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What is the price of a pint of beer or lager in a pub?

Can't remember the last time I was in a proper pub for a session either! I only know a pint is 4 or 5 quid now cos I had 1 or 2 last week was dairn sairth with work staying in a budget boozer (company can't afford the nice hotels anymore apparently).:unsure:
 
Back in the 80s/90s I was out most nights and the pubs were always busy.I frequented a couple of City centre rock pubs and the atmosphere was great whatever night.
Go into the City centre midweek now and it’s a ghost town.Even our local(s) are quiet yet 22 years ago,when we moved here,they were all doing well.Six have shut down in the last 10 years halving the number within mile and a half of our house.
Not surprising really.
 
Had a pint in a micro pub in Rawtenstall on Saturday for £2.60, but they did go up to £4.50 in the same place, I normally expect £3.50 -£4 in a decent normal pub in Lancaster for quality ale.
 
Dave-H said:
Bloody £6.00 a pint of any beer/cider down here in Surrey! .. Hence I rarely go to the pub, it’s just too dam expensive 😡
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Yep my local in Surrey is 6.oo.
Not been there in over a year!

I felt like a lottery winner when I had a few beers seeing my pals in Wales....

Less than 3.00 quid in a proper pub.... in the town.
 
I love pubs. I love the atmosphere (mostly). In my local I can sit and either chat or not. I recognise and get on with most and feel comfortable even by myself. The pub at the other end of the village by contrast is ‘The Slaughtered Lamb’ as it all goes quiet when you walk in.
£4.60 for SanMiguel to answer the OP.
The pub in the next village is where my first wife threw a pint of Guinness over me; much to the amusement of the clientele as I squelched out. The pub in the next but one is where I started in 1969 when Double Diamond was 1/- 10p a pint (that’s 9p in modern). Anyway, I have some cans in the fridge and I’ll have one now. Have a good evening all.
 
My local, the Turk’s Head, in Gloucester is a smashing little local. £2.80 a pint until five Mon to Fri rising to £3.50 outside of that. This is for well kept local ales and ciders, mostly from within a 25 mile radius.

They do have a few lagers, but I have no idea what they cost :)

They have a deal with a Thai restaurant a few doors down who will deliver great food (on a proper plate) to the pub.

It’s great!
 
bb2 said:
Having not drunk alcohol for five years or so, I have no idea how much beer / lager costs these days. I guess that some of you may still drink it and could perhaps share the costs currently involved.
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Well I had a night in the Novotel in York last week, had two drinks in the white swan a white wine and a pint of strongbow £12 😬😬😬went back to the Novotel and ordered the same....£14 FFS are these places for real??? Ohh and before anybody says why did you pay that and walk away instead, there prices are not displayed anywhere and I thought maybe a tenner, hotels are usually dearish. Ohhh and they now don't handle cash only cards. Well pissed off.
 
I have not been in a pub for years, have not drank alcohol for the last 12 or so but chatting to some younger guys I work with, it's quite normal for them to do £80+ each for an evening out on the lash.
 
Sadly the Pub as a social institution has long gone. Greedy brewers put rents so high that their tenants, many of them excellent at there trade, just couldn't make a living. Visiting pub was about drinking with friends & family, finding work or finding men necessary to do work you had lined up.
Working away from home there were venues where you would be sure to find other itinerants. I well remember Blackpool's Yates Wine Lodge, when you stood in queue for a drink and then got back in the queue to drink it, ending up near the front when glass was empty. Noahs Ark. Ovenden was another pub with fond memories. Google tells me it has now become a Drop in/Therapy/Counselling venue. Good beer and the craic was all the therapy necessary 30 years ago.
 
I still go to the pub 2 or 3 times a week with the bride and a couple of times a week on my own after golf (yes I don't go out 2 nights a week, boring)
Other than Spoons where it’s anything from £1.50 to £3.00 a pint most pubs its between £4 and £5 a pint.
I only drink Guinness which has gone up recently, it still under a fiver but only just.
Covid defiantly changed a lot of people’s habits I’ve got a few mates who were regular 5 times a week people, now they don’t venture out much at all...
 
Drifter2406 said:
I have not been in a pub for years, have not drank alcohol for the last 12 or so but chatting to some younger guys I work with, it's quite normal for them to do £80+ each for an evening out on the lash.
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Some of us older guys can manage £50
 
SJC said:
I still go to the pub 2 or 3 times a week with the bride and a couple of times a week on my own after golf (yes I don't go out 2 nights a week, boring)
Other than Spoons where it’s anything from £1.50 to £3.00 a pint most pubs its between £4 and £5 a pint.
I only drink Guinness which has gone up recently, it still under a fiver but only just.
Covid defiantly changed a lot of people’s habits I’ve got a few mates who were regular 5 times a week people, now they don’t venture out much at all...
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Moretti is £4:40 at my golf club which I think is reasonable as it's a fiver in town
 
It depends where you go,and what area.Wetherspoons will sell from about £2 a pint, while across town the cheapest will be £3.50.City centres charge far more £4.50- £6 or more.
 
Depends on the pub, and location, different rentvand price structures.
Cask ale in my lafs 21 pubs from 2.90 to £3.50
Standard lager £3.50 to £3.90
Premium Lager £4.10 to £5.20
Guinness £4.00 to £4.80
Cider, to many brands, say £3.80 to £4.20
Somw prices are dictated by the pubci agreement, eg Beacon by Stonegate, Retail with Punch, others are calulated on average 50% gp for beers ciders lagers etc.
And dont let anyone spout about high margins on soft drinks.. Not anymore.
I wouldnt go back to runnong a pub, i hate the trade now.
Infact, the only reason im still part of it as area manager, i work foe my lad, and theres no one else wants to employ me lol
660days to retirement
ATB
Dan
 
Drifter2406 said:
I have not been in a pub for years, have not drank alcohol for the last 12 or so but chatting to some younger guys I work with, it's quite normal for them to do £80+ each for an evening out on the lash.
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Not on beer, surely? I'd bet that they are spending that sort of money on shorts, shots of ludicrously costly, weird-coloured stuff and nancy-boy cocktails. Either that or they're being sexually repressive by insisting on buying drinks for girls who, as we know, are equal to men and should not be regarded as blah bla blah...
 
Carnivore said:
Not on beer, surely? I'd bet that they are spending that sort of money on shorts, shots of ludicrously costly, weird-coloured stuff and nancy-boy cocktails. Either that or they're being sexually repressive by insisting on buying drinks for girls who, as we know, are equal to men and should not be regarded as blah bla blah...
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Yep even at a pearl a pint that would be 16 pints for £80 - about double what I used to pour down my pipe on a night out even in my early 20s. Having said that by the time you add a ruby and a taxi you might not have enough change left for the Jonny machine!
 
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