Non Alcoholic beer in bars should be cheaper than alcoholic beer

Minerlals are over priced but they are stocked primarily for mixers and cans wouldn't be suitable. Outside of pubs that sell large volumes of food, non alcoholic beer and mineral drinkers are not a priority for publicans. With the beer, a keg costs the same as full strength beer so it's the breweries to blame there. What pubs should do is use post mix for mixing the spirits add a euro on the price of Vodka & Coke, the customer is happy because 2 X V&C is €14 instead of €16 and the extra margin on that could cover a price reduction on mineral bottles for people who are having the mineral only.

Non alcoholic beers should definitely be cheaper but then that would be a sensible way for the government to deal with binge drinking and Ireland doesn't do sensible plans, theyd rather close everywhere when it gets late so that more people binge drink.

Probably better quality ingredients in the can of corn than is in a pint brewed by Diageo.

Any recommendations? I find Heineken 0 a bit tasteless. Lucky Saint is quite nice and crisp.

I was laugh when I see posts like this

Maybe those buying non alcoholic beer should have it served in a different glass that magically cleans itself, served by a person who takes a smaller wage because its non alcoholic, told to sit on the floor because seats are for those paying for real beer, told to sit outside because the heat is for those paying normal price.

There's cost in business. It doesn't always reflect in the cost of the product itself. EG shops can buy greeting cards for 50c and sell for €2 - but serving that customer for €2 has the same cost as serving the customer for a €10 item which the shop may have bought for €6.

And them you ALWAYS get that one person who brings up the Temple Bar pub - funny how they have probably never been in the pub themselves and checked what the punter gets for the €11 pint (that's a normal price in many New York, Boston, Seattle, London, Paris etc pubs - it would be CHEAP by Paris standards). As well as the drink, they get really good live Irish music no matter what time they go in and many will spend a couple of hours over one drink listening to the music - so if I said I will give you 2 hours of live traditional music plus a pint of beer and it will cost you €10.95 all in, you'd be saying tis a bargain.

If you go into the Temple Bar and swill back 4 pints in an hour and can't be bothered with the music - you are a fool and that's what Martin Keane himself says. Its not aimed to that type of customer.

Agree, the temple bar comparison is becoming a bit jaded.

The pubs can do what they want, it's the government that should be promoting non alcoholic drinks as a way of cutting down on all the issues that are caused by people who can't handle there drink. So you are claiming temple bar is not a rip off? What's next, Trump is a nice guy? Cork is the capital of Ireland? There is no housing crisis?

Not to defend Red Bull which is overpriced shte but I hate this crap of using The Fogarty or The Temple Bar as any sort of example of prices.

The price at wholesale for let's say Heineken 0.0 bottles isn't actually that much cheaper than regular bottles. So yes you should pay less on the bar but not as much as people think.

They discussed this on Reddit previously.
When Diageo launched their pure brew 0 lager, their RRP was €3.50. But every pub sold it at €5 per bottle.

Diageo sold later non alcoholic beers at the same price as the regular.

For a Road Safety perspective of course they should incentivise drinking non alcoholic beer. I remember a few years ago (maybe 15?) if a designated driver had 3 or more Coca Colas or soft drinks they were free to encourage designated drivers and try and cut down on drink driving/encourage road safety.

Pubs also make more money on non alcoholic drinks than alcoholic. There is huge tax on every pint of alcohol whereas non alcoholic beer is not subject to the same tax.

Seeing as how you mention the US, many bars in the US will give free refills of soft drinks……… They obviously don't factor in the multiple 5 quid cost of pressing a button and then placing the glass in a washer at the end of the night that you factor in to justify the Irish publican's charges.

Your greeting card analogy is a bit silly. Your average shop probably isn't selling as many "Happy 74th birthday Grandma" cards as per day as a pub would sell 7-ups.

maybe 20 years ago US pubs gave free soda refills, but I assure you they don't do it now - or at least in Baltimore, Seattle, DC and New York. They charge handsomely for ALL drinks.

Yep, St James Gate said it would be €3.50 a bottle.

Now don't get pedantic on what "every pub" means.

But they can't say that. It's impossible.

How can they say it should be 3.50 in a Dublin 1 pub with a huge mortgage and 3.50 in a rural family owned Kerry pub.

So many factors affect the net profit of a pub so Diagio or anyone saying "thats the price" is talking horsesht. RRP does not mean that's the price it needs to be sold at.