Most Expensive Pint in a Normal Pub?

[993Targa]

Off topic but the talk of expensive pints reminded me of the cafe in Jinan airport in China wanting the equivalent of £7.50 for a cup of coffee

[Dave200]

Ahhh Moneypenny 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.

Indeed anytime I have been in one it is full of old soaks as the beer is so cheap, all the toothless wonders sat drinking all day long!

God bless them.
Anyway, what were you doing in Wetherspoons during the day...?

[Cheese Mechanic]

Back in July, I paid £14 for a half litre of lager and similar coke .It was at an ordinary roadside cafe in Paris.

You should have seen the earlier bill for a light lunch !! Jeeeez!

I miss the old type smoky "flat cap" type pubs, they all had a character or two in them...I really have seen the wife bring in the sunday dinner and tip it in her hubby's lap. None of them, could afford it in todays world.

Sadly, pubs are being taxed and regulated out of existance. Its appalling really . Its a brave man who goes into the pub trade today.

[Cupid Stunt]

Tokoloshe said:

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.

Good post, I see exactly what you mean but some people do have vastly different tastebuds to the majority (that French fella prefering wine that James May had made a couple of days earlier instead of 2 bottles of professionally made stuff on his show being the example in mind), was just wondering if that was the case here

[Cotty]

Cheese Mechanic said:

Back in July, I paid £14 for a half litre of lager and similar coke .It was at an ordinary roadside cafe in Paris.

Saw you comming

[XJSJohn]

Soovy said:

McSwerve II said:

The Bull – Barton le Clay, Bedfordshire
Stella £3.95

Anyone else’s local so extortionate?

Normal =
UK Location
Standard Pub, no Clubs, Bars, ‘Special Interest’ Pubs (£10 a pint I’m lead to believe)

Edited by McSwerve II on Friday 9th April 11:05

I win.

The Narrow, London E14. Owned by Ramsay.

£6.80 for a pint of Peroni.

was in there a month or so ago ... f'kin expensive.

Mind you Harrys Bar in town here is $14 / pint of stella or GBP7 but thats more to do with the GBP being worthless than the price of beer here!!

[Cheese Mechanic]

Cotty said:

Cheese Mechanic said:

Back in July, I paid £14 for a half litre of lager and similar coke .It was at an ordinary roadside cafe in Paris.

Saw you comming

Its about par for the course. The trick is to go down the side roads, some a far cheaper apparently, but anything within 500 yards of a rail station or near the Seine is expensive!

Was only there for a day, live and learn.

[taldo]

i keep bangin on about this but find your nearest sam smiths pub. 1.70 for Alpine Lager and imo, anything else draught in any other pub tastes inferior.

[Papoo]

This may be a surprise, but in Scottsdale, Arizona, beer in bars is ridiculous.

Normally, the US is cheaper on the whole than the UK, but Scottsdale, being a 'trendy' place, is extortionate for certain things. The only way I go out is buying the stuff on offer (in fairness, there is always good offers on).

Bar down the road, a Guinness is $10. Other pub, Mexican lagers are $6 - we're right next to Mexico FFS..

[Wadeski]

'tis not the pubs, its Broon's tax

[koolchris99]

was in a pub in bologna,

7 euros a pint.. and it tasted like st.

[remedy]

A friend at work stopped drinking Hoegarden because they upped the price to nearly £5 a pint "because of the exchange rate".

Stratford-Upon-Avon, Cox's Yard - Kirin Ichiban was around £4.50 a pint last summer, must be more now. Great pint though.

[al1991]

Was paying £1.25 a pint last night

I think the most expensive round here is £3.40 for a Peroni in some places.

[anonymous-user]

Pint of bitter (Black Sheep, usually) is £1.90 in my local, Stella is £2.10ish and Fosters is probably free, it's not as if it qualifies for any sort of alcohol taxation. I was once charged £4.80 for a pint of Guinness in London, which I begruged them, but not nearly as much as the Indian restaurant that charged me £6 for a pint bottle of Cobra, especially as I didn't realise until my fourth one

[koolchris99]

peroni was 4.50 in some pub next to pinewood studios tonight.

[kiteless]

Peroni = £3.20 / pint in a very rural (accessible by single track lanes) pub near me.

[shirt]

paid 4.50 for a pint of peroni in oxford last month, extortion!

worst I've had up here recently was 3.10 for a pint of old speckled hen in whitelocks yard, leeds. it's 1.80 in my local.

it may be grim oops norf but you can't beat having change from a tenner from a round of 4.

[Mr Gearchange]

WTF is Peroni so expensive? It's not even like it's a nice pint

[HOGEPH]

Mr Gearchange said:

WTF is Peroni so expensive? It's not even like it's a nice pint

Probably because it's this week's trendy drink.

Don't see anybody drinking Sol with a slice of lime in the bottle, or "Magners on ice".

[sherman]

In the pub I work in the pints are
Peroni = £4.05
Tennents lager = £2.95
Belhaven Best = £2.85
Strongbow = £3.15
Guinness = £3.00
Stella = £3.25
IPA = £2.75
Landlord = £3.00
Magners = £3.80