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..
Pint is 568ml.
€6.10 in our local for a pint of Guinness, and very nice it was too, I'm not a big drinker and never was, we went out for lunch, the place was jammed but I'd say 90% were having food, only one person sitting at the bar with the paper and a pint, culture around drinking has changed a lot.
Maybe depends on where you are. None of the pubs I drink in here in Limerick have food and they are all pretty busy. They are not the cheaper pubs either but people seem willing to pay for a place offering real quality.
A pint is 568ml.
Sorry, I always though it was less for some reason.
Should include a hand job
Handy 'equivalence':
1 litre = 1.75 pints or 1¾ pints
500ml = ⅞ of a pint.
A pint - in Ireland or the UK - is 568 ml. You might be thinking of the American pint measure, which is around 473 ml.
Went for a couple of drinks in the Trinity bar on Dame st, Temple Bar-adjacent. €8.50 for a pint of Heineken. Didn't grumble too much - it was my choice to be there because I was meeting someone.
It was when I checked the receipt after another round that I almost choked; €4 for a bag of cheese and onion Tayto…
I know - Temple Bar, tourists, etc - but €4 for a bag of crisps is absolutely taking the p*ss.
Will never darken the door again, etc.
€4 for crisps!!! That's mental.
€1.50 in Hogan's and €7.50 for a Heineken (if that's you thing).
And that's still taking the piss.
Was in a bar in Berlin this week. €3 for a 500ml Pils. If you brought your glass back to the bar it was €2.25
Was in Amsterdam this weekend. Price of a pint ranging from €8.50 to €10.
People would die if they went to Singapore, cheapest pint I had (outside of Chinatown) was €14.
€32 for a pint and a vodka and coke.
In my local (county Limerick) a Guinness is 5.50. Is that good?
And it's a CRACKING pint!
My brother was in Portugal recently. 2.50 euro to 3 euro for 500ml of beer, that is 7/8 of a pint.
Probably would be cheaper still if you went to towns inland that were not touristy.
I'd say that's on par, although I'm not familiar with many places in Limerick, but it's below average for most places in Dublin.
Non-tourist places still often have 330ml bottles for €1. They're about 40c in bulk in supermarkets, so they are not making large margins on them.
I know shop and supermarket prices are cheaper, I was talking about the value to be had in a reasonable quality bar in a tourist town on the coast.
Tourists must find our drink prices quite expensive, I had not much change out of 100 euro for a small round ( three couples, so 6 people ) of drinks and taytos in Dublin recently.
That €1 is bar/restaurant pricing away from the tourists. Was 80c when I was in the same place in 2016, or you'd get a ~200ml "fino" (tall/thin) glass of draught for the same price.
The draught was only popular with drivers really!
Dublin city centre prices are pretty much normal - if not on the cheaper end - for city centre prices anywhere in Europe or the US; but we don't have comparable tourist resort pricing.
What was the order if you don't mind me asking? €15 average drink seems very expensive.
6 pints in my local in Dublin would be €39.
Try Temple bar for a mixed round of 6 drinks ( not all pints) and crisps.
Try Temple bar for a mixed round of 6 drinks
No, because it would cost me a lot of money, I also don't put my hand in a fire and complain i got burned.
Was in the bar in the Goblet Malahide road over the weekend. €6.50 pint of coors. Not too bad for a nice pint and great ambience 😉
Newport Tipperary €5.80 for pint of Guinness. Down the road in Annacotty a pint of 00 Heineken is €6.30.
Yet as a tourist myself when I visit the equivalent of Temple Bar in other European cities I don't pay €10 or €11 for a pint and don't have to worry about getting my hand burnt 🤔
No offence but you cannot complain about it being expensive when you go for pints in Temple Bar.
Even tourists know how insanely expensive it is. It'd be like going to Brown Thomas and expecting Penny's prices.
It really depends on where you go, I (unknowingly) paid €14 for a pint in the centre square in Bruges back in 2018. Only realised when we got the total bill.
You will pay £9 in a lot of pubs in London, easily pay similar in nice areas of Paris. Go to the Scandi countries or Switzerland and see how much pints will set you back in touristy areas.
It's estimated that a 7c increase would translate to a 20c rise in prices "at the pump", when VAT is included.
Gougers
