Globalti said:
Not at all a rip-off. My local Booths has bottles at around £1.50 a pint and every week there's something on promotion at £1.00 a pint.
I was up in the Lakes recently and did make a pig of myself with the massive selection of real ales at a £1 a bottle in the Windermere Booths, good value. Back home it's more like £1.60 or so so I don't bothere.
I really don't think these bottled real ales are all they're cracked up to be anyway, they're a very distant poor relation to a decent pint of hand pulled ale in the pub. I sometimes get a carry out from my local, they're happy to fill a sterilised milk carton of 4 pints or so for me (just like the Black Bull in Coniston does!).
Also, imho, there is nothing wrong with an ice cold Bud in a cold glass on a hot day. Certainly no worse than any other 'lager' anyway. And you can currently buy 2 X 15 bottle (300ml) cases of it for £16 in Tesco, at 53p a 300ml bottle, it's easily worth it for the quallity on offer.