Lager prices and pubs
?4.75 for a pint of Heinken in a pub near where Ocean /Imagine Software's offices used to be here in Manchester. I won't say which one it is but the owner deserved to be publicly named and shamed but further up the road it's ?3.10 for a pint of Kronenbourg 1664 (my first choice of lager and it's 2.50 from Wetherspoons on Mondays). What's the most/least you pay for a pint of lager in your local/favourite pub?
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In Glasgow in 2014, the average pint in the West End will cost you between ?3.50 and ?4. In 2006 it was about ?2.60.
I noticed they had some new bottles of premium cider a couple of days ago. I sold one which was ?4.75 when I put it through the till. Old Mout Cider it was called and had strange flavours like lime & kiwi.:o
One night in there after work with 2 colleagues i ordered 3 drinks and it came to ?14, we had them then left:grin:
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Please tell me this is a wind up!!
the owner/manager/pub SHOULD BE PUBLICLY NAMED AND SHAMED!!!
I would not have paid and f*cked off before drinking them.
I remember once a bar in paris tried to charge us all one euro extra a bottle if we wanted to sit down. The bottles were already 7 euros each.
Nope! It's the god's honest truth, we had them then went on somewhere a bit cheaper. I've never been back!
Proving the Scottish stereotype in the process?! :lol:
Nah, at them prices I'd have walked too (but then I do have a Scots Grandpa and I'm married to a Yorkshire lass :rolleyes:)
There's a pub near to where I live at the mo'. I usually ask for 2 bottles of Becks. Last time I went in, ordered 2 Becks and got about ?2 change from a ?10! They do the fookers 3 for a fiver in the local Spoonies!!
I think the most I have ever (nearly) paid for a pint was the first time I went to London. Went down there on summer hols from Uni to work in the pubs (sister-in-law used to be a manager for Spoonies). I used to work at The Moon Under Water (think that's what it was called?) on Chalk Farm Road. Remember being asked if I wanted to go out for a few after work to the Camden Lock and "if you keep your Wetherspoons tie on pints are half price" so I asked "how much?" and was told "?4" now I was used to paying c?1.50 for a pint at the time so I said "so ?2 a pint?" and was met with "No, ?4 is the half price". I was knackered anyway after coming down from Manchester to London on the coach and doing an 8hr shift so I just said "?8 quid full price! Bloody hell...I want a beer not shares in the company!".
Cheapest pint was probably in the Huddersfield Student Uni (Milton Arms?). When I started there in 1994, it was 94p a pint. A year later it went up to 95p a pint. They also did one of them stock exchange beer thingies there once...IIRC I think I paid 30p for a pint of Fosters at one point. I know, it was Fosters...I'm not proud of it I was a student!
I wish beer was still 95p a pint! I would be constantly drunk (and fat!):grin:
Most places here in Texas $2.50 domestics is common and $3-5 for imports/craft beers.
GET OUT NOW tut
cant beat ye olde wifebeater
I don't really like pubs anyway, I was only there as everyone else I was with went there.
I can't drink the stuff, it makes me feel sick.
The price some places charge for soft drinks is insane, I haven't been able to drink for a few weeks because of painkillers and it's nuts being charged nearly as much for coke as I'd pay for beer.
Seriously though, I've hardly drunk for the last few years, so when I do get a pint these days, it does strike me with how much it is now. When I first started drinking Guinness in my local, it was around ?2.05 I think (2001), but when I got a pint earlier in the year, it was around ?3.80. I don't mind paying that to be honest as I'm not a fan of canned Guinness and my local pulls a cracking pint (the landlord drinks it, so he keeps it top notch ;-) )
I think the most expensive pint I bought (in relative terms) was at an all day gig at the Camden Palace (now Koko, or at least it was the last time I saw it) and that was ?4.50 for a pint of Carling and that was in 1998. I saw a few people walk away from the bars without buying anything. The thing with that is that if they charged a more sensible price, they would have sold more.
I don't think it's the VAT so much, although that probably doesn't help, I know for a fact that the expensive pints in my local are due to it being tied to a brewery, who then charge the landlord a lot more than if he went out and bought it himself. He says he can easily find beer at ?50 a barrel less than he has to pay, but isn't allowed to.
It's things like that that are not helping with pub prices. But sometimes I think.it could just be greedy landlords etc ;-)
That's another part of the problem, people buy from cheap supermarket deals and sit at home and drink more these days as pubs are too expensive.
Tied pubs are definitely more expensive. Our village local - a free house - charges ?3 a pint, whereas the tied/managed pub next door is ?3.40 (and the pub where I got the ?3.80 pint of Coke was a tied pub - shame on you, Greene King)
However my pet hate are the gastropubs that keep springing up round here like a bad rash - ?4 + a pint to go with your ?10 organically sourced New Romney lamb burger with parmesan shavings and frites du pomme de terre Francais, served on a rectangular black plate in soulless "fake local" surroundings.
It's funny, people always go on about London prices, but in my experience they're no more expensive than my bit of Kent - my tip if you're on a night out is spend the first couple of hours in a Wetherspoons and get four or five in, then slow down a bit when you move on :)
This is ale I'm talking about by the way, lager always seems to be more expensive. I only ever drink lager in the summer anyway and that's only if there's no ales I like and they've run out of Guinness.
Mmmmm, Fancy a pint now.
I can't understand what breweries are so intent on killing their own trade.
There was a pub in my town where the brewery were offering the place for ?18,000 for the first year and still got no takers. On talking to my local's landlord, it turned out that the previous landlord of said pub had to turn over ?300,000 of beer sales just to pay the brewery for the year - that's withou paying wages, rates, bills etc. Add to that he had to buy all his beer, spirits and food from the brewery it's no wonder pubs can't make a go of it.
I'm honestly surpised that micro brewery pubs haven't made more off a showing here in the uk.
I'm also surprised that Sainsburys, tescos etc haven't made a move into pubs.