Minimum Alcohol pricing

Herb Powell · 04-08-2013 07:28PM

R019912 wrote: »

I've noticed they increased Vratislav in Tesco from 99c to €1.19...robbery!

I was also outraged, that was my cheap beer.

It's still cheap, but €1.19 is ****ing messy.

Amirani · 04-08-2013 07:30PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

why are we one on the most expensive places in the EU to buy Alcohol ?

We're an island nation.

We have high excise rates.

We have a relatively high cost of living.

Try visiting Scandinavia if you want to see expensive alcohol prices.

Capt'n Midnight · 04-08-2013 07:43PM

NiallSparky wrote: »

We're an island nation.

We have high excise rates.

We haven't had an increase in excise on beer since 1994

€19.13 per hectolitre per cent of alcohol in the beer

so duty on 100 L of 4% is €76.52

per 500ml can that works out at 38.26c

When a publican complains about the excise duty remember it's only about 10% of what they charge :mad:

Cool_CM · 04-08-2013 07:49PM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

The record, in Berlin, is 27c a bottle.

Sternburg?

mikerodgers96 · 04-08-2013 07:49PM

ya the prices went up

i switched to makin my own

5 bags sugar
pack tomato puree
pack bread yeast
juice of lemon
25 litres of water
leave for a week

savin a fortune........just add a dash of peppermint 12% proof

04-08-2013 07:49PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

hmmm so no extra tax that at least could help the hospitals ? what's the point then. Thought putting up the price was under the guise of being good for you

As I keep saying it was in FG's manifesto that they were going to do this to prop up the pubs. Nothing to do with good for you

Seaneh · 04-08-2013 07:55PM

zenno wrote: »

I used to drink Tuborg up until a month ago and that used to be €6 for 6 cans, now it is €8.75, insane for that cheap made drink. It's dearer than budweiser even. The money is going to the greedy producers of the alcoholic beverage.

Bud, Heiniken, Carlsberg, Stella, Amstell, etc etc etc, they all cost about the same as Tuborg or Dutch Gold or Hackenburg, sweet f*ck all, to produce.

The only reason you'd pay more for budwiser than you would for Tuborg is because a lot of advertising is spent on budwiser telling you it's a quality product.

Reality is, they are all ****e beers made from the cheapest ingredients that Diageo/inbev/western/molson-coors and the rest can find and pumped out at massive volumes, sold ad stupidly high prices and designed to get idiots hammered.

Seaneh · 04-08-2013 07:56PM

Oh and minimum pricing of alcohol from offlicences only benefits one group, publicans.

Why do you think it's usually gob****es like the VFI pushing for crap like this?

Rather than change their business models and adapt to a changing market the VFI feel like the rest of the country owes them something and should subsidise their lack of business skills.

Capt'n Midnight · 04-08-2013 08:02PM

http://www.farmersjournal.ie/site/farming-Grain-prices-slip-at-the-prospect-of-big-harvest-17057.html

This week, forward harvest price quotes put green feeding barley below €150/t,

Seaneh · 04-08-2013 08:11PM

What does cattle feeding cereal have to do with beer prices?

darkpagandeath · 04-08-2013 08:14PM

Seaneh wrote: »

What does cattle feeding cereal have to do with beer prices?

guessing because barley is one of the main ingredients in beer

Seaneh · 04-08-2013 10:20PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

guessing because barley is one of the main ingredients in beer

But the barley he is talking about is contract grown for use in animal feeds, not for beer.

Diageo and Heiniken do pay **** all for their barley though, they have exclusive contracts with farms so that they can only seel their grains to them.

jester77 · 04-08-2013 10:25PM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

The record, in Berlin, is 27c a bottle.

Ah yeah, but I can imagine it wouldn't be great. Astra have promotions here every so often, especially around football tournaments. Usually you could get an 8-pack for €2. But I would rather throw an extra 1 or 2 €'s for something I like drinking and not the bud, heineken, tuborg type beers that are bland and tasteless.

NoCrackHaving · 05-08-2013 12:38AM

jester77 wrote: »

Ah yeah, but I can imagine it wouldn't be great. Astra have promotions here every so often, especially around football tournaments. Usually you could get an 8-pack for €2. But I would rather throw an extra 1 or 2 €'s for something I like drinking and not the bud, heineken, tuborg type beers that are bland and tasteless.

I live in the UK and I can't seem to find 6 packs here, only 4 packs, quite annoying.

darkpagandeath · 25-03-2014 02:54AM

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/minimum-alcohol-pricing-will-not-cut-intake-say-consumers-263044.html

Update to this only 22% of people think it will work

MadsL · 25-03-2014 06:01AM

Red Nissan wrote: »

I think everyone would consider Heineken a premium product.

Bwahahahahahahah..

*wipes eyes*

You should have your own comedy show...

