Price of a pint !

It's the same with energy companies, supermarkets, banks, phone providers, they all consistently increase their prices despite making billions, yet we rarely see the level of outrage as the cost of a pint going up.

I'm paying less in terms of my wage ratio for my pints as I was 5 years ago, as are the majority of people.

Your maths wasn't actually maths, just another opinion.

It's the price you sometimes pay for a can of Coke or a shrunken chocolate bar that gets me fuming. They almost double the price of lunch if you go to a deli.

It just shows that in monetary terms there's no rip off occurring if the majority are paying the same in relation to wages as 5 years ago.

We can go back further, 2013 figures, if you want it courtesy of David Higgins (economist).

The average weekly wage was €690, that would buy you roughly 166 pints, the average weekly wage today is just over €1k and that also buys you, wait for it……..166 pints

https://x.com/higginsdavidw/status/2012225255750689225

You can keep saying this, but it doesn't change the fact that these companies are gouging. All you're doing is making excuses for them.

Your opinion does not have more weight than the actual facts no matter how much you complain.

Pints are no more expensive now than they were in 2013 in regards to wages so therefore, factually not a rip off.

Anecdotally, I used to pay €5-6 for Erdinger in the old Q Bar around 2003-2004. Based on CPI, the equivalent price should now be around €8-9. I was in there last year and paid €8 for a Retro IPA. Doubtless it was gouging back in the day and still is now - but between income tax and my other outgoings common to then and now, it certainly seems to be a lot less affordable.

I remember my grandfather being outraged when he could no longer get a pint and 20 Sweet Afton for a pound. Would have been early to mid 70’s

Breweries have been charging Irish customers more for identical product, often made in Ireland, for decades; but the particular brigandery in terms of profit margins started in the late 90s.

Why do you have such a bee in your bonnet about trying to defend these prices?

I just don’t understand the absolute outrage on display why they’re the basically the same price in relation to wages as they were in 2020, 2013 and even further back.

I’d love them to be cheaper, but I’d love everything to be cheaper and having a moan about it isn’t going to make it happen.

I’d rather just go out and enjoy having pints be they €6.50 or €6.70, makes little to no difference to the majority.

I was up in Belfast Sunday/Monday and a pint was £6.70p and that was outside the Cathedral Quarter… Was talking to a local who said Belfast is now the equivalent of Dublin and London but without the IT or Pharma industry, so the general population are paying mad money but without the lucrative job prospects. To put that in to contexed, courtesy of cheap RyanAir flights I was in Glasgow on the Saturday and a Vodka and Mixer was less than £5.00 and £3.50 in some places.

I hate to see price gouging.

I’m completely against the “give us back the night” campaign - bunch of eejits who are not in the real world but that’s a separate discussion. I’m delighted to see their campaign dead and buried.

now on price of a pint -

It’s simple economics that if a product is shunned and boycotted either the product fails OR the producer reduces the price in an effort to boost sales.

Boycott them and they will buckle.

Off topic. Won’t bite other than to say MUP is a well needed public health measure.

Be around someone with “wet brain” for a while and then see how you feel about MUP…

I dunno. Not a fan of MUP myself, but I definitely buy less booze since it came in.

I was a buyer of the those cheap crates of Guinness whenever they popped up. 24 for 20. Stock up. They inevitably were drank as there was always some available!

Problem drinkers will always be problem drinkers. I don't think they were the main focus here. It's trying to prevent more problem drinkers emerging.

Is it working? Not sure, but young people are definitely drinking less. Any young people (early 20s) where I work dont drink the same way we did at that age. It's more sensible, social drinking or not at all. They are looking after themselves more for sure.

Is that down to MUP alone? No chance, but perhaps it's a factor, booze is expensive. However, the harmful effects of drinking are probably more of a factor. Zero alcohol is the safe limit, not 14 pints a week! It's also not a stigma not to drink anymore. It's nearly a badge of honour these days 😅