At what price point do you stop going to Dublin pubs?

Strumms · 01-07-2019 10:49PM

If a beer is anymore then 5.50 maxxxx then fuçk off no, that be lager too. I just wouldn’t subject friends and relatives to any more of a rip off. 22 quid for 4 pints of liquid, MAX I’m spending and that’s using an example allowing for city prices.

01-07-2019 10:56PM

what dyou drink, ten pints a night when you're out?

tenner difference between 5.50 and 6.50 a pint at that, over say seven hours drinking. 1.40 an hour.

small change. life is short lads.

Richard Hillman · 01-07-2019 11:12PM

The only times I go to a pub nowadays is when there is a match on late and I'm finished work late, so I'll have 1 pint and watch a second half.

That and work leaving parties, we have a lot of them.

I can get 4 cans for €5, instead of having 1 pint. It will last me the night instead of 30-40 minutes.

Atoms for Peace · 01-07-2019 11:15PM

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

People will keep paying. If a pint was 100 euro they would keep paying.

No they wouldn't, they'd drink ethanol like our comrades in the east.

Geuze · 02-07-2019 11:02AM

4.10 or 4.20 in the Lark Inn, Meath street, earlier in 2019.

There is value out there.

Glimmerman on Stoneybatter also a good pub.

purplepanda · 02-07-2019 06:20PM

£3.80 Carlsberg / Carling, Amstel £4 in the Gooner Valley local, but cheaper spit & sawdust pubs are £2.90 a pint, Weatherspoons is also cheaper but no atmosphere in there!:eek:

Go down Camden its £4.90/5.40 plus, West End / City crazy £6-7plus unless you go Sam Smiths / Weatherspoons pubs.

redarmyblues · 02-07-2019 07:27PM

I was in City centre pubs for the first time in a while last month, I was shocked by the 7e prices.

imme · 02-07-2019 08:03PM

PhuckHugh22 wrote: »

Id rather drink at home than Witherspoons. Its an absolute sh*thole with absolutely zero atmosphere.

Find an area and bring your own atmosphere at those prices.

imme · 02-07-2019 08:05PM

€7.60 in the Norseman, temple bar, I'm still affected by it.

Robbin baxstards

Strumms · 02-07-2019 08:12PM

redarmyblues wrote: »

I was in City centre pubs for the first time in a while last month, I was shocked by the 7e prices.

Yeah, that’s shocking.

If there are 300 people in through a pub say on average a day. Say an average of four pints per customer... that equates to 9000 euros takings per day. At the above prices that’s 3,276000 revenue per annum on average and that’s me being conservative it could be more.

Andrew00 · 02-07-2019 08:15PM

Few pints a Tuborg at 3.50 a pint in Galway

TheChosenOne_ · 02-07-2019 08:25PM

imme wrote: »

Find an area and bring your own atmosphere at those prices.

Have actually never been to any of the Weatherspoons in Ireland yet. What are the prices like for drinks? Is it much cheaper?

imme · 02-07-2019 08:34PM

TheChosenOne_ wrote: »

Have actually never been to any of the Weatherspoons in Ireland yet. What are the prices like for drinks? Is it much cheaper?

Shipyard pale ale €2.50

Staropramen €2.95

That is their blanchardstown place as from Zomato.
City centre prices will undoubtedly vary.

utyh2ikcq9z76b · 02-07-2019 08:54PM

TheChosenOne_ wrote: »

Have actually never been to any of the Weatherspoons in Ireland yet. What are the prices like for drinks? Is it much cheaper?

The ones in Ireland are excellent!

Tony EH · 02-07-2019 09:08PM

Drew Vast Right-hand wrote: »

The ones in Ireland are excellent!

Do they sell Guinness?

irish_goat · 02-07-2019 09:15PM

€4.50 for pint of the day in Porterhouse. Can't complain about that.

