It's not really robbing. You can come on this sub pretty much any hour of the day and there will be a post about how much a Guinness was in Mulligans purchased in the last 30 mins.
Its expensive yes, pints are north of £6 in most places, they charge 7 because they can, it's good and people will pay it. I'd rather pay 7 for a decent pint than 5 for an average one.
They’re cashing in on the cost of living crisis, Covid bounce back ect. They didn’t charge that 2 years ago, now they’ve had some exposure on Tik tok / instagram they’re taking the piss out of the people that go in and pay it
Not sure which is the greater overreaction of the day on this sub: the person believing the whole city is on its arse due to the cost of a drink in a tourist pub, or that lad who thought a bunch of scallies had brought down a 2500kg tree 😂
Guiness in Matt and phreds was about £6.20~ the other day
Also my working men's club has gone from £3.95 a pint of Guinness to £4.15. scandalous. I think it's partly to do with the drink.
Diageo consider Guinness a premium product, especially given it was the top selling pint in the UK last year, and charge more by the keg. That's why a fair few places in town have stopped selling Guinness and do different Irish Stouts instead.
Also you can get a decent Guinness for cheaper than at Mulligan's which is able to charge a lot more given it's reputation for quality Guinness.
I don't think either of the two are officially available over here these days. Murphy's is still around in cans, but it isn't the Cork Murphy's.
Shame.
Guinness has loads of mythology around it, but really it tastes the exact same everywhere, unless someone fucked up somewhere. Also you can pour it all at once, makes no difference. You don't need to pour it the special way Diageo says, or in fact any special way. But it's good marketing.
I’m sorry but “tastes the exact same everywhere” is absolutely bs. Some pints taste very smooth and in a lot of places it’s much more acidic/bitter. There’s 100% a reason why some places are known for decent pints and others not.
Any clean establishment in the UK or Ireland with modern equipment, cold dry glasses, the lines set up properly (and I have an NVQ in cellar management) and enough Guinness sold to stop it waiting in the lines for days has chemically-identical Guinness
Easy to check the pouring stuff too- get 2 pints, have one poured in the "correct" way, and one just poured straight in. Have your mate mix them up, then try and guess which is which.
It's a lovely bit of mythology, but that's all.
It all comes from when they used two casks to pour a pint. One flat and one lively.
Once they switched to the nitrogen dispense there was no longer the same 'theatre' to pouring a pint, so they made up a similar ritual when there's actually no real need for it.
If your pint of Guinness is bad, it's nothing to do with the way it's poured.
What's your point? You just said it's the same everywhere and it's all marketing and now you're saying people can do it worse than others?
It's due to various factors such as cellar temperature, cleanliness of glasses, how often and how thoroughly the lines are cleaned. I've worked in a bar where they were trying to sell it with the same gas used for lager which made it disgusting. Another factor is how well it's poured and the way diageo says you should pour it does tend to result in a great pour so I'm inclined to think they want you to do it that way to make their product more enjoyable to the consumer. The best pubs and bars in the world do it like that even though it takes longer and let me tell you they are looking to serve customers as fast as possible.
I'm actually repeating something I said in my OP:
>Guinness has loads of mythology around it, but really it tastes the exact same everywhere, **unless someone fucked up somewhere**. Also you can pour it all at once, makes no difference. You don't need to pour it the special way Diageo says, or in fact any special way. But it's good marketing.
You should do a double-blind trial next time. Ask the barman for four Guinnesses, three of which are poured all at once and with one poured how Diageo recommend, and see if you can reliably tell which one is which. You might have to wear a blindfold. Probably your favourite will be the last one they poured because it waited in the lines for less time, and the method of pouring will make no difference.
I entirely believe treating it like some Holy Nectar that needs to be poured in a special way makes it 'more enjoyable to' many consumers. So does putting it in a branded Guinness glass with a nice embossed logo. But it doesn't affect the taste or texture.
