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Price of Guinness on Arthurs Day?

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    #32
    noby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭noby


    So is there a 'significance' to todays date? (I'm not sure why I need to know).


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    #33
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    guildofevil wrote: »
    Isn't this against the law? Sounds suspiciously like happy hour to me.

    Me too! Shennanigans.
    noby wrote: »
    So is there a 'significance' to todays date? (I'm not sure why I need to know).
    BeerNut wrote: »
    Pints of what, though? There was no Guinness stout until about 220 years ago.

    Actually, there wasn't even a Guinness brewery 250 years ago: AFAIK the lease was signed in December 1759.

    So what the hell was today supposed to be ? 250 years in adjusted marketing years :confused:
    Bleedin stupid thing anyway, celebrate a decent drink.


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    #34
    BeerNut
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    noby wrote: »
    So is there a 'significance' to todays date?
    Nothing in the marketing I've seen has said the date is any way relevant to anything.

    Edit: though the almost exactly six months to St Patrick's Day might have something to do with it.

    My local dropped the price of pints by €1.40 for an hour this evening. Ain't no law west of the Poddle.

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    #35
    oblivious
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    BeerNut wrote: »
    My local dropped the price of pints by €1.40 for an hour this evening. Ain't no law west of the Poddle.

    How did they get around the law on happy hour and such?


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    #36
    rubadub
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    BeerNut wrote: »
    Nothing in the marketing I've seen has said the date is any way relevant to anything.
    On TV3's morning program they kept on saying it was his birthday

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Guinness
    that lists his birthday as 24/09/1725

    BUT it also says
    This contradicts the date of 28 September 1725 chosen by the Guinness company in 1991, apparently to end speculation about his birthdate
    28th falls on a monday, not a particularly good drinking/marketing day, so no wonder they changed it again :rolleyes:
    oblivious wrote: »
    How did they get around the law on happy hour and such?
    Thats what I wondered, a lot of places seemed to be doing it.


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    #37
    noby
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    oblivious wrote: »
    How did they get around the law on happy hour and such?

    "Arthur's Day" is above the law, don't you know. If it wasn't for him blah blah blah blah etc...


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    #38
    Rob_l
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    It was €2:50 a guinness all night in my local bar and the guinness was great


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    #39
    dylbert
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    €5 all night in Tripod, no free pint and only Guinness being sold before 6pm, to shame. Also, the pints seemed very watery, I was wondering if they made it even blander to try convert larger drinkers.


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    #40
    Mr-McBain
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭Mr-McBain


    Yeah Tripod was €5 per pint. All Diageo stock so no Heino, Vitamin H, H-Bombs or Pin-O-Ken. No free pint either which was bad considering they got free kegs and made money from ticket sales. No consistancy with prices throughout Dublin. Bad form but a good night.


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    #41
    noby
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    rubadub wrote: »
    On TV3's morning program they kept on saying it was his birthday

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Guinness
    that lists his birthday as 24/09/1725

    BUT it also says
    This contradicts the date of 28 September 1725 chosen by the Guinness company in 1991, apparently to end speculation about his birthdate

    28th falls on a monday, not a particularly good drinking/marketing day, so no wonder they changed it again :rolleyes:


    I wondered what happened the guy who, when setting the date back in 1991, didn't have the foresight to see what day it falls on this year. Probably locked in that special vault that Guinness have to store all the stuff they like to wipe from history.


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    #42
    Oliver1985
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    McGowans pints were 3.50 of the black stuff and everyone was drinking them!! They were lovely!!


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    #43
    moncai
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    There is no historical significance to Arthurs Day regarding a date in september, it was introduced as a celebration of 250 years since founding the company. They probably picked september as it has no other major dates of celebration to clash with around then. The date falls on the 3rd thursday in september, the only relation to Arthur Guinness is a re-interpretation of "Arthurs Day" to "Our Thursday" which might be an attempt to encourage people to go out and have a good time by making them feel like they have a sense of ownership on the celebration.


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    #44
    TakeTheVeil
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    Guinness €2.50 in Carberry's Dunshaughlin


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    #45
    celticbest
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    In my local the price will be €2.59 @ 17:59 & then it will go up 15cents every 15 mins until it returns to it normal price.......


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    #46
    JONJO THE MISER
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    Price was 2.50 in my local for a few hours.


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    #47
    thee glitz
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    I was in O'Neills in Lucan for it, €3 all night and it was yummy.


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    #48
    the beer revolu
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    celticbest wrote: »
    In my local the price will be €2.59 @ 17:59 & then it will go up 15cents every 15 mins until it returns to it normal price.......

    Slightly illegal, I'd say that was.


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    #49
    rubadub
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    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Slightly illegal, I'd say that was.
    I'd say it was too, but only because I would guess the price was more earlier in the day. The "Happy hour" law says they can increase it all they want as the day goes on, you just cannot have it reduced.

    If there was any issue on the law on price display can be got around by listing some other stout, as they don't need to list everything.


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