The price of pints is too damn high

Spore · 07-12-2013 08:19PM #1

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?

SV · 07-12-2013 08:21PM

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 · 07-12-2013 08:21PM

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 · 07-12-2013 08:23PM

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 · 07-12-2013 08:27PM

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 · 07-12-2013 08:27PM

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

BeerFear · 07-12-2013 08:28PM

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 · 07-12-2013 08:31PM

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 · 07-12-2013 08:31PM

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 · 07-12-2013 08:35PM

Depends on where you go in the city.

zega · 07-12-2013 08:37PM

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

LordSutch · 07-12-2013 08:39PM

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

Mars Bar · 07-12-2013 08:39PM

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 · 07-12-2013 08:41PM

Diceys! 2.50 pints cant go wrong.

Its All Wright · 07-12-2013 08:42PM

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 · 07-12-2013 08:44PM

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 · 07-12-2013 08:46PM

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

beano345 · 07-12-2013 08:51PM

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 · 07-12-2013 08:52PM

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 · 07-12-2013 08:53PM

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 · 07-12-2013 08:54PM

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 · 07-12-2013 09:07PM

there should be a cap on pint prices

crazy there is such diversity across small towns and cities

woodoo · 07-12-2013 09:12PM

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 · 07-12-2013 09:13PM

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 · 07-12-2013 09:17PM

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 · 07-12-2013 09:22PM

Spore wrote: »

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

What nonsense are ya talkin boi?

kalych · 07-12-2013 09:28PM

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 · 07-12-2013 09:36PM

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 · 07-12-2013 09:41PM

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 · 07-12-2013 09:43PM

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

mikeym · 07-12-2013 09:45PM

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

The price of pints is too damn high

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