Would You Pay £7 A Pint?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9503949/Price-pint-rises-SEVEN-POUNDS-Pubs-hike-prices-1-10-claw-losses.html
it's 99p for some pints in the Spoons. I go to a non Spoons regularly and 2 pints are £6.40. London seems to be taking the peace!

[youngmafbog]

No. Went in my local the other day (Just a chimneys boozer) and it was £8.40 for two pints. No wonder they are empty but Spoons is usually full.

Having said that my mate who lives in Switzerland would consider that cheap!

[Ken4155]

Not been to London for a good number of years but every time i had a pint down there, it was as flat as a witches whatsit. I wouldn't pay £7 a pint if i was dying of thirst.

[emmie]

my local has a beer called Leffe, which costs 7.20 a pint. I wouldn't pay that as you say it's taking the mickey.

[davebro]

I like Leffe (for the taste) but it's almost twice the alcohol strength of "normal" beers - hence the price.

[youngmafbog]

Many London pubs, particularly in the City, will struggle due to lockdowns/WFH. Many were there simply to provide City workers with a lunchtime beverage and a few beers after work and closed by 8:00 pm.

I am not sure jamming the prices up will work though, hardly likely to tempt people back who have got out of the habit of popping out for a beer after work.

[emmie]

when i was away at Christmas we went into a wetherspoons pub and there we had a whole raft of drinks, coming to a princely 15 quid, my round was 12 quid, one of the party was drinking a pint of i think stowford, 1.99p a pint, how do they do it, and yes the place was packed.

[emmie]

dave i know, it's 6.8 percent i think? but i don't see the point, though it sells.

[davebro]

It's economies of scale - if you sell a lot you can take a smaller profit on each drink.

[davebro]

//dave i know, it's 6.8 percent i think? but i don't see the point, though it sells.//

Leffe used to be only in 500ml bottles at my local & I would have a bottle while my mates had pints of the other stuff. The days I could drink huge volumes of beer are past. £1.99 is very cheap for Stowfords cider.

[emmie]

as i said we were in wetherspoons, yes 1.99 for a stowfords, and it wasn't much dearer for the rest of us, this was in West Sussex.

[Kardashev]

There's a small town near where I live where they are pretty close to London prices in several pubs. I sometimes wonder how they are still trading. My local is around the £4 mark depending on what you have and there is Wetherspoons who are very cheap for some things.

[emmie]

my local i fear will put up the prices again, that would be three price rises in as many months if they do. It's a very popular place for all that,

[gulliver1]

Did You Know............Beer prices have risen by 20% since Brexit........

[emmie]

nothing to do with Brexit, all to do with recouping losses from closures.

[Arksided]

Last time I went to a pub it was for a wake back in November, £2:90 a pint. At £7:00 a pint a round in W.Yorkshire, I’d have handed out some straws.

[barry1010]

The lower the alcohol the cheaper the duty - between 1.2 and 2.8% the duty is 8.42p a litre; up to 7.5% it is 19.08p and over 7.5% it is 24.77p.

[barry1010]

I was in Norfolk before lockdown and paid over £6 a pint in an ordinary boozer. I was not impressed.

[gulliver1]

Covid is a very handy Scapegoat .. when Brexiteers
are looking for something else to blame rather than Brexit,
.............. For rising prices and shortages............

[davebro]

Brexit is a very handy Scapegoat .. when Covid deniers
are looking for something else to blame rather than Covid,
.............. For rising prices and shortages............

[ToraToraTora]

arky: "At £7:00 a pint a round in W.Yorkshire, I’d have handed out some straws. " I can just imagine it, "ah mooch?"