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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    £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 
    Are you sure there weren't open bars to return your cup, as I had no trouble getting the cup refund on Thursday when I was there.

    Indeed, in comparative terms, £6 for a pint of Pedigree in a sports venue seems reasonable when compared to some of prices quoted here.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    £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
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    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 :)
  • cafcledbury
    cafcledbury Posts: 1,228
    My local micro pub in Newent Gloucestershire is my happy place ❤️
    Hi mate you do know there 2 charlton fans that live in Newent. 
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,855
    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…
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    The Windsor by fenchurch street is £4.80 for a pint of stella, the spoons in cannon street £5.19
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    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!
    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. 
  • thickandthin63
    thickandthin63 Posts: 2,953
    £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.
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    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........
  • DubaiCAFC
    DubaiCAFC Posts: 2,461
    Dubai Prices, in fact I actually think it is cheaper here, most places have long happy hours that run from 3-9pm.. 
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  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,855
    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........
    Gross or net?
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    £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?


  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    Queens Head Chislehurst Carling £4.20
    Mudlark Borough Mkt Guinness £5.75
    Old Thameside  ditto £5.90
    Barrow Boy & Banker ditto £6.25
    Slug & Lettuce O2  ditto £5.50
    O2 - 3 pints & a small can of non alcoholic lager £28.35
    The Lamb Holloway Road - Guinness £5.20
    Emirates - Lager £6.95

    So O2 is dearest at roughly £7.75 a pint & £5 for a small can of Beck's zero alcohol. 
    The Lamb is a cracking pub.
  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,107
    Vincenzo said:
    Queens Head Chislehurst Carling £4.20
    Mudlark Borough Mkt Guinness £5.75
    Old Thameside  ditto £5.90
    Barrow Boy & Banker ditto £6.25
    Slug & Lettuce O2  ditto £5.50
    O2 - 3 pints & a small can of non alcoholic lager £28.35
    The Lamb Holloway Road - Guinness £5.20
    Emirates - Lager £6.95

    So O2 is dearest at roughly £7.75 a pint & £5 for a small can of Beck's zero alcohol. 
    The Lamb is a cracking pub.
    And a great end game for Covered End's amazing pub crawl.
  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    Can’t do Spoons, personally, but micropubs are great places for reasonably priced ale. 
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    since lockdown i drink a lot more indoors now as opposed to going out. 
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,038
    MrWalker said:
    Vincenzo said:
    Queens Head Chislehurst Carling £4.20
    Mudlark Borough Mkt Guinness £5.75
    Old Thameside  ditto £5.90
    Barrow Boy & Banker ditto £6.25
    Slug & Lettuce O2  ditto £5.50
    O2 - 3 pints & a small can of non alcoholic lager £28.35
    The Lamb Holloway Road - Guinness £5.20
    Emirates - Lager £6.95

    So O2 is dearest at roughly £7.75 a pint & £5 for a small can of Beck's zero alcohol. 
    The Lamb is a cracking pub.
    And a great end game for Covered End's amazing pub crawl.
    He must have been p***** and got the wrong train after the 02.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,038
    Vincenzo said:
    Can’t do Spoons, personally, but micropubs are great places for reasonably priced ale. 
    Snob.
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    Vincenzo said:
    Can’t do Spoons, personally, but micropubs are great places for reasonably priced ale. 
    Snob.
    I'm a snob too. Weatherspoons is the pits.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,006
    MrWalker said:
    Vincenzo said:
    Queens Head Chislehurst Carling £4.20
    Mudlark Borough Mkt Guinness £5.75
    Old Thameside  ditto £5.90
    Barrow Boy & Banker ditto £6.25
    Slug & Lettuce O2  ditto £5.50
    O2 - 3 pints & a small can of non alcoholic lager £28.35
    The Lamb Holloway Road - Guinness £5.20
    Emirates - Lager £6.95

    So O2 is dearest at roughly £7.75 a pint & £5 for a small can of Beck's zero alcohol. 
    The Lamb is a cracking pub.
    And a great end game for Covered End's amazing pub crawl.
    He must have been p***** and got the wrong train after the 02.
    2 different days of course  :)
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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,791
    £2.10 for a pint of Doombar in Rochester Wetherspoons last week.
    I’d pay an extra £2.10 not to be in most Wetherspoons. 
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,038
    Vincenzo said:
    Can’t do Spoons, personally, but micropubs are great places for reasonably priced ale. 
    Snob.
    I'm a snob too. Weatherspoons is the pits.
    You can't beat going there and being grunted at by the bar staff......after waiting 10 minutes to get served.
    I'll suffer anything to pay £3 a pint.
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,288
    Redskin said:
    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. 

    Yes you’re right, can see why @ElfsborgAddick likes them.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    Vincenzo said:
    Queens Head Chislehurst Carling £4.20
    Mudlark Borough Mkt Guinness £5.75
    Old Thameside  ditto £5.90
    Barrow Boy & Banker ditto £6.25
    Slug & Lettuce O2  ditto £5.50
    O2 - 3 pints & a small can of non alcoholic lager £28.35
    The Lamb Holloway Road - Guinness £5.20
    Emirates - Lager £6.95

    So O2 is dearest at roughly £7.75 a pint & £5 for a small can of Beck's zero alcohol. 
    The Lamb is a cracking pub.
    Despite it culturally appropriating the name of a sentient being in order to trade in liquor?
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,405
    Vincenzo said:
    Can’t do Spoons, personally, but micropubs are great places for reasonably priced ale. 
    Snob.
    I'm a snob too. Weatherspoons is the pits.
    You can't beat going there and being grunted at by the bar staff......after waiting 10 minutes to get served.
    I'll suffer anything to pay £3 a pint.
    I'm not a fan but I love these permanent views from an experience or two.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,038
    edited June 2022
    Redskin said:
    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. 

    Yes you’re right, can see why @ElfsborgAddick likes them.
    And some of my best friends.

    PS, I do not go under the elderly bracket.
  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    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.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,038
    Vincenzo said:
    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.
    So is Dushitelet.  Do you still go to home games?
  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    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. 

    I’m not going to Spoons @ElfsborgAddick. Get over it.