Holy crap the price of craft beer

[admin]

Was in Superquinn a while ago, first time in a while. €3.42 for a 500ml bottle of Hooker. Doesn't make sense, when you can get a pint for a fraction over €4 in a lot of bars.

[delzep]

O'Haras is well over 3 quid a bottle in Dunnes too. Think I saw it for €3.20 (Leann Follain)

In fact it looked like all of Dunnes beer prices have gone up recently (since the budget?)

[delzep]

If only there was a way to make nice beer at home somehow on the cheap

[HomeBrewWest]

In the UK, session (high volume) craft beers are sold to offies / shops for about £1 per 500ml bottle but I don't know what they retail for?

Over £1, volume drops off very quickly. When you take off the material/energy/water/duty costs there really isn't much left for the brewer especially when you consider that you have to market, sell and deliver it too!

[brenmurph]

Just back from 3 days in Chester ( real ale heaven) with what I believe is more craftpub/ brewpubs per head of population that anywhere else in the world ( I'm sorta of not messin .
We done the Tap (Camra regional winner), what a place.. the Ship, the Blueball brewhouse which is a gem, Chesterbells, the Pied Bull, of course the square bottle (wederspoons), which has a line of 10 different handpump ales. Besides that we done at least 5 or 6 other great craft pubs on our venture.

PRICES: Sterling (rate 85pence / euro)

( 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.

[ColinC]

Was in Superquinn a while ago, first time in a while. €3.42 for a 500ml bottle of Hooker. Doesn't make sense, when you can get a pint for a fraction over €4 in a lot of bars.

4 bottles of Hooker for €11 in Carry Out Clondalkin. And I think it's 4 O'Haras for €10. And Mountain Man / Green Bullet are 6 for €10.

Sounds lads in there. Alec the gaffer said he'd get in pretty much anything we'd want.

[Covey]

Just seen this on a Mates Feed on FB, WTF

[brenmurph]

I think the T-bar are  gettin a bit outa control re prices, huge volume of sales usually means better value....working the opposite   in temple bar pubs.... shame coz the locals will get pissed off eventually.

fair play to sweetmans sellin for 4 quid and porterhouse seems to offer fair prices??

[brenmurph]

@ tube,  agree but it seems every pub on the street is chargin 6 quid for a comercial fizzy stuff and the crafts strangely in let say farringtons ( not singling them out, its just the one ive been in recently) are from ( correct me if Im wrong) about 4.80 for some crafts to 9 quid for the 'dogtoberfest'  I had couple weeks ago) I know a couple others chargin huge sums.

Ive no issue paying extra for real beer but theres a limit and Ill die of thirst before I pay 7.15 for a coors

[Bzfeale80]

Just seen this on a Mates Feed on FB, WTF

Not really surprised there.

I think the T-bar are  gettin a bit outa control re prices, huge volume of sales usually means better value....working the opposite   in temple bar pubs.... shame coz the locals will get pissed off eventually.

fair play to sweetmans sellin for 4 quid and porterhouse seems to offer fair prices??

Bren I think that is only for their own beers and besides all pubs with late licence in Dublin seem to jack up the prices when late licence hours kick in. The Porterhouse in Temple Bar definitely raise their prices for late licence hours

[brenmurph]

can appreciate sweetmans and porterhouse brew their own and may have an advantage, and accept prices rise at late hours...dosnt explain my main comment that high volume = low prices...the bar has huge volume, dosnt have to work hard to get footfall and should be in a position to sell at less, they are business people they can charge what they like as its a free market...its up to us to talk with our feet, however ultimatly tourism is suffering...would be interesting to see some evidence of repeat tourism because myself and kellie know that our english relations and friends cant afford to come to Ireland....they can go to anywhere in europe for half the price..

we go to UK at least a half dozen times a year coz theres fantastic value and quality in food and drink in UK...germany, france, holland, chech, poland and pretty much everywhere bar Ireland.

We need to consider above and stop ripping the S*** outa tourists

[delzep]

If people pay it, thats what it'll cost

Simple really

[Dunkel]

But doesn't it pee you off that you can get the same quality beer at so much cheaper prices in other countries?

[delzep]

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

[brenmurph]

Dusseldorf.....(schumacher, il fuschen, Kurtzer, and the others)...............top quality Altbier straight from the aging wooden barrel, 1.70 for 250cl measure, in the Dusseldorf 'Temple bar'

Austria, Achenkirch ski resort....2.70 for half litre of premium local Pilsner...
I nearly forgot, Munich Oktoberfest about 9 euros a litre last time I looked, ( correct me if Im wrong) bout 7 euros / litre when we were there in '07


were gettin screwed especially in temple bar..we need to talk with our feet as I said earlier, let them charge what they like nobody has to drink it except the tourists who are bein ripped to shreads on their holidays and dont come back again