters.

Brendan Bendar

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Love a good night in the pub skulling back the pints like I was dying of the thirst. Afraid to say i’m Some man for talking shïte as well after about 4 or 5 pints. Had a gallon and a half of porter last Sunday night after the Dublin Galway game. Wojus bang off my farts the next morning.

Might tip away at 8 cans of an evening if I wasn’t heading out, but don’t get the same buzz off it at all. Might be cause there’s no women’s arses around to admire as they pass to go into the shïtters.

So do I John, as it turns out.

However I do not like being press ganged into sessions I don't want to get involved in.
Everything about the Irish attitude is wrong, we need to look towards the Continental attitude, plenty of drink but over time and with food.

Not ganneting down the stuff and pissing like a cart horse for the night.

The sight of a few middle aged bewers with arses like an airport push-back tractor and thighs like mature oaks wouldn't be the clincher for Bren,but have to say with a cargo on board and a bit of 'wood in the nethers' could bring the bulb to one or two of them.

suicide_circus

If I was on the dry in a pub it would be tonic water or just sparkling. But that has never happened.

JohnnyFlash

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

So do I John, as it turns out.

However I do not like being press ganged into sessions I don't want to get involved in.
Everything about the Irish attitude is wrong, we need to look towards the Continental attitude, plenty of drink but over time and with food.

Not ganneting down the stuff and pissing like a cart horse for the night.

Have to disagree. Love hoovering back the porter like their about to stop selling it. Might have an auld carvery before I start, but don’t want to be sitting around like some Italian mincer sipping wine and picking at olives. Put the arse up on a barstool, order the first pint, and get stuck in to some serious swift drinking. Then into supermacs afterwards for a snack box, before getting a taxi home with some prick of a driver telling you about what’s wrong with the country. Then into bed and see if the missus will let you give her a quick rattle.

A great Irish night out.

Brendan Bendar

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Have to disagree. Love hoovering back the porter like their about to stop selling it. Might have an auld carvery before I start, but don’t want to be sitting around like some Italian mincer sipping wine and picking at olives. Put the arse up on a barstool, order the first pint, and get stuck in to some serious swift drinking. Then into supermacs afterwards for a snack box, before getting a taxi home with some prick of a driver telling you about what’s wrong with the country. Then into bed and see if the missus will let you give her a quick rattle.

A great Irish night out.

You forgot the main event John, piss the bed and have to move to the box room.

Next day the mattress up agin the rad and the waft of stale piss and porther staggering the poor cat.

No John, not for this poster, no quart milk carton under the bed'just in case' no head like a 'stone pot' in the morning, no bang of of ripe kebab from the netty, no lonely set of skids well bronzed abandoned on the landing,and best of all a 'few peaund' still in the wallirt .

OldMrBrennan83

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JohnnyFlash

Patww79 wrote: »

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What about a restaurant, Pat?

OldMrBrennan83

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Beechwoodspark

Johnstoeness wrote: »

I've to go to a pub tomorrow night. I don't drink and don't spend much time in pubs at all.

Can I buy a glass of sparkling water in a normal irish pub?

If not, what non-alcoholic beverage can I buy?

Thanks for the help!

You can buy sparkling water, tonic water or even ask for tap water with ice in 99% of Irish pubs

AllForIt

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

You can buy sparkling water, tonic water or even ask for tap water with ice in 99% of Irish pubs

Yeah but the only reason they stock them is cause they're meant to be used as mixers. I mean like, in a Cafe you could theoretically buy a cup of cream but they only really stock it to be put in the coffee. Not trying to make the OP feeling awkward or anythin.

corner of hells

Ask for a pint of Andrews Liver Salts .

Going to pubs and their blaring tvs is so last century.

Chancer3001

Just takes lines of coke off the toilet roll holder.

Or your phone if youve skill.

No drink needed

elperello

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/agribusiness-and-food/heineken-rolls-out-non-alcoholic-lager-in-irish-market-1.3442393

You could try a bottle of this.

somefeen

Ah shur you'll have the wan won't ya

Itssoeasy

I go to a pub to talk to the people I know there. This carry on of having six tvs on and the jukebox blaring never makes any sense to me. I'm probably imune to it now though as it has been seven years in my local.