And you know some aul lad stood in front of that in 1995 and said “Almost two bleedin’ quid. What’s the fucking world coming to?”
He had no idea what was around the corner.
Without any context of percentage rise in accordance to inflation, it’s useless
My grand uncle used to love the pints. He was born in the 1910’s or so. He told us stories of when he was young and when the day came pints were 5 shilling he swore he’d never drink again. He did though! When pints got to £1 he changed his tune. “Wasn’t it a wonderful thing to have drank so many pints when they were so cheap”.
I’ve naturally robbed the phrase for my own kids, starting at the £1.30-50 pints!.
By my count, the price doubled after 6 years, 4 years, 44 years (!!!!).
Then after the switch to new money, doubled after 5 years, 5 years, 8 years…
1980 was a crazy year. 50% inflation in the price of a pint from Feb 1980 to Feb 1981
Pound a pint night in peigs in 1995. That was a pricey pub!
Would be nice to have a column of a rough hourly wage…
I wish I could go back to 1900 to invest in buying a pint for 3d then offer it to me mate now like here do ye want this man, it’s the good shtuff 🤑
Average industrial wage 1980 was 49 punts pw. So making sums easy and add a bit of rounding. So 50p was about one hundred of the pre tax total per week.
Average industrial wage now is about €1026 pw so divide €7 into that gets you 146. So in real terms the price of a pint is about 40% cheaper than 1980 (also allow a bit for the value of the punt against the Euro)…
So the point of this is that Guinness have a very good idea of what the market will bear…
1972 18p – Mar 1976 38p (4 years)
Mar 1976 38p – July 1981 77p (4 years 2 months)
July 1981 77p – Nov 1990 £1.53 (9 years 5 months)
Nov 1990 £1.53 – 2002 €3ish (12 years)
2002 €3ish – Today €6ish (23 years)
Cheapest around me is 5.20 at the moment. I refuse to pay the 6euro plus prices you get once you leave the sticks.
« Irish coins used d as the abbreviation for pence, from the Latin denarius. This is in contrast to contemporary stamps, which used the abbreviation p from the Irish pingin. »
So 1d = 1 pence, pre decimalisation. TIL…
That 70s inflation was nasty
2 quid pints were a fantastic way to start my underage drinking. 🫡
£2 seems alot for a pint in 1995
5 price reductions (I think) in 95 years.
I was a barman in 1989 and I remember the war when the pint of Guinness went from £1.48 to £1.52. Not long after you couldn’t get 3 pints for £5, another watershed.
My first job in 1997 paid £1.25 an hour.
This never ending upwards trend is concerning 😛
This photo was taken in Morriseys Pub, Abbeyleix, Co. Laois. Just thought I’d mention it as I look at it every time I’m in there🤣
Interesting! Is a pint €7.50 nowadays? Say in the local. That’s 300% in 30 years. But it went from 27p to £1.95 in the previous 20 years, or 722% increase. Inflation is on the way out boys!
New Pub Special- On Saturday’s you pay what the price was in the year you were born
We have one of these in the bar where I work, is insane how cheap they once were
So how much is a 99 now? Haven’t been back in awhile.
I remember being angry in 2002 because a pint hit 3 euro and a box of 20 smokes went over 4 euro. Imagine 2 pints and a box of smokes for under a tenner.
The price going down between 1990-91 is pretty cool
It cost 3 days in 1900? That seems excessive
Price of pint up 10x in 21yrs to 1995. Inflation has come way down. In 30 years since probably about 3x. Shows how much worse inflation used to be
Would be interesting to see the prices adjusted for purchasing power
I do wonder if you worked it out as Minutes of Work per Pint on the average industrial wage, how different things would be.
I remember trying to explain the economic issues of the modern age to the oulfellas in the pub that way once – and they understood that far more than they understood house prices.
From 1980 to 1982 the price nearly doubles, what happened
I remember around 1986 when a pint of Guinness was £1.25.
4 for a fiver.
Those aren’t Dublin prices. I remember working in a pub on James’ St in the Summer of 1981 when the price of a pint went from 88p to £1.01. People went crazy and said they’d never drink in a pub again. Some stayed away for as many as three days 😁
I was 18 in 1995. I don’t remember ever paying less than £2 for a pint. It was more like £3-4 most places.
