12 Pubs of Christmas - Dublin

Consonata

Going down to Dublin on the 23rd and hoping to do the 12 Pubs that night. Anybody got good routes that are good craic and won't break the bank?

wakka12

No matter which pubs you go to if you just buy one pint in each of the 12 pubs you'll be spending minimum 100 euro

The Sidewards Man

wakka12 wrote: »

No matter which pubs you go to if you just buy one pint in each of the 12 pubs you'll be spending minimum 100 euro

So, 100 euro is pocket money to the average worker.

newacc2015

TBH no pub will probably let you in. Plenty of Bars last year had a no 12 pubs policy and christmas jumpers were banned. Chances are most pubs wont let you in. Plus it so close to Christmas Day, they wont be stuck for the Business.

All the pubs in Dublin are so tired of it. Its generally a group of dozen or more ****ed up lads there for maybe an hour max getting more wasted and acting the utter bollox. Its generally not how 98% of patrons Dublin bars act. A few annoying lads on the 12 pubs can really destroy the atmosphere in a bar

Bio Mech

wakka12 wrote: »

No matter which pubs you go to if you just buy one pint in each of the 12 pubs you'll be spending minimum 100 euro

Minimum €8.30 a pint in every pub in Dublin? Where did you dream that?

Spanish Eyes

The Twelve pubs thing is out of fashion now.

Too much disruption, barmen don't like it. Punters who are not doing it don't like it either.

Pubs are heaving anyway, a gang of you in Christmas jumpers will be roasting lol.

Forget it.

Just have a few pints. The pubs in Dublin will be great craic at that time without the jumpers anyway.

Trust me. You will have a ball, just don't do it.

homerjay2005

wakka12 wrote: »

No matter which pubs you go to if you just buy one pint in each of the 12 pubs you'll be spending minimum 100 euro

incorrect, average cost is no more than €5.60 and some are cheaper so the maximum you will spend is about €66. add in bus fair in and out of town and a quick trip to the chipper and your talking about €75 which is good going.

podgemonster

Most start on Upper baggot street. Usually Searsons, the Landsdowne or the Waterloo, they are always accommodating to the 12 pubs as you'll be starting sober and won't be a absolute mess. usually the wheels leave the cart just before Stephens Green.

The closer you get towards town the messier you'll get and even if your not messy it be harder and harder to get into the pubs.

We did our 12 pubs of Christmas in the middle of summer. No hassle, great day out.

The Backwards Man

Organised drinking. What fun!

homerjay2005

podgemonster wrote: »

Most start on Upper baggot street. Usually Searsons, the Landsdowne or the Waterloo, they are always accommodating to the 12 pubs as you'll be starting sober and won't be a absolute mess. usually the wheels leave the cart just before Stephens Green.

The closer you get towards town the messier you'll get and even if your not messy it be harder and harder to get into the pubs.

We did our 12 pubs of Christmas in the middle of summer. No hassle, great day out.

ive done it about 8 years in a row now and apart from one pub, we have never had a problem getting into any place unless it was actually full.

OldGoat

Where did the idea for the 12 pubs start? Was it an idea spawned by the Vintners Association by any chance? Hope so cos I like the idea of them having created a monster that they now don't want to deal with.

The Backwards Man

OldGoat wrote: »

Where did the idea for the 12 pubs start? Was it an idea spawned by the Vintners Association by any chance? Hope so cos I like the idea of them having created a monster that they now don't want to deal with.

Great idea for a pub at the top of a hill actually. You're the starting point, you get them when they're fresh and actually able to handle a pint or two, no mess no fuss. It's the poor fecker at the bottom of the hill that's in bother, all he gets is hassle.

If you ever win the Lotto, buy a pub at the top of a hill.

seamus

OldGoat wrote: »

Where did the idea for the 12 pubs start? Was it an idea spawned by the Vintners Association by any chance? Hope so cos I like the idea of them having created a monster that they now don't want to deal with.

I think it came from a modified version of pub golf. Pub golf being a game where you visit 9 or 18 pubs and everyone gets the same drink, with a different drink in most pubs. Your score is the number of gulps it takes to down the drink. Someone sets out the route and the par for each pub.

