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  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,288
    Algarveaddick said:
    golfaddick said:
    As I don't drink bitter can anyone say why it seems (based on the figures given here) that lager is so much more expensive. 
    Because people with the taste buds of a teenager deserve ripping off?  :D  
    Our tastebuds are relatively at their peak in our teens/early twenties, towards middle age they decline and we are unable to perceive taste as much.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,855
    Cardinal Sin said:
    Anything over a fiver is profiteering. You know you can get it for under £3 a pint in the supermarket and they are still making a decent profit on that. I like real ale/craft beers and the 'shop-pubs' have been great but boy are they over-charging. They usually run one or two cheaper lines at £4.XX but most are way over a fiver and often £6 plus.  CIU clubs (eg The Radical Club in Plumstead) still manage to serve pints at well under a fiver and their costs won't be miles away from regular pubs. It's really no wonder large high street pubs are going out-of-business. 
    Your first two sentences are nonsense (actually apart from the bit about you liking beer, the whole post is broadly nonsense).
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,315
    We should standardise this to the only universally-available beer that is still drinkable, Guinness
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,812
    I'm by no means tight at all, but fuck that paying some of the prices mentioned on this thread. A couple of months back me and the missus were in Bath for 2 nights, wandered into a pub around 2pm one afternoon and ordered a pint of Peroni and a G&T....£14.50....I politely told them no wonder their pub was empty!

    Always got a stash of booze out in the shed/garage and it's no wonder we drink more at home now and have people round rather than go to the pub
  • BrentfordAddick
    BrentfordAddick Posts: 1,460
    £5.30 for a Pride by the river in Chiswick on Saturday. 
  • Cloudworm
    Cloudworm Posts: 973
    As an overseas reader who stopped drinking 3 years ago, this thread is absolutely astonishing!
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,288
    Cloudworm said:
    As an overseas reader who stopped drinking 3 years ago, this thread is absolutely astonishing!
    There’s a lot of functioning alcoholics who will pay whatever it costs to avoid reality for an hour or two.
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,405
    Problem is I find drinking at home soooo boring.
  • Acab
    Acab Posts: 725
    When I started work 1971 it was 15p a pint and I was on a tenner a week so that’s 66 pints. 
    Today at say a fiver a pint that equates to £330.00
    So you could say beer hasn’t quite caught up with pay. 
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,673
    £7.50 for a Guinness at Lords last week. If you take the cup back you get a £1 back but the bastards shut the bar before the close of play 
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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,315
    edited February 2023
    Pelling1993 said:
    £7.50 for a Guinness at Lords last week. If you take the cup back you get a £1 back but the bastards shut the bar before the close of play 
    How can a sport so great be run from top to bottom by such total c***s, honestly
  • Broadstairs_Red
    Broadstairs_Red Posts: 361

    Last Autumn a pint of Brewdog IPA in The Chapel, Broadstairs, was 6.50. Two weeks ago in Wetherspoons, Canterbury, you could have got 2.5 pints of the same for that money – also Ruddles 1.79 (if you like that sort of thing). Expect W will put its prices up soon. We have 8 micros in Broadtairs/St. Peters and you can get a decent brew for 3.50. My wife had a 9 quid glass of Sauvignon Blanc down the front the other day. Apparently the rise in beer price is due to Barley shortage.



  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,405
    The Owner of The Chapel is interesting.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,087
    One for the feeling old thread, but i remember the five pound pint thread on Charlton life!
  • YTS1978
    YTS1978 Posts: 1,703
    edited June 2022
    A few posters have mentioned prices at gig venues. Me and my brother went to the Scala in Kings Cross the other week and they were punting out cans (yes cans) of red stripe for about 6 quid each! They also had a selection of craft cans available, as well as draft stuff, which I imagine was waaay more expensive. How can you justify that for a can ffs? They didn't even open them or poor it into a plastic cup lol

    Edit. We still had three each though!
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    There's a lot of pubs owned by the 'Pubco' type companies ... Punch Taverns, Enterprise Inns/Ei, etc.

    Many of these are run by tenants who are contracted as terms of their lease to buy their drinks ('wet sales') from the Pubcos - at far higher cost than can be bought on the open market. The tenant probably pays more for his beer than you pay in the supermarket.

    The tenant landlord has all his overheads: high rent, high priced drinks contract, all the overheads of running a commercial building, staff etc .... no surprise many struggle to make a living.

    Again, no surprise ..... these are often the pubs that charge the highest prices. The tenants are working for nothing otherwise.


