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I was in O'Neill's, on Pearse Street[/url:3w091vbu] for lunch and decided to get a beer, as you do.

The taps were what you would expect in a traditional Irish pub, (i.e. Bud, Miller, Heineken, etc.), so I decided to look at the bottles. Among the usual bottled alternatives (i.e. Bud, Miller, Heineken, etc.), they had Erdinger and Budvar. I find Erdinger a bit bland, so I decided that a bottle of Budvar, it would have to be and promptly ordered one.

€5.95 was what I was charged. €5.95! Ok, this is a premium import, but €5.95 for a 500ml bottle, in a pub on Pearse Street? What the hell is going on here?

Would have told him to shove it. O'Neills is usually a grand, sane bar, used go there a lot in college. 6 euro for a bottle of beer in an old-mans pub, nuts. You'd expect it in cafe insane or the like, but not there.

Steep all right

Can´t remember how much I paid for a bottle of Leffe in the Porterhouse some time ago, but it was expensive. You can find it in France for less than 1.50 in supermarkets. Surely transportation can´t increase its price that much, right?

Are we paying too much for the "privilege" of having a different beer?

'I can buy it in the supermarket on the continent for €X' is a futile argument when you take into consideration vat and duty, along with all the other extras.

"noby":9gsh70a5 wrote: 'I can buy it in the supermarket on the continent for €X' is a futile argument when you take into consideration vat and duty, along with all the other extras.[/quote:9gsh70a5]
True, but it does make you sick all the same.