Holy crap the price of craft beer

[brenmurph]

I haven't been in Gogartys in years and I don't plan going there again anytime soon so it doesn't bother me. Galway Hooker is €4.40 a pint around the corner in Fitzsimons so that'll do me

agree Declan, Farringtons have some craft for 4-something to 9 euros and other pubs have fair prices on offer while some have the neck to charge 7.15 for a pint of fizz
we pay 4.40 in Kildare for a choice of 6 crafts in Hartes and the lucan county seem to sell for just over 4 euros ( tube can clarify)

In times of recession its nice to see some publicans see sense and have some morals. we will certainly continue to support them. imagine a country where all the decent publicans die off and were left with super publicans again who name their price.. so again we need to ask / demand fair prices ( not cheap as I dont believe craft can or should be sold cheap). I have no issue paying an extra euro / pint to support craft.

[barkar]

I've just come home after having 6 beamish (ok not craft beer but in my opinion the best of the 3 main dry stouts ) for 3 e a pint .it was 2.50  for a while last year  .

[DEMPSEY]

I've just come home after having 6 beamish (ok not craft beer but in my opinion the best of the 3 main dry stouts ) for 3 e a pint .it was 2.50  for a while last year  .

Where

[beerfly]

If you look at the bottom of the receipt. 5 live acts a day and no cover charge so that's where some of extra cost is coming from.  That said there are a few pubs in temple bar that charge reasonable prices and also have live music

[DEMPSEY]

Not the onlt place on the planet to price in the band. I was on Ibiza in the old town at a wedding 2 years back and myself and 4 others went in to a bar which had a live band that were about to start playing a little later on. I got in a round of drinks and 10 minutes later on came the band. My brother in law reordered the same round and it was 3 time the price,fooking 3 times. They had no notices up and all night as the band played everybody was complaining to the staff who were getting pretty pissed off. Bottle of miller went from €2.50 to €7.50 and don't asked what a Bacardi and coke was. We left.

[TheSumOfAllBeers]

( all hand-pumped real ales)

wederspoons: 1- 90  / pint to 2.25 per pint.

others from 2.20 to 2.75

The 'Tap' Camra region winner 2013 and other years.. cost 2-75 to 3-10

Average price of these fabulous beers about 2.40 a pint, cellered and pulled to perfection not one we could rate poorly.

In the UK, hand pumped beer tends to be the best value. There is more work in conditioning casks for a brewery, but that is easily absorbed when the microbrewery hits a certain level of scale.

However, there is a glass ceiling on prices. You could make a fabulous double IPA on cask, but good luck finding a pub that will buy it off you at a price that will leave you with any margin.

Kegged craft beer can be more expensive. As it preserves well, pubs are more inclined to take it off your hands, and it allows higher price/higher ABV beers to be sold. You can pay £4+ for a half pint of imported kegged beer, in certain craft pubs in London.

You can also get some stunning deals - £4.80 for a pint of Lagunitas IPA in the Pelt Trader (EC1). More and more local breweries in the UK are taking direct control of importing US kegged beer. Its bringing the costs down, and it is helping with quality issues (hop character can fade away in transit).

You also have to consider with bottled beer, you are adding the cost of the bottles (which is not trivial) and the distributor and/or retailers cut.

Kegged/cask beer has no such 'container cost' (Key Kegs notwithstanding), and at certain scales the brewery can manage their own distribution, and ensure that kegs/firkins get returned.

[barkar]

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I've just come home after having 6 beamish (ok not craft beer but in my opinion the best of the 3 main dry stouts ) for 3 e a pint .it was 2.50  for a while last year  .

Where

sorry know this thread has moved on but to answer -
Touristy village in the wyest !  , the other pub beside sells everything for 3 - to be fair its not a particularly nice place for beer,

[mr hoppy]

I guess there's a couple of strands to this, one being Temple Bar rip off merchants, but I think another is that some folk have pushed an agenda that non-mega swill beer is craft is premium should cost more.

Cask isn't expensive in England, Trappist ale isn't expensive in Belgium, good alts, kolschs, whatever lager your having isn't expensive in Germany, yet some indigenous beers here cost more than the (expensive) imports.

As some one else send earlier it would nearly drive you to making it yourself.