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[melv16]

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[Buenchico]

Is January that depressing for you then, Melv?

;-)

[melv16]

Yup. Shares in whisky are plummeting.

[Buenchico]

10 reasons why one should never feel depressed in Sheffield ;-)
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2019/mar/12/top-10-craft-beer-pubs-sheffield

[melv16]

I've been in most of them, Chris. They missed out the Sheaf View, which to my mind is the best one.

[melv16]

Went out before Xmas with a bunch of blokes. A pint of Barnsley bitter and a pint of Guinness came to £9-30!...'ow much!!

[Buenchico]

Most of my old drinking haunts in Sheffield have closed down. (I think my 'local', the Ball Inn in Ecclesfield, probably went bust through the drop in sales when I moved out!). However a few remain, such as the Nursery Tavern on Ecclesall Road (known to us, in my student days, simply as 'The Nurse'). I keep meaning to revisit some of them one day but hospital appointments and/or Covid, keep getting in the way :(

My lad sent me some lovely beers from Loxley Brewery.
https://www.loxleybrewery.co.uk/
(He lives close to the Wisewood Inn). I fancy sampling a few more of those too!

[Buenchico]

I doubt that you could get a couple of pints anywhere around here (except in J D Wetherspoon pubs) for under a tenner, Melv.

I've just checked on the current prices in one of my favourite London pubs too. ('Cask', in Pimlico). Their cheapest cask ale, at just 3.5% ABV, is £5.40 per pint. They don't serve Guinness but stout drinkers can have a cask stout for £6.30 per pint. (If they prefer a keg product, they'll have to pay £9.70 though).

[Cloverjo]

£9.70 for a pint? What the whatty?

I paid about that for a glass of wine in London a few years ago.
How, what, why?

[Mamyalynne]

Read it again Clover :-)

[Cloverjo]

I do like a drink but I don’t want to pay those prices.

It’s not so long ago that half a pint of Stella was 52p.

[goodgoalie]

When I bought a paper yesterday morning in my village shop, the woman in front of me bought 40 Benson & Hedges: £27. When she left I asked the person behind the counter if I'd heard that correctly, and yep - £13.50 for a packet of fags!
Of course, she paid contactless - doesn't seem like real money then, does it?

[Buenchico]

>>> £9.70 for a pint? What the whatty?

That's one of the cheaper offerings in 'Cask'', Clover!
https://live.staticflickr.com/7246/7497081614_977e95bd30_b.jpg

They also sell this American beer (it's a barley wine) for the absolute bargain price of just £110 per bottle ;-)
https://untappd.akamaized.net/photos/2021_10_25/1d013d97d9b79fea07d6faf4358c79c5_640x640.jpg

[Buenchico]

>>> It’s not so long ago that half a pint of Stella was 52p

I've not been in that many pubs lately, Clover. (I understand that there's a bit of a bug going around, or something). However my best guess for the price of half a pint of Stella around here is around the £3.50 to £4.00 mark. (I was paying £6.50 a pint for it about four years ago, so that's probably not far out by now).

[Buenchico]

>>> £13.50 for a packet of fags

I can remember selling them for 26p when I first worked behind a bar in 1971, GG! (Mild 10p per pint, bitter 11p per pint. Lager wasn't even sold in that pub at that time but it arrived a few months later, at 12p per pint)

[Canary42]

Shouldn't this be in Crosswords - LOL

I bet you did that deliberately melv ;-)

[goodgoalie]

It's a mind-blowing price, Chris. I'm so glad I'm an ex-smoker - the occasional roll-up, but gave up several years ago when they stopped selling small packets and you had to buy a big one for about £10.