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..
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0126/1555242-heineken-price-increase/
As expected, Heineken follow Diageo.
I can't taste any difference between Guinness and Beamish.
I know they are a global company, but are they trying to kill the Irish trade off altogether?
Big brewers offering perks for working with them isn't the same thing. The entire industry does it both big and small to different degrees.
To use insurance it's more like being offed a no claims bonus or a loyalty bonus.
And Heineken do the same with lagers, so many pubs don't have carlsberg on draught now. Surely these practices are anti competitive. Why don't the competition authority do an investigation into all this carry on . The government is a secret beneficiary of all these shenanigans, less competition means higher prices and higher tax revenue for them. Also if we had a truly competitive pub beer market the sile gilheanys of alcohol awareness would be jumping up and down about it. The amount of media exposure that one gets is crazy. I think she was actually welcoming the Guinness price increases and saying its still too cheap and she is never properly challenged.
Out on a stag last night, ordered the same drink 3 times in one pub, got a Murphy's glass the first time, a Guinness glass the second time and a Beamish glass the third time. Wasn't even drinking stout.
Who should I make my formal complaint to? Only just come to terms with the trauma this morning!
On a more serious note, don't see these 20-30c price increases having any noticeable impact on attitudes.
Was in The Terenure Inn a couple of times shortly before Xmas. €6.70 for a pint of Guinness. Using minimum wage as a barometer, 1 hour gross way (€13.50 last year) would get you 2.015 pints.
If the price of a pint goes up to €7.00 this year, the new minimum wage (€14.15) would get you 2.02 pints.
Going back to 2020, a pint was probably about €5.00, while minimum wage was €10.10, so minimum wage would have gotten you 2.02 pints.
Shhhh
Don't be so sensible and be giving sensible reasons for price increases. 🤣
I'm in retail and the cost of min wage and pension and wage increases will see my wage costs jump 4%. Wages are near 20% of turnover and almost 50% of the gross profit.
Add in rates increase, utilities increase, goods transport increase and I have to find a way to increase prices by 3% without dropping sales.
It's the same for the hospitality business and my guess is they need to find closer to 5% increase to stay still.
In reality, the only people really whining are those who go out on "benders". I'll happily pop into my local and enjoy two pints over a couple of hours. I'll enjoy the warm space, the comfortable chairs, the football on the TV and some banter. €15 for that is great value. (Currently €13.60)
In one of the locals last night. Saw that the price of the pint went up from 6.10 to 6.50. It's now 13 euro for a round of two.
People were not happy.
What pub ? Name and shame.
Edit: Sorry quoted the wrong person. When it comes to price increases I do agree. You are not just paying for wage and cost increases in your business but along the entire chain.
A downtown Dublin pub was packed with happy customers paying €11.45 for a pint of Heino. Last Thursday, 10pm.
Are we heading towards the €15 pint ? In Temple Bar, natch.
Again which pub. Why are people all about telling us about these horrible places but won't name them ?
Yeah where was this, Temple Bar ?
Yes, a fun crowd enjoying life in Gogartys, Temple bar. Fledgling Guinness drinkers in the late sixties were outraged when pubs increased the price of 4 pints to over 10 shillings in old money. A slippery slope towards the €15 pint.
Out on a stag last night, ordered the same drink 3 times in one pub, got a Murphy's glass the first time, a Guinness glass the second time and a Beamish glass the third time. Wasn't even drinking stout.Who should I make my formal complaint to? Only just come to terms with the trauma this morning!
Any alcohol-related thread on Boards is bound to have an incredible amount of bullshit in it, doubly so if the subject is Guinness! You must have been imagining this incident, it could not possibly have happened… 🙄
In the old orchard on Monday and I was happy to see they are now serving Murphy’s. Pints were €6.50 compared to €6.70 for a Guinness. Murphy’s is not bad actually.
There is a need for a United strong pushback by the drinking public. People need to Boycott guinness until the price is lowered - I would say 5 euro is fair. in meantime drink the alternatives and hopefully St James Gate get the message.
We can escalate the pushback if need be.
It's not just Guinness.
Pints aren't going to be reduced.
As previously pointed out on this thread,
€6.70 for a pint of Guinness. Using minimum wage as a barometer, 1 hour gross way (€13.50 last year) would get you 2.015 pints. If the price of a pint goes up to €7.00 this year, the new minimum wage (€14.15) would get you 2.02 pints.
Prices may have risen but they've risen in line with wages in the majority.
5.50 a pint in the Swans' bar, Grange, Co. Limerick recently. Like Manna from Heaven.
11.45 for a pint of Heineken? Not a hope!!!
Do you not know it's illegal to mention the name of the pub on a thread 😄
None of that makes this price gouging ok and as long as people keep using this nonsense as some sort of soothing justification, we'll keep getting ripped off.
Explain how people are being ripped off when wages are going up at the same rate of the cost of a pint?
You're getting the same amount of pints in relation to wages as you were in 2020.
€50 will now only last ya a few hours 😠
Can't tell if sarcasm or genuinely breaking the rules…
/sups pint… ahhhhh
Also takes you less hours to earn that €50
Stop lad. It's silly.
Brewers are taking the piss and no amount of woolly justification is going to make that ok. They're simply increasing the price now on a whim and the frequency of increase has gotten out of control. What's galling is that you have people making their excuses for them, they don't even need to come up with their own. Companies that are making BILLIONS in profit each year giving people the poor mouth and saying the "have" to increase prices.
It's a bloody joke.
You cannot refute the maths that show that people are not being ripped off.
It's purely your opinion that they are, nothing more and with nothing to back it up.
I wish they were cheaper (who doesn't) but they're not and my wages are better, so what's the point in moaning? I'll still enjoy my pints when out.
It's a rip off when it's unnecessary and none of these price hikes for companies that are making obscene profits are necessary.
If you're happy to pay silly prices for a pint of liquid go for it. The real result is going to be less people going out and businesses dying off all because of unfettered greed.
There's your "maths" right there.
we need a United strong backlash here. Boycott of all Guinness and Diageo products until they reduce the prices. I would argue 5 euro is a fair price for a pint.
We as punters need to realise the POWER the consumer buyer has in this.
It's not just Diageo.
