Drinking at home

Koptain Liverpool · 18-05-2016 04:35PM #1

I was chatting to my dad recently and he was saying that when he was younger there was almost no drinking done at home - it was all done in the pub.

It got me wondering why it was like that and why this has changed.

Is it all down to price?

Or was it due to the unavailability of carry out drink back in the day?

Do you do more drinking at home or at the pub? And is price the main deciding factor?

dashoonage · 18-05-2016 04:36PM

pub ?

magentis · 18-05-2016 04:38PM

Price/smoking ban/drink driving limit.

beach_walker · 18-05-2016 04:39PM

It's true. I know some auld lads who would still never, ever drink at home but live it up like lords in the pub. It wasn't the done thing OP.

I think it mainly changed because of prices. I could get a six pack tonight and enjoy at home for say eight quid. Wouldn't get me two pints in most places.

Koptain Liverpool · 18-05-2016 04:39PM

dashoonage wrote: »

pub ?

Yes pub - ?

In the past few years it seems to have become the norm for people to spend the night in with a crate of cans each rather than heading out socializing.

I often have wine at home or a few cans before heading out. But I do the majority of drinking out in pubs.

osarusan · 18-05-2016 04:41PM

Price, and I have no friends.

Koptain Liverpool · 18-05-2016 04:41PM

magentis wrote: »

Price/smoking ban/drink driving limit.

Yeah I realize the smoking ban may have played a role but I don't think it's the main reason.

And while the drink-driving limit definitely has played a role this doesn't apply to towns and cities where people could walk home and where I also believe there was little to no home drinking done up until the recent past.

Andy Magic · 18-05-2016 04:45PM

Only oul lads can afford to go to the pub :pac:

Koptain Liverpool · 18-05-2016 04:47PM

beach_walker wrote: »

I think it mainly changed because of prices. I could get a six pack tonight and enjoy at home for say eight quid. Wouldn't get me two pints in most places.

So back in the day did a can in the off-licence cost more or less the same as a pint in the pub?

beach_walker · 18-05-2016 04:49PM

Koptain Liverpool wrote: »

So back in the day did a can in the off-licence cost more or less the same as a pint in the pub?

I'm not sure tbh but I seem to recall there wasn't such a massive gap between the two. But from asking auld lads, it was just more of a social no-no to do so.

Like the way cider was seen as a scumbags drink not too long ago and many pubs wouldn't serve it.

CatFromHue · 18-05-2016 04:55PM

back in the day there was no internet and barely any TV

if you drank at home back then you'd have to talk to the wife, so they went to the pub instead

Geuze · 18-05-2016 05:03PM

One factor - relative prices.

1993 approx: pint = 2.00 approx in pub in Galway, can was 1.00 approx

2016 - pint is now 3.80-4.30 in Galway city centre, 50cl cans can be got for 1.00 during special offers.

33cl bottles are from 70-75 cent now, that is an absolute drop since 1995, which is very unusual.

Another factor - people have higher housing costs now, so can't afford to drink in pubs as much.

Also, houses are nicer, with large TVs and sports channels.

valoren · 18-05-2016 05:07PM

Koptain Liverpool wrote: »

Or was it due to the unavailability of carry out drink back in the day?

They've been around since biblical times according to anthropologists.

Judas' Carryout.

Atlantic Dawn · 18-05-2016 05:14PM

More comfort at home, tv in pub is usually sheite picture quality, sheite sound, that combined with no guarantee of seat, varying quality of pints and paying top money for the privelage. Even if the price was the same in pub as off licence I would likely feel and be more comfortable at home.

Alf Stewart. · 18-05-2016 05:14PM

CatFromHue wrote: »

back in the day there was no internet and barely any TV

if you drank at home back then you'd have to talk to the wife, so they went to the pub instead

Pretty much this.

Massive choices of craft beer and good wine, v the commercially overpriced produced piss in the pub also.
Not to mention the Access we have now to literally thousands of tv channels/other media sources, coupled with a smokin ban, in the pubs means its it's actually a more appealing option to stay at home surrounded by your own comforts.