Odyssey 2005 · 02-07-2019 09:22PM

Richard Hillman wrote: »

The only times I go to a pub nowadays is when there is a match on late and I'm finished work late, so I'll have 1 pint and watch a second half.

That and work leaving parties, we have a lot of them.

I can get 4 cans for €5, instead of having 1 pint. It will last me the night instead of 30-40 minutes.

30 -40 minutes to drink a pint !!!. You should start drinking something you like

YFlyer · 02-07-2019 10:42PM

Strumms wrote: »

Yeah, that’s shocking.

If there are 300 people in through a pub say on average a day. Say an average of four pints per customer... that equates to 9000 euros takings per day. At the above prices that’s 3,276000 revenue per annum on average and that’s me being conservative it could be more.

Would there be many bars with those numbers all year round, six to seven days a week?

Outlaw Pete · 02-07-2019 10:54PM

Tell me how wrote: »

It's not a 'place for a pint' as such but, €6.50 for less than 500ml in 3 Arena is taking the proverbial.

Tastes rank that one pour stuff.

Paid €6.50 for a pint of Guinness in Toddy's recently. Horrible it was, watery and the head disappeared faster than an '99 in fat kid's hand.

Odyssey 2005 · 03-07-2019 02:15AM

I'll just leave this here. !!

https://meanwhileinireland.com/temple-bar-pub-claims-e18-pint-of-guinness-is-best-in-town-and-well-worth-the-price/#

Larbre34 · 03-07-2019 03:14AM

Tony EH wrote: »

Do they sell Guinness?

No, quite famously, they don't. But that's fine, other stouts are available and half the fun is checking out their beer menu.

Two things about Wetherspoons though, they have somehow managed to engineer in soullessness, which is fine if you like that airport bar style atmosphere. Also they are owned by Tim Martin, a mercenary b@stard, pro-brexit blowhard and by many accounts a dreadful employer.

So, I'd much rather give over 5.20 or whatever for a pint of plain in a solid family run house off the beaten track in Dublin than 3 quid to the spoonies.

As for Temple Bar prices, any Irishman who ventures in there knows exactly what they're going to get and unless they've brought the vaseline, deserves it.

lipso tokko · 03-07-2019 03:25AM

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

I'll just leave this here. !!

The Auld Oscar Wilde is not a typical local Dublin pub — in fact, you’d be hard pushed to find a typical Dub within five miles of it

Fan of Netflix · 03-07-2019 09:59AM

Cina wrote: »

Dublin was great craic during the recession. Prices were decent, the pubs that were still open were generally good spots, and there were plenty of great deals (especially for students) like €2 drinks on certain nights, in most spots.

Now I just find it's all gotten a bit.. stuck up its hole. Loads of those great pubs have jumped on the craft beer bandwagon and everywhere is just trying to look like P-Macs. Any decent spot is totally jammed and about 6 quid for a Guinness. It's not really worth it anymore.

I've almost lost count of the amount of nice pubs I've gone into that they decide to "renovate" i.e. make darker, add weird furniture, stick in some 7 quid random craft beer and a few board games and suddenly it becomes wedged and devoid of the character it used to have. A shame.

Agreed hate all those hipster **** pubs springing up all over Dublin. Very pretentious.

Fan of Netflix · 03-07-2019 10:03AM

I think you just need to find out the pubs with decent prices and head there. Random pub crawls are very expensive. As for Temple Bar well we all know it's a tourist robbing place. Can always pop in for 1 pint though if you want.

Anything over a 5er for Guinness is like being mugged on the street.

Tony EH · 03-07-2019 01:15PM

Larbre34 wrote: »

No, quite famously, they don't. But that's fine, other stouts are available and half the fun is checking out their beer menu.

Two things about Wetherspoons though, they have somehow managed to engineer in soullessness, which is fine if you like that airport bar style atmosphere. Also they are owned by Tim Martin, a mercenary b@stard, pro-brexit blowhard and by many accounts a dreadful employer.

