How common has home drinking become?

Nigel Fairservice · 22-12-2019 04:01PM

I'm not really a big drinker at all and when I do it's when I'm out and more of a social thing. I'd only have a drink at home on the odd occasion, might have one or two at home over Christmas.

Strumms · 24-12-2019 04:19PM

Not a very up to date article but relevant never the less...

98% markups on pints of lager.

400% markup on soft drinks.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/publicans-make-400-mark-up-on-minerals-269204.html

buried · 24-12-2019 04:27PM

Wait for it everybody, pretty soon the Vintners will try to lobby for a "minding your own business in your own gaff tax" once they realise the vast majority wont come running back every night to their gaffs and business

elperello · 24-12-2019 05:20PM

buried wrote: »

Wait for it everybody, pretty soon the Vintners will try to lobby for a "minding your own business in your own gaff tax" once they realise the vast majority wont come running back every night to their gaffs and business

I can't see MUP being the game changer some publicans think it will.

Most people have a set amount to spend on extras like drink.

At the moment with special offers they can enjoy a certain number of drinks at home and go to the pub occasionally

If they have to pay more for the drink at home they will have less in the kitty for going to the pub.

Will they accept drinking less at home to go out to the pub where drink will still be more expensive?

24-12-2019 05:42PM

The Hat Man wrote: »

Got put off the road recently for drink driving (cheers ross ya prick) so it's home drinking for me for the forseeable future.

Thought I'd hate it but I'm really enjoying it. A six pack most week nights and then up that to 10-12 with spirits on weekend night. Chill out and listen to music, watch a movie, hang out online etc. Can't beat it. Only thing missing is some female company.

Thought I'd miss the pub like mad but honestly, it's the same old dickheads talking the same ****e every night.

I think you’d want to look closer to home for the prick, Shane Ross didn’t pour it down your neck or throw you behind the wheel.

IAMAMORON · 24-12-2019 05:53PM

The Hat Man wrote: »

Got put off the road recently for drink driving (cheers ross ya prick) so it's home drinking for me for the forseeable future.

Thought I'd hate it but I'm really enjoying it. A six pack most week nights and then up that to 10-12 with spirits on weekend night. Chill out and listen to music, watch a movie, hang out online etc. Can't beat it. Only thing missing is some female company.

Thought I'd miss the pub like mad but honestly, it's the same old dickheads talking the same ****e every night.

The Hat Man wrote: »

Away ta fcuk. A few pints and I'm fine to do the short run home. Most men are.

Waste of police resources, its punishing rural Ireland.

You couldn't make it up.

Very sad.

Ipso · 24-12-2019 06:08PM

IAMAMORON wrote: »

You couldn't make it up.

Very sad.

Apart from the new account that is.

Ash.J.Williams · 24-12-2019 06:10PM

KM792 wrote: »

I think it's become hugely popular,to the point where addiction centres are now treating people who are exclusively home alcoholics and never ventured into a pub.
Popular with women too as they feel less judged drinking behind closed doors.

Drink is the least of out problems. Home delivery cocaine is where it’s at now ðŸ˜‚

IAMAMORON · 24-12-2019 06:14PM

Ipso wrote: »

Apart from the new account that is.

I would say they are gutted for him down the pub, they must be missing him something terrible.:p

Sam Quentin · 24-12-2019 06:18PM

I love listening to the deniers:: ohhh I just have a wee glass of wine with my dinner each evening blah blah blah.....
You failed to mention the glass when you come in from work,the glass while preparing dinner,the glass after dinner, the glass while settling in for the night glued to the box..and then the gass blefore bledtwime itsl helpin me sleeps hiccup hiccup

elperello · 24-12-2019 06:21PM

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Drink is the least of out problems. Home delivery cocaine is where it’s at now &#55357;&#56834;

On the app and one of our fulfillment partners (15 year old kid on stunt BMX)
will be with you shortly.

eoins23456 · 24-12-2019 06:25PM

punisher5112 wrote: »

Whetherspoons I thought would change things but not really yet and even with their low prices they're even laughing all the way to the bank.

Us Irish are been taken for mugs and here we have our guberment bringing in minimum pricing without most knowing about it.

weatherspoons can pretty grim with no music or sports in the background and can be bleak enough if there isnlt a decent crowd.you get what you pay for i suppose

IAMAMORON · 24-12-2019 06:45PM

The Hat Man wrote: »

Ha! They probably do in a weird way. I've fallen out with almost all of them one time or another but I still think of them as pals.

I think your a troll, Happy Christmas. Have a good one.

Be nice to the people down in your local and please try to be nice to yourself, Christmas is a time for truth.

Ipso · 24-12-2019 06:46PM

IAMAMORON wrote: »

I would say they are gutted for him down the pub, they must be missing him something terrible.:p

One less person to tell everyone about how much he drank that one time, again.
I wonder what kind of conversations would go on with some of these types if they didn't talk about alcohol.

Stewball · 24-12-2019 06:59PM

Never got into home drinking myself.

The main appeal of alcohol for me is the social aspect.
What's the point in drinking at home? It's boring AF!