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Those were the d’s
Siri play ”in the rare ould times”
That 99p really held in there
And you know some aul lad stood in front of that in 1995 and said “Almost two bleedin’ quid. What’s the fucking world coming to?”
He had no idea what was around the corner.
Without any context of percentage rise in accordance to inflation, it’s useless
My grand uncle used to love the pints. He was born in the 1910’s or so. He told us stories of when he was young and when the day came pints were 5 shilling he swore he’d never drink again. He did though! When pints got to £1 he changed his tune. “Wasn’t it a wonderful thing to have drank so many pints when they were so cheap”.
I’ve naturally robbed the phrase for my own kids, starting at the £1.30-50 pints!.
By my count, the price doubled after 6 years, 4 years, 44 years (!!!!).
Then after the switch to new money, doubled after 5 years, 5 years, 8 years…
1980 was a crazy year. 50% inflation in the price of a pint from Feb 1980 to Feb 1981
Pound a pint night in peigs in 1995. That was a pricey pub!
Would be nice to have a column of a rough hourly wage…
I wish I could go back to 1900 to invest in buying a pint for 3d then offer it to me mate now like here do ye want this man, it’s the good shtuff 🤑
Average industrial wage 1980 was 49 punts pw. So making sums easy and add a bit of rounding. So 50p was about one hundred of the pre tax total per week.
Average industrial wage now is about €1026 pw so divide €7 into that gets you 146. So in real terms the price of a pint is about 40% cheaper than 1980 (also allow a bit for the value of the punt against the Euro)…
So the point of this is that Guinness have a very good idea of what the market will bear…
1972 18p – Mar 1976 38p (4 years)
Mar 1976 38p – July 1981 77p (4 years 2 months)
July 1981 77p – Nov 1990 £1.53 (9 years 5 months)
Nov 1990 £1.53 – 2002 €3ish (12 years)
2002 €3ish – Today €6ish (23 years)
Cheapest around me is 5.20 at the moment. I refuse to pay the 6euro plus prices you get once you leave the sticks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland#The_Irish_Pound
« Irish coins used d as the abbreviation for pence, from the Latin denarius. This is in contrast to contemporary stamps, which used the abbreviation p from the Irish pingin. »
So 1d = 1 pence, pre decimalisation. TIL…
That 70s inflation was nasty
2 quid pints were a fantastic way to start my underage drinking. 🫡
£2 seems alot for a pint in 1995
5 price reductions (I think) in 95 years.
I was a barman in 1989 and I remember the war when the pint of Guinness went from £1.48 to £1.52. Not long after you couldn’t get 3 pints for £5, another watershed.
My first job in 1997 paid £1.25 an hour.
This never ending upwards trend is concerning 😛
This photo was taken in Morriseys Pub, Abbeyleix, Co. Laois. Just thought I’d mention it as I look at it every time I’m in there🤣
Interesting! Is a pint €7.50 nowadays? Say in the local. That’s 300% in 30 years. But it went from 27p to £1.95 in the previous 20 years, or 722% increase. Inflation is on the way out boys!
New Pub Special- On Saturday’s you pay what the price was in the year you were born
We have one of these in the bar where I work, is insane how cheap they once were
So how much is a 99 now? Haven’t been back in awhile.
I remember being angry in 2002 because a pint hit 3 euro and a box of 20 smokes went over 4 euro. Imagine 2 pints and a box of smokes for under a tenner.
The price going down between 1990-91 is pretty cool
It cost 3 days in 1900? That seems excessive
Price of pint up 10x in 21yrs to 1995. Inflation has come way down. In 30 years since probably about 3x. Shows how much worse inflation used to be
Would be interesting to see the prices adjusted for purchasing power
I do wonder if you worked it out as Minutes of Work per Pint on the average industrial wage, how different things would be.
I remember trying to explain the economic issues of the modern age to the oulfellas in the pub that way once – and they understood that far more than they understood house prices.
From 1980 to 1982 the price nearly doubles, what happened
I remember around 1986 when a pint of Guinness was £1.25.
4 for a fiver.
Those aren’t Dublin prices. I remember working in a pub on James’ St in the Summer of 1981 when the price of a pint went from 88p to £1.01. People went crazy and said they’d never drink in a pub again. Some stayed away for as many as three days 😁
I was 18 in 1995. I don’t remember ever paying less than £2 for a pint. It was more like £3-4 most places.
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