Stigura · 18-05-2016 05:14PM

I drink at home, essentially because I'm an absolute piss head. I also make my own beer ~ which I prefer to the frozen black water they sell in town. Like Osarusan, I'm Billy No Mates, and I really don't like people around me. And it costs me €20.00 a hit, to get to the pub. Imagine that, seven days a week? Plus €4.00 a pint!

Tldr? Home. Anti social, drunken bastard.

Alf Stewart. · 18-05-2016 05:20PM

Stigura wrote: »

Tldr? Home. Anti social, drunken bastard.

Perfect match!

Lets go out.

lertsnim · 18-05-2016 05:47PM

A bit of all three options really

SEPT 23 1989 · 18-05-2016 05:49PM

good to see a couple of people still keeping it real in the fields

18-05-2016 05:56PM

Majority of my drinking is done in the pub.

18-05-2016 05:57PM

20 years ago, no mobile phones, you'd go to the pub on spec any night of the week and you'd be guaranteed to meet friends there. It was better than stuck at home watching 2 channels.

Now, the pull factor of the pub and the push factors at home have changed. Pubs much quieter on week nights, full of kids on weekends, lots more on tv, social media, the price, the disappearance of that generation who lived in pubs etc. etc.

endacl · 18-05-2016 06:06PM

Pub, I suppose. Because it's not about the drink. It's about the atmosphere and company. Will often drive and have unleaded (once it's not feckin' Erdinger) or coffee. If I go local it's about the atmosphere and company. Two, maybe three pints. Maybe twice a month? That said, until recently I'd usually be in a pub at least two or three times a week, playing music. Water only on those nights. I'm at work, and refuse to take payment in pints. Wine at home the odd time if there's a bottle open. Usually tea or coffee.

Thread reminds me of that bloody question. 'Where do you drink these days'. As if that'd be a normal question to ask anywhere else in the world...

biko · 18-05-2016 06:10PM

It's very rare I drink at home unless it's a party with other people
I'm very much a pub person

I get that some enjoy a beer or wine to relax but I don't do it.

makingmecrazy · 18-05-2016 06:10PM

Koptain Liverpool wrote: »

So back in the day did a can in the off-licence cost more or less the same as a pint in the pub?

AFAICR it was a lot more expensive to get a "carry out" than to have a drink in the pub.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 18-05-2016 06:49PM

I'll often kick back after a long day at the office by having a glass of Riesling or a classic Barolo. Put on some music, read a book and relax.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 18-05-2016 07:11PM

Love having a nice bottle of wine after a day at work. Hot shower, fresh warm pjs, glass of wine and cuddles on the couch.
Used to do it every single night. Now it's more of a treat.

Still love pre drinks on nights out though! Starting to get ready at about 4, choons on, drinks flowing, getting ready altogether. Love it

jimgoose · 18-05-2016 07:13PM

I hardly ever drink at home, even on Christmas Day. There is something rather civilised about a tea-time half-gallon while propping up the bar of t'Woolpack and talking sh1te about cars. I'm easily enough pleased.

Tombi! · 18-05-2016 07:13PM

A lot more entertaining options at home than there were back in the 90s.
I'd say once broadband starting hitting up most places, it's going to be more overall value to drink at home.
Mind you, there's a difference between having 12 cans at home and watching the aul TV than having 4 pints in the pub talking with the lads.

groucho marx · 18-05-2016 07:28PM

Drink at home, pants not mandatory and no small talk

entropi · 18-05-2016 07:57PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

good to see a couple of people still keeping it real in the fields

Knacker drinking/bushing will always be a thing. The teens people will always need somewhere else to drink :cool:

Agricola · 18-05-2016 08:50PM

There's been a bit of a cultural shift towards drinking too. Yeah we are still probably in the top 3 for alcohol consumption in Europe per capita, but there is a marked fall in pub attendances outside of the traditional peak times like Friday / Saturday night. Whereas in the past, pub going and church going were the two pillars of Irish life, that's no longer the case. People go for coffee now, to Cafés I've been told. They've also been known to go to restaurants for.... food. And then go home.
Dev would be spinning!

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