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Galway Bay Breweries

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    #122
    ben.schlomo
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭ben.schlomo


    Seaneh wrote: »
    I enjoyed the off complimentary beer for a full card and appreciated it, but they didn't ever have to offer the cards in the first place and are well within their rights to decide to stop offering it.
    If they reintroduce it I'd be happy but it really doesn't bother me. Using the card means you are limited in choice, without the card you are more likely to drink/try other beers (well, I am anyway) and their pubs (mostly) have a very good range.
    Today on my way home from college I had a glass of Founders All Day IPA (just as good as the bottles) and a bottle of Founders Imperial Stout (fantastic beer). If the loyalty cards were still in place I'd probably have just had a stormy port or a full sail instead, which is no bad thing, but I like variety.

    Those two beers cost me a whopping total of €11.50 by the way (€4.50 and €7 respectively), great value considering one of them was a 10.5% imperial stout, especially compared to the likes of the not all that special nordic imports that people on here have no problem waxing lyrical about and paying through the nose for.
    Saying they never had to offer it is a silly statement to me, of course they didnt, but while they were growing their business they did offer it and to then pull it for no particular reason and with no obvious explanation is just bad customer service. A quick update on their social media platform or even a sign in the pubs would have been fair enough, they are usually quick to update us on everything else they do online so why not this.


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    #123
    ANXIOUS
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    Ravelleman wrote: »
    5am Saint can still be had for €6 a pint in at least one other pub in the city centre though. :confused:

    Can you post or pm me the pub please?


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    #124
    ciaran76
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    As I said in another post I had pints of Punk at €5.50 in The Attic bar in Swords last week.


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    #125
    BaZmO*
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    I know the initial 6.70 price was a fault on noreast's end. They had a price list error when the first deliveries were made, they corrected it within a few hours.
    So either noreast actually made an error or chanced their arm but GBB haven't changed their price they sell to noreast at all.

    As I said, I've heard it from a reliable source. I don't buy the "price error" line in the slightest.


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    #126
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    BaZmO* wrote: »
    As I said, I've heard it from a reliable source. I don't buy the "price error" line in the slightest.

    I've heard it from the the source of the beer and an owner of an off licence.
    The owner of the offie told me himself that he'd put the beers our in the afternoon and was called before the end of business that day by the noreast rep who apologised for the error and told him the correct price.

    Even if it wasn't an error and someone was chancing their arm, the price wasn't/isn't set by the brewery, it's set by their distributors.


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    #127
    BaZmO*
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    I've heard it from the the source of the beer and an owner of an off licence.
    The owner of the offie told me himself that he'd put the beers our in the afternoon and was called before the end of business that day by the noreast rep who apologised for the error and told him the correct price.

    Even if it wasn't an error and someone was chancing their arm, the price wasn't/isn't set by the brewery, it's set by their distributors.

    Hey don't shoot the messenger. It's ok for companies to make mistakes, even the mighty GBB.


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    #128
    Ravelleman
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    ANXIOUS wrote: »
    Can you post or pm me the pub please?

    Mulligans of Poolbeg St. Price as of last night.


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    #129
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    BaZmO* wrote: »
    Hey don't shoot the messenger. It's ok for companies to make mistakes, even the mighty GBB.

    But the mistake wasn't on GBB's part, as I said before they haven't changed their price. The mistake was on made by a 3rd party distributor.


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    #130
    BaZmO*
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    But the mistake wasn't on GBB's part, as I said before they haven't changed their price. The mistake was on made by a 3rd party distributor.

    It's ok Seaneh, I'm not mad at them. Mistakes happen.


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    #131
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    BaZmO* wrote: »
    It's ok Seaneh, I'm not mad at them. Mistakes happen.

    Good ladeen, Noreast do supply some good beers and decent prices so I let the mistake slide too.


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    #132
    ANXIOUS
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    Ravelleman wrote: »
    Mulligans of Poolbeg St. Price as of last night.

    Cheers will defo go there this week. I'm been paying €6.70 in the Bernard shaw, mulligans is actually handier as well but never thought of it. Any ideas why that particular beer is expensive?


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    #133
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    ANXIOUS wrote: »
    Cheers will defo go there this week. I'm been paying €6.70 in the Bernard shaw, mulligans is actually handier as well but never thought of it. Any ideas why that particular beer is expensive?

    Brewdog beers in general are expensive in keg. Either brewdog or four corners are the cause of that.


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    #134
    matrim
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    ANXIOUS wrote: »
    Cheers will defo go there this week. I'm been paying €6.70 in the Bernard shaw, mulligans is actually handier as well but never thought of it. Any ideas why that particular beer is expensive?

