Price of a pint !

In Cork city center now i find on average the price for most pints is about €7

I have also noted subtle price hikes in supermarkets across a range of products since the new year - Aldi etc

Publican on newstalk now saying it’s a lot safer for people to drink in pubs than at home

What was the idiots reasoning?

And when people leave his pub and out on the streets cause trouble… the lying gombeen knows nothing about that I'm sure :)

The cunts will keep doing this until people just simply stop buying their stuff.

It's pure, unadulterated, greed and nothing more.

You must have shares in Wetherspoons.

The average price in London is between £7-8, even out in many suburbs. You might find a pint for £5 here and there, but it's rare. That's excluding JDW.

If you're getting cask monday - wednesday in Zone 1, it might sneak in under a fiver, but even wetherspoons in central london is 5.50 - 7.25 a pint.

It feels like they're trying to get as much lucre in before either selling the company off or until things go pop.

But we are a captive audience here. We like our pints and our pub culture. These wankers know that and will continue to gouge accordingly until there's a significant drop off in sales.

I'll only drink in Disndat in town, but they've raised their prices. I think you can still get a pint for a fiver on Thursdays. It's either there or a spoons for me. The Spoons are generally awful buildings to go for a pint in. I genuinely have no idea why they use such terrible surroundings. If they had more traditional style pubs, they'd do far more business.

I think the Crafty Fox still does a Guinness for 5 Euro.

If an when my local puts the price up to 7 or thereabouts, I'm done.

They come out with some shite. It is illegal to serve alcohol to someone who is drunk *. I have yet to see that happen in this country. I saw it once in the UK.

*The 2008 Intoxicating Liquor Act makes it a criminal offence to serve someone who's drunk, defined as drunk to such an extent that it would be reasonable to think they could endanger themselves or others.

https://www.alcohol.ie/avoiding-law-suits-on-your-premises#:~:text=The%202008%20Intoxicating%20Liquor%20Act,could%20endanger%20themselves%20or%20others.

The publicans are, in nearly every case, paying less for the main Irish craft kegs, and charging more for them.

Depends on the pub you're in. I have definitely seen people refused pints in the two locals I frequent.

I was myself refused in Bruxelles one night and I wasn't even that drunk! I swear! 🤪

But, yeah, in any case that chap saying it's safer to drink in a boozer than at home is talking bollocks.

5 price hikes in 3 years, they seem determined to kill pub drinking that's for sure.

That publican on Newstalk was spouting some tripe today, blamed Diageo, the government but forgot to include publicans not standing against these hikes and not mentioning the gouging that his fellow publicans do.

The only thing I will allow for is the pub culture is dying in this country, I wonder what the age demographic is now compared to the average age 30 years ago?

Was talking to a former colleague who runs an Irish pub in central London and the price Guinness charge him is crazy in comparison to other house beers.

Problem is despite the price the customers drink so much of it "because it's a good Guinness" that it totally fuks his real gross profit which means every other beer he stocks is cheap shte so he can make the GP margin the company demands.

Guinness is just a behemoth and can do what it wants. They now have a TV show and just launched a tourist experience in Covent Garden. They are so good at marketing that they have made Guinness "the local beer you have to try" when you visit London. It sounds bizarre but I have sold enough Guinness to tourists to know it's true. The Devonshire in Soho is the most talked about pub in England the last few years because of Guinness.

Pure greed.

I bailed out on Guinness after their last price increase. Even the nitrosurge cans at home are a rip off