Most Expensive Pint in a Normal Pub?

[kingston12]

thetapeworm said:

What I don't get is that Brewdog sell a pint of Punk IPA for £4.55 in their own bar in Leeds yet if you go to Wetherspoons it's £1.99 a pint. I appreciate Wetherspoons will buy a lot of it and perhaps it's the stuff that's about to go "off" but if the people who actually make it can't match that price what hope do we have?

And don't even get me started on the fashion for £5.00 for a 1/3 of a pint craft stuff.

Sorry I kind of went off topic there a bit.

I have not been to the Brewdog bar in Leeds, but if it is anything like the London ones they could probably charge what they like! I have tried to go to the Shoreditch one a few times early evening and there was actually a queue to get into the place. They could probably charge £8 a pint and people would still go.

Wetherspoons is the opposite. They do buy in bulk but they need the cheap prices to incentivise people to go in there. I have been to some that have been ok, but some of them are so bad I'd be happy paying double to drink anywhere else!

[Type R Tom]

I was in the The Craft Beer Co in Brighton on Thursday for a beer tasting as part of a stag do. Very enjoyable, 6 beers ranging from 4.5 to 9% of various styles, I would recommend it.

What was shocking though is the £12 per pint cost of their 9% beer! Now you wouldn’t drink a pint but £6 a half is still serious money!

[ambuletz]

Paid about £7 for a pint of craft stout in the cock tavern-Hackney. tasted crap.

[Mobile Chicane]

Type R Tom said:

I was in the The Craft Beer Co in Brighton on Thursday for a beer tasting as part of a stag do. Very enjoyable, 6 beers ranging from 4.5 to 9% of various styles, I would recommend it.

What was shocking though is the £12 per pint cost of their 9% beer! Now you wouldn’t drink a pint but £6 a half is still serious money!

Christ on a bike.

Biddenden's 8.2% ABV zoider is on sale at my local for £4.90 a pint, and we think that's expensive.

[PedroB]

Mobile Chicane said:

Type R Tom said:

I was in the The Craft Beer Co in Brighton on Thursday for a beer tasting as part of a stag do. Very enjoyable, 6 beers ranging from 4.5 to 9% of various styles, I would recommend it.

What was shocking though is the £12 per pint cost of their 9% beer! Now you wouldn’t drink a pint but £6 a half is still serious money!

Christ on a bike.

Biddenden's 8.2% ABV zoider is on sale at my local for £4.90 a pint, and we think that's expensive.

Thing is with cider is that the duty structure is very different to that of beer meaning cider makers often pay very little or no duty at all on their products regardless of strength where as brewers get pretty badly shafted. The duty for brewers is not only based on overall quantity of beer produced, but the strength of it too.

That said Biddenden's is cracking. I've seen grown men in tears after four pints of it!

[Huntsman]

PedroB said:

That said Biddenden's is cracking. I've seen grown men in tears after four pints of it!

10.5%!!

[BrabusMog]

One of my mates is working in Singapore at the moment - £8.50 for a pint!

[The Mad Monk]

okgo said:

Two in Surbiton that are a bit punchy -

Punk IPA - £6.50 a pint in The Antelope
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale £5.35 a pint in The Flyer

A pint is now between 4-5 wherever unless you're prepared to go to a Sam Smiths or Whetherspoons etc, some of which are alright, others not so much.

How much is it in The Coronation Hall?

[okgo]

The Mad Monk said:

How much is it in The Coronation Hall?

No idea, I don't want to know - ghastly place with even worse people.

[The Mad Monk]

kingston12 said:

We went to the threatre last week. I bought two drinks in a pub in the centre of Covent Garden before we went in. On the way home, we stopped had a bought an identical round in Surbiton - for £2 more! How does that work?

Edited by kingston12 on Wednesday 15th July 11:40

It was £2 cheaper in London than in Surbiton.

[-crookedtail-]

matrignano said:

Petrol Only said:

Not if you ask the Italians.

Yep. It's got the same reputation as Carling here.

Menabrea, now that's proper Italian beer! Or Ichnusa

This is true. However the Italians also have Special Brew on tap, and Tennents for that matter - that tells you something.

[BrabusMog]

-crookedtail- said:

matrignano said:

Petrol Only said:

Not if you ask the Italians.

Yep. It's got the same reputation as Carling here.

Menabrea, now that's proper Italian beer! Or Ichnusa

This is true. However the Italians also have Special Brew on tap, and Tennents for that matter - that tells you something.

Red Peroni in Italy is their Carling/Carlsberg/Fosters, Nastro Azzuro (what Peroni is called in the UK) is higher up the pecking order.

[Halmyre]

-crookedtail- said:

matrignano said:

Petrol Only said:

Not if you ask the Italians.

Yep. It's got the same reputation as Carling here.

Menabrea, now that's proper Italian beer! Or Ichnusa

This is true. However the Italians also have Special Brew on tap, and Tennents for that matter - that tells you something.

I remember being quite baffled to see a 'Tennents Super' sign hanging above a bar in Sorrento. But then they're probably baffled by my liking for Birra Moretti - I've got no idea if it's good, bad or indifferent.

[okgo]

I just asked the italians near me at work (we have loads for some reason) - tenants was the answer - peroni is st and nobody drinks it, apparently.

[tomtom]

Really? 'My' Italians love it.

Anyway I paid £6.25/pint for it at a pub in the City earlier. Oof.

[TheJimi]

okgo said:

I just asked the italians near me at work (we have loads for some reason) - tenants was the answer - peroni is st and nobody drinks it, apparently.

As another poster suggested, that shows what the Italians know

I'm not suggesting Peroni is wonderful, but it's orders of magnitude nicer (IMO) than sodding Tennent's lager.

I'm Scottish, and I live in Scotland. That THE single most popular pint, pretty much regardless where you go in the country, is Tennent's, utterly baffles me. It's pishwatter!