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[Hop Bomb]

Christ on a bike you couldn't possibly have picked a place more expensive than an online retailer like drinkstore,try an offie m8. 

Drinkstore is probably the best value offie in the Rep of Ireland. Id bet its cheaper than any other offie in Dublin & most of their beers are 50 to 70c cheaper than the best offie here in Galway. 

[danger_zone]

My local offie went online recently, craftbier.ie

I've never shopped on drinkstore so I don't know how it compares

[Qs]

Hollands in Bray is pretty good for price compared to a lot of places.

[cruiscinlan]

Christ on a bike you couldn't possibly have picked a place more expensive than an online retailer like drinkstore,try an offie m8. 

Drinkstore is the closest offie to work for me (and most people who work Northside Dublin City Centre) - brick and mortar shop on Manor St in Stoneybatter.
You might save 20 or 30 cents by going to McHugh's or Redmond's but, by the same token, Kelly's Mountain and Blackstairs (to name two) are routinely €4 a bottle.

€3 is your limit? You must drink a lot of O'Hara's...

20 or 30 cent? If you go to McGraths in Drumcondra its any three of the O'Haras, Galway Bay and one other brewer for E9.


For those wondering the prices in Aldi it's E1.89 for the O'Sheas Red/Pale Ale and E1.99 for the Stout and they do Schofferhofer Wheat for E1.79.

Lidl have a bottle-conditioned Franzikaner 'mit natur trub' for E1.99

[Greg2013]

Ye do realise that none of ye have mentioned anywhere outside of Dublin yet ? No offence but not really a fair comparison to keep it in the pale 

[Greg2013]

Nationwide delivery. In fact with drinkstore you're better off doing your order online because the shop itself is mayhem.

I have tried the site before but for instance when doing a small order like say 6 bottles by time you add on delivery it gets quite expensive,it may be cheap compared to Dublin prices but not cheap for us down South.

[Garry]

I've never used one of the online offies. What courier do drinkstore use?

[Greg2013]

The usual suspects I think, Fastway or DPD.

I have tried the site before but for instance when doing a small order like say 6 bottles by time you add on delivery it gets quite expensive,it may be cheap compared to Dublin prices but not cheap for us down South.

Well it's the same here. I order online from McHugh's as it's too far otherwise. I'll do a big order to level out the delivery cost.

I hear you but my point was the likes of drinkstore only works out cheap if you are doing a big order,if you only want a six pack then it is quiet expensive,good if it is a hard to get beer but not what i would call and evreyday offie tbh as it works out too dear.

[winstonia]

Drinkstore is the same if not cheaper then most off licenses in Dublin. O'Briens are pretty expensive. €6.30 for foam and fury?!

[Greg2013]

I haven't been to it but that Worldwide Wines (I think that's the name) in Waterford is supposed to be fairly good, though I can't find any gueuze on it. That might mean there's no gueuze in the whole county. 

I have been there and they do have a pretty good selection but for instance their 330ml MM cans were well over 3.00euro when i bought one there a couple weeks ago.Next time i am down in a week or two i will have a look for a Geuze for ya 

[Greg2013]

Drinkstore is the same if not cheaper then most off licenses in Dublin. O'Briens are pretty expensive. €6.30 for foam and fury?!

Again Dublin prices not so much elsewhere in the country.

[SlugTrap]

I simply won't participate or encourage the overpricing debacle on craft beer that imo we are subjected to in Ireland,

I couldn't disagree more.

Heineken, who have every industrial, distribution, and marketing advantage in the world, price their 500ml cans at €2.19 at a supermarket.
If €3 is your limit, are you honestly saying that a small business, who has no economies of scale and no advertising yet is making a superior product, should only price their beer at 80 cents more than a tasteless big corporate lager?

There were some new breweries in 2014 with QC problems who charged €4 a bottle for beer that was downright bad - they did craft beer no favours.
And I could understand not buying alcohol retail at all and sticking to homebrew because of this country's ridiculous tax schemes.
But it's not craft beer that's overpriced, it's alcohol in Ireland overall; putting unrealistic pricing expectations on small breweries damages both the scene and the breweries themselves.

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[winstonia]

6 cans of Beavertown's new IPA costs £18 from a UK off license. That is €25 at today's exchange so I don't think high prices are just an Irish thing.

[Kevin O'Roundwood]

I simply won't participate or encourage the overpricing debacle on craft beer that imo we are subjected to in Ireland,

I couldn't disagree more.

Heineken, who have every industrial, distribution, and marketing advantage in the world, price their 500ml cans at €2.19 at a supermarket.
If €3 is your limit, are you honestly saying that a small business, who has no economies of scale and no advertising yet is making a superior product, should only price their beer at 80 cents more than a tasteless big corporate lager?

There were some new breweries in 2014 with QC problems who charged €4 a bottle for beer that was downright bad - they did craft beer no favours.
And I could understand not buying alcohol retail at all and sticking to homebrew because of this country's ridiculous tax schemes.
But it's not craft beer that's overpriced, it's alcohol in Ireland overall; putting unrealistic pricing expectations on small breweries damages both the scene and the breweries themselves.

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Good point - also a lot of supermarkets have been selling boxes/slabs of lagers at below cost price, which exaggerates the price difference between macro and craft beers. Didn't they bring in legislation banning this a few days ago? Could even things up a bit and give a more balanced perspective

[TheSumOfAllBeers]

. Not so in the UK where, in Wetherspoons a micro brewery beer can sell for as little as £1.75.

No micro beer will sell in spoons for that money unless they are being liquidated.

You might get that price for a regional breweries cheapest beer way outside the affluent centres.

Real ale in the uk is a product that is manufactured very cost effectively, to mass markets.

Hoppy American pale ales, not so much