Price of pint going up by 15c next month

gurramok · 20-02-2008 07:15PM #1

Just read this in paper, Diageo are going to up the price by 5c and publicans will add 10c to the likes of Guinness, Bud, Heineken, Carslberg etc on March 3rd.:mad:

'Increase necessitated by increased overheads, production costs, ongoing market investment'

So it looks like your average pint of lager will hit the fiver mark now.(other brewers to follow suit as well)

Question is, will you pay it or will you turn more to the offy(same increases there as well) or go permo sober?

yoyo · 20-02-2008 07:25PM

A Fiver for a pint, thats a disgrace, Cans/Bottles deffo ftw now...

Nick

Jay P · 20-02-2008 07:27PM

The offy no doubt, it's well cheaper as it its, the only thing is you have to wait for a free house...

Red Hand · 20-02-2008 07:31PM

Make your own in the bath.:)

rubadub · 20-02-2008 07:40PM

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

Make your own in the bath.:)

or do it properly

www.homedistiller.org

best site I have ever seen on a subject

All it means is more young people will turn to other recreational drugs. Drinking vodka with legal coke costs more than doing illegal coke. E's are going for the less than the price of a half pint.

Red Hand · 20-02-2008 07:49PM

Aye, and a litre of petrol is going for 110.99c in my local filling station.

Oh, many's the larks I had...

The Real B-man · 20-02-2008 08:23PM

Ahh feck us Bulmers drinkers are already paying over the odds for a pint how can they justify it why is it always the most expensive pint!

rubadub · 20-02-2008 08:26PM

The Real B-man wrote: »

Ahh feck us Bulmers drinkers are already paying over the odds for a pint how can they justify it why is it always the most expensive pint!

Higher tax on cider than beer. Cider used to be the cheaper drink.

testicle · 20-02-2008 08:33PM

The Real B-man wrote: »

Ahh feck us Bulmers drinkers are already paying over the odds for a pint how can they justify it why is it always the most expensive pint!

Diageo don't make Bulmers....

Terry · 20-02-2008 08:57PM

I haven't been in a pub since new years eve (apart from picking up a few cans).
I was in a night club last Thursday, but the pints were €3.
It's far too expensive, especially when work is thin on the ground.

Ruu_Old · 20-02-2008 08:59PM

Maybe you can quit drinking now if it makes you so upset about the extra 15c.

briantwin · 20-02-2008 09:18PM

Source??
I cant find anything about this online except from 2004 or 2006. What paper did you read this in?

is your name Doc.Browne??

Terry · 20-02-2008 09:31PM

Ruu wrote: »

Maybe you can quit drinking now if it makes you so upset about the extra 15c.

You go to hell.
You go to hell and you die.

I'm gonna be found dead with a pint glass in my hand and when people come to view my body, the glass will still be there because nobody will be able to pry it from my cold dead hands.

27 minutes untl the offie closes.
Time to put my shoes on and get mopre beer.

Capt'n Midnight · 20-02-2008 09:42PM

Anyone have historical figures for how much the publican gets and the tax take over the year ?

stepbar · 20-02-2008 10:29PM

Simple solution. More beer from the off licence.

TBH we have far too many pubs in Ireland. Might be no harm to cull a few.

Capt'n Midnight · 20-02-2008 10:32PM

ttp://www.finfacts.ie/biz10/irelandtaxproportionretailprice.htm
Excluding VAT the government take only 47c on the price of a pint.

http://www.vfi.ie/home/news.aspx?id=7&type_id=1&news_id=41
Last year the VFI wantd the government to reduce this to 27c claiming that they would reduce the price by 50c at the taps. :rolleyes:

might have a look at www.cso.ie to see if they have a clearer table

Plug · 20-02-2008 10:51PM

testicle wrote: »

Diageo don't make Bulmers....

Does that mean it won't go up?

c0rk3r · 20-02-2008 10:56PM

testicle wrote: »

Diageo don't make Bulmers....