So, I'd much rather give over 5.20 or whatever for a pint of plain in a solid family run house off the beaten track in Dublin than 3 quid to the spoonies.

As for Temple Bar prices, any Irishman who ventures in there knows exactly what they're going to get and unless they've brought the vaseline, deserves it.

That's me out then.

I've never tasted a stout that I've liked other than Guinness. That Plain stuff in the Porterhouse is disgusting. I couldn't drink a half, never mind a session's worth. The Oyster stuff isn't much better. Beamish is awful. Murphy's is rank.

As for Tim Martin, yeh I've heard he's a right cock. But, TBH, it's my wallet I'm thinking of and if I'm going to be ripped off for a pint of liquid nearly everywhere in town, it doesn't make me think much of other publicans either.

Drank in the Temple Bar once, cos a Spanish friend wanted to. This was years ago and even then it was a load of bollocks. We had one pint and I asked are you done? She said yes...

...and sorry.

irish_goat · 03-07-2019 01:54PM

Tony EH wrote: »

That's me out then.

I've never tasted a stout that I've liked other than Guinness. That Plain stuff in the Porterhouse is disgusting. I couldn't drink a half, never mind a session's worth. The Oyster stuff isn't much better. Beamish is awful. Murphy's is rank.

The issue here seems to be that you do not actually like stout.

Fan of Netflix · 03-07-2019 02:01PM

Tony EH wrote: »

That's me out then.

I've never tasted a stout that I've liked other than Guinness. That Plain stuff in the Porterhouse is disgusting. I couldn't drink a half, never mind a session's worth. The Oyster stuff isn't much better. Beamish is awful. Murphy's is rank.

As for Tim Martin, yeh I've heard he's a right cock. But, TBH, it's my wallet I'm thinking of and if I'm going to be ripped off for a pint of liquid nearly everywhere in town, it doesn't make me think much of other publicans either.

Drank in the Temple Bar once, cos a Spanish friend wanted to. This was years ago and even then it was a load of bollocks. We had one pint and I asked are you done? She said yes...

...and sorry.

Beamish tastes nice when its €2.95 a pint that I can assure you. As a Guinness man I usually stick with it in Wetherspoons or maybe Fosters or some lager.

andekwarhola · 03-07-2019 02:39PM

Cina wrote: »

Now I just find it's all gotten a bit.. stuck up its hole. Loads of those great pubs have jumped on the craft beer bandwagon and everywhere is just trying to look like P-Macs. Any decent spot is totally jammed and about 6 quid for a Guinness. It's not really worth it anymore.

I've almost lost count of the amount of nice pubs I've gone into that they decide to "renovate" i.e. make darker, add weird furniture, stick in some 7 quid random craft beer and a few board games and suddenly it becomes wedged and devoid of the character it used to have. A shame.

As somebody that's been going to Dublin pubs for quite a while, I like the increased choice of places. For all the brouhaha about new pubs, they'll never completely replace the traditional pubs.

Although the prices are outrageous, at least you're getting OK food, a bigger and local beer choice and surroundings, you could argue that it's precisely the uncritical defence of dysentery jacks, stale cheese sambos and being overcharged for the same 3 beer choices that has meant Dublin pub goers have been royally shafted for years.

Tony EH · 03-07-2019 04:28PM

irish_goat wrote: »

The issue here seems to be that you do not actually like stout.

Well, I never said did in fairness.

Tony EH · 03-07-2019 04:32PM

Fan of Netflix wrote: »

Beamish tastes nice when its €2.95 a pint that I can assure you. As a Guinness man I usually stick with it in Wetherspoons or maybe Fosters or some lager.

Never been able to stomach it myself, so it could cost 50p and I'd still struggle to down a pint of it.

If Wetherspoons has normal lagers, I might give it a go. It just looks like a really uncomfortable place. All high chairs and tables and whatnot. Not a place for a proper session.

At what price point do you stop going to Dublin pubs?

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