  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,153
    EugenesAxe said:
    Algarveaddick said:
    golfaddick said:
    As I don't drink bitter can anyone say why it seems (based on the figures given here) that lager is so much more expensive. 
    Because people with the taste buds of a teenager deserve ripping off?  :D  
    Our tastebuds are relatively at their peak in our teens/early twenties, towards middle age they decline and we are unable to perceive taste as much.
    Speak for yourself...  ;):D
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,153
    Gribbo said:
    Algarveaddick said:
    golfaddick said:
    As I don't drink bitter can anyone say why it seems (based on the figures given here) that lager is so much more expensive. 
    Because people with the taste buds of a teenager deserve ripping off?  :D  
    Would've agreed 15 odd years ago, but some of the lagers out nowadays are lovely.
    Yes - that's true, but somehow I feel Golfie is a Carling or Fosters man...  :s;):D  
  • AppyAddick
    AppyAddick Posts: 1,475
    My local micro pub in Newent Gloucestershire is my happy place ❤️
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,675
    Acab said:
    When I started work 1971 it was 15p a pint and I was on a tenner a week so that’s 66 pints. 
    Today at say a fiver a pint that equates to £330.00
    So you could say beer hasn’t quite caught up with pay. 
    It certainly ain't caught up with your pay you earn a fortune. 
    See you Saturday. 
    You can buy the beers 🍺
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  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,288
    edited June 2022
    YTS1978 said:
    A few posters have mentioned prices at gig venues. Me and my brother went to the Scala in Kings Cross the other week and they were punting out cans (yes cans) of red stripe for about 6 quid each! They also had a selection of craft cans available, as well as draft stuff, which I imagine was waaay more expensive. How can you justify that for a can ffs? They didn't even open them or poor it into a plastic cup lol

    Edit. We still had three each though!
    You answered your own question with your edit.
    As long as desperate drinkers keep paying it they’ll keep charging it.
    How many places will survive the ‘cost of living crisis’? I suspect many people will just reprioritise stuff: aka still find the money for it- but that’s dependency for you.
    I know I’m negative but I just find peoples obsession with it remarkable, it’s quite surreal seeing the queues at the O2 to pay £7.50 a pint it was like a weird zombie apocalypse that someone had managed to monetise!
  • Boom
    Boom Posts: 1,680
    Algarveaddick said:
    Gribbo said:
    Algarveaddick said:
    golfaddick said:
    As I don't drink bitter can anyone say why it seems (based on the figures given here) that lager is so much more expensive. 
    Because people with the taste buds of a teenager deserve ripping off?  :D  
    Would've agreed 15 odd years ago, but some of the lagers out nowadays are lovely.
    Yes - that's true, but somehow I feel Golfie is a Carling or Fosters man...  :s;):D  
    Now that should be something for him to moan about..
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,118
    Cloudworm said:
    As an overseas reader who stopped drinking 3 years ago, this thread is absolutely astonishing!
    Same here, doubt its pound a pint in my old Student Union either. 
  • willieduff
    willieduff Posts: 986
    £3.45 for Timothy Taylor Landlord in The Peacock in Chesterfield. Luvvley Jubley
  • Broadstairs_Red
    Broadstairs_Red Posts: 361
    mendonca said:
    The Owner of The Chapel is interesting.
    Yes, It;s you ...
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Tilmanstone Welfare Sports and Social club. £3.40 pint of Fursty Ferrett.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,006
    £4.80 Guinness in The Bugle, waiting for the big announcement. 
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    edited June 2022
    £5 for a Stella in the holiday Inn next to the tax payers stadium. 
  • clb74
    clb74 Posts: 10,824
    Up until a few years ago I always thought Central London prices were high.
    But £6 a pint for Central London isn't that bad considering the rest of the country.
    Yes some of the beers are £8+ but it's the centre of London.
    As I said on another thread, stayed in Hythe last week and a pint and glass of pimms £18+ just  to look at the sea while you're having a drink.
    I think the glass of pimms wasn't much cheaper than if youd been in the bar at Selfridges in London.
    On our travels up north for the away games some boozers are £5+ for a pint.

  • SomervilleAddick
    SomervilleAddick Posts: 3,575
    Don’t come to Boston - my trusty price converter tells me I regularly pay around £11.40 for an imperial pint. 

    When I was over a couple of weeks ago, the bartender in Craft was mildly shocked when I insisted I still wanted a pint of something that was gonna cost me £13.50. Must have been good because I can’t remember what it was, but I know it was strong and delicious. 

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