The Price Of A Pint

[Zacs-Master]

I bought a pint of beer and a pint of premium lager in my local last night and it was £7.00! The lager was £3.75! More pub closures I predict.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/10682032/Beer-bubble-how-price-of-a-pint-has-risen-twenty-fold.html

[murraymints]

EEK !! Stick with the irn bru !

[Zacs-Master]

Is it really made from girders? They're adverts are fantastic.

[ummmm]

It's £2.50 for a standard pint in my uncles pub. The busiest pub in town.

It's only 20p for a game of pool.

[murraymints]

Lol zac....it's an acquired taste !

[Zacs-Master]

Just noticed my terrible spelling mistake ....'their' of course. My mum would be devastated. She was a proof reader.

[Zacs-Master]

Anyway I'm off to walk the dawg now.

[mikey4444]

Get yourself to a Wetherspoons if you have one near-by Zacs...good Real Ale, at very reasonable prices. Also good food. Curry Night is on a Thursday, where you can get a pint and a curry for £5.99 ! Other pubs may be closing but not Wetherspoons !

[ichkeria]

That would encourage me to stay at home certàinly! I remember the day I first paid £1 (in Covent Garden) and almost choking in shock!

[Maydup]

Tied pub no doubt?

[jno]

what would it be tied to, Fort Knox?

[Zacs-Master]

Mikey, we have a weatherspoons in the nearest town but the taxi fare home would make it even more expensive (and the clientele aren't exactly my cup o tea).
Maydup, you guessed correctly. Tied to a company which is massively in debt.

[boxtops]

We wouldn't touch our local Weatherspoons - full of undesirables all day, most of the time, half of them outside on the smoking tables. One local here charged £2.50, it has a good clientele - but we've lost another six pubs in our small town since Christmas, generally people can no longer afford to go out, and the pubs can't afford to keep going. However - a small micropub has opened up, and it's packed to the gills every night.

[LazyGun]

Do what Homer did - start your own pub/bar in your garage/ basement ;)

£3.75 a pint does sound pretty excessive.

[Zacs-Master]

Good people watching in weatherspoons tho.

[BigMac]

You wouldn't like London.... ...
Guinness near me ranges from 4.15-4.75; you can easily pay well over a fiver for some 'premium' cold fizzy lagers.
Even bitter is pushing if not through the £4 mark.
It's no wonder supermarket off-sales are increasing when with a 2-for-1 offer you can get 8 (almost) pint cans for under the price of two pints in a pub.

[RATTER15]

We pay about £2.50 a pint of real ale in our local.

[Zacs-Master]

LG, it's one of my ambitions but takes about £15k to set up I believe. That's 4000 pints at £3.75.

[Frank97]

Crikey, glad I don't go in Pubs anymore!

[Zacs-Master]

Big Mac, me & MrsZ are coming to the smoke soon. I expect to pay a premium in a capital city but £3.25 for a pint of bitter in my local is taking the p.

[LazyGun]

I think a bar called "Zacs" would be pretty cool ;) Price of a pint in most pubs in my area of Herts is in the £2.80-£3.40 bracket.