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The price of pints is too damn high

Spore

The price of a pint in the capital has reached ridiculous levels! The pub is the cornerstone of our society and publicans are pricing themselves into oblivion. I realize that they have to make ends meet but how is it that some pubs can have promotion pints at 2.50 for an entire night and still make a profit? There must be some amount of mark up on the 5.60 pint I was paying for last night in Toners on Baggot St. I'm not going back to pubs where the cost of a pint of larger is more than five euro.

Boycott the Baggot Mile this year!!! Who's with me? Maybe a name and shame thread on the most expensive pint in Ireland?

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It's only in Dublin so I don't mind too much! Tourists flock there and are willing to pay it so let them on

Cd_doe

Spore wrote: »

The price of a pint in the capital has reached ridiculous levels! The pub is the cornerstone of our society and publicans are pricing themselves into oblivion. I realize that they have to make ends meet but how is it that some pubs can have promotion pints at 2.50 for an entire night and still make a profit? There must be some amount of mark up on the 5.60 pint I was paying for last night in Toners on Baggot St. I'm not going back to pubs where the cost of a pint of larger is more than five euro.

Boycott the Baggot Mile this year!!! Who's with me? Maybe a name and shame thread on the most expensive pint in Ireland?

The price will continue to rise as long as people are still willing to pay it

Years ago it was great being able to go to the pub on a Friday or Saturday, now I'd only go on special occasions...

Spore

Cd_doe wrote: »

Years ago it was great being able to go to the pub on a Friday or Saturday, now I'd only go on special occasions...

Yeah it's destroying the social fabric of the city - I went to a work do last night and it certainly wasn't a free bar in any sense of the word. We went to a couple of the Baggot St pubs and the prices were disgraceful. Can't enjoy a night out when you get fleeced like that

seamus

Funny how all the talk about lowering the price of the pint to get people back in the door and how publicans are at their absolute pricing limit, has slowly been shelved.

The pubs in Temple bar in particular, despite being the busiest in the country, are taking the piss.

At the height of the boom, you would have been sweating if you saw a pint of Guinness over €5. Now that seems standard in the city centre, despite the drop in wages and pub trade.

B.A._Baracus

Yeah it's too expensive and the sad thing is that its just going to go up, and up, and up.

BeerFear

In my local outside of Dublin pints of Carling are three euro. Most pubs outside of dubin its 3 euro or 3.20. 7 pints for 21 euro is grand. Then pints of guiness is 4 euro and heineken, carlsberg, ale are all 4.10 which I don't find too bad.

How people continue to live in Dublin and getting ripped off rent wise, cost wise and the prices of houses are ridiculous.

Mint Aero

hahahaha saps! there's only one thing sappier than paying in excess of a fiver for a pint and that's paying ten squids minimum to enter sh*tty clubs :rolleyes:

Cd_doe

BeerFear wrote: »

In my local outside of Dublin pints of Carling are three euro. Most pubs outside of dubin its 3 euro or 3.20. 7 pints for 21 euro is grand. Then pints of guiness is 4 euro and heineken, carlsberg, ale are all 4.10 which I don't find too bad.

How people continue to live in Dublin and getting ripped off rent wise, cost wise and the prices of houses are ridiculous.

That's not bad.

I always find funny how people will complain about paying €1.50 for a litre of petrol, but then will go and pay about €12 for a litre of beer...

JumpShivers

Depends on where you go in the city.

zega

I hate paying over the odds for booze,be it in an off licence or pub.

LordSutch

Hopefully when 'JD Wetherspoon' arrive next year a price war will break out, and the price of the pint will drop?

Mars Bar

I paid £1.50 for a pint of Bud in a bowling alley in Preston on Thursday night. I was nearly crying in to it with happiness for having such a cheap pint and in despair for how badly we're ripped off over here.

BeerFear

Diceys! 2.50 pints cant go wrong.

