Non Alcoholic beer in bars should be cheaper than alcoholic beer

Its neither their job nor their responsibility to encourage you to drink non alcoholic beers.

I doubt publicans have much of an interest in making non alcoholic beer more attractive. People won't drink 8 or 10 of them like they will full strength and a room where a lot of people are sober detracts from the atmosphere as alcohol makes people more chatty, friendly etc.

More insufferable the more they drink too.

The markup on soft drinks is insane though.

I agree, the other prices deserve their own thread.

That's another thing. The cans and the glasses got smaller, the price stayed the same.

200mls is barely a few mouthfuls, a children's size can.

The extra cost of making the beer cancels out the 55c saving.

Was out on Friday night, everyone else was drinking pints so I asked for 2 200ml bottles of coke in a pint glass with ice. 7 euros.

For coke! Coca-Cola before some smartarse thinks I mean something different.

If it was just about money, landlords wold be encouraging more people to drink soft drinks.

It is not in the energy generating industry interest for the consumer to use less gas or electricity, it is not in the waste disposal industry for the consumer to dispose of less waste and it is not in the alcohol industry interest for consumers to drink non alcohol drinks.

We are being conned in lots of areas to think that doing the right thing will result in cost savings for us, as individuals. The world does not work like that.

You can't make Guinness without making alcohol. It then goes through a reverse osmosis process, and the alcohol is distilled off.

It is more expensive to make Guinness Zero than it is regular Guinness which is why its a similar price.

In regard to minerals, can pubs sell cans, they could buy cheap in multi packs

The small glass bottle minerals really have nothing in them

Alcohol free beers even in cans or bottles I think are near enough the same price in Off Licences and Supermarkets

Retailers are free in Ireland to charge whatever price they like.

The Roisin Dubh pub / late venue in Galway city charges 4.00 for Guinness 0.0%, which is a fair price for 2024.

And they sale for about €3.50 to €4 each, mad mark up

I've got Cidona in cans in pubs but these cans seem different to shop cans

Would businesses be in trouble for selling cans marked not for individual selling etc., as many chippers use

Minerlals are over priced but they are stocked primarily for mixers and cans wouldn't be suitable. Outside of pubs that sell large volumes of food, non alcoholic beer and mineral drinkers are not a priority for publicans. With the beer, a keg costs the same as full strength beer so it's the breweries to blame there. What pubs should do is use post mix for mixing the spirits add a euro on the price of Vodka & Coke, the customer is happy because 2 X V&C is €14 instead of €16 and the extra margin on that could cover a price reduction on mineral bottles for people who are having the mineral only.

Non alcoholic beers should definitely be cheaper but then that would be a sensible way for the government to deal with binge drinking and Ireland doesn't do sensible plans, theyd rather close everywhere when it gets late so that more people binge drink.

Probably better quality ingredients in the can of corn than is in a pint brewed by Diageo.

I was laugh when I see posts like this

Maybe those buying non alcoholic beer should have it served in a different glass that magically cleans itself, served by a person who takes a smaller wage because its non alcoholic, told to sit on the floor because seats are for those paying for real beer, told to sit outside because the heat is for those paying normal price.

There's cost in business. It doesn't always reflect in the cost of the product itself. EG shops can buy greeting cards for 50c and sell for €2 - but serving that customer for €2 has the same cost as serving the customer for a €10 item which the shop may have bought for €6.

And them you ALWAYS get that one person who brings up the Temple Bar pub - funny how they have probably never been in the pub themselves and checked what the punter gets for the €11 pint (that's a normal price in many New York, Boston, Seattle, London, Paris etc pubs - it would be CHEAP by Paris standards). As well as the drink, they get really good live Irish music no matter what time they go in and many will spend a couple of hours over one drink listening to the music - so if I said I will give you 2 hours of live traditional music plus a pint of beer and it will cost you €10.95 all in, you'd be saying tis a bargain.

If you go into the Temple Bar and swill back 4 pints in an hour and can't be bothered with the music - you are a fool and that's what Martin Keane himself says. Its not aimed to that type of customer.

The pubs can do what they want, it's the government that should be promoting non alcoholic drinks as a way of cutting down on all the issues that are caused by people who can't handle there drink. So you are claiming temple bar is not a rip off? What's next, Trump is a nice guy? Cork is the capital of Ireland? There is no housing crisis?

Not to defend Red Bull which is overpriced shte but I hate this crap of using The Fogarty or The Temple Bar as any sort of example of prices.

The price at wholesale for let's say Heineken 0.0 bottles isn't actually that much cheaper than regular bottles. So yes you should pay less on the bar but not as much as people think.

They discussed this on Reddit previously.
When Diageo launched their pure brew 0 lager, their RRP was €3.50. But every pub sold it at €5 per bottle.

Diageo sold later non alcoholic beers at the same price as the regular.