A friend of mine is on holiday in Dublin. She’s in a bar in Temple Bar and has just bought two double Southern Comfort & lemonades, and two bottled beers.
Saying that, I’m told Hipster spec IPA has hit £14 a pint in London.
As far as I can tell “craft beer” is just an excuse to sell mediocre beer at twice the price in half the quantity. On my stag do I got stung for almost that much when I naively ordered a pint of Nelly’s Wet Growler or some such pretentious twaddle, and that was in Manchester. “Yeah, we usually sell it in thirds,” the barman told me after he’d poured it.
A bunch of us were drinking in Shoreditch last week. The prices in one pub – poss up Bethnal Green Rd – were mental. Several beers were over £15 a pint or bottle with one of them coming in at £21. Most of that stuff is in the 8-12% mark and IMO doesn’t exactly taste grand either.
On a similar note, my local beer shop recently promoted some S African brews at over £10 a bottle. Ludicrous.
A bunch of us were drinking in Shoreditch last week. The prices in one pub – poss up Bethnal Green Rd – were mental. Several beers were over £15 a pint or bottle with one of them coming in at £21.
ridiculous isn’t it! Even worse, I was speaking to some utter nob clanger last week who’d spent over four hundred pounds on a push bike! A fool and his money!