MS.ing · 25-03-2014 07:15AM

were a small island, anything which gets imported here (everything thats not actually made here which is pretty much everything except....pharmacuticals) costs way more than it does in britain. 5 million pop vs 60 million pop be thankfull things dont cost ten times more, (1000%) vs the 30%~ morecurrently

Wulfie · 25-03-2014 08:38AM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Just a quick question. Since the gov wanted minimum pricing on alcohol, prices have been going up weekly in our local Tesco. Is there a new tax? were is this money going ? please don't say just to the supermarkets.

Who cares?
On the very rare occasion that I walk down the alcohol aisle,the price might put me off purchasing my chosen lunatic soup, usually rum or cider or beamish or Murphy's..... mmm .... alcohol.
No not today.

Wulfie · 25-03-2014 08:51AM

RachaelVO wrote: »

Have to say I was home recently and FFS, the price of drink is astranomical.

Now granted we have to pay what is know as Statie Geld, but that's deposit money on the crate it amounts to 3.90euro, and you get that back when you bring the bottle and crate back so you have the statie geld for your next crate.

EDIT: I should also say, that in Lidl, the 6 pack of Perlenbacher (nice beer) in Irl is 6.99 here it's 3.95

I hope they bring that bottle deposit here. Bottles left on the beach,in the parks and ditches. If the lowts who leave the bottles lying around won't go get their money back,I will gladly bring them in and claim the money.

Potatoeman · 25-03-2014 09:12AM

I noticed Bavaria eight pack has jumped from 8.99 for 8 to 10.50.

25-03-2014 09:50AM

Potatoeman wrote: »

I noticed Bavaria eight pack has jumped from 8.99 for 8 to 10.50.

Prices for Bavaria keep going up. I used to regularly get 24 cans for 24 euro, and often 24 cans for 20 euro. Cant be got for even a euro a can anywhere now. 18 cans for 24 euro was one "offer" I saw recently :rolleyes:.

Caliden · 25-03-2014 10:08AM

Aydin Low Cloud wrote: »

Prices for Bavaria keep going up. I used to regularly get 24 cans for 24 euro, and often 24 cans for 20 euro. Cant be got for even a euro a can anywhere now. 18 cans for 24 euro was one "offer" I saw recently :rolleyes:.

For Bavaria?!! :eek:

theteal · 25-03-2014 10:18AM

Just for comparison, Aldi over here has large bottles of Bavaria (~650ml?) for 97p-99p. I only noticed it last weekend, couldn't help myself picking up a few for a rainy weekend

anncoates · 25-03-2014 11:02AM

R019912 wrote: »

I've noticed they increased Vratislav in Tesco from 99c to €1.19...robbery!

Would you not just buy LIDL bleach to clean your toilet instead?

yoyo · 25-03-2014 11:35AM

I've noticed the price of drink generally has gone up lately. Not seen cans for less than a euro for a while (excluding excelsior in Lidl but that's rubbish anyway)

Nick

darkpagandeath · 25-03-2014 04:43PM

Down the local centra Dutch gold 4 pack is is about €7 the 6 pack €8.50 12 pack €13-14 Been keeping an eye on prices of the cheep stuff. normal stuff like Carlsberg, bud, Heineken 8 packs are €13. No real rhyme or reason on the pricing.

darkpagandeath · 19-05-2014 04:03PM

Getting a bit of a fiasco now Carlsberg/Heineken 8 pack are now upto €16.40 that's €2.05 per can now if you buy them on sale at €13.00 that's €1.62 per can, now in the same shop it's €2.44 if you buy them separately. What's going on here its getting pretty similar in All major supermarkets. Prices above were from local centra that used to have cheaper prices. Anyone else noticing the gradual upping of prices for no actual reason.

Flex · 19-05-2014 06:58PM

I think alot of the recent increases may be down to the fact retailers bought in a great deal of stock prior to the tax increase in the October budget, months and months of stock so they could continue selling at a pre-duty increase price. Now these stocks are running out so the true post-duty increase prices are being reflected on the shelves. And as far as I know for spirits (unsure about beer), 60% of the price you pay for a bottle in a supermarket is tax

Temptamperu · 19-05-2014 07:16PM

I think they should tax it more in the hopes some of it goes to the HSE which is clogged weekly by drunk kids and idiots.

candy-gal1 · 19-05-2014 07:21PM

The price of drink is getting to and is in some places extorsion tbh, especially since some places which have always had 3e drink nights etc have stopped as with a certain bar which apparrantly closed than recently up on Grafton street which used to be 4.60 all pints anytime!

Right now, imho, the best value for drinking on a night out with a good atmosphere etc too would be Club Hell, Diceys, Poison and Aldi/Lidl if your drinking at home - same thing but a fcukload cheaper!

Minimum Alcohol pricing

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