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..
Heineken €5.80
The River Run Bar & Restaurant
Mountshannon Co. Clare
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.
€7.50 for an Asahi in O'Connell's on South Richmond Street Dublin.
€7.10 for Rockshore and Hophouse in Mooneys Abbey st, last Saturday week
Two of the weakest lagers around. Rockshore shouldn't be any more expensive than Carling/Tuborg and Hothouse maybe 30c more.
Under 6 I actually have no idea.
The elphin baldoyle is €6.30, Duffys Malahide is €6.60.
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/
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:
3.50 for 50cl, or 3.80 per pint, in 2025, in the capital city of a rich country.
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.
Proof for the Wetherspoons deniers that we are being absolutely robbed.
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.
Yes, there is more price dispersion abroad than here.
I have a contact in Berlin this wekeend, I will report actual September 2025 prices.
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
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.
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.
50cl bottles are from 3.80.
The third image is some whiskey price in a Berlin cafe/bar, I don't know the location.
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
and there is no excuse which stands up.
Local breweries, then again Guinness is local for Dublin.
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.
Never mind London, go to Manchester, unless you’re in a Wetherspoons you’re looking at around £6 a pint.
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…
More price lists from Berlin bars, September 2025
Strangely, bottles (flaschen) are cheaper than draught (vom Fass).
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.
Does it have a widget?
Cassidys on westmoreland street, had a pint of German beer on draught for e5 , when I was there a few weeks back...
But you will get happy hour and guest beer offers there which are illegal here.
€6.90 for a Guinness in templeogue SCD.
I paid for it 5 times.
I drink Murphys instead of Guinness, if possible
In Dublin?
Yes
Yeah, a few places have it on draught...
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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