Price of a pint

huberto · 04-12-2014 08:30PM #1

Having a pint of Galway Hooker in Ballsbridge - 6 euro, no receipt. Is this normal?

Ruu · 04-12-2014 08:31PM

Don't know but you'd be mad in the head!

dobman88 · 04-12-2014 08:31PM

huberto wrote: »

Having a pint of Galway Hooker in Ballsbridge - 6 euro, no receipt. Is this normal?

An over priced craft beer in an over priced part of Dublin!

Seems quite cheap actually.

The Backwards Man · 04-12-2014 08:33PM

Yes, it is perfectly normally for people to complain about the price of things after they have already paid for them

anncoates · 04-12-2014 08:33PM

Expensive area and a so called craft beer, so par for the course.

dodderangler · 04-12-2014 08:34PM

You'd nearly get a Galway hooker for that price

Chucken · 04-12-2014 08:34PM

Ruu wrote: »

Don't know but you'd be mad in the head!

I feel there should be more to this sentence..... :pac:

Icemancometh · 04-12-2014 08:34PM

Drinking the same stuff in Smithfield for 4.70. Change your watering hole!

04-12-2014 08:36PM

Depends what are drinking.

Been years since I paid over 4 euro for a guinness. I'll pay extra for craft beers I enjoy, generally still around the 5 euro mark.

Donkey Oaty · 04-12-2014 08:36PM

From a Dublin Evening Herald survey, June of this year:

Our survey found Galway Hooker for sale at €4.60 in Fitzgerald’s Bar on Aston Quay. At the weekend it goes up to €4.90.
But in the Old Stand pub on Exchequer Street, a pint of the same beer costs €5.80.
In The Temple Bar pub, the pint of Galway Hooker will set you back €6.95.

Via Indo.

-=al=- · 04-12-2014 08:38PM

Well overpriced for one of them but I guess it's the location... but it is a pint so would you even call it normal these days?

I used to love a few sneaky Brewdogs a few years ago but they have gone up soooo much in the last few years... Everything is craft beer this and that too

I was away in Aus for a while too and only came back recently and the prices of the stuff have gone up quite a bit!

Err'body jumping on the craft beer train, choo choo

super_furry · 04-12-2014 08:38PM

"Craft beers" are often just an excuse for publicans to add an extra euro or two to the price of a pint.

04-12-2014 08:39PM

Bars will only charge what people are willing to pay.

huberto · 04-12-2014 08:39PM

I'll cross the road and continue the research

04-12-2014 08:40PM

huberto wrote: »

I'll cross the road and continue the research

Pub crawl thread!

SIX PACK · 04-12-2014 08:40PM

Government should lower the excise duty by €1 a pint €3.50 to €4 is enough to give. More people might have a drink in pub then Instead of buying at Off licence.

huberto · 04-12-2014 08:43PM

Still a walk at this point

The One Doctor · 04-12-2014 08:45PM

SIX PACK wrote: »

Government should lower the excise duty by €1 a pint €3.50 to €4 is enough to give. More people might have a drink in pub then Instead of buying at Off licence.

You want the government to lower their tax income to give the pubs more profit?

Yup, makes sense.

Nothing wrong with buying from an off licence, I only go to the pub once a month now. If Wetherspoons can cut their costs then so can the 'traditional' publicans.

I got tired of Galway Hooker after a few bottles. Tastes oddly metallic.

anncoates · 04-12-2014 08:46PM

huberto wrote: »

I'll cross the road and continue the research

Head into town. Not far and better prices.

Tokyo · 04-12-2014 08:52PM

Galway Hooker is a craft beer now??

-=al=- · 04-12-2014 08:58PM

If it's not Heineken it's a craft beer :pac:

Herb Powell · 04-12-2014 09:07PM

It's after getting ridiculous alright.

Still recovering from living in Germany, where I got it into my head that anything over €3.50 is cheeky

:(:(

Lapin · 04-12-2014 09:10PM

huberto wrote: »

Having a pint of Galway Hooker in Ballsbridge - 6 euro, no receipt. Is this normal?

Steep.

Its €5.10 here in Galway and even that way too much.

Nice tack though.

huberto · 04-12-2014 09:22PM

Bit late to be asking, but is there a decent pub in Ballsbridge? So far fairly dreary spots. Waiting for wife and daughter to emerge from Craft Fair, 45 mins to go......

fleet_admiral · 04-12-2014 09:38PM

huberto wrote: »

Bit late to be asking, but is there a decent pub in Ballsbridge? So far fairly dreary spots. Waiting for wife and daughter to emerge from Craft Fair, 45 mins to go......

You arent far from Ryans in Beggars Bush - a great boozer

anncoates · 04-12-2014 09:57PM

huberto wrote: »

Bit late to be asking, but is there a decent pub in Ballsbridge? ..

Smyths on Haddington Road isn't far. Just down from Baggot Bridge.

Great boozer.

Duck's hoop · 04-12-2014 09:58PM

The One Doctor wrote: »

I got tired of Galway Hooker after a few bottles. Tastes oddly metallic.

It's rank.

Amirani · 04-12-2014 10:00PM

Searons on Baggot Street is reasonable, though it probably wont do much for your pint pricing problems

downonthefarm · 04-12-2014 10:02PM

Craft beer ****

delahuntv · 04-12-2014 10:06PM

In Cleveland Ohio I did not find a single bar that had a craft beer under $8+tax+tip.

Cleveland is no tourist or snobby zone!

After a fair bit of travel this year I found prices here quite reasonable.

Lapin · 04-12-2014 10:12PM

SIX PACK wrote: »

Government should lower the excise duty by €1 a pint €3.50 to €4 is enough to give. More people might have a drink in pub then Instead of buying at Off licence.

And put your username out of a job. :pac:

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