£2.10 for a pint of Doombar in Rochester Wetherspoons last week.
All Wetherspoon real ales are basically the same price, so you can usually get something really nice for £2.10 ish (outside of Central London) such as Titanic Plum Porter or a local ale
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).
All the comments about the price beer can be bought at would suggest not
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).
All the comments about the price beer can be bought at would suggest not
Only if you can’t tell the difference between selling price and margin…
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!
I used to go to ‘punk audition night’ at Dingwalls in the late seventies.
£1 to get in, four large cans of red stripe for a quid (before 7pm). Job done. PS They didn’t open them, so I could make them last.
£8.00 is ridiculous,but no more so than the rip of little bottles you have to have in some places that regularly cost£4.50 plus,and they dont even look half a pint.
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).
All the comments about the price beer can be bought at would suggest not
Only if you can’t tell the difference between selling price and margin…
So some are making much bigger margins than others........
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).
All the comments about the price beer can be bought at would suggest not
Only if you can’t tell the difference between selling price and margin…
So some are making much bigger margins than others........
£8.00 is ridiculous,but no more so than the rip of little bottles you have to have in some places that regularly cost£4.50 plus,and they dont even look half a pint.
They will be the 330cl bottles of beer that you find from the USA and Europe, perhaps?
People that look down their noses at Weatherspoons should consider themselves fortunate that they are in a position to do so. Weatherspoons provide the cheapest - and in many cases, the only - option for those on a low income to have a drink, but just as importantly it provides the elderly, the lonely and neglected poor to be in a social setting with a pint for a couple of hours and feel that they belong before trudging home to their life of isolated penury. Weatherspoons provides affordable booze, food and more 'social care' than any government.
People that look down their noses at Weatherspoons should consider themselves fortunate that they are in a position to do so. Weatherspoons provide the cheapest - and in many cases, the only - option for those on a low income to have a drink, but just as importantly it provides the elderly, the lonely and neglected poor to be in a social setting with a pint for a couple of hours and feel that they belong before trudging home to their life of isolated penury. Weatherspoons provides affordable booze, food and more 'social care' than any government.
People that look down their noses at Weatherspoons should consider themselves fortunate that they are in a position to do so. Weatherspoons provide the cheapest - and in many cases, the only - option for those on a low income to have a drink, but just as importantly it provides the elderly, the lonely and neglected poor to be in a social setting with a pint for a couple of hours and feel that they belong before trudging home to their life of isolated penury. Weatherspoons provides affordable booze, food and more 'social care' than any government.
To be clear, I don’t “look down my nose” at Wetherspoons. I just think Tim Martin is a **** and don’t want to give him any of my money, if that’s alright with everyone.
To be clear, I don’t “look down my nose” at Wetherspoons. I just think Tim Martin is a **** and don’t want to give him any of my money, if that’s alright with everyone.
Ffs. That’s a ridiculous comparison. I can find dozens of pubs that I prefer to any Spoons. I can’t do that with a football club I’ve supported since 1967. I can’t just decide I’ll go to Palace or Millwall instead of Charlton because I don’t like the owner.
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Indeed, in comparative terms, £6 for a pint of Pedigree in a sports venue seems reasonable when compared to some of prices quoted here.
PS They didn’t open them, so I could make them last.
I'll suffer anything to pay £3 a pint.
Weatherspoons provide the cheapest - and in many cases, the only - option for those on a low income to have a drink, but just as importantly it provides the elderly, the lonely and neglected poor to be in a social setting with a pint for a couple of hours and feel that they belong before trudging home to their life of isolated penury.
Weatherspoons provides affordable booze, food and more 'social care' than any government.
PS, I do not go under the elderly bracket.