Most Expensive Pint in a Normal Pub?

[Tokoloshe]

Cupid Stunt said:

Are you saying you prefer cans to draught?

Im sure most people prefer draught over a can, but there's a price point where that enjoyment is offset by the cost, and putting up with a can that doesnt taste quite as good is preferable to paying a pub 3 or 4 times as much for a drink.

I recon for most people that price point has been reached, and going for drinks with mates is turning more and more into "come round and have a drink".

I know it's not entirely the pubs fault, Im guessing their costs have gone up considerably and the govt taxes etc need to be accounted for, but the end result is pubs are less busy and will struggle for business when you can pick up cans for so much less from the shop.

[Matt_N]

Magog said:

Arese said:

I'm sure the you can get beer of sorts in Wetherspoons for about £1.70? I know, I know, Wetherspoons are awful places. The only one I go to really is the one near the ground on matchday.

£1.39 a pint for various real ales and cloudy ciders just up the road last night as part of their 'beer festival'... can't really complain to be honest, atmospheres not great and it's too dark but the beers interesting, well kept and very cheap...!

Isnt the reason beer is so cheap in them is that its very close to its best before date? Not that its a problem really, as the high turnover probably means it gets used before that date.

[rhinochopig]

It may be grim up north, but at least it looks more rosy through my drunken rose tinted beer goggles - especially at £2.70 a pint

[mouseymousey]

V8mate said:

mouseymousey said:

£4.50 for Peroni in Ha Ha Kingston.

Bottled beer prices are criminal. The wholesale price on that is 60-70p.

Draft pint, not bottled...

[kaese]

£1.79 for a pint of Carling in Hull.

Offset by the fact the place is a sthole.

[okgo]

mouseymousey said:

£4.50 for Peroni in Ha Ha Kingston.

I created a whole thread about it around Christmas time!

Much the same as I live in the area, although not a local for me because its full of s.

My proper local is £3.80 for a becks, and my second most visited pub is about £3.45 for the same.

Was in Newark-on-Trent the other day and couldn't belive how cheap it was. Don't get me wrong it was packed with wasters and the standard eastern midlands ahole, but it was cheap.

[Magog]

Matt_N said:

Magog said:

Arese said:

I'm sure the you can get beer of sorts in Wetherspoons for about £1.70? I know, I know, Wetherspoons are awful places. The only one I go to really is the one near the ground on matchday.

£1.39 a pint for various real ales and cloudy ciders just up the road last night as part of their 'beer festival'... can't really complain to be honest, atmospheres not great and it's too dark but the beers interesting, well kept and very cheap...!

Isnt the reason beer is so cheap in them is that its very close to its best before date? Not that its a problem really, as the high turnover probably means it gets used before that date.

I have heard that before, how true it is I don't know. I think it might be a bit of an urban myth. I've always assumed that their price competitiveness, on their core lines/food at least was simply down to the 'no thrills' type business model, purchasing power and economies of scale.

The 1.39 beer is part of a 'beer festival' promotion (I believe this is nationwide, and all the beers were from small independent (many local) breweries, so I cant imagine much of it was sourced from near redundant stock. To my eyes this is what all pubs should be doing, but the truth of the matter is many cannot, because of the protectionist structure of the industry, pub co's, large international brewries etc.

[monthefish]

V8mate said:

mouseymousey said:

£4.50 for Peroni in Ha Ha Kingston.

Bottled beer prices are criminal. The wholesale price on that is 60-70p.

Don't buy it then!!

If you owned a pub, and your bottled beer was selling at £4.50, would you charge less??

[okgo]

monthefish said:

V8mate said:

mouseymousey said:

£4.50 for Peroni in Ha Ha Kingston.

Bottled beer prices are criminal. The wholesale price on that is 60-70p.

Don't buy it then!!

If you owned a pub, and your bottled beer was selling at £4.50, would you charge less??

He is talking about a pint, not a bottle, you two.

Also, mousey, gazebo is cheap at £2.20 a pint.

[Matt_N]

Magog said:

Matt_N said:

Magog said:

Arese said:

I'm sure the you can get beer of sorts in Wetherspoons for about £1.70? I know, I know, Wetherspoons are awful places. The only one I go to really is the one near the ground on matchday.

£1.39 a pint for various real ales and cloudy ciders just up the road last night as part of their 'beer festival'... can't really complain to be honest, atmospheres not great and it's too dark but the beers interesting, well kept and very cheap...!