12 pubs is very a similar with the set route and rules, so I'd say someone who was a fan of pub golf decided to do a Xmas-themed one and it went from there.

Seems to be running out of steam in general. Where some people used to take it very seriously, the proper rules guarantee you're completely obliterated. So those doing a work "12 pubs" are often just on a simple pub crawl for the craic rather than being hammered and rowdy.

Boom_Bap

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The Hill Billy

In Skerries, we have had a St Stephen's Day tradition of doing the 13 pubs for many, many years. Any time I did it I ended up staying put in whatever bar I had my eighth pint in, had 5 more & saved myself the walk.

hatrickpatrick

newacc2015 wrote: »

TBH no pub will probably let you in. Plenty of Bars last year had a no 12 pubs policy and christmas jumpers were banned. Chances are most pubs wont let you in. Plus it so close to Christmas Day, they wont be stuck for the Business.

All the pubs in Dublin are so tired of it. Its generally a group of dozen or more ****ed up lads there for maybe an hour max getting more wasted and acting the utter bollox. Its generally not how 98% of patrons Dublin bars act. A few annoying lads on the 12 pubs can really destroy the atmosphere in a bar

To be fair, how are they supposed to know it's a 12 pubs thing? I'm sure it'd be easy enough to disguise the crew as just a bunch of lads meeting for a quick pint. That's what we did last year anyway

@OP: The Baggot Mile is a good one. Baggot St, Dublin 4 (Dublin 2?)

hatrickpatrick

podgemonster wrote: »

We did our 12 pubs of Christmas in the middle of summer. No hassle, great day out.

Ye sneaky, sneaky bastards

Andrew Laeddis

We just tend to stick to Camden Street/Wexford Street/Aungier Street/Georges Street

podge018

Doing it since 2007, never turned away, but we don't dress up and we don't have any silly drinking rules/games.

Here's our lists down the years you're welcome to them. Capel St this year fwiw.

2007
Kehoe's, Anne's St
McDaids
Bruxelles
International
Stags Head
Mercantile
Citi Bar
Auld Dub
Palace Bar
Mssrs
Mulligans
McTurcaills

2008
The Flowing Tide, Marlborough St
The Sackville
Madigans
Grand Central
The Oval
The Bachelor
Knightsbridge
Pravda
The Lotts
Gin Palace
TP Smyths
The Church

2009
Cassidy's, Westmoreland St
Quay's Bar
VAT House
The Bank
The Bankers
Le Cirk
3 Crowne Alley
Foggy Dew
Brogan's
Thomas Reads
The Porterhouse
Bull and Castle

2010
O'Neill's, Suffolk St
O'Donoghue's
Porterhouse
Davy Byrne's
The Duke
Kehoe's
Cafe en Seine
Dawson Lounge
Sinnott's
Peter's Pub
Hairy Lemon
bia Bar

2011
The Waterloo, Baggot St
The Fifty One
Smyth's
Larry Murphy's
McGrattan's
Toners
The Baggot Inn
Doneny & Nesbitt's
Foley's
O'Donoghue's
Hartigan's
Dandelion

2012
Addison Lodge, Glasnevin
Sunnybank Hotel
Gravediggers
Botanic House
Hedigan's
Porterhouse
Smith's
Bohemian
The Hut
Phibsborough House
Red Mill
McGowan's

2013
Estuary Bar, Swords
Harp Bar
The Pound
The Star
The Cock Tavern
44 Main Street
The Lord Mayors
The Old Schoolhouse
The Old Boro
Wrights Wine Bar
Wrights Cafe Bar
Rouge

2014
Dame Tavern, Dame Court
The Exchequer
Hogan's
The Long Hall
Capitol
P Macs
Hairy Lemon
Peters Pub
The Clarendon
Pygmalion
Grogan's
Dakota

Andrew Laeddis

Anyone do the 12 bookies of Xmas? Where you go on a bookies crawl and place a bet in a different bookies. While you're locked? Just me? Oh...........

L1011

podge018 wrote: »

but we don't dress up and we don't have any silly drinking rules/games.

