Possibly a thread elsewhere already but
Temple Bar has always been overpriced but €9 for a pint is pretty insane.
Roughly 90 pints per keg × 9 = 1800 per keg they must be making a pretty penny. I know rents, insurance, staff etc
Locally i paid €4.90 for a pint of Birra Moretti
So would or do you pay €9 a pint..
The people who were drinking Bud are by and large not the ones now local brewed craft beer.
Coors Light was mostly where the Bud drinkers went. Corona took a chunk too. Not a hope your average Bud drinker is now drinking even craft lager never mind an IPA.
Correct, Budweiser, Corona, Coors light etc are beers aimed at people who dont like beer.
You're leaving out the abomination that is Rockshore lager. Was at a gig during the week where that was the only available beer (bar Guinness) and it was rank..
I'd happily drink any of the above - Bud from a glass bottle is almost acceptable on a hot day - rather than ever touch that rockshore again.
Ah, just saw this comment now re rockshore. Would be amazed if there was anyone on this thread who could actually claim to like it. And never mind the quality, the price point seems to be the same as drinkable beers, unlike Fosters, etc. which you still see strongly discounted in places.
Rockshore clearly shifts enough to justify the sometimes multiple lines it has in places. Often replaced Budweiser when it changed to C&C, and I suspect the remaining drinkers went with it
I'd a can of it a good while back, like drinking fizzy water.
Having both the cider and lager as Rockshore was a mistake I think and I could see the lager get a rebrand someday.
Sometimes a place will have a line just because they are being incentivised to. Especially if it blocks something else.
They also use the name on hard seltzer cans - actual alcoholic water!
2x lager 1x cider is a common line pairing for them in Diageo heavy pubs
I can claim to have drunk a few cans of Rockshore.
It was left behind by visitors who seemed to like it because they bought it a few times while here.
I wouldn't say I like it but it's not as bad as some claim.
I definitely don't agree with the urine/fizzy water comparisons 🙂
Just a relatively inoffensive 4% beer, stick it in the fridge and enjoy, maybe at a barbecue.
It is discounted occasionally but discounts are now limited by MUP.
i drink rockshore now and again…..at home buy some cans of light if on special, depending on the pub, guinness.
i have found in a lot of pubs i ask if rockshore has been flowing i get funny looks - then they pour its, like poxy ammonia, it stinks. when they pour the second its usually ok. happens a lot, various boozers around the city. but i'll be abstaining as per my post a few pages back about boozing in the city now, too dear. i'll drive , meet the lads and drive home. be fuked im getting stung.
It's the only pint I have to pour of 2/3 pints off before I serve the first of the day as for some reason it goes off in the line!
€7.20 for a pint of Corrs light, Heineken, Carlsberg, rockshore, €10 for a glass of wine the orchard in SCD. There is no cheaper alternative.
Carlsberg, Smithwicks I have also found over the years suffer hideously from this.
I've had the first pint of the day after a days closure of other stuff before and its been find. Smithwicks that's been sitting tastes like vinegar; it barely tastes of anything when it's moving!
Is this thread been hijacked by Heineken employees for some reason? Rockshore or any tap lager is no different than any other beer that comes from the lines. All the equipment is serviced regularly by the brewery technical team. A keg of beer will last at least 5 months before it goes off. There's no way any tap needs to run off any pints and if it did it would affect all beers not just one product.
@adaminho
The canonical example of bad beer used to be Guinness in a function room - maybe Diageo have eliminated that by insisting lines are pumped through even if not used…?
5 months in a keg no bother but what about what's sitting in the line? Bacterial contamination is a reality
Shorter the draw the better.
What bacterial contamination? The lines are cleaned regularly there is no beer sitting in the line. This is wind up territory. enjoy your evening.
After the last diageo increase, my local got Murphy's in..selling for €5 a pint and doing very well indeed, in a part of the country that you'd never see it.
I despise Heineken and Diageo equally and will say that pretty much all Diageo products sitting in lines taste like vinegar after a night/morning of not moving.
Worst pints I've been served in a decade were Open Gate Citra in the Dawson Lounge recently - not moving, turned undrinkable.
The beer runs all the way to the tap when the tap is closed. It doesn't stay in the keg until you begin to pour.
I'm pretty sure @adaminho has served me a rake of pints in a really good pub so I'm gonna say he knows what he is talking about. Sounds like you don't.
The Tesco across the road and drinking at home.
It's a good option.
Get a couple of bottles of something you like and relax while enjoying it
All the same no man is an island so it's nice to have a good pub to go to.
Especially when you're away from home.
Thanks for reminding me of that. Beer runs all the way to the tap now? In 30 years of pouring pints I never knew that. It's good to know. Thanks for educating me.
From what you've written, you do appear to have only found that out now.
So now you are saying the total opposite to what you said earlier.
Is Murphy's not owned by Heineken?
And don't Heineken have a habit of following Diageo with their increases?
As for the trends in drinking lager.
Heineken and Carlsberg have been pretty mainstream since the 80s.
Before that you only really had Harp.
Bud arrived in the mid 80s and has stood the test of time.
Other big international brands like Carling or Fosters seemed to fizzle out.
Rockshore is actually lasting longer than I expected, but then again it is a Diageo product and gets plenty of promotion at events and festivals.
As others have said the Italian brands are pure hipster.
Rockshore tastes better out of a can than on draught, a strange reality. Had a pint of it a year or so back. Have drank an occasional few cans of it on other nights.
At a recent concert, took a sip from a friends plastic 500ml container of Rockshore. It was absolutely watered down dykewater. And the cheek to slap a €7.50 price tag on that. I was driving that night, so wasn't drinking. The friends had a few beers before gates opened. They drank a few of those Rockshores and were pretty much sober by the end of the concert. They must water it down to the last.
I suppose quare things go on at those sort of events.
Hardly likely in a pub.
Not with regulars anyway.
The first pint can be off. Happens often in quiet pubs lately some is smelly and undrinkable. I send it back. Seems hard to get fresh Smithwicks anymore.
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