How much was beer when you started drinking?

Cheapest I remember is 80s night at Uni in Brighton, 80p a pint but all the good pubs cost a lot more. After university I moved to the the Wirral and was like going back in time 10 years beer Stela was about £2.00 now about £2.25 and feel expensive

I can remember the watershed of having to pay 50p for a pint of Sam Smiths in one of my locals in Leeds – must have been late 1970s I guess

50p a pint, at the student nightclub in city square Leeds with a revolving dancefloor, the name escapes me – thankfully

I do remember two pints of mild and two packets of crisps for a quid as a student, Something daft in our "bristro' local pub £2 something going on 3 but had a pint for 1.40 one of Her Majesty's mess bars at the weekend -result!

79p for a bottle of Kalback pils, tasted like battery acid but I got wrecked on 5 of them every friday night in the Drimsynie hotel in 1987.

Bitter 49p Lager 50p 1980

No idea but I can remember it was £13 to fill the 9 gal tank with 4 star in my 1st car. About 1984ish.

You lot are obviously alcoholics – been drinking continuously since the 70s or even 60s?

My beer was £2 a pint when I started drinking a couple of hours ago.

If you could brave the transport cafe ambience, the atmosphere of vague threat and the barmaids with cleft earlobes from having their earrings torn out…. then you could get a pint of mild for 65p in St Helens on 1989, but if you'd rather not have that pint infused by the adrenaline of you fight of flight reflexes then you'd expect to pay nearer a quid anywhere else in town.

I remember me and a friend finding a £20 note on the doorstep of a pub as we were racing in to catch last orders, 20 minutes later we practically had to be stretchered out.

used to manage a pint of youngers for 63p when playing under 16s rugby in leeds years ago, we used to have team meetings in the chained bull on a saturday night then play on the sunday morning, happy days of indestructability :-0
mum used to give me a quid a day for dinner money at school, I used to survive on fresh air then spend it all on beer on a Friday night.

recall discussing with drinking buddies giving up drink if it got to £1 a pint, lordy we were stupid in those days

Earliest I can remember was 67p for a pint of cider in Glasgow Uni. Union Beer Bar in 1986.

You could always tell if you'd had a big night out by looking at a bank statement and seeing TWO £5 withdrawals in the same evening – that usually meant 10 pints and a curry on Gibson Street on the way home (3 mile walk back to Maryhill).

Aw, jeez – I've jist went aw misty eyed… 🙁

erm, 1980 the "cocktail" lounge bar of the king billy in partington.

Three pints and a packet of crisp for £1.00

All feels a long time ago now

Tetleys Bitter 22p, Public Bar, Croft Spa Hotel.

I used to borrow £2 from my mum's purse. Seem to remember being able to have 6 pints, 10 Embassy Regal and a game of pool for that.

Those were the days…..

Mind you it was 12p a pint (Carlsburg)at school!!!

I think I started at 16 going into the White Horse Inn in Bingley, Yorkshire, in about 1983 and it was 52p or 56p for a pint of Bass Blue (Mild). Horrible stuff I expect, but that was it. I think I could manage on about £2 before I had to go home completely pished, navigate past my parents, which usually involved hiding in the greenhouse until they'd gone to bed. Being at school, I had a saturday job at that time which paid £10, so more than enough to see me thru a friday and sat night.

18p a pint for me, those were the days, go out get pissed, go to dancing, taxi home with a bird, then a taxi home, all for under a fiver.
I remember the day it went up to 21p a pint, my four best mates & I were gutted that a round was costing us over a pound.

Forget precise prices but, 86 / 87'ish
Town on the bus, couple of pints in the pubs, club entry and beer, kebab, taxi home < £10……..
Putting that into a bit of context though – was in my first job, earning £45 a week

Ansells Mild 46p a pint at the Bear Hotel in Bearwood, Brum. Lovely beer.

I hate to admit this, but at college in the early 70's 5p for a half of mild at the local and 10 Players No. 6 for 10p out of the vending machine.

**** me I'm old ! 😥

when I started drinking – about a pound per pint. Then I went to Uni and realised you could get beer for 25p per pint. Lovely.

Then you become a postgrad, have no money and no subsidised drinking establishments, and you become a connoseur of Netto Sherry. £1.79 per bottle, £3 to get into Jabez Clegg. A fine night out for under a fiver. Not that I'd choose to do that these days, EVER…

32p a pint – Aviemore Centre – late seventies.

'A pint of which to be proud', surely? Terrible standards.

I don't drink but I do think alcohol is nowwhere as expensive as it should be.

Ricky's nightclub in Leeds, 1993. 10p a pint. A pint of what I was never quite sure but plenty of poor students – myself included – had a "good night" for a quid.

1s/3d in 1966. Mild.

85-90pence a pint I think.. sometime around 1986-87.

Kev

£1.04 for a pint of Worthington in my old work's local in 1996, but it was on spesh.

Never liked beer started on vodka or rum i stopped drinking them when they went up to 32p a shot

Nowhere near what it is now! Got to the point I rarely go to the pub anymore 'cos of the shocking prices for a couple of pints.

Anyway, I've also learned that the cost of beer, in my own sad experiences, has been soooo much more than financial!

Oh well. Never too late to make a change for the better.

MikeT-23 urges you to drink responsibly.

Cheers

13p IPA, 14p Abbot ale Eagle Pub in Cambridge
11p St Catharines college bar

10d per pint of mild.
1s for bitter
1s3d for "keg".

All about 1967, in the backstreet pubs in Blackburn.

1s equates to 5p in today's money. Could get well ratarsed on 50p.

The King Edwards in Halesowen, £1.20 for Enville mild, £1.30 for best bitter in 1995. They knew our age but felt no compulsion to ask for ID or even question us, happy times.

You could get a pint for £1 if you ventured to The Old Crispin in Stourbridge though, and there were lots more girls there to make up for the price of a taxi home.