Price of a pint !

Pint Sam Adams €11 seems expensive?

Is it not for 2?

€6.90 is about average in Cork city. You did well getting one for €6

5.50 was steep enough for a pint in a craft bar even then; I'm pretty sure I was paying 4.50 - 4.00 with a Beoir discount token - for Galway Bay pints at the time, or even later.

Pint prices took a looong time to go back up after the crash, and often fell in the early days of it, e.g. there was a duty cut that was later reversed and a lot of pubs never put it back on, and a lot ate the 21>23% VAT change

Paid 8.40 for a Peroni in the Maldron Tallaght last Friday, never again

The beer in the Maldron Tallaght is shocking.

In 2025, in the suburbs of Dublin, pints of beer are being sold in some pubs for €2.10, profitably.

So when you see pints in pubs for 6.00 / 7.00 / 8.00, some or all of the following are happening:

(1) the brewer has higher costs, and/or is taking a much higher gross margin

(2) the brewer's net margin is much higher

(3) the pub doesn't have scale, so its prices must be higher

(4) the pub has pricing power, and uses this to earn higher net margins

(5) the customers are price inelastic, and willing-to-pay higher prices

Three JD Wetherspoon pubs in the suburbs of Dublin: Swords, Blanch, Dún Laoghaire

Pints of cask beer at prices from €2.05 upwards.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ua1EZZrikh87tR1m9

Cask isn't really comparable to other draught but even going like for like it's 2.95 and as you say above it can be any number if things to explain the differences in prices.

few of us meet for gigs and stuff regularly in Dublin cc, and i have to say ive passed up on the last few gigs and meet ups. we were all debating the last time about beer prices in the city, 7.60 did it for me, i am out. might be biting of my nose etc…i dont care. suburb pubs close to us, you are still around 6+/7.00 - madness.

this really is a case of who will blink first with diageo and pubs etc. government are piling us into debt that will bring us down, they dont care and need the taxes.

when the pubs are gone, the likes off diageo and publicans etc will blame the consumer - yeah nice one lads. Restaurants will do the same.

its a topic on everyone's lips, but im seeing little from anyone in the industry trying to save their own bacon ?

re wetherspoons, id have no issue boozing in one of their pubs if it were close, or handy to get to. the only one ive been in is the one on camden st - not bad, but it feels like a hotel lobby - its too noisey / echoe-y ? downstairs is like a fast food seating setup, not for me. if they smartened it up like i pub id be there.

Wetherspoons gets their kegs for a lot cheaper than the breweries that Irish drinkers insist on supporting sell to Irish publicans.

Stop drinking Diageo/Heineken products and they'll cut their wholesale prices.

There's some very cheap, known name European lagers available from alternative suppliers if publicans could justify dropping the big boys taps - but they can't as people keep drinking them! Becks and Veltins are both frequently fiver pints still.