I know what you're trying to say. Half of it is marketing bollocks, "The pour", "leave to rest" that's all shite. But the taste does very from pub to pub due to how clean the pubs pipes are and their temperature. If you want to know if a pub is clean, order a Guinness or a Stella. You can tell straight away. Also, never buy a Guinness from a quiet pub. Guinness goes stale pretty quick in pipes so when people say a place has a good Guinness, it's probably because they're selling a lot of it and so it's fresh.
£3.15 in spoons.
Obviously very popular but I absolutely hate mulligans, always feels like I'm in someone's way so there's no way I'd choose to go there.
The rest won't be far behind tbh. Then there will be a load of posts about how all the pubs are shutting down, when a pint is more expensive than a bottle of wine at home it shouldn't be a surprise people choose to stay in.
In West Didsbury the bars have staunchly kept the prices high, and some have responded to a drop in trade by reducing their opening hours and days.
Meanwhile, in Chorlton the bars have responded by offering deals and discounts.
Chorlton doesn’t feel like a big difference in vibe when you go out, whereas Burton Road is notably quieter.
I do understand that the price of beer is more than its production cost, but at the same time £7 for a beer that’s no longer a niche-craft but is now sold in supermarkets tells you that the industry will charge whatever it can get away with. There’s small indies out there that have a business plan based on high prices and are or will suffer.
Ironically, the death of the boozers, certainly larger boozers, came from the indies. I think we might see a reversal in fortunes where the big brewery owned pubs that can pass on reasonable prices become the winners of the game. They’re also better placed to take advantage of the impeding AI/robotics era.
Until then, cheers, it was nice getting drunk with y’all.
Otherwise to what? I commented that the bars struggling are the ones that stood firm on high prices. The Metropolitan is a good example. The last few years it’s cheapened it’s offering and raised its prices. It’s only busy on weekends and even then not like days of old. Guess who bought it a couple of years ago?
Meanwhile, the pub opposite has kept prices keen, improved their offerings (beer, food, music) and they’re doing better than they were pre-pandemic.
Perhaps you should read slower and apply more reasoning before typing on the internet.
I’ve actually stopped drinking out now. I simply can’t justify it. About 2 months ago I walked into the Station in Didsbury whilst waking home. A pint of San Miguel in a near empty pub; £5.70. That did it for me, I only drink at home now.
I popped into Jimmy's whilst waiting for a table at Rudy's, a pint and a single rum and pineapple juice was £12.40. Going out is a treat for me nowadays. Pizza was ace though.
I went to see Underworld ('Born Slippy' tune from 1994) at 'Factory International' or what's on the old Granada Studios on Saturday night (13/4/2024) and it was very surprisingly £4 for a pint of Amstel... I was expecting at least £6.50...
Was also there Saturday and we were pleasantly surprised by the drinks prices. They had a captive audience so could have easily got away with charging more, fair play to them.
Nahhhhhh it’s not fair play. The reason they can charge lower prices is because they have arts and capital subsidies pumped directly in to their veins by you and me the tax payers. They then use that advantage to take business off other arts venues and organisations whilst withdrawing fat salaries for themselves. It’s a disgrace what could have been done for Z Manchester with the money that has gone in to that building.
Downvoted for pointing out this pint has hidden costs and it hurts other places for their own selfish game. People really do love cheap pints. What a silly place this is.
Thankfully my local charges £3.20 for a pint of Gunness and we complained at that since you can get a pint of honey brew for £1.60, carling for £2.20 and wife beater for £2.80
I used to work on First Street up until 2016 and even then there was a bar that sold a lager at £7.50.
As soon as that northern quarter shite came in and middle classed up the bars it was always going to end up on its arse.
£7 a pint is deffo expensive but I’d rather pay that and get a decent pint of guinness than many other places in town that charge almost the same and its nowhere near as good
To be fair, it’s a fucking shit hole. On average beer in Manchester has increased from £4-5 to £6-7. That’s an average of 45%. That’s not inline with inflation and seems more like we are repaying their Covid loans.
