Man your pumps, Wetherspoons are coming

2.89stg for 33cl of Punk IPA means an equivalent price of 4.97stg per pint.

(Now I accept that if it was sold by the actual pint in JDW, the price would be less).

4.97 at 82pence exchange rate turns into 6.06 euro.

Add in higher VAT here, plus higher wages and overheads, and 7.00 euro Dublin price does not seem miles out of line.

Geuze wrote: »

2.89stg for 33cl of Punk IPA means an equivalent price of 4.97stg per pint.

(Now I accept that if it was sold by the actual pint in JDW, the price would be less).

4.97 at 82pence exchange rate turns into 6.06 euro.

Add in higher VAT here, plus higher wages and overheads, and 7.00 euro Dublin price does not seem miles out of line.

3.95stg a pint of punk in their Scottish pubs, London more expensive i assume.

6.80 last time i had one in the black sheep.

Do i recall someone saying it was 9 euro somewhere in city centre

Geuze wrote: »

The arrival of JD W into the Irish market will be interesting.

How may the RoI suppliers react?

Will JDW use their own UK supply chain?

They will probably have to use their UK supply chain, because I can't see the Irish brewers taking to the Wetherspoon's buying strategy, which I won't go into here in a public forum.

monkeynuz wrote: »

Also, prepare for a lot more fighting in the streets when a JDW comes to your town.......

Do you mean a price war between local pubs or drunken brawls on the high street?

Tube wrote: »

Draught = keg or cask.

Cask as you know is rare enough in Ireland, and dare I say it, is more of an English tradition.

I suppose strictly true, although I remember even in CAMRA circles they talked about draught=cask at times.

Your second point - is this true? I thought I had read that many years ago Ireland had many small breweries which have disappeared over time - I'd have thought cask would be a natural fit, after all some pubs over here even lacked electricity just a few decades ago I believe.

monkeynuz wrote: »

Also, prepare for a lot more fighting in the streets when a JDW comes to your town.......

Yeah, I can imagine Blackrock ending up making Beirut look like a holiday resort for pensioners.

The Russel Court hotel has €2 pints of beer, including relatively high % paulaner, and €2 jagerbombs on certain days every week for several years now, the RTE news reports of the weekly riots on Harcourt street due to this are getting tiresome.

BaZmO* wrote: »

Do they have a special type of beer that's different to the beer you get in other pubs?


I meant to quote your post but edited my mistake. I put it back to your original statement.

I probably shouldn't go into specifics here for obvious reasons, but if you are really eager to know then please don't hesitate to pm me.

Let's just say not all beers/breweries/consume by dates/prices paid are equal.

irish_goat wrote: »

Stop talking outta your hoop.

And pray tell how do you know I am?

monkeynuz wrote: »

Let's just say not all beers/breweries/consume by dates/prices paid are equal.

I don't think I have ever seen a beer with a "consume by" or "use by" date, I could imagine some oddball beer might, but I have never seen it nor would I expect to see it on any of the big selling ones in wetherspoons.

Of course they have best befores, I was drinking one the other day 4 years out. I didn't think it was rotting my brain any more than usual, and found no increased aggression, which you seem to be inferring should happen.

rubadub wrote: »

I don't think I have ever seen a beer with a "consume by" or "use by" date, I could imagine some oddball beer might, but I have never seen it nor would I expect to see it on any of the big selling ones in wetherspoons.

Of course they have best befores, I was drinking one the other day 4 years out. I didn't think it was rotting my brain any more than usual, and found no increased aggression, which you seem to be inferring should happen.

If you were drinking an out of date bottle it is a slightly different matter and also you wouldn't have been consuming enough, but it ain't great for you.

BeerNut wrote: »

This is totally contrary to the Wetherspoon policy of piling it extemely high and selling it extremely cheap. If they were buying in expiring job lots their cheapest beers would change. They wouldn't be GK IPA and Abbots all the time everywhere.

Their policy must have changed then, because lke I say some years ago they mainly had obscure breweries/beers all the time.

monkeynuz wrote: »

I wasn't basing it on science, just common sense.

More like "common nonsense", the amount of myths surrounding alcohol always amazes me. You worked in the trade, so probably have heard more "bloke in the pub told me" stories than most. I know a few barmen and the stuff & "facts" some of them come out with is astonishing.

I have heard some awful nonsense from reps too, marketing people are prone to talking utter shite, many have no real knowledge of the things they actually sell.

Was it a rep who informed you that beer past its best before date will "rot the brain and turn idiots into complete f*@kwits."