Price of a pint !

Not necessarily. I asked for a pint in Canada and she sez "do you want a 14oz, a 16oz or a 20oz pint?" 🤔. I said "gimme the biggest one you have" 😁🤷‍♂️.

For all that complain about it, Dublin airport is usually close to par with the majority of city centre pubs, will be more expensive that rural ones but nothing to the extreme of US airports.

Now the food prices are gouging, need a mortgage for a mini full Irish.

Did you just serve the drinks yourself. I was going to book it a few weeks ago but it said maximum 2 Alcoholic drinks.

Firstly I wasn't talking about meeting people in pubs I was talking about working in the industry in the UK and CAMRA and many of their affiliated breweries were insufferable snobs and dinosaurs. As a small anecdote I can remember bringing many a girlfriend or staff member to GBBF and being greeted with Al Murray style "pints for the lads, half for the ladies style bollix"

Secondly I would totally disagree that the system here is more stacked towards the multinationals. Yes many publicans are just lazy bstards and customers afraid to try anything new (that's an Irish thing not a beer thing). Every single pub in Ireland can choose to stock anything it wants which is not the case for the vast majority in the UK with it's "managed houses". If the VFI are all that explain all the pubs in Ireland that sells good beer.

The UK also always had regional beer because the country is massive compared to Ireland. The influence of CAMRA is massively overestimated.

Fair enough. You clearly don't want to have an honest conversation.

But just incase you actually do try explain what laws, rules or barriers there are to an Irish pub stocking good beer. Especially compared to the average English pub which is tied.

Well there are rules and barriers in the UK so it's no strawman.

In Ireland every publican can choose his range freely. In the UK the vast majority are tied so to go back to the original point you failed to make Ireland is not more under the thumb of the multinational breweries.

Also a lot of those "regional" cask beers you probably think are CAMRA are owned by multinationals.

Was meeting friends in the Gingerman (near Trinity College) on Saturday. Got into town a little earlier than expected so decided to brave Weatherspoons on Abbet St. As one person described it, "it's like having a pint on a ferry". Soulless kip but they were having a beer festival with many guest beers for €2.60 a pint. Had a Boudicca Porter from the UK. It wasn't bad, kinda chocolatey, but not very long lasting on the palette. For €2.60 I wasn't complaining. Just had one, then headed over to the Gingerman. Had a Galway Hooker Citrus IPA - €7 a pint. Standard price nowadays I suppose.

Met the lads after work for a few in Disndat.

5 Euro pints. Monday to Wednesday.

It's a strange crowd though. Not unpleasant, but an odd mixture of students and hard up auld lads. 😄

My only issue is the feckin live music in the corner that came on. Why the hell do pubs do that? I know few people that like it and it can kill a conversation.

It was perfectly grand, except for the music. We sat at the bar yapping and pinting just like any other boozer.

Job done.

Worse is prices aren't coming down only going up within the next year

Not been in my alternative local in a few weeks… €5.70 Guinness.

Since covid that's €1.90 of an increase.

We used be a proper country, huddling around the radio to hear whether the scumbags in the daíl would raise the price by 5p and prepare to storm the place... But now, roll over, lube up, take it straight up the hole.

Yep, it does the trick for me. Grand place for an occasional few after work.

If they can do fiver pints, plenty of other places are able to as well.

agreed.
Jax are a bit weird though!

Are there many in the bar mon to wed?