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Price of a pint !

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,918 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Heineken €5.80

    The River Run Bar & Restaurant

    Mountshannon Co. Clare



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,529 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    Where can ya get a pint for €6 in the suburbs?
    I know priory in tallaght do it alright but that’s their own stuff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭tampopo


    €7.50 for an Asahi in O'Connell's on South Richmond Street Dublin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,778 ✭✭✭✭whiterebel


    €7.10 for Rockshore and Hophouse in Mooneys Abbey st, last Saturday week



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,381 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Two of the weakest lagers around. Rockshore shouldn't be any more expensive than Carling/Tuborg and Hothouse maybe 30c more.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,185 ✭✭✭antimatterx


    Under 6 I actually have no idea.

    The elphin baldoyle is €6.30, Duffys Malahide is €6.60.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,297 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    To show the very high prices in Ireland, here are prices from Berlin, in 2025:

    Bear in mind that excise duty is 55 cent per pint here, and much less in Germany.

    Wages are somewhat similar, a touch lower than here.

    PRSI is much higher in DE

    Electricity is not cheap in DE.

    https://ruthgoldammer.de/win/

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    50cl bottles from 2.20, also 2.40, then 3.30 for Augustiner from Munich.

    3.30 for a 50cl bottle of weissbier

    Draught beer:

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    3.50 for 50cl, or 3.80 per pint, in 2025, in the capital city of a rich country.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    People have posted comparison charts here recently enough of the price of beer in European cities

    Dublin is 21st, which is not bad, considering the amount of giving out people do.

    German cities are further down the list, but it seems German is a bit of an outlier for a rich western European country.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,026 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Proof for the Wetherspoons deniers that we are being absolutely robbed.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    Well it also very much depends on where you go to in Berlin. My brother lived there for 4 years and most bars we went to prices were usually around €5 for 500ml (not technically a full pint).

    Beer from the Spati's now was a different story, often cheaper than a bottle of water.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,297 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Yes, there is more price dispersion abroad than here.

    I have a contact in Berlin this wekeend, I will report actual September 2025 prices.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,297 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Okay, here are some live prices from Berlin, September 2025.

    The main pils here is 3.70 for 50cl, or 4.20 a pint.

    The helles is 4.20 or 4.80 per pint.

    The kellerbier and landbier are 4.40 or 5.00 per pint

    WhatsApp Image 2025-09-12 at 23.22.01_7bcf33de.jpg

    The astonishing value is in the bottles.

    1.80 for 50cl - how is this possible!!! In the capital city of a rich country.

    The next bottle is 2.00 for 50cl.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,297 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Next is Ilse-Eck, a corner pub in Berlin.

    The main draught beer, which I assume is a pils, is 5.25 per pint

    The local Berlin Kindl pils is 5.00 per pint.

    WhatsApp Image 2025-09-12 at 23.22.02_5f348769.jpg

    50cl bottles are from 3.80.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,297 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    The third image is some whiskey price in a Berlin cafe/bar, I don't know the location.

    WhatsApp Image 2025-09-12 at 23.22.24_291528a4.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,026 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    They don't operate in a "market" protected by the LVA and extremely restrictive legislation, it's as simple as that.

    [Edit: and dominated by Diageo and Heineken Ireland who employ all sorts of anti-competitive practices]

    We are being

    Robbed

    Robbed

    Robbed

    Robbed

    and there is no excuse which stands up.

    Post edited by Hotblack Desiato on

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Local breweries, then again Guinness is local for Dublin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 897 ✭✭✭omicron


    Funny all the comparisons with Berlin which is famous for cheap beer, and no comparisons with Paris, London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Zurich or any of the many capital cities that are far more expensive for a pint than Dublin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    Never mind London, go to Manchester, unless you’re in a Wetherspoons you’re looking at around £6 a pint.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,026 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Guinness / Diageo have the largest economies of scale of any brewery in Ireland (or pretty much anywhere) and yet they charge pubs more per keg than craft beer which costs more to make.

    They can't get away with this in the off-sales market though as competition is fierce - so they charge less there…

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,297 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    More price lists from Berlin bars, September 2025

    Strangely, bottles (flaschen) are cheaper than draught (vom Fass).

    WhatsApp Image 2025-09-13 at 19.00.41_afd4dd8c.jpg


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,312 ✭✭✭54and56


    Got some of these in Aldi today, lots of rich, creamy and toasted / roasted flavour for +/- €1.50 a can. Unbelievable value for having a drink at home.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,695 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,706 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    Cassidys on westmoreland street, had a pint of German beer on draught for e5 , when I was there a few weeks back...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,918 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    But you will get happy hour and guest beer offers there which are illegal here.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,529 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    €6.90 for a Guinness in templeogue SCD.

    I paid for it 5 times.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,706 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    I drink Murphys instead of Guinness, if possible



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,529 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,312 ✭✭✭54and56




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,706 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,052 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    England in general also has way more price variety than Ireland and that's not including Spoons. I used drink in a number of pubs between Elephant & Castle and Waterloo and a pub crawl could have 3.50, 4, 5.50, 6 or 7 pounds a pint in pubs on my walk from one to the other. Quality of client was better in the more expensive places but quality of beer or pub often wasn't.

    Happy hour in London is very rare unless you are somewhere like Allbarone or O'Neills and I would take a more expensive pint or a Spoons over that shte any time.



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