Last night I had a decent pint of beer for £1.82….

Staying oop north (live on the south coast) nr Mansfield and had a pint of beer in the hotel bar last night for £1.82. That was the premium beer, the “mild” was £1.45.

In my local down south a coupe of months ago I paid £10.40 (without realising before I ordered) for 2 pints of craft lager!

Normal beer is near £4 a pint where I am, premium beer just over.

Last night I had an OK beer at Stockholm airport for £7.73

I had to go to Shanghai for work last week. £7/pint for Stella in the hotel 😯

my pint cost me about 35p last night.

I’m enjoying this homebrew malarkey 😀

It’s grim darn sarf.

In my local down south a coupe of months ago I paid £10.40 (without realising before I ordered) for 2 pints of craft lager!

You were clearly hijacked. For a start, theres no such thing as ‘craft’ lager. Its just lager. ‘Craft’ is a stupid hipster affectation, almost as bad as ****ing ‘Artisan’ used to double the price of bog standard stuff, then sell it to clueless bearded trustafarian ****-wits, probably in a bloody jam jar. It was in a jam jar, wasn’t it?

Decent beer is under 3 quid a pint in the bloody fantastic microbewery down the road. Grim former northern mill town, obviously 😀

I had a pint of mild at the weekend. I don’t recall the price, nor did I notice that i’d suddenly turned into an old giffer who thinks that mild was delicious.

Staying oop north (live on the south coast) nr Mansfield and had a pint of beer in the hotel bar last night for £1.82. That was the premium beer, the “mild” was £1.45.

Yes, but you had to go near Mansfield to get it. And that’s not oop North, it’s the Midlands even before you take Scotland into account!

I think I’d rather not go to Mansfield and just pay the extra.

Pub night tonight.

Small village pub. Regional CAMRA pub of the year. 14 hand-pulled real ales at the bar – selection changes every week, but many are from breweries within a few miles. Most are £2 to 2.50 😀

Standing arrangement that an informal group of us local dads meet up there every Thursday. Sometimes there are only three or four, sometimes fifteen, but there is always someone to have a pint with and always good craic. £10 buy-in for the kitty behind the bar and maybe another £10 later if you’re making a session of it.

Banter, lock in, then a short stagger home through safe streets.

Aye it’s grim up north.

Sam Smiths pubs up North are great – only sell their own stuff (no Kopperberg Apple, Potato & Custard ciders) and around £1.50 a pint for bitter, £1.80 for lager.

It is an acquired taste, but they actually make the stuff using all natural ingredients and hardly any (if any at all) unnecessary additives.

But I love the bitter – it tastes like I imagine beer used to taste 200 years ago when you sat in your village pub surrounded by friends you’ve known for a lifetime.

Last night I found a bottle of slow gin we maid a few years ago while looking for some tyre leavers.

It was very nice.

A pint in my local is £3. It’s very nice but still a tad high.

120 NOK – £9.50 for a pint of ok’ish beer in Flam, Norway. Sat outside so a least the scenery was spectacular.
There probably isn’t a Norwegian word for hangover

£3.30 for draught ales in the village pub. Doom Bar last night. Delicious after a short sharp road ride.

Nb this is also in the Midlands, not far from Mansfield. But much better.

$9.50 (AU) for a selection of schooners or really awesome beers local and a bit more exotic 🙂

Last night I had food poisoning, slinging up the contents of my stomach at 4am, I think you all win over me!

You were clearly hijacked. For a start, theres no such thing as ‘craft’ lager. Its just lager. ‘Craft’ is a stupid hipster affectation, almost as bad as ****ing ‘Artisan’ used to double the price of bog standard stuff, then sell it to clueless bearded trustafarian ****-wits, probably in a bloody jam jar. It was in a jam jar, wasn’t it?

Beautifully put binners, couldn’t have phrased it better.

And oh so true.

Sam Smiths pubs up North are great

But not as good as Tim Taylors.

I must make a trip to the Boltmakers again sometime soon 🙂

But not as good as Tim Taylors

awful stuff, yet bolt maker is fab

£2.75 in my Midlands local, it is a private club though

rOcKeTdOg earlier, in his private club….

😀

But not as good as Tim Taylors.

But half the price….

Sam Smiths pubs up North are great

as are most of the ones in London (particularly The Cock, Old Cheshire Cheese and The Rising Sun)

Last night I found a bottle of slow gin we maid a few years ago while looking for some tyre leavers.

Autocorrect is a bugger isn’t it 😀

£2.45 for most hand pull stuff in my local. Lager is closer to £3.20 which is good because it keeps all the **** out.

£3.30 for draught ales in the village pub. Doom Bar last night.

I was paying £2.20/pint for Doom Bar last night. Unless anyone from work is reading, in which case I mean “at the weekend.”

Well it’s still £1.00 a pint if you catch a bottled beer “special” at Booths. Some beers work better than others bottled and poured into a decent glass you’d almost think you were in the pub.

Some beers work better than others bottled and poured into a decent glass you’d almost think you were in the pub.

Apart from the other people…

you’d almost think you were in the pub.

You can add to the effect by having a group of pickled old codgers sitting in your front room making casually racist remarks, then getting an angry man in a tracksuit to come and glass you

Then spill some chilli sauce down your shirt, and develop some digestive problems to recreate the walk home

you certainly drink in some shit places Binners

First rule, Flat Roof – NO!

My actual local is lovely Mike. Hence me spending FAR too much time in there. I’ll be in later, seeing as its the start of the weekend. Cheers! 😀

Drink?HebdenBridge on Market St is doing really nice keg beer at £3 a pint. Worth a visit.

This is my local.

Pint of Doom Bar is £4.30, so the wallet will be £20 lighter later, inc the obligatory Pork Scratchings!

No ZH contracts for the bar staff I hope!

as are most of the ones in London (particularly The Cock, Old Cheshire Cheese and The Rising Sun)

😀

The first time I went out drinking we ended up in the upstairs room of a pub in Jesmond, Newcastle. The room was huge, the full length and width of the building, it had padded benches around the walls and dozens of small round tables with chairs. You pressed a button on the wall and a waiter would come with a towel over his arm, take your order and then come back with a round tray loaded with glasses of McEwan’s Best Scotch, very dark and with a cream-coloured head. It was a place for serious drinking and had the kind of territorial atmosphere where you didn’t dare look at anybody else’s pint, let alone their face. You kept quiet, kept your eyes doon and minded your own business.

At about the same time on a trip up the coast towards Holy Island we went into a pub and my Mum asked for a half of lager. The barman replied: “Sorry Pet, nay lager – wa divven’t get many ladies in here!”

Binners, thats just a public loo.

£4.20 London Pride less a 10% loyalty discount, £3.60 Marston EPA in club, however £6 for a bottle of beer in a hotel in Guildford at a function was a real shock.

Sam Smiths pubs up North are great

Couldn’t agree more.

It’s just the beer that’s served in them that’s ‘orrible.

The regulars (in my local anyway) aren’t much better either.

Drop out of the woods, narrowly miss the swings and freewheel to the pub.
Sam Smiths mild is £1.30 pint in the Colliers Arms, Elland.

Unicorn for bathams last night,£2.60 a pint, Bostin!