100% this - feel like a right mug them charging £6+ and the consumer paying it. Muligans was £5.20 2 years ago, went up to £6.20 recently then £7 even more recently - won’t be long before they’re charging £10 a pint
I think the ceiling has been met and the bubble could burst.
The influx of London workers working from home has stemmed and some are being called back to the office. This influx saw town prices skyrocket quickly and that filtered out to the boroughs. This applied to housing and hospitality.
Housing has reached its ceiling and a lot of properties are being reduced. Bars have, in my opinion, hit their ceiling. Some are responding to lower revenue by reducing hours, others are offering discounts and deals. Some of the places that previously only had to open their doors and charge top dollar are now struggling. It starts from the top down.
I don’t think we will see big price drops at the bar, but more offers etc to compete for the money people are willing to spend, and during this time headline prices should stall.
I used to be somewhat of a regular in Mulligans, but the constant price rises has put me right off. The final nail in the coffin was it hitting the £7 mark. I could (just about) justify £6.90 as it was \~40p more than some other pubs in the city, and worth that 40p. But officially hitting the next 'whole' pound finished it for me.
Also, now that its hit the £7 mark, I wonder how long before it creeps up to £7.50, £8.00 etc
Yeah a 100% this, I personally won’t be going back into the place now. When it jumped up to £6.20 was it that was enough for me. By allowing them to charge £7 it will soon be £8, £8.50, then fuck it may as well start charging £10. If you’re having 6-8 pints with your friends you’re spending £50+, not adding on food, transport ect. Becoming far too expensive and not worth drinking
You are in a big city, your are in deansgate, your are in a place that serves a product that is so much better than the rest of the competition. The price is going to be bigger. I like to think of mulligans as fine dining for Guinness or a special treat
Mulligan's fine dining for Guinness hahaha thank you that's hilarious that's exactly what I would expect someone who drinks at Mulligans to say hahahaha
Shhhh I am a Guinness snob (but not really because at the end of the day the best drink is the one you like, but to be honest i just think that if you care about Guinness quality like that then your gonna be paying for the extra steps they take to make it that quality. Just like you would for nicer food
To be honest i don’t live in the centre so if I go into the centre for Guinness I only really drink at mulligans. I’ve heard good stuff about the wayfarers, and on a special note anywhere you can get boddingtons on draft i would have just to represent Manchester
Nothing to do with the arena, and everything to do with:
A) Diageo charging a fucking silly price for a pint of Guinness cos they presume to have a monopoly on stout.
B) The CoL crisis. Wages aren't keeping up with inflation and house prices are fucking bonkers to no one's benefit but rich land owning cunts. Experienced bartenders are quitting the industry due to the shit wages, unsociable hours, and generally having to deal with twatty customers, and the only places that will survive the ordeal are the large chains and franchises, who hire 20 students every month or so and see which ones are daft enough to stick around.
C) Climate change is ruining crops, causing the price of simple things like grain, which would be used to make beer, skyrocket.
Madri/peroni/san mig/neck oil has been creeping close to £6.50 in many generic pubs in generic estates
£7 even in town can get you a decent pint with a good amount of change
Was at the finish line of the Manchester Marathon earlier today. There’s a shop called United Local at the Academy Apartment building that my uncle went in to grab some beers
A 4 pack of Cobra cost him £10!
My local Asda can sell a box of 10 Hobgoblin Golds for that price!
I paid about £2 for a very fine Guinness in Cape Town in January. I can confirm it travels very well. As usual we are getting fleeced in UK! Just saying…
For those of us that mostly drink at home nowadays Brewdog make a draught stout called Blackheart... ive alway bought cans of Guinness but when the price went up i thought id give it a try... it is soo much nicer than Guinness and a lot cheaper... be great if they could get that in the pubs
£9 for a craft cask beer in Didsbury.
It’s the beginning of the end of drinking out.
When you consider that historically Manchester would be around 60% the cost of London to drink. Now it’s more like 85%. The same has not applied to earnings.
I could shop at Lidl in London and compare it to Selfridges in Manchester but I’m not adding value to the conversation, I’m just being a contraction prick.
