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..
How is it bollix though?
at the turn of the century a can was anything between (the IR£ equivalent of) €1 and €2 .
It's pretty much the same now, but our wages are much higher.
I know people love to hate on the AAI and all but they are not wrong on this one.
This is a good channel for an overview of the basics.
I've done cider before due to the glut of apples from Dad and a neighbour of his. I've toyed with the idea of beer, although wouldn't have much interest in the basic kits. I'll go all in with grains/hops if I'm going to do it.
It's a strategy that will suit some who are prepared to buy the equipment and take up a new hobby.
It'll kickstart me into homebrewing.
On-trade alcohol is 24% more affordable today than 20 years ago
What absolute bollocks.
Who said anything about tallaght becoming a tourist trap? The thread is about the price of pints and there are pints (craft beer at that!) to be had for €6 in a pretty cool establishment selling any amount of different foods in a lovely atmosphere with inside and outside areas. TBH you couldn’t ask for much more and I think people that can go there should show support and stop guzzling the Diageo and Heineken juice.
AAI are out of control.
Calling for not one, not two but three separate forms of price increase on drink.
Excise increase
MUP increase
Social Responsibility Levy Increase
Time the politicians woke up and kick them into touch.
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This is very crude, but when I was 18 my first job (in Donegal) paid about 4.50 punts an hour. Pints were around 1.90; you had to work approximately 40% of an hour (24 minutes) for a pint. When I home recently I think pints were around 5.20, so my old job would need to be paying about 13 per hour.
That's not surprising.
Relative to income the price of off license alcohol is much cheaper than it was years ago.
I remember in the mid 90s cans in the off license were at least £1 and wages were way less than they are now.
Sitting in a pub in Clare earlier this evening and it was 6.20 for Guinness, thought it was a bit saucy seeing as it’s not a tourist area. Am I out of touch ?
I can't believe what I reading, about an AAI pre-Budget submission.
"On-trade alcohol is 24% more affordable today than 20 years ago"
Where or how are they making that out?
Doubt there is any chance of Tallaght becoming a tourist trap ever.
and? Suits the people living close to tallaght and on decent bus and Luas routes.
Yeah, but it's in Tallaght……
Lads- great pints to be had for €6 in the priory market in tallaght.
All pints are €6. The pilsner is really clean crisp stuff and the IPA is………very IPAish if your into that sort of thing. They do a stout as well which I had a try of and it reminded me of beamish a bit which was quite nice. Lots of food stalls and it’s all indoors (they have outdoor areas also) with a great atmosphere.
Plenty of other good places in Temple Bar.
The Palace, Foggy Dew, Beer Temple, Button Factory, VCC, Brogans.
Rosa Madre is one of the best restaurants in the country and other good options around Cow's lane.
The prices for a pint in Temple bar seem to go up the later the evening is.
Otherwise it's a tourist trap and has nothing to do with Ireland or Dublin anymore. Only the atmosphere and walking through the area is nice. The pubs are too loud for any serious conversations, the music is only halfway good and the food often leaves a lot to be desired.
Exceptions are the Mongolian BBQ ( even tough it has been better years ago ), The Porter House for food and beer still offers good value and The Workman's Club for music. The others are to be avoided and are a photo opportunity at best.
The lad on the left at the back must work for Atmosphere 🤣.
Those lads need a good decking
“But the prices of food and the prices of the pint are insane,”
I still remember the shock of having to pay €6 for a pint in an Irish pub in Rome back in 2007 - i'd hate to see what the price is there now 18 years later…..
Yes, and their overall margin is way lower than Irish pub chains, as unlike the Irish pub chains (e.g. Louis Fitzgerald), they pass volume discounts onto the customers.
That's not a "loss leader". A "loss leader" is a product that is sold below it's cost to attract customers, you don't have any profit margin on such an item.
Ever heard of "Loss leader"
I'm in retail. On one particular range of products my margin is miniscule, but it attracts customers and most invariably buy other items where I have a proper margin.
That's exactly what JDW do and they state it. Same with their low price breakfast offering, but they realise there are no extra fixed costs involved, hence they are happy with break even on an operational cost.
Diageo are a known expensive vendor of kegs, as are Heineken Ireland.
No, what I am saying is that an Irish brewery makes beer and sells the beer to JDW that is sold at 2.70 retail price in pubs in suburban Dublin in 2025.
If Brehon Brewery can do that, then that just shows the massive profits being made elsewhere.
Where on the Dingle peninsula was it?
Was it in a village or out on its own?
The reality is that there is probably little or no demand locally for anything more than the usual stout or larger.
The reason you see so many whiskeys is that American tourists to Ireland go mad for whiskey.
And the Dingle peninsula is a haven for them.
So if they are getting Americans in the doythere is a greater chance of them being interested in the whiskey collection than what's on draught.
I thought the bottles are closer to the older version, the draft version has nitrogen added (has smaller bubbles than carbon dioxide) which gives it the texture/feel. I think back in the dY pubs used to get Guinness in barrels and pubs would bottle it themselves.
Plus vat at 23% I would imagine as nearly all B2B prices are excluding vat. Guinness price is currently about €2.20 a pint+ vat (€196 + vat per keg - or €149 excluding duty)
Guinness will have rebates and discounts for large customers that can see 15% or so deducted. But even with max discount, guinness will have a cost of about €2.30 inc vat for a pint for their very large customers.
The independent pub will be paying €2.60-€2.70 inc vat
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