That's pretty much the requirement to get in - don't dress up and you'll probably be fine.

Any group of lads in stupid jumpers in December is going to get turned away, particularly if they've obviously had a few already.

keano_afc

I must be getting old. Under no circumstances would I be able to drink 12 pints on a night out.

Augme

keano_afc wrote: »

I must be getting old. Under no circumstances would I be able to drink 12 pints on a night out.

Most people that do it can't either.

L1011

keano_afc wrote: »

I must be getting old. Under no circumstances would I be able to drink 12 pints on a night out.

For pissing-like-a-racehorse reasons, a fair few (or all) of the 12 would be shorts for most people. Which is less alcohol and massively less fluid volume.

MOH

The biggest hurdle people give themselves is starting at 6 or 7 and trying to do it in 30 mins per pub. That's not going to work.
If you start at 2 or 3 in the afternoon you've some chance, especially if you factor in fast food along the way.

No idea how it started, but I know some guys who were doing it maybe ten years ago. Think they called it "Aul' lad's jumper day", where you'd get the most ridiculous looking heavy wool jumper your Dad had from the 70s/80s and wear that. Maybe attach something Christmassy to it - one of the guys put Christmas lights on attached to a battery pack in his pocket. Nobody else (or very few) was doing it at the time, everybody saw it as a novelty.

It gradually spread, probably from people seeing similar groups out and thinking it looked like fun.
But then at some point it became "a thing", shops started selling "Christmas jumpers" at 20 quid a go, and it all went downhill very fast.

Confucius say

Andrew Laeddis wrote: »

Anyone do the 12 bookies of Xmas? Where you go on a bookies crawl and place a bet in a different bookies. While you're locked? Just me? Oh...........

Lol, you've cracked me up, thanks

podge018

Augme wrote: »

Most people that do it can't either.

we must have issues then because there's 6-8 of us that have done it since 2007 and it's pints only, not allowed bottles or shorts, and 12 pints is never a problem. A big feed beforehand and spaced out over 10 hours or so you'll find it's a piece of piss.

seamus

keano_afc wrote: »

I must be getting old. Under no circumstances would I be able to drink 12 pints on a night out.

That's meant to be part of it. In effect it's a "last man standing" drinking game, where the aim is to drink 12 pints in 12 pubs in a six-hour period.
As has been said, it's doable if you're well rested and have enough to eat earlier on in the day. That's not to say you're sober at the end, but six hours is time enough to still be upright and relatively coherent.

Problem is that people usually embark on it after working all day and having eaten nothing but a sandwich for lunch, so they're on their ear by pub 7.

lee_baby_simms

seamus wrote: »

Seems to be running out of steam in general.

Thank god for that.

ProudDUB

keano_afc wrote: »

I must be getting old. Under no circumstances would I be able to drink 12 pints on a night out.

Most people can't. Which is why so many pubs turn them away now. They don't want to deal with the messiness that starts to occur around pints number 6 & 7, never mind pints 11 & 12. :rolleyes:

Cienciano

homerjay2005 wrote: »

ive done it about 8 years in a row now and apart from one pub, we have never had a problem getting into any place unless it was actually full.

Same here, never a problem getting in anywhere. I've missed the last 4 years cos I've kids now, but my mate says town is full of idiots doing it with christmas jumpers and fúcking whistles! Blowing the whistle when rules are broken. Don't blame bar staff for not letting them in.

MOH wrote: »

The biggest hurdle people give themselves is starting at 6 or 7 and trying to do it in 30 mins per pub. That's not going to work.
If you start at 2 or 3 in the afternoon you've some chance, especially if you factor in fast food along the way.

I do the same, start at 3. Half hour a pub is really fast drinking and that's 6 hours.

wakka12 wrote: »

No matter which pubs you go to if you just
buy one pint in each of the 12 pubs you'll be spending minimum 100 euro

Bio Mech wrote: »

Minimum €8.30 a pint in every pub in Dublin? Where did you dream that?

Because wakka12 lives in the real world. If you really believe the price of a night out doing the 12 pubs is the price of a pint multplied by 12, you'll be in for a shock.