Well, it might be up in whatever Godforsaken dump you live in, but down here in That London’s Famous London, you may very well have to pay a premium for good beer in a nice pub.
One of my all time favourite beers of all time mate:
Is five pounds thirty a pint in The Union or Old Brewery in Greenwich. Northerners may well swear at the price of such a fine ale, but then, they are mainly used to drinking muddy festering ditchwater the poor things. 🙁
WCA, what is used to paying silly money in spensive bars around the World, was quite stunned by the five pounds fifty we were charged per pint of this loveliness in Brew Wharf, Borough Market:
Mmm…
I dunno though; I don’t mind paying a bit for a decent pint of proper top-grade beer, as you’re drinking it for it’s loveliness, not to get hammered. For me, a nice evening involves 3-4 pints of really nice beer in a really nice pub. I could just as easily drink bilge in a crap pub too if I wanted to, but tbh these days, there’s not a great deal of difference in what you’ll spend. I woon’t be spending £4 on a pint of Stella or similar crap though. I’d rather go without.
Yeah, four or five quid or more a pint is ridiculous. But then again, how many folk on here will willingly pay silly money to eat at a Heston Poncenthal or Rick Stein restaurant? Hmm?
I notice the price of a pint anywhere has rocketed steeply since the Tories came into power….