Nectar Of The Gods

[Born of Fire]

Government has signed off on Minimum Unit Pricing. Fair play to them on this initiative to revitalise trips to the north to stock up on booze.....

[Kurt Cocaine]

Yet another tax on the poor (working class) in this country. And all the while they have a free bar in the Dáil which was open when almost all others in the country were closed last summer. Pricks!

[Blackout]

As I said before, we are an apathetic, pathetic nation when it comes to any kind of protesting of government policy. You need only look at the Housing Crisis and now the minimum unit pricing for alcohol. Unless people protest, the government will continue to treat people with contempt.

[astfgyl]

And even when there is protest, we will be treated with the same contempt. I think a lot of the bullshit would be solved if we all voted for independents and forced them to come up with some sort of national government which represents the interests of the citizens but many many people still see party politics as the solution. That's for another thread probably though.

The alcohol minimum pricing is something I simply can't see the logic of though. Maybe a simple ban on below-cost selling would help to prop up the independent offies and take it back a bit from the supermarkets? Would that be too sensible, or is it already done?

[Necro Red]

Basically it works like this. There can't be multi buy offers on booze anymore eg 3 craft beers for €9, but an item can be reduced for an offer. Not by much though. It is a shame as I like a few craftys

[StoutAndAle]

Basically it works like this. There can't be multi buy offers on booze anymore eg 3 craft beers for €9, but an item can be reduced for an offer. Not by much though. It is a shame as I like a few craftys

I think, if anything, it'll be used by the retailers to pump up the price of beer even more. A few of the places I buy booze have dropped the price of their former 4 for €12 to €3 each but others have gone the other way and increased the price per beer. 

Where does the extra cost go? I am not clear on that. If a can of Heineken which was €1.20 in a multipack/single last Christmas is now to be €1.97 per can - who gets the €0.77 - the retailer, the brewery (hardly), the government/the Revenue.

If it is the latter does this make it a tax?

[astfgyl]

However it works, it won't be good for the end user. Well maybe indirectly but generally it will feel bad.

Drank a pint of Guinness from a plastic cup yesterday and it was wonderful. The feeling of walking up to the bar and ordering it was great.

[Caomhaoin]

Gorbachev increased the price of vodka by 40% in the USSR in the 80's to tackle the severe alcoholism problem there, people just started making their own and started a serious issue with labelling homemade shite with counterfeit labels.

It seems it's more about generating revenue in this case rather than coddling the wayward boozer in Ireland. Alcohol is an issue, but as a nation of primarily beer drinkers, it's a mild form of what goes on in other places.

[astfgyl]

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/every-brit-needs-drink-124-24104984

I'd be curious about the Irish figure, might try help. Then again with the LVA pushing to curb the offies I might drink the equivalent in overpriced cans....

[Carnage]

Nightcrawler milk stout, €3 a can in Tesco. Very nice indeed.

[Necro Red]

It seems like one more tax for us working class really. I don't smoke anymore and I imagine the price of smokes has rocketed also?

[Kurt Cocaine]

Bushmills and Captain Morgan in Lidl for €20 a pop atm...

[ochoill]

12 Budvar and 12 Grolsh, €15 each in Tesco.  Not an amazing deal but very easy to drink bottles.  Not much else in there on the good offer.

[Carnage]

Are they the pint bottles of Budvar or do they have 330ml? Grand deal either way.

[ochoill]

They're the 330ml's.  Not a bad deal but yeah it would be much better on the tall bottles.  The Budvar definitely the nicer of the two in general.  They had the Birra Moretti on the same deal I think, but unfortunately not the Staropramen - €19 a case there.  Finding Tesco's selection to have dwindled a fair bit in the last while too, outside of the lack of deals.