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..
Well yeah but if you want a decent dinner when you don’t feel like cooking you go out for a pub dinner and a drink or two.
But it’s becoming increasingly hard to justify at that price.
It's not common sadly but I love Murphys and also Beamish. The 3 pubs I know that have Murphys are Hogans, The Hairy Lemon and Gibneys.
If you're willing to put up with the markup on pub food, then the drinks shouldn't be a problem. I've had bar food up and down the country and can say that you'd be doing well these days to get a simple chips & goujons for less than 17.
You can go online and look up pub menus plus prices. I might suggest people print one off so the next time they say to themselves, 'I don't feel like cooking tonight', they can have a quick look at it and go, 'Hmmm, maybe I do feel like it, after all…'
Ah look I’ll pay it the odd time but I’m no longer willing to go out for a few beers and meal as much as I would have in the past as it’s just too expensive now.
How much do they sell a pint of Murphy’s for?
Then you're in the same boat as the rest of us…
Bud is almost gone in Irish pubs since (I think) the ABinBev and SABMiller merger.
I go out quite a bit for food but the kinda pubs selling goujon and chips are usually an absolute ripoff. It's food you could do better at home in an airfryer.
Budweiser production contract changed from Diageo to C&C, who have far less sway on getting taps in places
These places aren't an exception - that's pretty standard pricing around the country in your basic pub that does food. Because of travel for work, I've sampled enough of them and luckily I get to put it on expenses.
Little tip, actually - if you want to save a little money at a pub meal, consider ordering two starters. Soup of the day with bread (approx 6.50) and a plate of chicken wings (7 or 8) will generally set you back less then a main (starting at 17, usually) but have as much eating, overall.
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Ya those pubs are everywhere. It's like something from a David Lynch movie or something. Every town has a pub that looks the same and has an identical menu and identical customers.
Weirdly again in my personal experience it's the guys who complain loud and often about the price of a pint whk will be telling everyone what great food these places have. I hear them getting recommended to tourists and everything.
€7.20 for a pint of Guinness in Bowe's of Fleet St, Dublin.
I know it's city centre, I know it's near Temple Bar etc, but this is a product made literally around the corner.
Never again.
Got some cans of Heineken in at the week for a BBQ. 15 pack - €30.75 Less the can return surcharge - €27 €1.8 per can. meaning you can get 4.67 cans for the price of that pint
That's 1.60 off of 10 euro…for a bloody Heineken.
Let that sink in for a moment.
Lads, you're suited and booted and in the city centre, it's a nice evening.
Maybe you're after a show, maybe going to dinner somewhere, maybe after a busy days work.
You drop into as nice pub for a couple of pints.
Just enjoy them and stop fretting about paying a few euro more than in the burbs.
Every pub in Ireland would like to know where you can get that price from ANY supplier.
Remember, €2.10 pub price is €1.70 excl vat.
Wetherspoons are known to display a loss leader and be sold out of it most days you ask for it
And as long as people keep having your attitude we'll be continued to be ripped off.
If you want to be stupid enough to hand over nearly a tenner for a pint of Heineken, you're welcome to it.
The prices in the posts I quoted were €7.20 for Guinness and €8.40 for Heineken.
So what price point would you expect in the city centre and just buy it as part of your night out ?
€6 for Guinness and €7 for Heineken?
Three pints and you're out €3.60 or €4.20.
I'm definitely not stupid enough to deny myself a few pints if I feel like them to save the price of a cup of coffee.
Pint of Harp in Dundalk €6-€7.50
6 cans of Harp in Dundalk €11 (€12.20 with the return surcharge)
12 cans of Harp at the border, 5 mins drive €12
In saying that, I was in Swords in Weatherspoons last week with a work mate, have a lovely smoking area out the back and out the front €2.90 a pint of Fosters
I don't regularly drink in the city centre any more. My price point has been reached. Paying the guts of a tenner for something like a Heineken is fucking dumb and I don't give a damn what nonsense someone comes up with to try and excuse it away. If I'm in town, it'll be a Wetherspoons on a weekend or DisnDat during the week, where I can get a Guinness for a fiver.
I won't "deny" myself a few pints either, I can tell you. I'll just drink elsewhere.
While I sort if agree with @elperello, it's only an extra few quid at the end of the night, like yourself my price point has been reached where I say to my self, that's just not worth it. Regardless of what I can afford.
Well, that's the point. It just isn't worth it. I can afford to go for a few pints and spend silly money on them. But there's no value in it.
As to the idea that it's only an extra few quid at the end of the night, consider this. Six pints at a fiver a pint is is 30 euro. Six pints at, say 7.50 a pint is 45 euro. That's not really an insignificant difference for what you're getting.
If and when the average price hits a tenner a pint in town, it'll be 60 euro for a six pint session with the mates.
It's getting way out of control.
Well obviously if you drink more the benefit of the lower price increases.
My proposition was based on someone going for 2 or 3 pints as part of a night out, not a session.
If I'm coming out of a theatre, on my way to a restaurant or having a drink with colleagues I'm not traipsing about the city to save 4 or 5 euro.
I'll head to the nearest well run pub where I know I can enjoy a drink in comfort.
That's not dumb or nonsense it's a perfectly rational choice.
As a Guinness drinker i cant get the same pint from a can. Plus i enjoy the buzz of a few in the pub.
But if i mostly drank larger id definitely be less inclined to go to a pub.
Feel the craft beer places are just not the same buzz and staff not as friendly (plenty of arsehole bartenders in all pubs)
Maybe its just trying to be 'alternative' or some shite
I can down 2 pints in about an hour with great ease. I'm not going to bother going to town just for an hour.
I drink Guinness myself when I'm out. But I'll happily make do with some cans at home too. Frankly, I find that there's little in the difference these days.
The problem is I like going to the pub and enjoy the chats along with the pints. It's the social part of going to the pub that is what's most attractive. The fact is, though, is that it is just getting far too expense.
It's the lack of choice that infuriates me. The number of pubs where you're limited to Guinness, Heineken, Carlsberg and NOTHING else is baffling. I won't drink Guinness in the summer and I'm not a lager drinker so I'm goosed.
Was in a pub on the Dingle peninsula last weekend and the choice was the above only. No ales/IPAs - even bottles. The place was quiet and this is peak holiday season. What fascinated me was the extraordinary range of whiskeys - dozens of bottles - for sale. Yet nobody was drinking them. Some publicans seem to have no imagination at all.
You'd have to think that people are either happy with the limited choice or don't care what they drink.
There's nothing as miserable as a barroom economist. People who insist they're being smart(er) and more wise to the ways of the world by, for example, getting their pint in the bar instead of the lounge because it's fivepence cheaper. Or who'll order Beamish instead of Guinness because 'they're basically the same only one is cheaper'. They'll usually spend multiple times that amount of money buying crisps or making bets while they're in the pub.
Is it, aye? Think I'll stick with the loungeboy, thanks, you'll have to forgive me for refusing to take financial advice from someone who spends 5 days a week in the boozer, spunking his wages in Paddy Power next door while treating a 'package' of bacon fries as their dinner, thinks.
Couldn't agree re no difference. A can of Guinness is decent dont get me wrong and im a big fan of a few bottles of Guinness if im at home or going to house.
But a pulled pint in a good Guiness pub is by far at the top. Untouchable in my mind for quality.
