Galway Bay Breweries

Seaneh wrote: »

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.

drumswan wrote: »

Again, they are a business, they most likely have reduced the cost per unit on the production side, resulting in more profit for them. Which is how a business is supposed to work.

If people are concerned with getting high quality beer to market cheaply, perhaps they should form a brewing co-op or such?

Seaneh wrote: »

They have constantly and consistently put profits back into the business, more pubs, more equipment, more beers, more staff.
They are moving for the second time in a year to a new brewery which will dwarf their current brewery in size and output to try and meet demand (they regularly run out of certain beers).
It's easier to see where their money is going than just about any other brewery in Ireland.

Clearly their business model is working, extremely well.

Seaneh wrote: »

I was a regular i Salt House while I lived in Galway, I drank there for several years while the bar had 3 different managers and to a man I've never found the staff anything buy helpful, friendly and knowledgeable, even the young girl who worked weekends was helpful with recommendationsand she didn't even drink beer!

I now drink regularly in Brew Dock (handy because 2 busses which pass my house stop right beside it) and again, the staff are all extremely friendly, helpful and knowledgable in fact I've read several articles/blogs online which say things like "best staff in Dublin" or "friendliest staff ever" and so on.

I've never had an issue with customer service in any GBB bar, and I've drank in pretty much all of them.

And what do you mean by loyalty to customers? The loyalty card? It was a promotion they ran for a time and then withdrew, this is common practice by lots of companies, maybe they will re-introduce it, maybe they won't, I don't feel like they owe me anything.
They do tend to do nice things for regulars like tell them in advance when certain things will be coming in, hold bottles or rare drinks for them if they ask etc.
Old manager of Salt House held a brink of westie XII for me when nowhere else in Galway had any, he got 5 bricks from Grand Cru, kept one for himself and sold the other 4 to regulars for less than the RRP. That's a pretty decent level of customer service. I still have 2 of those bottles in a cupboard in my grandmother's attic in Athlone actually, must root them out for the 30th this august.