Minimum alcohol pricing is nigh

I 100% agree with this,I've made every same point throughout this thread.

I think there is near full agreement across boards,that's rarely seen.

I'm a moderate drinker at home and my 5 bottles a week of IPA a week will now cost me a whopping €520 a year extra.Thats not even including the Mrs who doesn't drink much but would have a bottle of wine maybe twice a month so that's my small household of light to moderate drinkers getting absolutely ripped off.(Bare in mind that's from a base point of one of the most expensive countries in Europe for booze to begin with)

What really worries me is this.....if they were dumb enough to bring this in based off some questionable info and lobbying from not particularly balanced or reasonable groups like AAI then what's next?

Possibly,the cycle of outrage and move on is the normal now,people forget and move on.

However,it'll be hard to forget this as every fri night after a hard week at work it'll be staring me in the face when I pop into the offie or Lidl on my way home.I imagine I'm not alone in that.

At the risk of repeating myself,it's often the small things that break the camels back.

Don't drink much myself anymore but might have a few cans on a friday and Saturday evening, and you get to enjoy them better than if you are sipping cans all week, personally I think the big slabs were a bit too cheap like 24 cans for 15 or 20 quid, maybe a euro a can minimum would have been fine, but what they have done now with being 2 euro a can is ridiculous. Hit the poor and working man or woman again is shocking to say the least,nanny state, you be a good boy now go to work, pay your taxes, dont drink too much so you will be able to keep working and keep paying your taxes until you drop dead,like who the **** wants to live for ever.

Say you were going to spend £300. That would cost you about €362.50 at the current exchange rate. I bought £300 for €330 when it was a good rate, maybe two years ago. The exchange rate is a big consideration.

There is no base price for wine, only the price the shop is prepared to sell it at, once that is not lower than the new legal minimum. A bottle of wine over €10 should not see any increase. Unless the shop decides to make it more expensive. Possibly as was suggested before in the thread, to keep a differential from the cheap stuff. But nothing to do with the legislation.

Look out for increases in drink prices in the North as well. Not to do with our new policy, just a general rise possible.

It's a sign we don't have enough bottle banks. In Nice there's one in every estate... it's as far as the winos can walk without needing another €2 bottle of wine maybe?

In Germany there is a 25 cent deposit on beer cans and bottles. I saw that on the link to the cheap beer in Germany on the thread.

Its Citra Hops that are in a lot of the common craft beers - common because people (albeit not you) like them - rather than citrus additions for the most part. The flavours come from the Hops and Malts for the vast majority of micro beers rather than additions. I really think people who dismiss the entire industry really just haven't found one they like. There's serious quality in Irish brewing, reflected in the awards they get in the World Beer Awards.

Of course it's a sign we're drinking too much.I remember in the 90s when there was no Greyhound bottle bins and nobody drank.

If they are doing it to keep the price difference between bargain and premium brands it is absolutely to do with the legislation as it wouldn't have happened without it.

So.....you're going to hope that the government put a "hard border on the island of Ireland" to catch people who want to save a few quid on some cans of Heino and maybe a bottle or two of Smirnoff?

Never mind what the Irish plebs think of that, what would our European partners think of it?

"Just a minute, Mr Varadkar/Martin/Ms McDonald! You have got the whole bloody continent to back you, at the expense of a long-drawn out negotiation process with the British and risk a trade war just to keep your border open and now you're hassling your own people because they want to exercise their own rights as members of our sacred Single Market????? Were you yanking our chain all these years? You know what you can do now?

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