[Closed] Beer prices at Real Ale Festivals

They all seem a bit dear to me - £2.20 ish [a good Northern price] 🙂

£2.50 ish to compete with Wetherspoons real ale events?

I go to the Hove Beer festival every year - darn south.
Think we are talking £3.60- £4.00 a pint.
Option to buy halves aswell.
Seems a bit pricy, but you pay in tokens you have pre-bought so not real money.
Make sure the beer is good, and there of loads of big hairy men to add the feeling of a beer festival.
Oh and pub games. Skittles/ Shove h'penny and the like.
maybe a folk band - not too loud though.
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Especially as I can probably get a few ££££'s knocked off the prices you have been quoted already .

The beers at the GBBF last week were between £2.00 and £3.00 a pint , abv dependant obviuosly.

Charge b / c and people will be more inclined to bring their own from a supermarket. It will be tins of pish , but the end result is the same.

Folk band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cock off.

a or b depending onlocal prices an wheher other stuff is priced accordingly, whether entrance costs etc.

Folk band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cock off.

+1 🙂

I don't think they do folk

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d. what's the price of a decent pint in your local hostelry / surrounding areas?
Base it on that (maybes less 10p a pint) - folk can't complain and, assuming the local pub ain't giving it away, the charity event makes a profit...
So, anyways, this charity event of yours got a name yet 😉

Or regional pricing:

Northern: 89p, comes boiling hot, with pieces of coal in't.
Southern: £3, cold, mixed with lemonade 50/50
That London: £16, served in a thimble, can only be purchased with steak tartre, poisson de mer (Colin) avec pommes frittes and roulade au chocolat (£123.67).

Option for half-pints & say £2.20 - 2.50?

Or higher price but let people know that x pence of every pint goes to charidee mate.

£3.00 sounds fair.

isn't micro brewery beer blessed with lower taxes and stuff?

seems a bit rude to charge bar prices for cheap beer at a crap venue (a cold tent in a wet field with stinking toilets and a sodding folk band)

£2.50 / pint.

£2.50 - a good price. £3 - more what i would expect to pay. £3.50 - bit gutted it's not cheaper. £4. i'd have 2 beers and call it a day out of principal, afterall i'm not paying to sit in a comfy leather chair, i'm standing in a beer filled mud pit. Personal opionion like.

Slightly under £3 🙂

And I quite like some folk music 😳

Split the difference at £2.75

Three quid a pint is still a bit hard to swallow for a lot of people especially those up north

I think £3 is fair you can get pretty merry for £15, and spend a fiver on food, good day out for £20.

Pound a pint.

£3 a pint at HtN. Any less and the bar man said he wouldn't cover his expenses.

£2.50 = people will buy more beer (round of 4 pints is a tenner which is more appealing than £12 obviously) so you'll make more in the long run. Will be easier for your bar staff to do change and that.

Maybe have a couple of 'specials' which cost more. Would please the nichemongers with their stupid bikes.

Folk band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cock off.

Ask MrNutt if he considers his music folk. I think his set on the Sunday is as close as it will get to folk.

Harry_the_Spider - There speaks a man who has done this stuff before.

I think we will probably go for £2.50 for the beer.

Now what about the fruit based drinks for the laydees?

Pinot Grigio for white
Cab Sav for the red
Waht ever is on offer for the pink

Priced at ?? per large glass

2.50 for wine as well. Keeps it nice and simple.

Priced at ?? per large glass

keep it simple £2.50

Pinot Grigio for white

A little bit nasty unless its a nice one.

A nice Chardonnay is classier IMHO.

Make it a nice even price so Luke doesn't have to think too hard about adding it up after 48hrs solid manning the bar! £2.50 seems reasonable to me, £3 a bit steep....

(and make it free, or half price at the very least for the photographer I reckon 😉 )

Right, STW has set the bar prices for the BBB.

I will be back tomorrow with the next admin decision

Night all

Wanders off to start laminating the number boards

"fruit based drink for the laydezz"

My lady will drink pints of bitter. Is that OK?

(Or G&T. But that gives her truly shocking death-breath in the morning, so please 'forget' that!)

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I thought beer was cheap up north but £3 a pint at HtN, that's southern prices 😆 I can see where the guy running your bar came across the figure to make it worth while, last year I bought a fair bit of kit to save money on having to hire it and this helps to keep the costs down. We also collect the beers to keep the costs down.
The cheap cooking beer in my local is £2.85 a pint anything worth bothering with is over £3.00 a pint.
There are hidden costs to running a beer tent, other than just buying the beer.
Yes the beer is from micro brewers and bought at a good price, yes it's in a tent, although it was warm and dry last year, no folk bands to my knowledge.
And yes there will be halfs available as there were last year

I must type faster, but have been juggling emails with working out the cost of a pint of beer, with my last reply.
There will be no spirits as it's a family fun event so spirits are out.
The pricing will be simple as it was last year.

