Pub beer prices

krooton · 8 Aug 2013 at 09:54

London is London, which is why I have started necking a few fingers of whiskey before heading out these days.

alexthecheese · 8 Aug 2013 at 09:57

We're off to France at the end of the month. Last time I came back with 500 stubbies and and 30 bottles of wine.

Gonna just pack the boot full again.

agnes · 8 Aug 2013 at 10:10

Really? Go to Copenhagen guys... THAT is expensive haha.

New York is cheap by comparison!

However, staying on the island, around £3.50 average here in Reading. The pubs I go to are around £4-£4.50.

Scuzi · 8 Aug 2013 at 10:15

Between £3.50 and £5 a pint here in Winchester. I don't mind since it keeps the trash away

PapaLazaru · 8 Aug 2013 at 10:23

agnes said:
Really? Go to Copenhagen guys... THAT is expensive haha.

New York is cheap by comparison!

However, staying on the island, around £3.50 average here in Reading. The pubs I go to are around £4-£4.50.

Avoid All Bar One. Decided to venture in there for the first time this week and got charged £5.10 for a pint of Sierra Nevada IPA! Lovely pint but what a rip off.

Uther · 8 Aug 2013 at 10:41

The trend is definitely up here, although not as shocking as the £4.50 for a pint I paid in Kensington a few weeks ago. Robbing *****!

Tunney · 8 Aug 2013 at 10:46

agnes said:
Really? Go to Copenhagen guys... THAT is expensive haha.

I don't know. Copenhagen seems expensive but then you get the train to Malmö and realise that Copenhagen is pretty cheap by Scandinavian standards.

Tunney · 8 Aug 2013 at 10:48

PapaLazaru said:
Avoid All Bar One. Decided to venture in there for the first time this week and got charged £5.10 for a pint of Sierra Nevada IPA! Lovely pint but what a rip off.

Sierra Nevada is really expensive everywhere though. It's usually about £2.35 for a 330ml bottle from my local supermarket.

platypus · 8 Aug 2013 at 11:13

Trends are definitely prices going up here.

agnes · 8 Aug 2013 at 11:16

PapaLazaru said:
Avoid All Bar One. Decided to venture in there for the first time this week and got charged £5.10 for a pint of Sierra Nevada IPA! Lovely pint but what a rip off.

Dude... I went through a phase of All Bar One, it was my place to take dates. But its such a rip off I couldn't stand it. I now go to Las Iguana if I fancy a chilled date out in the sun. Or the Allied Arms opposite pavs.

Other than that, the new Sahara, named Be At One is VERY expensive but they have kicked up their cocktails menu and it's very nice!

Turtle never fails when it's happy hour

pitchfork · 8 Aug 2013 at 11:30

Scuzi said:
Between £3.50 and £5 a pint here in Winchester. I don't mind since it keeps the trash away

On the contrary, I find expensive places attract the young 20's lot who work full time but still live with their parents that sit on their phones all night and drink blue things.

My place is cheaper but attracts tight fisted *******s with beards, way better drinking company!

BlackCoat2k10 · 8 Aug 2013 at 11:36

Mutt said:
The price for a pint of lager seems to rise by around 10 to 20p per year here (the outskirts of Coventry). Right now it's £3 a pint.

I'd wager this is more to do with the influx of University students and pubs taking advantage. I remember the old 'Dog & Trumpet' days I used to pay £1.30 for a pint of Fosters. Local pub near me (far east end just out of Tile Hill/ in Warwickshire) it's about £3.60 a pint :/

EGuitarStar · 8 Aug 2013 at 11:40

Rotty said:
its £6 a bottle In Spearmint Rhino

so I hear

I've been there before and paid over £20 for 3 small bottles of beer!

Voltar · 8 Aug 2013 at 12:20

Prices have only been going up since I moved to London.

Our locals charge around £4 for a beer ale is slightly cheaper but still £3.80ish with lager creeping over £4 a lot of the time.

tomparker95 · 8 Aug 2013 at 12:24

Around £3-3.50 a pint round my way Worthing. Go into Brighton and it can go up to about £4/5 in nicer areas. A pub near me sells pint bottles of Bulmers for £4.50 :O

4737Joker · 8 Aug 2013 at 12:29

i don't know about lager but strongbow prices seem to have been creaping up steadily over the years.

Ahleckz · 8 Aug 2013 at 13:24

Average in Glasgow is probably £3.10 a pint for the well known brands. I did spend £6.50 on a pint the other day though.

dazzerd said:
For a decent lager, veltins, san miguel, peroni

I beg your pardon?

PapaLazaru said:
Avoid All Bar One. Decided to venture in there for the first time this week and got charged £5.10 for a pint of Sierra Nevada IPA! Lovely pint but what a rip off.

But compare the costs of making a pint of Sierra Nevada IPA with that of a pint of Tennents. The raw ingredients are obviously more expensive, and then once you've added in transport costs it's going to be much more expensive. You'll pay around £4 for a pint of premium lager in All Bar One so £5.10 for a Sierra Nevada isn't that bad saying costs will be far higher. It's like when I take people to Brewdog and they complain it's so expensive, well yes. It's because they actually use decent volumes of hops, and don't pack their beer with chemicals and rice.

Zatoichi.uK · 8 Aug 2013 at 14:53

£4.50 for a pint of Peroni at my local in Herts. Kind of a pee take tbh.

tomparker95 · 8 Aug 2013 at 15:00

Ahleckz said:
Average in Glasgow is probably £3.10 a pint for the well known brands. I did spend £6.50 on a pint the other day though.

I beg your pardon?

But compare the costs of making a pint of Sierra Nevada IPA with that of a pint of Tennents. The raw ingredients are obviously more expensive, and then once you've added in transport costs it's going to be much more expensive. You'll pay around £4 for a pint of premium lager in All Bar One so £5.10 for a Sierra Nevada isn't that bad saying costs will be far higher. It's like when I take people to Brewdog and they complain it's so expensive, well yes. It's because they actually use decent volumes of hops, and don't pack their beer with chemicals and rice.

£6.50?!?!?!?!?!?! What the hell was it. Seriously don't see the point in spending that much on a drink :eek:

Each to their own I guess....

tomparker95 · 8 Aug 2013 at 15:02

Zatoichi.uK said:
£4.50 for a pint of Peroni at my local in Herts. Kind of a pee take tbh.

Decent beer though