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..
To be fair I noticed it on draught in the morgue templeogue today. Never got around to asking the price of a pint vs the €6.90 for a Guinness though.
Interesting. It wasn't in my Aldi yesterday.
I wonder would it be rebranded Beamish? The % would make it seem likely and going by your review the taste seems similar.
Must check if they've got it in during the week.
O'Haras Nitro rebadge is more likely considering Aldi have an existing relationship with them
Possible but in my experience (well my wife's experience who spent some of her career working for a retailer on own brand contract manufacturing) whilst the brewer may well be O'Hara's or Beamish or whoever the product itself is very unlikely to be a simple rebadge of their own existing product as retailers like to have ownership of their own recipe / IP and thus control over where and how it is produced so if they have a falling out with the existing brewer or what to move production for whatever reason to a new brewer they can and the product remains consistent regardless of who is brewing / producing it. A bit like how a lot of international brand beers are brewed under licence locally.
Anyway, here's an interesting review of the Mulligans Stout Vs Guinness and Murphy's.
Irish breweries are much less willing to get in to that game. According to the head brewer at the time who told me (well, told a tour I was on - not me personally) Rye River own all the recipes and even most of the brand names (!) of their supermarket exclusive products
Don't want to side track the thread but there are two subtle differences here.
Beweries who develop "supermarket" brands (in order to not canabalise their own brand) will own that product / brand and the supermarket will buy it like they do any other manufacturers branded product e.g. the Dot Brew spin off series Side Step IPA sold in Aldi is, I think, a supermarket only brand developed and owned by Dot Brew and, as an aside, my favourite IPA for sipping at home.
The alternative is where supermarkets develop products under their own brand name and have them made / produced / brewed on a contract basis. In that case the supermarket owns the recipe and brand etc and that's what Mulligans is as it states on the can that it's produced for Aldi UK & Ireland and brewed in the UK.
Menu in Geyerwally pub Munich, Germany, last night.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/WUEY6uyKjGTmsiZ1A
These are bottles:
And 500ml, unlike the 330ml mainly served in Ireland.
a menu with prices!
Someone posted a Halloween menu with lots of detail about the beers on offer but no prices on it at all. Fk that, that is nothing but contempt for your customers.
More prices from Munich, this week.
Cafe Kosmos, Dachauer Straße 7, München
https://cafe-kosmos.de/
Beer is 1.30 for 25cl.
So €2.95 per pint, in central Munich.
I will try to adjust to Irish taxes.
VAT in DE is 19%, excise duty is €0.787 per 100 L per degree plato, so under 1 cent per litre per degree plato
1.30 less 19% VAT less excise duty of 1 cent
The ex-VAT and ex-duty price is €1.0824 per 25cl.
Therefore, the brewer, distribution and pub share in €1.08 per small glass of beer.
Looking at the per pint price of €2.95, less 19% VAT and say 5 cent excise, that leaves €2.43 between the brewery and the pub.
Could that be done in Dublin? Could an Irish brewer supply pints and a pub sell them, at 2.43 before tax? That is possible in high cost Munich.
Bear in mind that employers PRSI is much higher in DE than here. Also, elec is expensive there, nearly as bad as here.
I now add Irish excise and VAT to that 2.43 cost.
(2.43 + 0.55 excise) *1.23 = 3.6654
So if we had competition between brewers like exists in other countries, we should have pints at €4.00 or less in Dublin.
More prices from Munich, sent to me today.
Hopfendolde
Feilitzstrasse 17
80802 München Schwabing
http://www.hopfen-dolde.de/
The price of the mass here is astonishing.
€5.50 for a litre of helles, that is €3.13 per pint.
We are being robbed by the VFI and LVA.
We are voluntarily being robbed. If people weren't prepared to pay €10:45 for a pint of Guineess in The Temple Bar bar they wouldn't be selling it for €10:45 a pint.
Jesus how many times now has that tourist dump been used as an indicator of prices on this thread 🙄
A few points :)
How much is a gunnisses in Munich in a pub people want to go to?
Only students and alcoholics look for somewhere with the cheapest.
Pub culture is a significant aspect of Irish life, encompassing more than just drinking.
I see they're not robbing people for soft drinks there too unlike the pubs here.
Bollocks. Dumb attitudes like that are part of the reason why we get ripped off in this country time and time again.
People who don't like getting ripped off by insanely over priced drink will also seek out more reasonable prices and they're correct to do so. Choosing were to spend what's in your wallet is the only power that's open to the consumer.
Pint of Guinness 5.50 Teachers Club Parnell Square - Dublin. A nice pint it is too.
If from Ireland only a complete gobdaw would drink in the “Temple Bar” pub. I am starting to think hearing the Temple Bar area mentioned, Americans equate it to the pub of the same name.
You think Munich doesn't have pubs as an important part of their culture ?
That's a good point; somewhere like the teacher's club would have a mixed enough clientele. Why would anyone go to a pub in Temple Bar?
Theres some great pubs and places to eat in Temple Bar. They are not all like the tourist trap The Temple Bar.
List of some of the cheapest pints in Dublin dated (May 2024)
https://lovindublin.com/best-of/cheapest-pints-dublin#
Surprised how cheap that place near Tara Street station is.
Give an example, my days of going out at night in Dublin, but the only nice one I can think of is The Palace
I'm a big fan of The Foggy Dew and the Ha'penny is grand. Not sure if Parliament St. is Temple Bar officially but I sometimes stop at Porterhouse and always stop at the Music Cafe for a pint when in Dublin even though it's not officially a pub.
Palace would be one I would have on the list too.
It was €8.50 for 50cl of Augustiner in the Porter House last time I was there pre-summer
And Tegernsee is a wonderful 🍺
Of course, it has a pub culture, my point is the choice of pub is about much more than how much the alcohol costs.
Does that also include a lap-dance?
I must be fair.
Those €2.95 and €3.13 equivalent pints in Munich are not the total norm.
A more typical price is €4.50 for 50cl, which is €5.11 per pint.
But a pint is less than 50cl so why would it cost more?
