£7.50p a pint. That’s it I’m out
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snuffy said:
ChocolateFrog said:
Went across the road and picked up 3 x 638ml bottles of decent beer for a fiver.
In a pub ?
No from the OneStop, we went home and enjoyed them in front of the telly. The point being if the prices were close to reasonable in the pub we'd have had 3 or 4 each. As it was we quickly remembered how poor the VFM was and left inside half an hour.
This is a pub that we used to be in atleast 3 times a week a few years ago. You used to be able to get a bottomless coke and decent pizza out of a proper pizza oven for a tenner, it's now £12 for the pizza and £4 for a none refillable coke.
I think we've gone from spending £2000-3000 there pa as a wider family to £100-200.
Funny thing is they dropped some 2 for £5 drinks vouchers through the door this morning so they're clearly struggling to get people through their own door.
Edited by ChocolateFrog on Friday 24th November 11:10
okgo said:
ChocolateFrog said:
£10 for a pint of cheap lager and a cider, in a f
king Marsden's pub.
First pub drink we've had in months and likely the last until Christmas.
Went across the road and picked up 3 x 638ml bottles of decent beer for a fiver.
Pubs are fked, surely?
The above has been the situation for as long as I’ve been legal age, nearly 20 years. king Marsden's pub. First pub drink we've had in months and likely the last until Christmas.
Went across the road and picked up 3 x 638ml bottles of decent beer for a fiver.
Pubs are f
ked, surely?
Where do you drink?
Loads of places were £1 a pint in Liverpool when I was student 15 years ago.
The clubs at home were £10 entry and free drinks all night.
Cheap pubs were £1.50-2 per pint pre Covid.
Expensive pubs were £3-3.50 per pint for decent beer.
It's only since 2022 where Fosters is £5 and decent beer is £7+ a pint in a chain pub, that's ridiculous.
More than happy to vote with my feet and watch them go under.
NomduJour said:
The £6 pint happened years ago in town, long before COVID; now the same pint in the same place is probably £7.50/8.
Not sure sitting at home drinking supermarket beer is really the same thing.
It may have even been a decade ago in some cases. Not sure sitting at home drinking supermarket beer is really the same thing.
Quite - totally different. But this is the whole spoons thread isn’t it. Why pay more for the same thing - it’s not the beer in question it’s the whole experience.
What I've noticed is that since covid there has been a move to everyone sitting at tables in pubs, there is a lot less standing around the bar, meaning you pretty much end up only talking to the people you went to the pub with, rather than chatting with groups of new people.
It makes going to the pub less of a wider social experience and harder to justify the extra expense over having a few drinks around somebodys house at 1/4 of the cost.
It makes going to the pub less of a wider social experience and harder to justify the extra expense over having a few drinks around somebodys house at 1/4 of the cost.
ChocolateFrog said:
£10 for a pint of cheap lager and a cider, in a fking Marsden's pub.
First pub drink we've had in months and likely the last until Christmas.
Went across the road and picked up 3 x 638ml bottles of decent beer for a fiver.
Pubs are fked, surely?
Only those that take the p*ss.king Marsden's pub. First pub drink we've had in months and likely the last until Christmas.
Went across the road and picked up 3 x 638ml bottles of decent beer for a fiver.
Pubs are f
ked, surely?One of my locals had a winter beer fest on 2 weeks ago,16 stouts and porters,strongest one at 7.5 pc at £5.20 a pint average price about £4.80.
ETA of course i had to try them all,..
Edited by garagewidow on Friday 24th November 14:23
snuffy said:
ChocolateFrog said:
Funny thing is they dropped some 2 for £5 drinks vouchers through the door this morning so they're clearly struggling to get people through their own door.
A pub near to me did that last week. And some 30% off your meal ones as well. It's a Marsden's pub.This is in north wales where the average price of a pint is £4 something.
Through the current succession of conservative chancellors:
Beer Duty +21%
Wine +58%
Spirits + 32%
Given the age of your average PHer there’s probably some Port drinkers here - that’s up at 90%.
That’s before cost of living/materials/general inflation.
They have to replace the loss of earns from smoking somewhere and it seems like booze is where they’re aiming.
Beer Duty +21%
Wine +58%
Spirits + 32%
Given the age of your average PHer there’s probably some Port drinkers here - that’s up at 90%.
That’s before cost of living/materials/general inflation.
They have to replace the loss of earns from smoking somewhere and it seems like booze is where they’re aiming.
Not a pint and not a pub but 31.78 for two drinks in a Manchester bar.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/f...
Carl_VivaEspana said:
Not a pint and not a pub but 31.78 for two drinks in a Manchester bar.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/f...
Not sure if its a sad indictment of the times but what jumped out from the article to me was that £9.25 for a Negroni in Sexy Fish seems remarkably reasonable.https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/f...
Bluequay said:
What I've noticed is that since covid there has been a move to everyone sitting at tables in pubs, there is a lot less standing around the bar, meaning you pretty much end up only talking to the people you went to the pub with, rather than chatting with groups of new people.
It makes going to the pub less of a wider social experience and harder to justify the extra expense over having a few drinks around somebodys house at 1/4 of the cost.
My rural local has just brought back bar stools and I thought last night that it seemed alive again, finally. The village club I go to is excellent in every way but lacks atmosphere at least partly because people sit at a table with their regular friends. One of my measures of a good pub is getting chatting to someone you didn't know before. It makes going to the pub less of a wider social experience and harder to justify the extra expense over having a few drinks around somebodys house at 1/4 of the cost.
Still, the club does 5 ales, 4 lagers all around £3.30/pt, plus local ciders.
Wonder if they have a happy hour? The beer in the place will likely be at least a fiver for a 330ml bottle of lager.
Most the cocktail bars in London have reintroduced happy hours again during the week which is welcome, this is likely due to working from home meaning there's far less big spenders in the city.
Most the cocktail bars in London have reintroduced happy hours again during the week which is welcome, this is likely due to working from home meaning there's far less big spenders in the city.
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