How much was beer when you started drinking?

Following on from the expensive beer thread.

I don't remember how much my first pub pint cost, probably in the region of £1.50 in about 1989.

But I do remember being amazed that a lovely foamy pint of Tetley was only £1.17 when I visited my then GF's sister in Skipton about 1991. Tetley did used to be better than it is now I presume? Or was I just less discerning?

I bought my first pint in 1973, can't remember how much it was! My memory is that most beer was bl**dy awful then, I was in Cambridge and occasionally went to Tolly Cobbold pubs because they had discos. Their beer was truly vile, and the lager even worse. Greene King was good though. Sigh.

1973– there was a bar in Boston ( states ) that a mate and I used to go to (quite often ) before concerts and such.. draft beer was USD 0.25 cents, but the place was a real end of line dive.. "normal" bars a beer was about USD 0.75

When I went to Bristol Poly in '87 the cheapest beer in the bar was 75p.

You can get a pint of IPA for 99p at weatherspoons…

First pint i bought was 33p i was 15 and still at school,circa 1978 i think !! out of that habit now although i was shedded for a quid, no change there then.

i remember working in a bar in 1973/4 and it was 14p a pint

It was a pub in Penmaenmawr in North Wales.

April 1977, two weeks before my 16th birthday. 0.35p a pint.

£1.30-ish circa 1994 (aged 16 😆 )

About £1.14 a pint in '88

1974 British Legion 12p for a mild and bitter

It was wasted it ended up being spewed up around the back of the bowling green

0.35p a pint.

Cheap!

About a quid / pint

Beat you all so far: 1s10d.
In the Sun in Stockton-on-Tees

About a pound for a pint of Banks Bitter.

88p a pint for Heineken and Stella for £1.00 a pint
Volunteer Arms, Bromley Cross circa 1988

Two bob for me, Moses.

You're either a really old bugger or you used to go to posh places when you were a kid.

Used to be about £1.15 for a pint of Magnet around Darlington in c.1992-3.

4 pints and a small bag of chips for a fiver, them were the days, then again a fiver was what I got for my Sunday paper round so it's fair to say I can afford more beer now than then. 😆

Pound a pint at the local bowling alley when I was 16. Lowenbrau Pills if I am not mistaken. I used to go down there with a tenner and still have change for a small kebab.

Good lord I sound like my old man.

92p a pint at the roebuck in leyland circa 1991. Used to go in straight from school still in uniform minus a tie and jumper and the old man behind the bar never batted an eyelid. A game of pool used to cost 10p.

Free from my Dad's cabinet at about 13 years old.

one shilling and ten pence (9p)in the public bar and two shillings and tuppence in the saloon for a pint of charrington's bitter.

Salisbury, Old George (near the Arts Centre), Bulmers Original Cider, circa 1987 – £1.35/pint!

Same as geoffj more or less, when I worked behind the bar at he george and Dragon in Marlow, Stella was £1.04. About '87/88

When i started proper drinking at uni (1990): Hall bar 75p/pint, union bar £1.12, NewYork NewYork £1. We rarely went to bars without special offers.

About £1.80-£2.20 in 1999 (student type place prices).

85p for Brakespears Bitter
87p for Special
92p for Stella

18p in the local WMC

1s.08pence, for a pint of mild around 1967/8

Think it was about 55p/pint in the George, Much Wenlock, winter 1980/81.

Bitter was 75p a pint or you could go mad and get Stella for 1.25 in the local.

must have been about 1985, I was 16 😀

Lets just say I could take my Mrs (she was Miss then) out for the night at our local pub and have a good night with our mates and have change from £5… (And we drank lager all evening)

About 45p for a pint of Sam Smith around 1980. Inflation has shockingly taken it to £1.34 in my (affiliated) local. Whippet not included.

Ridleys IPA at 84p a pint is my earliest memory of pub beer. Getting wrecked with a packet of chips on the way home was a typical friday night. My mum used to lend me the fiver!

1963 Bradford – I think tap room was about 1s 6p and lounge 1s 8p. The rougher the pub the cheaper it was. Usually Tetley, Websters or J Heys pubs. The creamier the head the better for us northerners 🙂

£1.12 for a pint of Boddies in the Vernon Arms, Poynton, circa 1991

Used to go in straight from school still in uniform minus a tie and jumper and the old man behind the bar never batted an eyelid.

Royal Oak, Macc, 1981… "Do me a favour lads and take your blazers and ties off"

Think it was ~40p/pint then.

When we moved into our current house in 2002 the Robbie's Unicorn was £1.45. Now £2.35 (price correct as of about an hour ago)

98p for a pint in Edinburgh student union in '98.
went up to 99p in '99.
rip off merchants!!!

About £0.90 for a pint of Carlsberg, mid 90's era.