Find a good local(s) and have the craic with friends, neighbours & strangers.

eviltwin · 24-12-2019 07:04PM

I usually only drink at home. I don't do pubs but I love clubbing and we usually do that until the wee hours so after a glass of wine I stick to water. I'm sitting at home with a beer as I type waiting for my husband and daughter to get home. It's just me, my beer and a book. Heaven

Stewball · 24-12-2019 07:10PM

eviltwin wrote: »

I'm sitting at home with a beer as I type waiting for my husband and daughter to get home. It's just me, my beer and a book. Heaven

I'd be just as happy with a nice cup of tea in that situation.

eviltwin · 24-12-2019 07:28PM

Stewball wrote: »

I'd be just as happy with a nice cup of tea in that situation.

I like tea too but it's a rare occasion I get to be completely alone and I don't like drinking around my kids so I'm going to enjoy my beer.

smelly sock · 24-12-2019 07:29PM

Whats wrong with having a few drinks or the odd dinner party with your kids around?

eviltwin · 24-12-2019 07:32PM

smelly sock wrote: »

Whats wrong with having a few drinks or the odd dinner party with your kids around?

Nothing but I can't enjoy anything with my kids around because someone always interrupts me. I refuse to have the rare beer I have disrupted by someone needing something. Let me enjoy it in peace.

elperello · 24-12-2019 07:35PM

smelly sock wrote: »

Whats wrong with having a few drinks or the odd dinner party with your kids around?

Nothing shows children the right way to drink better than to see adults they know and trust enjoying a drink without excess.

The opposite side to this is of course is it's not a good idea to overindulge in front of your kids.

Ipso · 24-12-2019 07:36PM

elperello wrote: »

Nothing shows children the right way to drink better than to see adults they know and trust enjoying a drink without excess.

The opposite side to this is of course is it's not a good idea to overindulge in front of your kids.

If your kids drive you to drink, you should shout at them that they make you drink. They have to learn personal responsibility young.

andekwarhola · 24-12-2019 07:47PM

Is it possible to have thread about alcohol on boards with the chorus of sanctimony eventually reaching a crescendo?

elperello · 24-12-2019 07:51PM

Ipso wrote: »

If your ids drive you to drink, you should shout at them that they make you drink. They have to learn personal responsibility young.

You should of course make sure they have a driving licence

smelly sock · 24-12-2019 08:04PM

eviltwin wrote: »

Nothing but I can't enjoy anything with my kids around because someone always interrupts me. I refuse to have the rare beer I have disrupted by someone needing something. Let me enjoy it in peace.

Fair enough. I get that.

odyssey06 · 24-12-2019 08:25PM

Tonight I am enjoying a wine that costs €20 in an off licence and will end the night with a whiskey that costs €50 in an offie.
If I went out, I would not be able to afford the price that a pub \ restaurant would charge for same product.
Ditto for the food that went with it.
Nothing remotely common about the drinks I will be having, not that there is anything wrong with partaking of a popular pleasure, at home or out and about. But too many publicans are crap at business, seem to think they are a branch of the civil service and their only answer to everything is price increase. I don't mind paying a premium for a premium product but a standing room only pub with crap toilets and crap music so loud conversation is impossible is not a premium product as far as I'm concerned.

And for what it's worth, the times I have been most drunk is not at home but in the pub!

smelly sock · 24-12-2019 08:31PM

odyssey06 wrote: »

Tonight I am enjoying a wine that costs €20 in an off licence and will end the night with a whiskey that costs €50 in an offie.
If I went out, I would not be able to afford the price that a pub \ restaurant would charge for same product.
Ditto for the food that went with it.
Nothing remotely common about the drinks I will be having, not that there is anything wrong with partaking of a popular pleasure, at home or out and about. But too many publicans are crap at business, seem to think they are a branch of the civil service and their only answer to everything is price increase. I don't mind paying a premium for a premium product but a standing room only pub with crap toilets and crap music so loud conversation is impossible is not a premium product as far as I'm concerned.

And for what it's worth, the times I have been most drunk is not at home but in the pub!

To each their own.

odyssey06 · 24-12-2019 08:32PM

It's also largely a demographic thing.
If you have large cohort of single people in their early 20s, they are gonna gravitate to the pub.
If you have large bunch of paired off couples they're going to have cosy evenings at home with a bottle of supermarket wine.

Strumms · 26-12-2019 01:59AM

odyssey06 wrote: »

. But too many publicans are crap at business, seem to think they are a branch of the civil service and their only answer to everything is price increase. I don't mind paying a premium for a premium product but a standing room only pub with crap toilets and crap music so loud conversation is impossible is not a premium product as far as I'm concerned!

I just decided to have a look at the website for both my local pubs, both nice, well run, efficient and friendly places (in the main)...owned by two different crews.

They both have on their menus prices on their sites for...

- food

- wine

- cocktails

- shorts (on one)

but neither have a listing for the price of any sort of pint...I kinda find this very weird as pints are the staple product of a pub... I find this a little disingenuous... I’ve as I’m typing thrown two other pub into google and click on their sites, in and around the same area all be it out towards Clontarf / Howth.... same deal.

Why the fûck would a business not list their main products and source of income on their sites ?

Be like a Nissan dealership having the price of a service, a tyre change, replacement windscreen but not the price of a car. Odd.

How common has home drinking become?

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