£7.50p a pint. That’s it I’m out

[olv]

If the price of beer is upsetting you best not look at house prices.

[DeltonaS]

Good luck.

The U.K. Is Two Months Away From a Brutal Cost-of-Living Crisis
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-01-20...

[OzzyR1]

julian987R said:

I had a latte in Knightsbridge yesterday and the bill was £18 for a small latte.
I did a runner.

That can't be true, I've been in and around West London for 20 odd years and never seen prices like that.

Where was it?

[MitchT]

DeltonaS said:

Good luck.

The U.K. Is Two Months Away From a Brutal Cost-of-Living Crisis
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-01-20...

I'd like to know how this crisis can happen at the same time as rampant house price inflation. Where's the money coming from to make that possible?

[konark]

The hospitality industry do seem to have increased their prices massively in the last 2 years contributing to higher inflation figures. Some places seem determined to recoup their covid losses in record time.

I wonder how this will play out in the next year as incomes are squeezed

[Chris Type R]

joshcowin said:

I'm in the SE 45 miles from London £5 for a normal pint of lager and £4.50 for a pint of bitter is the going rate.

Decent tap room with craft beers will be £5 minimum I wouldn't buy a pint for £7:50 local to my house its not worth it IMO I have decent beer here which has cost me about £3 a pint.

The last restuarant meal we went out for, the bottled beers were £5 each. In the provinces.

[soad]

Leicester Loyal said:

fk that, 3 for £7 in my city centre local.

Carling or Fosters?

Rather have a Stella.

[Dagnir]

Some of the exclusive craft round my way is £9+.

[anonymous-user]

Vasco said:

Surely, about £3 to £3.50 is about right ?. I'd never pay over £5.

I was stood in the hotel bar in London about 4ish years ago looking at the waiter waiting for my change from a fiver for a pint whilst he stood looking at me waiting for the rest of the money. i didn't bother to buy another

[Ouroboros]

4-5 quid seems normal.

I started drinking 25 years ago was 1.5 a pint, so 25 years to double, not really an issue, house prices have gone 5 times that in the same time.

[Wills2]

MitchT said:

I'd like to know how this crisis can happen at the same time as rampant house price inflation. Where's the money coming from to make that possible?

It's a good question Mitch, I often wonder where it'll end, pricing is getting out of hand and the vast majority cannot afford it, I see a divide opening up and it'll be ugly when it falls apart.

[bigothunter]

Sod pubs - drink decent beer at home for £1-70 a pint

[MC Bodge]

Ouroboros said:

4-5 quid seems normal.

I started drinking 25 years ago was 1.5 a pint, so 25 years to double, not really an issue, house prices have gone 5 times that in the same time.

1.5x2=3

Or have I missed something?

[Wills2]

bigothunter said:

Sod pubs - drink decent beer at home for £1-70 a pint

And that is an issue, people have become used to doing that and bars and pubs thinking they can charge silly money for a pint will lead to issues for them and shape of society in the long run.

[wibble cb]

You want expensive beer, 330 ml bottle of middling IPA in Reykjavik was the equivalent of 15$,and this was 5 years ago, I only had the one…

[julian987R]

olv said:

If the price of beer is upsetting you best not look at house prices.

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/60337662/

[konark]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Pre lockdown I went to the pub a lot and never once thought about the price.

I've spent a couple of years enjoying Lidl's finest at 99p to £1.39 for 500 cc & now £5 a pint seems expensive.

I can't be the only one who has been altered this way.

Same here. Supermarkets have been selling Stella and other 'premium beers for less than a quid a pint. Meanwhile the pubs have hiked their prices and are selling chucking lager for £5 a pint. The difference is pretty staggering considering when I started drinking the pub was always the cheapest place to get beer.

[sutoka]

Place in my neck of the woods at the top floor of a hotel that sells pints of Harp (yes Harp) Lager for £9 it is always empty, staff walk around like they have rods up their arse. Local Wetherspoons sells it for £1.90.

When it first opened they had a guy on the lift with a special key that looked you up and down and decided if you met the standard to drink a basic but overpriced lager in their top floor establishment. Now they let any ragamuffin in.

[Ruskie]

av185 said:

Strange that many pubs are struggling.

Wonder why with joke prices often for stty beer.

That’s what gets me, I love a pint of the black stuff. My heart sinks when it arrives 1 min after ordering. I object a lot less to paying high prices if the product is to standard.

[Thankyou4calling]

I don’t drink but went in a bar just to see, bought a 4 pint jug of lager as an “Introduction “ to sit at a table with some locals.

150 Ksh (£1)

This was in Utawala, suburb of Nairobi.

It was well received.