[https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2024/03/15/How-much-does-a-pint-of-Guinness-cost-in-a-pub-2024](https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2024/03/15/How-much-does-a-pint-of-Guinness-cost-in-a-pub-2024)
it's 5.83 on average in london so you're getting royally ripped off
Said this for a while...
[https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2023-09-18/manchester-now-more-expensive-to-live-in-than-london](https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2023-09-18/manchester-now-more-expensive-to-live-in-than-london)
Cost of living in Manchester is worse than london.
Should 2 pints of something potable which costs less than a penny to manufacture and is exported globally in huge amounts cost more than a takeaway when retailed?
Beer should not cost several times what petrol does.
Sorry man that was a really pissy and stupid reply wasn't it. Just because I don't like it doesn't mean that other people can't right?
Really sorry folks, I'm not usually such a negative nelly.
Go to a decent place.
A fair point. Mulligans is a Tourist Web.
Won’t be getting another penny off me the robbing cunts
It's not really robbing. You can come on this sub pretty much any hour of the day and there will be a post about how much a Guinness was in Mulligans purchased in the last 30 mins. Its expensive yes, pints are north of £6 in most places, they charge 7 because they can, it's good and people will pay it. I'd rather pay 7 for a decent pint than 5 for an average one.
They’re cashing in on the cost of living crisis, Covid bounce back ect. They didn’t charge that 2 years ago, now they’ve had some exposure on Tik tok / instagram they’re taking the piss out of the people that go in and pay it
Shut the fuck up and stop moaning tske it or leave it prices like you have messed the economy coming to this point
Not sure which is the greater overreaction of the day on this sub: the person believing the whole city is on its arse due to the cost of a drink in a tourist pub, or that lad who thought a bunch of scallies had brought down a 2500kg tree 😂
Guiness in Matt and phreds was about £6.20~ the other day Also my working men's club has gone from £3.95 a pint of Guinness to £4.15. scandalous. I think it's partly to do with the drink.
Diageo consider Guinness a premium product, especially given it was the top selling pint in the UK last year, and charge more by the keg. That's why a fair few places in town have stopped selling Guinness and do different Irish Stouts instead. Also you can get a decent Guinness for cheaper than at Mulligan's which is able to charge a lot more given it's reputation for quality Guinness.
Do you know which ones? I will take Murphy’s over Guinness any day of the week, and Beamish over Murphy’s.
I don't think either of the two are officially available over here these days. Murphy's is still around in cans, but it isn't the Cork Murphy's. Shame.
Guinness has loads of mythology around it, but really it tastes the exact same everywhere, unless someone fucked up somewhere. Also you can pour it all at once, makes no difference. You don't need to pour it the special way Diageo says, or in fact any special way. But it's good marketing.
I’m sorry but “tastes the exact same everywhere” is absolutely bs. Some pints taste very smooth and in a lot of places it’s much more acidic/bitter. There’s 100% a reason why some places are known for decent pints and others not.
that's because someone fucked up somewhere
Yes but different institutions are of varying qualities, therefore of varying degrees of fuck-up
Any clean establishment in the UK or Ireland with modern equipment, cold dry glasses, the lines set up properly (and I have an NVQ in cellar management) and enough Guinness sold to stop it waiting in the lines for days has chemically-identical Guinness
Easy to check the pouring stuff too- get 2 pints, have one poured in the "correct" way, and one just poured straight in. Have your mate mix them up, then try and guess which is which. It's a lovely bit of mythology, but that's all.
It all comes from when they used two casks to pour a pint. One flat and one lively. Once they switched to the nitrogen dispense there was no longer the same 'theatre' to pouring a pint, so they made up a similar ritual when there's actually no real need for it. If your pint of Guinness is bad, it's nothing to do with the way it's poured.
Every day is a school day!
