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Price of a pint !

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,784 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    Someone posted above I think (or maybe it was some other forum) about Doc Martens been made in China? Is that b0ll0x? Ye can’t have Doc Martens if not made in UK.

    But yeah- absolute bullsh1t prices for everything these days - but I also know I’m gettin old and this moaning about prices is a standard approach for people my age and beyond 🤪



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,283 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Only the super expensive Docs are still made in the UK. They sell them as a "Made in England" range

    Similarly you can get New Balance runners made in either the UK or US, depending on the model - but they're vastly dearer than the ones made in Asia.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,784 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    Thanks for that - I did watch one of those programmes -How it’s made? - can’t remember the exact title but reckon you know the series - definitely it was within the last 10 years but likely a lot less than that - and they featured the Doc Marten factory in UK- so maybe that was the start of the super priced versions - a few places in Ireland do handmade shoes- about 3-400 I think for a fitting and then 600 upwards for the shoe creation - if you wanted something really special that will last a life time I guess that’s what you do- disposable culture otherwise I guess -



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,283 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    That series also does the New Balance factory in Cumbria; only reason I knew they had a UK made range

    Tuttys in Naas still do handmade shoes, my mother used to use it as some form of threat as if it'd stop my feet getting bigger "you'll have to get Tuttys next time!". You get fitted once and they make custom lasts of your feet, and then any further pairs are made off those lasts.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,784 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    Yes they’ve featured twice in the last 15 -20 years I think on RTÉ Nationwide - only a few weeks ago they were on - I hope they continue to thrive - we need more indigenous quality industries like this one



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,371 ✭✭✭MrFrisp


    Probably not.

    I always picture the people paying that much for drinks up in Temple bar, as the ones with the y-front underwear pulled up outside the back of their pants, with a kick-me sign on their backs.

    It's these people are adding to the price increases.

    Keep paying it, they'll keep increasing it.



  • Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Beamish is fairly crap and its only around 30c cheaper than guinmess in my local.

    Yea its gone too expensive for a few pints every week. Now it once every 3 weeks or so. But as someone else says the lubs seem to be doing a decent trade anyway.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,784 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    Even as a person on the verge of shouting at clouds, I’d probably disagree - yes certainly Temple Bar is an exception in terms of overall pint pricing but it’s been that way for nearly 30 years now - 20 certainly - if you stay out of there and just look at “regular” bars, prices are increasing year on year - a lot more pubs doing food now too , to supplement their income - I’m assuming everything from rents, wages and insurance has blown this market into the Dukes of Stratosphere in terms of prices - I reckon it’s something that has crept up on mostly older people like me who entertain at home a lot more than the pub crawls of yesteryear



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭rolling boh


    Surely a lot of folk drinking in places like Temple Bar are tourists so most likely not having a load of pints so the costs isn't as big of a factor compared to locals who want ten pints or so .I have seen plenty of tourists sitting a fair old time with one pint so I suppose that could be a price reason as well .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,784 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    I’ve seen tourists in “chape” pubs in west of Ireland nursing a glass of Guinness all evening whilst listening to trad sessions so nothing new there - I actually assume Americans entering a bar will generally drink maybe 20% of most others out for the night in the same bar

    Edit - bloody boards and it’s stupid tech problems - piss off and sort them!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭itsacoolday


    Was in a Wetherspoons recently in a major city center in England, the place (as well as the rest of the city center) was buzzing and the drink only a fraction of the price it is in Temple "rip off" bar.

    Someone said there were 6 witherspoons nearby, within walking distance, not sure if that was true or not.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,780 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    €6.40 in one of my locals for Carlsberg

    Going to the darts next week in the 3Arena. Dreading what a pint of piss will cost



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,780 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    €6.40 in one of my locals for Carlsberg

    Going to the darts next week in the 3Arena. Dreading what a pint of piss will cost



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,056 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    There made all over south east Asia now.

    You can still get them from England, as L1011 said. But the prices are eye watering.

    I actually still have a (made in England) pair that I bought in the 90's and never wore until recently and the Mrs bought me a new pair last year. The difference is clear.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,371 ✭✭✭MrFrisp


    Agreed.. But my point being, other bars can sell their beer at nearly half the price, and don't feel the need to rip people off.

    And this is what it comes down to with temple bar, rip off, gouging, greed.

    One guy says he pays nearly 1m a year in music for entertainment for tourists. So bloody what? He's still making sickening profits. It's greed, nothing else.

    I feel sorry for tourists that come over here, especially to dumps like that.

    Met quite a few over the years and advised them to stay well away.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,158 ✭✭✭BraveDonut


    For reference - I was in a hotel in Belfast this week and they hit me for £7.50 for a pint of some random IPA - €9.04



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,539 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Saw a sign outside the sandymount house yesterday beamish and carling 5 euro. 5 euro for a pint in the leafiest of leafy D4. Nice pub too. Might venture over soon enough.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,447 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    It is astonishing that in suburban Dublin in 2025, pints are available for 2.05.

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    Long may it continue.

    It shows the massive profits being made by Diageo.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,640 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Every tourist destination has a rip off blatantly fake tourist zone. I have absolutely no sympathy for people who don't know this by now and get ripped off.

    It's not an Irish thing so no need to feel sorry for people who "come over here". There is nowhere they can go and not get ripped off.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭omicron




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Ah but shur, that's not real beer. It needs time to settle, need it form certain pubs etc etc



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,640 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,447 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    The screenshot is from the DL pub, but I assume the three suburban pubs all have the same prices.

    The cask is 2.60 - 2.70 in the city centre.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,632 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Impala in Cork raised the price of a Chieftain by 50c to 7.10, which is standard enough for the city. But it's a big increase.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,545 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    It kind of shows that the Irish drinker is relatively price insensitive.

    We are not going to the pub for the price of the pint, we are going for the pub itself and the brand of the pint.

    I think the UK drinker is much more exposed to variety of drinks available, because of the brewery ownership of pubs you may get completely different beers sold in pubs in different towns and regions.

    Whereas all our pubs feature the same big brand options.

    So stuff like London Hocus Pocus or Lancaster IPA are not for us.

    Plus the names are too British, it shouldn't matter but if that was called Louth Hocus Pocus or Leitrim IPA more people might be interested.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭digital_d


    The ‘Spoons app shows you the cheapest price so those will be the prices for the smallest measure they sell, still good value.

    Surprised to pay €5.70 for a pint of Rockshore in my local in North Dublin a couple of days ago.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,357 ✭✭✭BlueSkyDreams


    Most pubs in the UK sell the same stuff. Variety is generally poor because the majority of pubs there are owned by a handful of breweries.

    That said, the environment for setting up a small micro pub/bottle shop selling beer is better in the UK. They dont have limits on the number of licensed premises like we do.

    We do need to do more here to allow small start ups to open and operate and sell their own beers/bottles etc.

    I guess the license restrictions here are still a problem and they should be binned.

    Dublin especially should have way more small micropubs/bottle shops in small commercial units. The demand is there and like you say, pub goers are generally not price sensitive in the capital and nor are tourists.

    Now that the night time economy late opening bill has been shelved again, its hard to see our govt making improvements.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,640 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    English real ale is utter sht. If it wasn't it would be world renowned just like the actually good German and Belgian beers.

    I'm a huge fan of supporting local and do it in every aspect of life possible but I just couldn't get into that muck.

    There are 1000's that don't have British geographic names too and they also wouldn't sell outside Britain.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,424 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Not necessarily. Proper English Real Ale wouldn't travel well whereas the German/Belgian stuff can be carbonised and contains preservatives.



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