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..
I’d agree with you in the main - traditionally pints went up by cents per year not euros - we’ve seen massive increases in the last couple of years - as someone who doesn’t buy pints in pubs that often I didn’t notice the massive rises myself either so surprising to see them -but once you take into account all of the other massive cost increases, it’s starting to make sense why the pints are now so high
Depends where ya go and how late you stay out. Went out recently in Dublin for a few hours for €24 euro.
4 pints of Guinness and 2 buses.
In 1988 you’d get 6 pints of Guinness and a bus ride home for just under £10 - eur 12.69
36 years on what you got for your money is not too shabby at all
According to this inflation tool, 100 euro in 1980 is equivalent to 434.96 euro in 2024.
10 quid is the equivalent of €43, then, by the same measure.
Local pub is e5.50 for a Guinness, lads whining about it. It does coffees and toasties etc during the day. Pints after 5.
E4 for a coffee and people queuing up for it n not a word about it, probably twice the profit than in a pint. People complaining about price of pints in Ireland are cranks imo. I'd probably drink 5-6 pints on a night out n shorts after if staying out, fair enough some lads drink 12-15 n don't go near shorts .
for the pints examples above, they’ve actually only increased by a factor of 3 as opposed to your overall inflation estimate example of 4.3 - so the pints have increased below inflation levels over the last 30+ years .
That was Guiness however which traditionally was always lower than larger. A Furstenburg or however you spelt it, back in 1988 was about 1.70 a pint - eur2.15
If bars are now charging 8 euro a pint on average that’s still only 3.72 times the price of 1988- it’s not massive inflation tbh
A restaurant workers minimum wage in the same year was around the £2 mark - eur2.53
its 12.70 now - so again a factor of about 4 since 1988
That being said I've time for a couple before the train home tonight and 'spoons it is!! 4.25 for a Stella!
Let's say that someone has 5 pints on a Friday night, and they're €7.20 compared to €5.50 a few years ago.
That means they're out of pocket €1.70 x 5 = €8.50.
Yet many people have no issues buying several packets of cigarettes, or who might be poor budgeters of their weekly shop, buying clothing that is too expensive or some over-rated mobile device that costs €800+.
In context, this €8.50 is nothing.
Really good point - as I paid for my last Dublin pint before Easter (6.70 in the Grand Central, lovely location tbh!) - there were two girls ordering cocktails which were came to around 30 euro, without the bat of an eyelid! Same as anything, you buy what you can afford.
When Harp was cheap, I got that - 'spoons this eve - but no problem going the local and paying 6 - it's not all the time and often it is nice to get out!!
I was a bit surprised myself to find that it was €5.50 ten years ago.
Even more surprised that I have no recollection of ever being in The Auld Dubliner 🙂🍺
It’s no wonder cocaine use is continuing to increase. €50-100 for a bag of banger that’ll keep you going all night. Over the next few year this country is going to have to reap what successive governments have sewn.
They’ve taken the pint from the average worker and hard drugs are the alternative.
😀 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
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!!!
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.
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!!
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
I started off as a baby worker in the civil service - was practically mandatory!!!!!
I know such habits lead to all sorts but Twas the way of the world at one stage in the distant past
And sure we're no worse off for it - and best of all we did it before camera phones and social media!!!
TG😀
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
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
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!
What was the average wage back then; is there a pint per hourly wage graph available?
4 pints and a leap card in the hand. Well out in the sticks of Dublin?
Whewey
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
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/
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?
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.
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