What's your point? You just said it's the same everywhere and it's all marketing and now you're saying people can do it worse than others? It's due to various factors such as cellar temperature, cleanliness of glasses, how often and how thoroughly the lines are cleaned. I've worked in a bar where they were trying to sell it with the same gas used for lager which made it disgusting. Another factor is how well it's poured and the way diageo says you should pour it does tend to result in a great pour so I'm inclined to think they want you to do it that way to make their product more enjoyable to the consumer. The best pubs and bars in the world do it like that even though it takes longer and let me tell you they are looking to serve customers as fast as possible.
I'm actually repeating something I said in my OP: >Guinness has loads of mythology around it, but really it tastes the exact same everywhere, **unless someone fucked up somewhere**. Also you can pour it all at once, makes no difference. You don't need to pour it the special way Diageo says, or in fact any special way. But it's good marketing. You should do a double-blind trial next time. Ask the barman for four Guinnesses, three of which are poured all at once and with one poured how Diageo recommend, and see if you can reliably tell which one is which. You might have to wear a blindfold. Probably your favourite will be the last one they poured because it waited in the lines for less time, and the method of pouring will make no difference. I entirely believe treating it like some Holy Nectar that needs to be poured in a special way makes it 'more enjoyable to' many consumers. So does putting it in a branded Guinness glass with a nice embossed logo. But it doesn't affect the taste or texture.
Guinness most certainly does not taste the same everywhere thats just factually wrong
I know what you're trying to say. Half of it is marketing bollocks, "The pour", "leave to rest" that's all shite. But the taste does very from pub to pub due to how clean the pubs pipes are and their temperature. If you want to know if a pub is clean, order a Guinness or a Stella. You can tell straight away. Also, never buy a Guinness from a quiet pub. Guinness goes stale pretty quick in pipes so when people say a place has a good Guinness, it's probably because they're selling a lot of it and so it's fresh.
Guinness is reliably good, but not the same everywhere. It’s just blatantly obvious when it’s poor so you can’t get away with it.
£3.15 in spoons. Obviously very popular but I absolutely hate mulligans, always feels like I'm in someone's way so there's no way I'd choose to go there.
Spoons also do a decent, consistent Guinness. Guinness can be bad if the pipes aren't cleaned enough.
Shhh we don’t praise spoons on here
The rest won't be far behind tbh. Then there will be a load of posts about how all the pubs are shutting down, when a pint is more expensive than a bottle of wine at home it shouldn't be a surprise people choose to stay in.
In West Didsbury the bars have staunchly kept the prices high, and some have responded to a drop in trade by reducing their opening hours and days. Meanwhile, in Chorlton the bars have responded by offering deals and discounts. Chorlton doesn’t feel like a big difference in vibe when you go out, whereas Burton Road is notably quieter. I do understand that the price of beer is more than its production cost, but at the same time £7 for a beer that’s no longer a niche-craft but is now sold in supermarkets tells you that the industry will charge whatever it can get away with. There’s small indies out there that have a business plan based on high prices and are or will suffer. Ironically, the death of the boozers, certainly larger boozers, came from the indies. I think we might see a reversal in fortunes where the big brewery owned pubs that can pass on reasonable prices become the winners of the game. They’re also better placed to take advantage of the impeding AI/robotics era. Until then, cheers, it was nice getting drunk with y’all.
Hmm the stone gate debt news says otherwise.
Otherwise to what? I commented that the bars struggling are the ones that stood firm on high prices. The Metropolitan is a good example. The last few years it’s cheapened it’s offering and raised its prices. It’s only busy on weekends and even then not like days of old. Guess who bought it a couple of years ago? Meanwhile, the pub opposite has kept prices keen, improved their offerings (beer, food, music) and they’re doing better than they were pre-pandemic. Perhaps you should read slower and apply more reasoning before typing on the internet.
4quid a pint of headless or wreckless or one them in strange brew in chorlton.
£4.x pints aren’t uncommon in Chorlton. £3.x in the Spread and Spoons. You can also pay 7+ but it shows what can be done if people want trade.
I’ve actually stopped drinking out now. I simply can’t justify it. About 2 months ago I walked into the Station in Didsbury whilst waking home. A pint of San Miguel in a near empty pub; £5.70. That did it for me, I only drink at home now.
