Supporting craft breweries

Marketing BS works I'm afraid.

For a long time they were across the board but there has been a crazy amount of increases to the macros since 2020.

Not true in my experience.

Everything was priced off a GP calculator in any of the better run places I worked.

More so but not totally in the UK.

I was saying a few pages back that there are plenty in the industry here who just go with what's happening around them or charge whatever they are told is the right price.

Generally though those pubs don't have craft beer and the pubs that do are the better run ones which from what I can see are not overcharging for local craft. Macro often passed craft in the price rises in those pubs.

Anywhere I worked in Ireland where that would be relevant had both. The only thing I remember on the subject was lots of Guinness drinkers claiming they would make the switch on every price rise but never did.

I do remember there was a panic to get in Tuborg or an equivalent during the recession.

What brand of beer did you have 10 of before you wrote that post 😁

These are now in stock in addition to x3 DOT Aldi exclusive beers (a rebrew, a new-to-me brew and a V2 of a previous beer).

I overlooked the Fiere Mild beer. I'm very curious as to that one.

Unrelated. A curious commentor on the Galway subreddit is trying to assert Galway Hooker is a "macro" brewery, on the basis that it is now owned by a larger group and has beers in most of the venues.

Outside of the legal definition I would say there are about 3 distinct categories of craft beer. Galway Bay being in the higher end where the breweries are aiming at supermarkets, national distribution and eventual investment and buyouts.

Other end of the scale you have places like Crew who don't reach far beyond the tap room and then you have a group somewhere in between the two.

It is a real shame McCambridges in Galway were bought out by Musgrave. The beer selection used to be solid (with Galway Hooker, Black Donkey et al - stuff we don't get in Cork as much / at all), but now it's like any other Centra. Shelves of craft / international beer replaced with cans of Four Loko, buzz balls (really), and actual macro beers.

Ya the changeover has made a sh1te of a once great shop in every sense.