£4.85 for Carling (or some other shite) at Butlins the other w’end. Not me that was there I hasten to add. I made a pledge to go a year with no beer on new years eve, & have managed to stay true .(so far). Been a few close calls though. 🙂
Costs as much to not drink though, a gastro-pub wanted to charge me £2.60 for a pint of soda & lime cordial the other week.
…for me its not the strength of the beer that makes me buy it, and if this legislation helps brewers concentrate on taste rather than strength then to me thats a bonus. Cheaper beer and just as tasty (hopefully!).
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….
I reckon £2.50 a pint or 5 beer tokens for a tenner should be alright for the Big Bike Bash. The token will be for a pint of beer, cider, lager or a glass of wine.
Was in Norway last week, Bergen to be precise, 0.4L of local Noggie piss £8.50 and it is vile, it’s called Hansa so if you are ever in Bergen best avoided. Then went to a club later and they were skinning you £10.50 for a bottle of Corona, still didn’t stop us getting pissed up though.
2 pint and 4 pint plastic containers will also be available in the beer tent . This is for those who would like to drink some decent beer back at your tent , or take some home with you on Sunday.