The price of beer

[venator]

The cost of the traditional English pint is getting silly. I may have to start drinking wine in my local soon!

In Manchester, Holt's bitter is just over £2 (old family brewery near Strangeways prison)
http://www.joseph-holt.com/beer.asp

Samuel Smith's is as little as £1.80 (brewed in Yorkshire in slate squares)
http://www.samuelsmithsbrewery.co.uk/

What does your favourite beer cost?

[scotman]

I wish I could find prices as 'silly' as those.

Local pub 3 minutes walk away £3.10. 15 minutes walk £2.75.

[ummmm]

The pub closet to us £3.70 for a pint of Stella. £4.50 for a glass of wine.

Not sure how much the next pub down is....but it's much cheaper.

[boxtops]

£2 is cheap - don't complain about it.

[venator]

True, boxtops, but I'm a grumpy old man, and I have to complain!

[boxtops]

LOL, you should go to Gatwick Airport then - the hotel beer is £4.80 a pint, and a glass of wine with dinner (admittedly a decent size glass) sets you back £8 !

[venator]

ummmm - Stella is a fizzy chemical concoction - don't they sell beer in your local?

[venator]

You must be made of money! A whacking great ribeye steak costs about £4.50 from Costco!

[boxtops]

We wouldn't pay by choice, venator - you can't exactly take a carry-out into the airport!

[Tizzi24]

I don't drink beer, but I think those prices are very reasonable.

[ummmm]

lol venator....I don't drink beer or lager. OH is the stella man...

He gets a deal on Stella from the corner shop. 24 cans for £20.

[boxtops]

On holiday, the local lager cost six euros in the hotel, you could buy the equivalent can from the corner shop for €1,50 - so we did.

[venator]

I do drink in posh pubs occasionally - you can pay up to £3 for something not as good as Holt's.

[boxtops]

OH is a Boddingtons man

[emmie]

£3.50 and rising, its the main reason don't do it very often, drink that is

[boxtops]

..another reason why pubs are going to the wall, we've lost so many pubs round here, people can't afford to drink out these days, when the supermarkets are offering beer etc at discount prices.

[emmie]

someone said that by the time the Olympics rolls into town, the pubs could be charging £5 a pint

[boxtops]

Some in London probably do already..........

[venator]

We shouldn't talk about Boddingtons in Manchester - they sold the brewery and the "cream of Manchester" is made in a ghastly industrial plant far away now!

It was decent stuff, but I've not tasted it since they sold out/

[boxtops]

Look what I found, this compares prices all around the UK http://www.pintprice....hp?/United%20Kingdom/

[venator]

brb, the dragon is returning to her lair, and will need to be propitiated with coffee!