What is a fair price for a pint of Beer?

Doni Mack · 16-02-2010 05:50PM #1

Guinness €2.75. Beer maybe €3.

Discuss the issues.

bluto63 · 16-02-2010 05:51PM

Here in London I can get a pint for £1.25

Pretty fair IMO

Guy:Incognito · 16-02-2010 05:52PM

bluto63 wrote: »

Here in London I can get a pint for £1.25

Pretty fair IMO

A pint of what?

Doni Mack · 16-02-2010 05:55PM

Stekelly wrote: »

A pint of what?

Probably disgusting Carling

16-02-2010 05:55PM

bluto63 wrote: »

Here in London I can get a pint for £1.25

Pretty fair IMO

In Aberdeen. The lowest I have seen it in the student bar was £1.55 for a pint of Tennants.

smellslikeshoes · 16-02-2010 05:55PM

3 is a nice number, be handy to give a 5 and get a two euro coin back instead of a bunch of change.

The_Kew_Tour · 16-02-2010 05:57PM

3.50 to 4 Euro max depending on drink.

raptorman · 16-02-2010 05:58PM

I'd be happy with €3.30, basically three pints for a tenner.

ScumLord · 16-02-2010 06:00PM

€3 That's probably still a 50% mark up.

Dravokivich · 16-02-2010 06:01PM

I think it should be more around €2.50, thats what i noticed the average to be for a decent point up north...

Don't see why it's practically twice the price here. There'd be more imported... bigger market....

It's all the bleeding taxes they have on it.

I mean seriously, it's cheaper to get a Guinness up North then it is down the bleeding road.

krustydoyle · 16-02-2010 06:01PM

I pay 4 euro in my local for a pint, but it can be found for bout 3.85 in the workmans club..

Holsten · 16-02-2010 06:02PM

Guinness = €2.
Other common largers = €3.
Speciality beers = €4.

meditraitor · 16-02-2010 06:03PM

2 euro is a fair price for a beer, considering its mostly just water. How much does it cost to make. I know, I know the taxman blah blah

But €2 is fair

Sea Sharp · 16-02-2010 06:04PM

3 euro seems like a fair price to me. It's good to see a lot of places are making the price changes.

On another note, I was told that that crappy Meath night-club 'The Vortex' is now offering 1.50 drinks. :eek:

Bonito · 16-02-2010 06:05PM

My local

Guinness €3.65
Beamish €3.50
Budweiser/carslberg/heineken €3.50
Bavaria €3.00
Fosters €3.00

Caoimhín · 16-02-2010 06:06PM

I think it should be on a sliding scale (impossible to enforce though), for example, your first few should be 2 or 3 Euro, after that it goes up 1 euro a pint. Maybe that way the drunkenness and all the associated problems that afflict this country would be curbed.

Well at least the extra revenue could be saved up for all the liver transplants that will be required in 20 years.

Naos · 16-02-2010 06:07PM

Ah The County Club (The Vortex).

They give you the cheapest of the cheap there, no pint of beer either if I recall was all bottled. Also there is/was a 15e - 20e admission price.

Considering everything, I think 3.50e would be a fair price to pay. The publicans get more than their fair cut and we're not being shafted too hard.

Hmmm, thinking about this it was only about 2 - 3 ago when Fosters were doing 3.30e a pint so you could get 3 for a tenner. Just a pity it was Fosters.

16-02-2010 06:07PM

I keep being told this recession is like the 80's so lets have 1980's prices which is somewhere between 1.37 and 1.87 in euro

http://www.finfacts.ie/Private/bestprice/guinnessindex.htm
link has table with price of beer and some index half way down the page in black and red (proably linking to average wage or something) which Im too lazy to uderstand

James Forde · 16-02-2010 06:07PM

Bonito wrote: »

My local

Guinness €3.65
Beamish €3.50
Budweiser/carslberg/heineken €3.50
Bavaria €3.00
Fosters €3.00

are the toothpicks free?

Bonito · 16-02-2010 06:10PM

meditraitor wrote: »

2 euro is a fair price for a beer, considering its mostly just water. How much does it cost to make. I know, I know the taxman blah blah

But €2 is fair

Off topic but it costs dominos €2.50-€3.50 to make a 16 inch pizza, that's including their expenses of esb bills and renting premesis and wages. Anything else is all profit for them.

Mimikyu · 16-02-2010 06:11PM

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Bonito · 16-02-2010 06:11PM

bryanjf wrote: »

are the toothpicks free?

Dunno what pub you're drinking in :rolleyes:
Very poor effort of a personal attack to get you some thanks thinking you're hilarious.

Doni Mack · 16-02-2010 06:14PM

Bonito wrote: »

Dunno what pub you're drinking in :rolleyes:
Very poor effort of a personal attack to get you some thanks thinking you're hilarious.

Lets not have this thread degenerate into a slanging match between products of incest please.

Alessandra · 16-02-2010 06:16PM

3.50eu is a fair price for a pint. It's about that in other European countries.

That_Guy · 16-02-2010 06:20PM

Pubs should do what Radiohead did with their last album. Give the public a choice as to how much they would be willing to pay for the album or in this case the pint.

TheZohanS · 16-02-2010 06:21PM

Doni Mack wrote: »

Lets not have this thread degenerate into a slanging match between products of incest please.

It will be a while before you see this thread again.

meditraitor · 16-02-2010 06:21PM

Bonito wrote: »

Off topic but it costs dominos €2.50-€3.50 to make a 16 inch pizza, that's including their expenses of esb bills and renting premesis and wages. Anything else is all profit for them.

Thats what Im talking about, value for money is thin on the ground in this country.... Domino's is pretty rank all the same:pac:

Iwasfrozen · 16-02-2010 06:31PM

GaNjaHaN wrote: »

3 euro seems like a fair price to me. It's good to see a lot of places are making the price changes.

On another note, I was told that that crappy Meath night-club 'The Vortex' is now offering 1.50 drinks. :eek:

It isn't crappy anymore.

AnonoBoy · 16-02-2010 06:36PM

INT. LOCAL PUB - DAY

AnonoBoy: Can I have a pint?
Barman: 5 euro
AnonoBoy: Aw, c'mon, now! Look out for a brother, man, c'mon, yeah. Check this out: why don't you let me get a sip for fifteen cents?
Barman: My pint glasses cost more than fifteen cents!
AnonoBoy: All right, f*ck the glass. Pour it in my hand for five.

True story.

artanevilla · 16-02-2010 06:38PM

Where are you all getting these prices from? You do know that you're paying for more than the liquid in the glass?

meditraitor · 16-02-2010 06:40PM

artanevilla wrote: »

Where are you all getting these prices from? You do know that you're paying for more than the liquid in the glass?

enlighten me young brother?

What is a fair price for a pint of Beer?

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