Isnt the reason beer is so cheap in them is that its very close to its best before date? Not that its a problem really, as the high turnover probably means it gets used before that date.

I have heard that before, how true it is I don't know. I think it might be a bit of an urban myth. I've always assumed that their price competitiveness, on their core lines/food at least was simply down to the 'no thrills' type business model, purchasing power and economies of scale.

The 1.39 beer is part of a 'beer festival' promotion (I believe this is nationwide, and all the beers were from small independent (many local) breweries, so I cant imagine much of it was sourced from near redundant stock. To my eyes this is what all pubs should be doing, but the truth of the matter is many cannot, because of the protectionist structure of the industry, pub co's, large international brewries etc.

That's true.

One of my mates runs a local pub, he'd love to put some guest beers and ales on, but his hands are tied by the brewery.

[Pothole]

Makila2A said:

A pint in a pub called the Tambray, in a crappy little town called Karratha in Western Australia costs A$14 which works out to about 8.5 British Pounds. I'm not joking

maybe because it's fking miles from anywhere?

[sleep envy]

Australian 'hotels' are generally expensive in any case

[308mate]

Pothole said:

Makila2A said:

A pint in a pub called the Tambray, in a crappy little town called Karratha in Western Australia costs A$14 which works out to about 8.5 British Pounds. I'm not joking

maybe because it's fking miles from anywhere?

Still a piss-take.

Guarantee you can find it in a smaller bar out of town for less. And the same truck will be going right past their door. Same with Fuel up there. Fuel comes from Point a by truck to point C. Point B in between will charge 20% more becuase its "remote", despite the fact the same fuel truck went right past it to get to the town at point C.

[cyb]

Matt_N said:

Magog said:

Arese said:

I'm sure the you can get beer of sorts in Wetherspoons for about £1.70? I know, I know, Wetherspoons are awful places. The only one I go to really is the one near the ground on matchday.

£1.39 a pint for various real ales and cloudy ciders just up the road last night as part of their 'beer festival'... can't really complain to be honest, atmospheres not great and it's too dark but the beers interesting, well kept and very cheap...!

Isnt the reason beer is so cheap in them is that its very close to its best before date? Not that its a problem really, as the high turnover probably means it gets used before that date.

I once saw the delivery lorry at the local Weatherspoons unloading barrels marked "Ullage", explains a lot

[Mr Gearchange]

Hotel in Sundsval Sweden - Pint of Carlsberg was 9 quid in the bar.

That was cheep compared to the 14 quid they charged for one bottle out of the minibar. Robbing fkers.

No wonder all the Swede's pile over to Copenhagen from Malmo to drink on a Friday night (and in Copenhagen it's still 6 quid a pint)

[ApexJimi]

Locally, I pay anywhere between £1.65 and £4 odds.

Was in Dublin recently and I *really* grudged the extortionate prices.

[Cotty]

Cupid Stunt said:

Galsia said:

... and they wonder why people aren't going to pubs as much. I can get 8 cans of lager from the off-license or 2 pints of pub lager that tastes terrible.

Are you saying you prefer cans to draught?

I do, its more consistant out of a can and its cold, which most pubs can't seem to manage.

[Cotty]

threesixty said:

£5 for a pint of peroni seems pretty common these days.

I recently paid £4.10 for one in Corney & Barrow and though that was expensive. At £5 I would have told them to keep it and gone somewhere else, they are just taking the piss

[smack]

sleep envy said:

Australian 'hotels' are generally expensive in any case

Prices have jumped massively when I was there a few months ago, compared to even 5 years ago. 3 pots of local beer in Melbourne cost $18-19, so about £10 for 3 half pints....

2 pints at the airport (Irish pub) cost us $18 (£10). You can get a pint of beer cheaper than £5 at the pubs in Heathrow!

[V8mate]

monthefish said:

V8mate said:

mouseymousey said:

£4.50 for Peroni in Ha Ha Kingston.

Bottled beer prices are criminal. The wholesale price on that is 60-70p.

Don't buy it then!!

If you owned a pub, and your bottled beer was selling at £4.50, would you charge less??

I don't buy it. (well not in a pub, I do buy it 24 to a case at 60-70p)

Doesn't stop it being a criminal mark-up in an industry which is falling flat on its face at the moment. Maybe they'd sell more if they charged a bit less though! There's a spooky thought.