Price of a pint !

It goes to the retailer. Government don't take it.

That's even more mind boggling so. Was it the vintners association that looked for it or how did it come about? sorry if I'm derailing the thread.

It was lobbied for by groups like Alcohol Action Ireland and representative bodies for the pub and off licence industries including LVA (Dublin pubs), VFI (country pubs) and National Off Licence Association.

My niece had a coffee from Starbucks with her the other day, I asked how much -e6.50!

I said fair play to them getting suckers to pay it, same goes for the publicans. I paid e50 for 5 long necks 10 years ago in a pub in Milan. I gave up complaining about prices back here after it!

How much has your sensible drinking gone up by?

Then how have you been penalised?

Would you go away and do some research. For God sake, it has NOTHING to do with transporting goods to a very small market on the edge of Europe.

Jesus Christ, such horsesh*t has been posted once before and the poster still hasn't come out of hiding from sheer embarrassment.

It's tax and Bullshi*t is the reason we were already highest in EU, and now more Bullsh*t.

McEntee just announced the nightclubs are going to stay open until 6am. Who's fecking health is that watching? The youngest sections of drinkers? The ones who are starting out in life and discovering alcohol etc.. They see the high prices in the off licences, and think it is just as costly as going to the pub, socialise, get drunk, and stay drinking until 6am.

How is that looking after anyone's health?

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I was in Malahide on Sunday evening, and it was €5.40 in the bar for a pint of Guinness. All the bars out that way have it sewn up. None of them great, Gibneys is a bit of a kip, and the pints in there are the most expensive.

A pint of beer in the lounge of any of them is apparently €6.80. I won't be visiting there for a while.

Not sure about Guinness in lounge, sorry. I meant lager. I didn't go into any lounge, just had two pints in bar meeting somebody. I was told it is €6.80 for a lager and I think he said 10 cents less for a Guiness, but he was talking about Gibneys, and apparently they have a 3 or 4 tier price structure, so I got a bit confused/didn't care enough to pay much attention. They have a bar, a lounge, and an upstairs all on different prices and some bar out the back that can be different or something. Not sure. I was across the road, and it was pretty empty and pricey too.

People say tax is the reason for high prices here.

Excise on beer is lower here than in the UK, or close, depending on the exchange rate.

Don't fall for the excuses from the brewers and publicans.

Diageo make Guinness in Dublin, and charge less for it in NI, than in Dublin.

Even though it has to be transported to NI, and even though the excise is similar.

It is due to a lack of competition between brewers.

Lots of brewers in the UK, some of whom compete on price.

We have more breweries here now, but the new microbrewers do not compete on price in the on-trade (they do for the own-brand in ALDI and Lidl).

UK are only slightly higher (if they are even higher atm), and are crazy high anyway, It is tax. Tax and Bullcrap. The pubs in Ireland put their own extras on it. I know of some pubs even paying commission to bar staff.

Beer is not the only drink. Ireland has the highest in the EU on wine, we are only behind Finland with beer, and again with spirits. The drop after that is colossal.

Cheap cans of lager have risen from 75 cents to €1.39 since the introduction of Minimum Alcohol Pricing. The twelve packs seem to be gone as well.

Do these brands stand any chance in future considering they are nearly the same price now as the traditionally more expensive ones?

That's Paris, it is not a tax, it is a choice. You can drive a bit further down the road and get it cheaper, but even in Paris the alcohol in the supermarkets is cheap.

In Ireland, the price of a pint in Dublin in more expensive than the rest of Ireland, but it never drops significantly. With MUP it won't in the off sales either.

Would like to see a pints.ie like pumps.ie and find out where the cheapest pint in Ireland is.

Introduction of MUP was a joke. Rising the 75cent can to 1.39 and a 6% can to 2.40 and a bottle of vodka from 10 euro to 15 won't stop an alcoholic or potential alcoholic or anyone that wants to get wasted...they'll just either pay more or buy drugs.

Pints are basically gone up a euro across the board in cork city center. The local cork IPAs are around the 6 euro now....(no distribution costs there!) Meanwhile witherspoons have good ales and ipas for 2.50.

But one is allowed charge what one wants...that's the way of de world.