Price of a pint !

5.50 in rathmines

I've been looking at home brewing lately. Something I always had an interest in doing. Bought a bucket from amazon the other day actually. Wouldn't be surprised to see more people getting in to it now too with insane prices. Aldi / Lidl 2 liter cider used to be 3.80 and over 8 euro now.

If the price of a pint goes up people will drink at home. If the price goes up in off-licenses - which many spirits or cider have - people will find an alternative.

Prices in Ireland are the highest in the EU, 40% above the EU average.

Labour costs are 9th in the EU.

No.

Things are getting out of control.

Problem with this type of crap is that these prices won't go down.

You are correct that the rationale put forward for introducing MUP was public health.

However it is worth pointing out that many Irish people don't drink too much and they are forced to pay more for their beer by MUP.

The Government interference in the market means they have to pay extra to enjoy a drink in their own home and now they pay extra if they go for a night out.

Neither the few cans a week at home or couple of pints in the pub are health issues.

MUP isn't going to have any impact on the nation's health. That shit isn't fooling anyone.

Prices gone up in all the places I frequent from time to time

Anything from €5-€6.20

€5.10 is a pretty annoying price esp if you never have many coppers

€4.90 for Birra Moretti is underpriced and the publican is only doing himself there now. It's a more expensive than other lagers. With price increases it's priced about €5.50 - €6.00 locally here now (Midlands). Guinness at €4.80, Heineken/Coors etc €5.20.

It goes to the retailer. Government don't take it.

That's even more mind boggling so. Was it the vintners association that looked for it or how did it come about? sorry if I'm derailing the thread.

It was lobbied for by groups like Alcohol Action Ireland and representative bodies for the pub and off licence industries including LVA (Dublin pubs), VFI (country pubs) and National Off Licence Association.

My niece had a coffee from Starbucks with her the other day, I asked how much -e6.50!

I said fair play to them getting suckers to pay it, same goes for the publicans. I paid e50 for 5 long necks 10 years ago in a pub in Milan. I gave up complaining about prices back here after it!

How much has your sensible drinking gone up by?

Then how have you been penalised?

Would you go away and do some research. For God sake, it has NOTHING to do with transporting goods to a very small market on the edge of Europe.

Jesus Christ, such horsesh*t has been posted once before and the poster still hasn't come out of hiding from sheer embarrassment.

It's tax and Bullshi*t is the reason we were already highest in EU, and now more Bullsh*t.

McEntee just announced the nightclubs are going to stay open until 6am. Who's fecking health is that watching? The youngest sections of drinkers? The ones who are starting out in life and discovering alcohol etc.. They see the high prices in the off licences, and think it is just as costly as going to the pub, socialise, get drunk, and stay drinking until 6am.

How is that looking after anyone's health?

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I was in Malahide on Sunday evening, and it was €5.40 in the bar for a pint of Guinness. All the bars out that way have it sewn up. None of them great, Gibneys is a bit of a kip, and the pints in there are the most expensive.

A pint of beer in the lounge of any of them is apparently €6.80. I won't be visiting there for a while.

Not sure about Guinness in lounge, sorry. I meant lager. I didn't go into any lounge, just had two pints in bar meeting somebody. I was told it is €6.80 for a lager and I think he said 10 cents less for a Guiness, but he was talking about Gibneys, and apparently they have a 3 or 4 tier price structure, so I got a bit confused/didn't care enough to pay much attention. They have a bar, a lounge, and an upstairs all on different prices and some bar out the back that can be different or something. Not sure. I was across the road, and it was pretty empty and pricey too.

People say tax is the reason for high prices here.

Excise on beer is lower here than in the UK, or close, depending on the exchange rate.

Don't fall for the excuses from the brewers and publicans.

Diageo make Guinness in Dublin, and charge less for it in NI, than in Dublin.

Even though it has to be transported to NI, and even though the excise is similar.

It is due to a lack of competition between brewers.

Lots of brewers in the UK, some of whom compete on price.

We have more breweries here now, but the new microbrewers do not compete on price in the on-trade (they do for the own-brand in ALDI and Lidl).