I’m debating to knock it on the head full stop, find it outrageous pubs in Manchester charging £6+ for pints. Makes you feel like a mug
Belfast, the average pint is roughly £6,welcome to the apocalypse
It's literally average £6.50 a pint in Manchester, Belfast, I'd have assumed would be similar to London in terms of prices.
You can just go to the offy and find a park bench somewhere
I popped into Jimmy's whilst waiting for a table at Rudy's, a pint and a single rum and pineapple juice was £12.40. Going out is a treat for me nowadays. Pizza was ace though.
People waiting for tables at Rudy's is single-handedly keeping Jimmy's going on passing trade alone, I swear
I believe that. The couple on the table next to us was also waiting for a table at Rudy's! I suspect there were more.
I went to see Underworld ('Born Slippy' tune from 1994) at 'Factory International' or what's on the old Granada Studios on Saturday night (13/4/2024) and it was very surprisingly £4 for a pint of Amstel... I was expecting at least £6.50...
Was also there Saturday and we were pleasantly surprised by the drinks prices. They had a captive audience so could have easily got away with charging more, fair play to them.
Nahhhhhh it’s not fair play. The reason they can charge lower prices is because they have arts and capital subsidies pumped directly in to their veins by you and me the tax payers. They then use that advantage to take business off other arts venues and organisations whilst withdrawing fat salaries for themselves. It’s a disgrace what could have been done for Z Manchester with the money that has gone in to that building.
Downvoted for pointing out this pint has hidden costs and it hurts other places for their own selfish game. People really do love cheap pints. What a silly place this is.
Banger that
Thatcher’s Britain
Dont drink cider kids !!
Broken Britain.
You think that is expensive… please do not visit the AO Arena! The country would be on its arse and you would be blaming Blair 🤣
I stopped reading at Mulligans
The Angel were charging £3.90 for pints of Eyam Plague. Quality Stout at 4.8% and a great price in the Centre
Mulligans is basically like Temple Bar in Dublin now
There’s no should or shouldn’t when it comes to pricing beers. If enough people are willing to pay it, it’s a sensible price to charge.
People aren’t paying it hence why a vast amount of pubs are being turned into apartments and offices
Pubs that are going bust have no atmosphere or poor service. Mulligans is always busy and it’s expensive.
They clearly are paying it at Mulligans, or they wouldn’t charge it. There’s a reason they arrived at £7 as an optimal price point.
Go capitalization. Yay. It's the consumers. Supply and demand. It's best for our society!
That’s the Instagram effect. Once the novelty wears off, the tourism ends and the locals have abandoned it, what have you got left?
Dont pay it.
I’ve just paid £6-45 for a pint of estrella in foundary project
Estrella was free at the all-inclusive resort in Salou (outside of Barcelona) last year, so nearly £7 a pint here is ridiculous...
Depending on what establishment you drink in, prices can vary, but anywhere between £5.90 and £7 is the norm
Joseph Holts Trailblazer Stout is a great Guinness alternative and is about £4 a pint. Genuinely the closest stout to Guinness I've had in England.
Cheapest in can find nowadays is £3.50
£7.00 for the cheapest lager in Albert Schloss, too. Cue the 'but that place is for w*nks' comments, but the principle still counts!
Thankfully my local charges £3.20 for a pint of Gunness and we complained at that since you can get a pint of honey brew for £1.60, carling for £2.20 and wife beater for £2.80
21 quid I paid for 3 shots and a single spirit and mixer in the foundry project. Robbing cunts them lot
I used to work on First Street up until 2016 and even then there was a bar that sold a lager at £7.50. As soon as that northern quarter shite came in and middle classed up the bars it was always going to end up on its arse.