    Think mulligans serving is 400ml


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    #135
    ANXIOUS
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    matrim wrote: »
    Think mulligans serving is 400ml

    Ah that's a huge point. I'll look into now.


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    #136
    Seaneh
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    matrim wrote: »
    Think mulligans serving is 400ml

    Ah there is no way in hell that Mulligans are selling 400ml (370ml is more realistic in those glasses anyway) for €6!


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    #137
    matrim
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    Ah there is no way in hell that Mulligans are selling 400ml (370ml is more realistic in those glasses anyway) for €6!

    When they originally got the brewdog beers they were selling either 5am or punk in the smaller glasses, I'm not sure which and I'm not sure if they still do as the last few times I was there I was drinking O'Haras

    As a side note I know the Longstone around the corner sells Punk and I think it goes for €6.10 a pint, but they don't do any Irish craft beer


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    #138
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Cassidy's is 6ish for a pint of punk too, isn't it?


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    #139
    cunnifferous
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    jh79 wrote: »
    Paid 7.15 for OFAF in McCambridges last weekend!

    €6.95 in Redmonds, much to my annoyance. Dunno how they can justify that considering its €5.70 in drinkstore


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    #140
    jh79
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    Wonder what they are releasing on Thursday? Seem to be quite excited about it on twitter.


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    #141
    ben.schlomo
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    jh79 wrote: »
    Wonder what they are releasing on Thursday? Seem to be quiet excited about it on twitter.

    A new price hike? ;):p


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    #142
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Something special on the pilot taps, being very secretive about it, launching in all bars at the same time on Thursday.


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    #143
    matrim
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    Something special on the pilot taps, being very secretive about it, launching in all bars at the same time on Thursday.

    Heard a rumour that it was a cask version of Two Hundred Fathoms.


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    #144
    TheHappyChappy
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    Something special on the pilot taps, being very secretive about it, launching in all bars at the same time on Thursday.

    Not buying into their marketing crap anymore, beyond caring, their pure greed has really turned myself & friends off,,,,,,they can be as secretive as they like not going along like a sheep anymore


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    #145
    TheHappyChappy
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    matrim wrote: »
    Heard a rumour that it was a cask version of Two Hundred Fathoms.

    Heard a rumour their rubbing their greedy hands with glee with the stupidity of their clientele to keep paying increased prices


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    #146
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    matrim wrote: »
    Heard a rumour that it was a cask version of Two Hundred Fathoms.

    I can categorically dismiss this rumour.
    No Two Hundred Fathoms was ever casked.


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    #147
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    TheHappyChappy wrote: »
    Heard a rumour their rubbing their greedy hands with glee with the stupidity of their clientele to keep paying increased prices

    :rolleyes:


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    #148
    Tom Ghostwood
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    I can categorically dismiss this rumour.
    No Two Hundred Fathoms was ever kegged.

    1000 litre batch & only 900 bottles. You might eat those words :p


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    #149
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    ben.schlomo wrote: »
    A new price hike? ;):p

    What price hike would that be?

    The only things that have changed price in the bars this year were;

    1) Stormy Port, explained already, it's a different beer which is now 5.8% abv (as opposed to 4.8% before), and as such attracts more duty and costs more to brew. But sure they should eat the difference because you can't get your head around simple math. And if you're that hard up for .40c per pint you still have Full Sail (5.3% abv) and Bay Ale (4.4% abv) at 5.10 (4.55 in Galway) to cry into.

    2) Brewdog beers, explained already, because Four Corners have raised the price of a keg of all brewdog beers by upwards of 15%, as a result GBB are probably going to drop all their brewdog taps.


    People moaning about "being ripped off", nobody forces you to drink in their bars, nobody forces you to drink their beers, go somewhere else and drink someone elses beers.

    I really do think that there is some weird trait inherent in some people on these boards that anyone who has any modicome of success will be lambasted for their successes, as was previously witnessed by the thread about the sale of Franciscan Well.


    As a wise man once said, buy or don't buy, there is no gouge.


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    #150
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Tom Ghostwood wrote: »
    1000 litre batch & only 900 bottles. You might eat those words :p

    I can tell you right now, it was not casked.

    All of their casks were recently used for something else anyway, and some of them are still in use for that reason.


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    #151
    Tom Ghostwood
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭Tom Ghostwood


    Seaneh wrote: »
    I can categorically dismiss this rumour.
    No Two Hundred Fathoms was ever kegged.
    :)


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