Price of a pint !

I can't taste any difference between Guinness and Beamish.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Prices may have risen but they've risen in line with wages in the majority.

Do you not know it's illegal to mention the name of the pub on a thread 😄

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.

Can't tell if sarcasm or genuinely breaking the rules…

/sups pint… ahhhhh

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.

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.

It's not just Diageo.