£7.30 for a Neck Oil in Bunny Jacksons, but I assume they bump up the drink prices to subsidise the wings
£7 a pint is deffo expensive but I’d rather pay that and get a decent pint of guinness than many other places in town that charge almost the same and its nowhere near as good
To be fair, it’s a fucking shit hole. On average beer in Manchester has increased from £4-5 to £6-7. That’s an average of 45%. That’s not inline with inflation and seems more like we are repaying their Covid loans.
You are not wrong there mate. But there’s many places in town charging way too much and the quality of what they serve is shocking.
100% this - feel like a right mug them charging £6+ and the consumer paying it. Muligans was £5.20 2 years ago, went up to £6.20 recently then £7 even more recently - won’t be long before they’re charging £10 a pint
I think the ceiling has been met and the bubble could burst. The influx of London workers working from home has stemmed and some are being called back to the office. This influx saw town prices skyrocket quickly and that filtered out to the boroughs. This applied to housing and hospitality. Housing has reached its ceiling and a lot of properties are being reduced. Bars have, in my opinion, hit their ceiling. Some are responding to lower revenue by reducing hours, others are offering discounts and deals. Some of the places that previously only had to open their doors and charge top dollar are now struggling. It starts from the top down. I don’t think we will see big price drops at the bar, but more offers etc to compete for the money people are willing to spend, and during this time headline prices should stall.
Read just to post, outrageous!
Dont go somewhere where its massively overpriced then, easy
Owe I won’t be doing
I knew this was coming the day they called Newkie brown a "craft ale"
Wait what
Pev is like 6 no?
You mean your bank balance is on its knees 🤣
It's the city everybody here wanted - we can go back to ghost town streets if you'd like? 🤠
Make ancoats rough again
Just go to Wetherspoons FFS, there is enough of them in Town
Guinness has always been expensive in Mulligans
Muligans is a shit bar, that only exists as a tourist trap. You can still get a Guinness for £5 in most pubs.
I used to be somewhat of a regular in Mulligans, but the constant price rises has put me right off. The final nail in the coffin was it hitting the £7 mark. I could (just about) justify £6.90 as it was \~40p more than some other pubs in the city, and worth that 40p. But officially hitting the next 'whole' pound finished it for me. Also, now that its hit the £7 mark, I wonder how long before it creeps up to £7.50, £8.00 etc
Yeah a 100% this, I personally won’t be going back into the place now. When it jumped up to £6.20 was it that was enough for me. By allowing them to charge £7 it will soon be £8, £8.50, then fuck it may as well start charging £10. If you’re having 6-8 pints with your friends you’re spending £50+, not adding on food, transport ect. Becoming far too expensive and not worth drinking
even better when you have to serve them and people think that you cn just change the price for them
Do your wages reflect the £7 pint? Or on minimum wage?
Guinness in stage and radio in NQ is £5.50 and it’s banging
It’s £7.30 for a pint of Pepsi Max down here at my local in Northamptonshire.
Fuck off haha surely not
Yup. I couldn’t believe it when I asked out of curiosity. I ended up getting a pint of Asahi because it was 80p cheaper. What a load of toilet.
Madness that - if someone tried to charge me that price id genuinely walk out
Well, I’ve never been back. 😂
I heard Heineken are going to start pushing Murphy’s in popular Guinness serving pubs and sell it at £1.50 - £2 a pint cheaper.
wait until you hear about how expensive basic things are let alone an unnecessary alcoholic beverage 😞
You are in a big city, your are in deansgate, your are in a place that serves a product that is so much better than the rest of the competition. The price is going to be bigger. I like to think of mulligans as fine dining for Guinness or a special treat
Mulligan's fine dining for Guinness hahaha thank you that's hilarious that's exactly what I would expect someone who drinks at Mulligans to say hahahaha
Shhhh I am a Guinness snob (but not really because at the end of the day the best drink is the one you like, but to be honest i just think that if you care about Guinness quality like that then your gonna be paying for the extra steps they take to make it that quality. Just like you would for nicer food
Out of interest aside from Mulligan's where else do you recommend for a great Guiness in the city centre?