But if they did it would be the best bulmers in the world.....oh wait thats something else. Another price increase how surprising. Just encourages people having a few cans before they head out really.

cson · 20-02-2008 11:31PM

Anyone notice a real decline in the quality of pints? I don't give a rats arse if I'm being racialist here, but almost every foreign barman I've encountered doesn't have a fooks notion of how to pull a pint. I was in a pub the other night, it wasn't busy (I wouldn't touch pints if its busy, the lack of quality is understandable in that scenario) and Powlish Bob just poured my Guinness straight. Instead of settling the fecking head disappeared on it :eek: Complained to him and he only wiped the sides of it with a tea towel (It had seeped down the sides something terrible). Stayed complaining and one of the Irish lads came over, took one look and said ah for **** sake and poured me a fresh one.

Bleedin Forryners, the worlds in a terrible state o' chassis.

Edit: Some bastardin' offies have slapped 50c on a pack of 8 for €9 Bavaria. Fecking disgrace.

admiralofthefleet · 20-02-2008 11:32PM

if diagio didnt waste 14 million on an advertisement but instead drop the price of a pint by 5/10 cent then sales would pick up

Melion · 20-02-2008 11:36PM

Terry wrote: »

I haven't been in a pub since new years eve (apart from picking up a few cans).
I was in a night club last Thursday, but the pints were €3.
It's far too expensive, especially when work is thin on the ground.

€3 for a pint and you think its too expensive???

rubadub · 20-02-2008 11:36PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

if diagio didnt waste 14 million on an advertisement but instead drop the price of a pint by 5/10 cent then sales would pick up

Ah, will you stop making sense. Sure then more would drink in the pubs and the vitners would have nothing to moan about, the bunch of miserable kunts.

24 500ml cans of miller for €24 in tesco ATM,

Leon11 · 20-02-2008 11:46PM

Terry wrote: »

I was in a night club last Thursday, but the pints were €3.

The Ozone is no nightclub, a hellhole alright, not a nightclub:D

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 20-02-2008 11:46PM

I hope they increase it by more.
Might make some people quit that disgusting drinking habbit.

Tobias Greeshman · 20-02-2008 11:53PM

Leon11 wrote: »

The Ozone is no nightclub, a hellhole alright, not a nightclub:D

Bloody hell is that place still around! :eek:

constitutionus · 21-02-2008 12:03AM

one word lads: smuggling

sooner or later it'll end up cost effective like the smokes. theres fecking tons of them being brought into the country.

soon lads will be taking the ferry to england/france in their hiaces and flogging the stuff door to door

being serious though as a coors drinker im alright but the vintners must be the only business in the world that when things are going bad put the price UP in order to scare off what remaining drinkers they still have.

i sense a case of the capital gains tax thing going on here. if they halved the price they'd more than double their sales because people ran out of the pubs by high pint prices would flood back . but noooooo. that'd make sense.:rolleyes:

kawaii · 21-02-2008 12:22AM

cson wrote: »

just poured my Guinness straight. Instead of settling the fecking head disappeared on it :eek: Complained to him and he only wiped the sides of it with a tea towel (It had seeped down the sides something terrible).

LMAO!!

I think they do that in a lot of other countries though. He'll learn.

cson · 21-02-2008 12:29AM

I was going through a quiet patch early in the night yesterday too and I started trying to calculate exactly how much Vintners make off spirits. It's something shocking, I'd reckon. Take for instance a bottle of Mickey Finns - €12 ish quid for a 500ml bottle in the shops. A shot is 33mls. This place charged €4 a shot. So 33 into 500 goes roughly 15 times. So thats 15 shots at €4 a go. Thats €60 gross on a bottle. Now you can be sure their not paying €12 for it. I'd reckon half that, €6. That'd mean €54 profit. You can bet its roughly the same for Vodka too.

And thats without the ludicrous €1 they charge for a splash. T'is diriculous.

brow_601 · 21-02-2008 12:36AM

Ruu wrote: »

Maybe you can quit drinking now if it makes you so upset about the extra 15c.

maybe you could cut out the crazy talk

constitutionus · 21-02-2008 12:36AM

1 euro for a splash ?!

the fcukers in dublin wont give you a feckin splash in most places now. its 2.50 to 4 euro for a small fecking bottle depending where you go.

its one of the reason i stopped drinking suddie and red's in pubs. much easier to buy a bottle of TK and drink at home

themadchef · 21-02-2008 12:38AM

Sure the auld lads are goin mad since the last price rise. It always seems to come in just before the summer, they think it's so we can nail the tourists

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Price of pint of Guinnes in Achill €3.60 larger €4.00...... not so bad.

Price of pint going up by 15c next month

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