Price of a pint in your local

I would just like to point out i don't drink BUT a bottle of sparkling water will set you back 4.50.

A glass of orange juice will be 5 euro. (It is a large glass though)

BUT STILL!

I live a five minute walk from Wetherspoons in Dun Laoghaire, most draught beers are between €3.25 and €3.75, Beamish is €2.95 and all hand-pulled ale (minimally carbonated and generally only slightly cooler than room temperature) is €2.75. Not everyone's cup of tea but I happen to adore the hand-pulled ales, and they tend to be a lot stronger than ordinary beers at ~6% or higher, so I can go out and have a proper night in the pub for less than a tenner. They also do a Monday special where most pints are €2.45, including the likes of Beamish and Stella.

When the Spooner first arrived on the Irish scene, there was widespread hope and chatter about the effect it would have on deflating pint prices in the pub industry generally. Unfortunately, this really doesn't seem to have happened. Perhaps their opening of two new pubs right Dublin the city centre might make a difference, but it seems to me that unless the VFI starts up a purchasing and distribution cartel for its members to centrally order their kegs in bulk, Irish pubs will continue to pay, and thus charge, absolutely extortionate prices for beer. Spoons in DL is incredible - very comfortable, lovely furniture, and a huge, covered balcony with a panoramic view of Dun Laoghaire Harbour - having said that, the one in Blackrock is nowhere near as enjoyable unless it's nice enough outside to sit in the beer garden. So they can be hit and miss, will have to wait for Camden St and Abbey St to open later this year before we'll know whether they'll become a viable city centre 'local' option.

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I live a five minute walk from Wetherspoons in Dun Laoghaire, most draught beers are between €3.25 and €3.75, Beamish is €2.95 and all hand-pulled ale (minimally carbonated and generally only slightly cooler than room temperature) is €2.75. Not everyone's cup of tea but I happen to adore the hand-pulled ales, and they tend to be a lot stronger than ordinary beers at ~6% or higher, so I can go out and have a proper night in the pub for less than a tenner. They also do a Monday special where most pints are €2.45, including the likes of Beamish and Stella.

When the Spooner first arrived on the Irish scene, there was widespread hope and chatter about the effect it would have on deflating pint prices in the pub industry generally. Unfortunately, this really doesn't seem to have happened. Perhaps their opening of two new pubs right Dublin the city centre might make a difference, but it seems to me that unless the VFI starts up a purchasing and distribution cartel for its members to centrally order their kegs in bulk, Irish pubs will continue to pay, and thus charge, absolutely extortionate prices for beer. Spoons in DL is incredible - very comfortable, lovely furniture, and a huge, covered balcony with a panoramic view of Dun Laoghaire Harbour - having said that, the one in Blackrock is nowhere near as enjoyable unless it's nice enough outside to sit in the beer garden. So they can be hit and miss, will have to wait for Camden St and Abbey St to open later this year before we'll know whether they'll become a viable city centre 'local' option.

The food there is dog sh*te I must add. Even the seagulls wouldn't touch it.

PirateShampoo wrote: »

€7.45 Quays Bar.

I trust you pulled out of the bidding at that point?

Hoboo wrote: »

Proper night out is 3 pints in wetherspoons? That's grim. It'd an absolute kip selling dishwater and dog****e.

Fook me, Beamish isn't that bad(better than Murphy's) and at less than €3.00 a pint is a bargain. As for dogśhíťé....I've only experienced JDW's in the UK,and I found the food quite decent(for what we were paying)

PHG wrote: »

Living in Scandinavia. No pint, but 500ml and it's over €7.

Bottles are a killer, but it is the spirits that are the worst. Standard GnT (40ml) can range from €14 to €16.

P.S. - A 500ml bottle is a pint.

£3.40 a pint.
Less for those ales that get hand pumped at room temperature. They're generally awful, unless you're into that sort of thing.

€4.30 for a pint Of Guinness in a country pub in south Tipperary

£2.10 (say €2.40) but I am unlikely to come out alive.

During Happy Hour (4-6, Mon-Fri) $3.75 for a beer with a second one free

holygoaliefc wrote: »

Since when?

DelBoy Trotter wrote: »

A pint is 568ml

artanevilla wrote: »

No.

Actually, it is!

You can even test it yourself with the following test.
Steps

1. Take one standard issue pub pint glass.
2. Take one standard issue 500ml bottle of beer (e.g. Budvar)
3. Carefully* pour contents from said bottle of beer in to aforementioned pint glass.

Results:
A pint glass full to the brim with a 1cm head.

When you order a pint in a pub from the tap, you are typically getting ~500ml of beer and ~1cm of head. When on the continent (where everything is the metric system), you will still get the same sized glass as here, it is just that they refer to it as a half-liter.

If you even take your standard issue Mass Glass for Oktoberfest. While it is described as a liter of beer, it fits 1 liter of beer and approx 3cm of head. In the following photo, the line where the beer currently resides is actually the 1 liter mark and the head is gone (either drunk or left gone flat)




*Pour too fast and you will gt too big a head, thus not enough room in the pint glass for the entire contents.

artanevilla wrote: »

Here's a better test.

1. Take two pint glasses. (Actually standard pint glasses you'd find in a pub in Ireland. Not some bin glass from Europe.
2. Buy two bottles of Guinness. One 500ml, one pint (568ml)
3. Pour both into each glass.
4. One glass will contain a pint and the other will contain 500ml. You will also note they are not at the same level.

OK, to begin with, Guinness is a whole world onto itself!

But, the following should be noted: Here is a video from Guiness about how to pour a 500ml bottle in to a (pint) glass. Notice how it fills the pint glass completely, the very same way as if you had purchased a pint from a bar.



It's not rocket science. A pint glass holds 568 ml in volume. A 500 ml bottle of anything being sold contains 500 ml of liquid. With beer, gas is released that creates a "head" that fills the last ~68 ml of that glass.

By the way, do pint bottles of Guinness even exist? I thought they died out in the 90's. Did people pour them into a glass or drink them straight from the bottle?

€4.50 for the likes of Bud/Heineken etc.
€4.20 for Guinness.
€3.20 for Carling.

This is fairly standard pricing around Enniscorthy. Go to the likes of The Riverside Park and you pay Dublin prices.

dotsman wrote: »

OK, to begin with, Guinness is a whole world onto itself!

But, the following should be noted: Here is a video from Guiness about how to pour a 500ml bottle in to a (pint) glass. Notice how it fills the pint glass completely, the very same way as if you had purchased a pint from a bar.

It's not rocket science. A pint glass holds 568 ml in volume. A 500 ml bottle of anything being sold contains 500 ml of liquid. With beer, gas is released that creates a "head" that fills the last ~68 ml of that glass.

By the way, do pint bottles of Guinness even exist? I thought they died out in the 90's. Did people pour them into a glass or drink them straight from the bottle?

Pint bottles of Guinness were always poured into a half pint glass.

Guinness’ ad slogan was that you could get three glasses from a pint bottle.

7.30 eur or so
New Zealand