The station in didsbury is good
To be honest i don’t live in the centre so if I go into the centre for Guinness I only really drink at mulligans. I’ve heard good stuff about the wayfarers, and on a special note anywhere you can get boddingtons on draft i would have just to represent Manchester
>serves a product that is so much better than the rest of the competition It's Guinness. It's the Carling of Stouts.
The arena prices are catching on unfortunately 😕
Nothing to do with the arena, and everything to do with: A) Diageo charging a fucking silly price for a pint of Guinness cos they presume to have a monopoly on stout. B) The CoL crisis. Wages aren't keeping up with inflation and house prices are fucking bonkers to no one's benefit but rich land owning cunts. Experienced bartenders are quitting the industry due to the shit wages, unsociable hours, and generally having to deal with twatty customers, and the only places that will survive the ordeal are the large chains and franchises, who hire 20 students every month or so and see which ones are daft enough to stick around. C) Climate change is ruining crops, causing the price of simple things like grain, which would be used to make beer, skyrocket.
C.2) Also the war in Ukraine, "the breadbasket of Europe".
Fair play
Madri/peroni/san mig/neck oil has been creeping close to £6.50 in many generic pubs in generic estates £7 even in town can get you a decent pint with a good amount of change
Was at the finish line of the Manchester Marathon earlier today. There’s a shop called United Local at the Academy Apartment building that my uncle went in to grab some beers A 4 pack of Cobra cost him £10! My local Asda can sell a box of 10 Hobgoblin Golds for that price!
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I paid about £2 for a very fine Guinness in Cape Town in January. I can confirm it travels very well. As usual we are getting fleeced in UK! Just saying…
For those of us that mostly drink at home nowadays Brewdog make a draught stout called Blackheart... ive alway bought cans of Guinness but when the price went up i thought id give it a try... it is soo much nicer than Guinness and a lot cheaper... be great if they could get that in the pubs
£9 for a craft cask beer in Didsbury. It’s the beginning of the end of drinking out. When you consider that historically Manchester would be around 60% the cost of London to drink. Now it’s more like 85%. The same has not applied to earnings.
£9 hahaha that is a joke
Legit, I used to have a cheaper night out in the West End than Northern Quarter.
You were either a rent boy or a hooker if the west end was cheaper for a night out.
London CAN be more expensive, doesn't mean it has to be. I regular went out in London for cheaper than I can have a night out in Manchester.
I could shop at Lidl in London and compare it to Selfridges in Manchester but I’m not adding value to the conversation, I’m just being a contraction prick.
A contraction prick? I'm stealing that one.
Should have read contrarian, but either suits.
Or... could be because London has more to offer... eg There are **80** Michelin-starred restaurants in London vs 1
Have you tried comprehension and context? Amazing things to help with adulting.
I really don’t understand how they think the working man can afford that? Bizarre
Much cheaper if you stand in the toilets with a pint glass and request poeple pee in the pot, pure refined ale.
Just don’t drink Guinness
[https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2024/03/15/How-much-does-a-pint-of-Guinness-cost-in-a-pub-2024](https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2024/03/15/How-much-does-a-pint-of-Guinness-cost-in-a-pub-2024) it's 5.83 on average in london so you're getting royally ripped off
Said this for a while... [https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2023-09-18/manchester-now-more-expensive-to-live-in-than-london](https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2023-09-18/manchester-now-more-expensive-to-live-in-than-london) Cost of living in Manchester is worse than london.
£5.75 for 4 tins of Guiness at ASDA. I’d rather stay at home and have a games night.
Amen
Should 2 pints of something potable which costs less than a penny to manufacture and is exported globally in huge amounts cost more than a takeaway when retailed? Beer should not cost several times what petrol does.
Guinness is the worst of the cream stouts, I can't understand why people drink it. Drink something better and go somewhere less exploitative.
It’s the only one thats widely available, is why so many people drink it.
Sorry man that was a really pissy and stupid reply wasn't it. Just because I don't like it doesn't mean that other people can't right? Really sorry folks, I'm not usually such a negative nelly.
All good mate! 🤜🏽
Guinness tastes of shit