Much as I love real ale, I'd rather blow a tramp that be subject to a folk band. With regard to pricing, don't some beers cost more than others so prices will vary abit bit dependant on brew. I'll happily pay more for a quality brew, and if I was attending a charity do I'd expect to be subject to a bit of 'charity tax' on prices

Yep some beers cost a fair bit more than some of the others you can easily pay three times more for one beer than another.
The thing is the more expensive ones are not normally the better one's.

Last time I looked around to buy a reasonable quality ale in bulk, prices were around the £1.20/pint mark

Tynedale Beer Festival was £1.25 a half, so £2.50 a pint is spot on.

My local is £2.20 for a pint of proper beer. Posh lager is £3 a pint... really posh fruit beer is £4.90 a pint!

Actually, most the pubs I go to around these parts are in the £2.20 - £2.50 a pint range for ale... always scares me when I go to the big city (ie Leeds/Sheffield) and they want £3+ for a pint. It's just wrong I tells you, time for a revolution!!!!

£1.20 a pint buys you the beer, then add in transport, glasses, racking, taps and if you want cooling and the costs go up 🙁

£1.20 a pint buys you the beer, then add in transport, glasses, racking, taps and if you want cooling and the costs go up

so still around £1.20 then?

Bradford Uni beer festivals used to sell by the half pint

and never mind the folk band, they always had an oompah band 😯

kronos - you're going to the wrong pubs.

Harry_the_Spider - Member

£3 a pint at HtN. Any less and the bar man said he wouldn't cover his expenses.

nice beer it was too. hic.

Price low, get people in, they'll spend more as its cheap, they get drunk faster as cheap, so they spend more and then make money on food when people get the munchies.

£2.20 😀

Then do raffles and stuff for extra charity money.

Northerner living down south 😆

My local is £3.10 - £3.30 a pint anything under £3 is cheap these days Town centre right now its more expensive than that

Well a quick look on the net has beer stillage hire (the thing you rack the beer on) at £300 for 4 days hire this holds 6 ales or £0.69 per pint as you will only have 1 beer per space over 4 days to allow for settling, the same unit costs over £1700 to buy, this is a bit over kill for most people, but to get a usable system for less will still cost a fair bit.
A wooden tap, which is probably only usable once will add 9p to your pint, a plastic one even more.
A plastic glass is a couple of pence.
The rest of the equipment costs add up as well if your not going to rent a complete system.
For last years event I traveled over 720 miles collecting the beers and returning the empties to save a few quid off the purchase price, this year the distance won't be as high but then fuel costs rise.

Town centre right now its more expensive than that

Town centre is ridick! full of yupee types throwing cash around.

If you want to make some more money, get yourself down to the supermarket and stock up on the big pack beer deals. With the 3 for 2 offers etc., you can pick up bottles of Becks for about 50p and punt them on at £1.50. Of course, its not everyones favourite tipple, but neither is Timonthy Taylor's landlord etc....

And if you get it from Tesco they do sale or return on unopened packs.

OK how many plastic taps and swan necks would you like to borrow??
I can probably muster up around 8 - 10 .
Stillages, yep , have some of those but people nick them so never sure how many at any one time. I will happily return any casks within a 10 mile radius of work.

As for decent people liking folk music , get real.
I hate the way Camra only have 'folk' music at festivals, Woking has a Wurltizer which is abit Cpt Nemo . But thats all you get . No I dont like Fairport Convention , or Lead Zeppilin . they can Cock Off as well .
Overated old hippies / one hit wonders . Bit like having Arcade Fire HEADLINING Reading and Leeeds.
In a Mark and Lard styleee WWWWHHHHHoooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Plastic Glasses , lined .- Yep deffo got some halfs, not sure on lined pints. Will confirm tomorrow how many I lay my hands on .

The glasses arrived today.
I've already invested in a stillage so that's taken care of and for this year I have most of the taps I need.
Singletrackmind, your not Rob from Itchen Valley are you?

Yes he is.

excellent, if I could grab a couple of plastic taps then rob to go with the beers were getting from you it would be good, then we'll be able to avoid last years wooden tap leakage problems.

No Worries , will put them to one side

Thanks, I'm picking the beers up on Wednesday with Nick.