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€5 for a can of heineken

Plebs · 2010-08-28 18:35:17

Was in a karaoke bar on Capel Street last night. 8 pm. First ordered a €5 pint of guinness. Absolute muck. It was luke-warm and it took the barman about 10 minutes to get the head off it. I asked for a cold beer and told the barman that the last pint was ****e, half expecting a freebee. I asked what the most popular…

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28-08-2010 7:35pm

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Plebs

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Was in a karaoke bar on Capel Street last night. 8 pm. First ordered a €5 pint of guinness. Absolute muck. It was luke-warm and it took the barman about 10 minutes to get the head off it.

I asked for a cold beer and told the barman that the last pint was ****e, half expecting a freebee. I asked what the most popular draught is as I didn't want another luke-warm drink and he recommended a can of Heineken. I said ok and then he said "€5 please". I laughed in his face.

Totally unprofessional. I counted 7 people working there. Don't know how they make money.

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#2 29-08-2010 3:52pm
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#3 29-08-2010 4:20pm
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The cans in trinity are €2.40 each i think, or 4 for €8 cant go wrong. I wouldn't pay €5 either for a can

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#4 30-08-2010 2:16pm
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I have seen it before, what is stranger is that people think it is strange! You buy bottles in pubs so why not cans?

When you think about it €5 is relatively quite good for the city centre, in many places a bottle of heineken is over €5 I remember (reluctantly) handing over €5.50 for a 330ml bottle of heineken -(stuck in a round, hate paying for longnecks). That works out at €8.33 for 500ml. Cans usually cost more than a longneck in an offie so I would expect a bar to charge more. It really illustrates what a rip off bottles are in comparison to pints. A mate of mine would actually prefer a can of heineken as it is brewed in holland and pints here are brewed here.

There was a thread about cans in pubs before
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055930309

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#5 30-08-2010 6:24pm
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A lot of rural pubs sell cans (although not at €5 a pop)

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#6 31-08-2010 12:19pm
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rubadub wrote: »

I have seen it before, what is stranger is that people think it is strange! You buy bottles in pubs so why not cans?

When you think about it €5 is relatively quite good for the city centre, in many places a bottle of heineken is over €5 I remember (reluctantly) handing over €5.50 for a 330ml bottle of heineken -(stuck in a round, hate paying for longnecks). That works out at €8.33 for 500ml. Cans usually cost more than a longneck in an offie so I would expect a bar to charge more. It really illustrates what a rip off bottles are in comparison to pints. A mate of mine would actually prefer a can of heineken as it is brewed in holland and pints here are brewed here.

There was a thread about cans in pubs before
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055930309

Heineken is muck whatever country you get it from ... Its the millions of euros of advertising that gets people to drink it.

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