Its All Wright

Never mind the pints...The price of spirits is too damn high! Places charging €8-€9 for a single shot & mixer is a disgrace

FearDark

I paid 4.60 for a Guinness in a country pub on Thursday night. It's not just Dublin. The days of going to the pub for "a few sociables" are gone, I can't even remember the last time I went to the pub for a match. I just can't afford it.

Wossack

guiness in the temple bar pub in templebar, is 6.40e iirc

beano345

BeerFear wrote: »

In my local outside of Dublin pints of Carling are three euro. Most pubs outside of dubin its 3 euro or 3.20. 7 pints for 21 euro is grand. Then pints of guiness is 4 euro and heineken, carlsberg, ale are all 4.10 which I don't find too bad.

How people continue to live in Dublin and getting ripped off rent wise, cost wise and the prices of houses are ridiculous.

Carling,tuborg and tennents are usually a cheap pint outside of dublin ,my local does a pint of tuborg for 2.70

Its All Wright

Wossack wrote: »

guiness in the temple bar pub in templebar, is 6.40e iirc

You would want to be out of your mind to be paying that for a pint!

Agricola

It's a joke. It used to be a Dublin thing but now down the country its almost as bad. Theres no justification in pricing mass produced products like beer and lager at that level. Americans must get some shock when they land in Dublin airport.

A Primal Nut

Surely most of the blame should be on the anti-drinking lobby and who pressurise the government to raise taxes every year, and the government themselves who comply. Most people don't want this so it doesn't seem very democratic.

donfers

there should be a cap on pint prices

crazy there is such diversity across small towns and cities

woodoo

If pubs in certain parts of Ireland can afford to sell pints for 3 euro then the only valid reason for high prices in Dublin is rents.

Jack Skellington

I've always wondered would pubs do more business if they just lowered the price of their drinks or would that be too simple?

Would love to know from anyone in the business because I love going to the pub but it's just too expensive, having a few drinks in your mates house before heading out is the done thing now.

mikemac1

The Village Inn in Inchicore in Dublin sell all pints 3 euro

Rough crowd in there though, the crowd the other publicans in the area don't want.

C.K Dexter Haven

Spore wrote: »

The price of a pint in the capital has reached ridiculous levels!

What nonsense are ya talkin boi?

kalych

Jack Skellington wrote: »

I've always wondered would pubs do more business if they just lowered the price of their drinks or would that be too simple?

Would love to know from anyone in the business because I love going to the pub but it's just too expensive, having a few drinks in your mates house before heading out is the done thing now.

There seems to be a thin red line in pricing of a pint, where if you go too low, you get overrun by unemployed daytime drinkers, running back and forth between the pub and the bookies two doors down. This alienates casual drinkers and basically the publican ends up making less money with more hassle. According to some publicans this line is a discount of more than 50 cent of the average price in the area. It is either this or the colluding Vintners Federation that are to blame for the high price of the pint. I am not entirely sure myself.

crockholm

donfers wrote: »

there should be a cap on pint prices

crazy there is such diversity across small towns and cities

I would actually see that as a good thing,nowadays the pubs in my town have different prices,whereas before the publicans used to meet up and arrange a price hike in unison so all pints were the same price in all pubs at the same time.

Jack Skellington

kalych wrote: »

There seems to be a thin red line in pricing of a pint, where if you go too low, you get overrun by unemployed daytime drinkers, running back and forth between the pub and the bookies two doors down. This alienates casual drinkers and basically the publican ends up making less money with more hassle. According to some publicans this line is a discount of more than 50 cent of the average price in the area. It is either this or the colluding Vintners Federation that are to blame for the high price of the pint. I am not entirely sure myself.

In that case I'd love to see some sort of special price for social hours like Friday and Saturday night, to entice the people who are otherwise having a few at home, that's what would get me out but as you say there's probably other factors, it's a shame anyway.

Beavishead

The price of alcohol should go up. People should work more and consume less alcohol.

mikeym

Dublin pint prices are always higher than the rest and always will be :mad: