Possibly a thread elsewhere already but
Temple Bar has always been overpriced but €9 for a pint is pretty insane.
Roughly 90 pints per keg × 9 = 1800 per keg they must be making a pretty penny. I know rents, insurance, staff etc
Locally i paid €4.90 for a pint of Birra Moretti
So would or do you pay €9 a pint..
You could count the number of pubs on your thumbs that banned cancer sticks back before the smoking ban.
I've gotten a bit of a taste for Lervig Orange Velvet lately. Saw they had 330ml cans of it in Crowbar or whatever the pub beside The Button Factory is called.
17 euro for two of them. 8.50 each. For a little can. All I could do was laugh really.
I suppose it's all very well to abandon the pub and drink at home but when we're away from home we all like to find a nice pub to settle into.
Some amount of suckers paying for pints of literal piss in here....
Do yourselves a favour and give it up....and take up cocaine like the young lads....
Greed. Pure and simple.
Diageo are just taking the piss at this stage. A company that made 5.5 billion, yes BILLION, in profit last year claiming that they "have" to put up their prices.
It's a load of bollocks.
Greed.
Publicans hate that people can go to an off license and buy the same product cheaper so will do all they can they can to make the Government push the price even higher.
And they come out with crap like oh its better for peoples health to drink in a controled enviroment.
Back in the days before off licences were a thing they were happy to let people drink themselves into oblivion on the other side of the counter and throw them out when the money was gone.
I paid 13.10 for a pint of Heineken and a bottle of coors yesterday in Cork. I think this is past the limit of what I think a pint is worth so I will be having the few weekend drinks at home from now on.
Is it a case of greed or is this price justified just to keep the pubs open?
Someone I know was in a hotel in Claremorris and paid €8.10 for a pint bottle of Bulmers.
MUP is designed to discourage you from buying non-brand supermarket drinks as it's set to the level Diageo already profiteer at.
Remember at pre MUP prices supermarkets paid full excise duty and VAT on what they sold and made a decent profit too, otherwise they'd have just stocked the branded products.
https://finfacts.ie/Private/bestprice/guinnessindex.htm - from 1973 to 2013 the average wage could have bought 150 pints of Guinness.
How many now ?
Crafty fox just off camden st in Dublin selling Guinness and more surprisingly Ambush IPA for a fiver a pint. Ambush is ~7.50+ anywhere else in the same area. Ryans across the road have guinness at 6.30
Kavanaghs 5mins away out camden and long lanes have guinness for a fiver as well. Theres another few around the liberties with pints at a fiver as well, theres (relative) value to be had out there!
I drink less and less every year.
It's healthier and cheaper as well.
Get cans or even get a keg in yourself. It is, as far as I know, legal to have a house which is open to the public for drinking and socialising without needing a license if you're not selling the drink as a business. If you have it as a 'co-op' system, so to speak, where regulars would contribute to the cost of the kegs or bring a bottle like you would to a regular party, then it's game ball.
More people could also learn how to brew their own beer, and if they start trying to jack up the prices of the ingredients, make it with local weeds, nectar from flowers and the yeast between your toes.
You could only have went to The Auld Triangle or Downeys if city centre, maybe O'Reillys - where else is selling pints for €5 or less?
I remember some pubs used to have this poster, the website I took it from extrapolates a bit.
http://publin.ie/2015/the-price-of-a-pint-from-1928-2015-in-todays-money/
good question - it’s around somewhere although some websites better than others -CSO is best but hard to navigate - then you need to take into account tax rates which at the time were an awful lot higher than they are today
Whewey
4 pints and a leap card in the hand. Well out in the sticks of Dublin?
What was the average wage back then; is there a pint per hourly wage graph available?
Diceys even back in 2019 €1.50 for any bottles, think pints were 2 quid. Never had the pints because they tasted muck but used to go out have 10/15 bottles for 15/20 quid. I miss those days!
ah I know it happens in some quarters - just wish it happened in mine from time to time 😀
I don’t think I could handle lunchtime pints 5 days a week though - in a previous job about 20 years ago we were going through a change of ownership so things were a bit lax for a while - so Friday lunchtime became an all afternoon lunch and drink session - lasted for only about a month but was great craic - like mitching off school
UK arm of a previous employer did. Every day. This was in the past ten years
If they were over visiting, they'd be asking me by 11 where we were going for lunch, as for some reason the place that only did bottles wasn't good enough.
If it was a Friday they'd have 3, do nothing for the afternoon and be a useless mess by about 9 if we went out after work
TG😀
And sure we're no worse off for it - and best of all we did it before camera phones and social media!!!
I know such habits lead to all sorts but Twas the way of the world at one stage in the distant past
I started off as a baby worker in the civil service - was practically mandatory!!!!!
oh to go back to the pint at lunchtime habit😀- not that I ever worked anywhere that did that unfortunately - things started to get a bit compliancy by the time I started working fulltime
Happy times eh ? Double is a good one - generally in the UK it's a pound or something but we charge 2 x singles.
Though our measures are 35ml and so you do say four doubles and that's near half a bottle - ah in my youth perhaps!!!
I'm not finishing work for three hours and this talk of beer is making be salivate for my pints!!
Think it was 2010 that I last ended up at a Pound Pint night in the UK - also shots, doubles were 1.50.
This was in Leeds, large student population.
Sorry to reminisce but I worked in the UK around 2000 to 2007 and regularly went to a local that had "pound a pint" nights in midweek, plus a mate worked in a Uni and got us into the Union bar - 50p Guinness.
Jesus I miss being young!!!
😀 must have been a good night
I think it’s been the speed of inflation over just the last few years that’s taken people aback somewhat - previously pints went up 20-30 cent year on year so very small increases and inflation was negligible over that time too
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