Cost of beer in pubs

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!s 10d a pint of 'cooking' (Courage) is my first memory of beer prices at my School Old Boys Club, circa 1969 - 70
£7 a crafty pint in London, and recently, at The Old Coffee House, a Brodies 'Breakfast' ale was on offer at nine quid. Rich treacle.:rolleyes:
 

Dirk

If 6 Was 9
Location
Watchet
Just out of curiosity how much is a pint in a pub at the moment?
It varies.
Around here you can get a pint of Greene King IPA, in Barrnstaple Wetherspoons, for £1.99. A pint of Doom Bar there is £2.95.
A pint of Doom Bar at the Manor, in Croyde, is over £4.00 - mainly due to the influx of surfers from London who think that's cheap.
 

albal

Legendary Member
Location
Dorset
Frequently visited a dozen or more spoons pubs on my recent tour around Britain. Swansea cheapest £1.29. Brighton highest price at £5. Ullapool was in excess of £4.50. A real ales.
 

screenman

Squire
Wow!!! How long was that over? Are you sure it was 15p a week and not 15p a day? If it was per week, after 40 years the return is approximately 30 times your investment (3000%), and the shorter the term, the return is even better.

40 years we have a couple more like that, good old LV.
 

Hyslop

Veteran
Location
Carlisle
Carlisle....£2.76 for Yates Best £3.06 for a guest.Thats with a CAMRA card.In the linked bar.The Fat Gadgie, £3.24 for standard, anything between £4.05 and £6.00 for the big boys beers.
 
Location
London
Well i was pubbing at 14..38p for a pint of Mans bitter..1979..80 ish
Tho you could pay a little more for Ben Trumans..
now:laugh:
Can't remember to be honest. I do well remember though being charged £3.50 for a pint in a london pub 20 years ago.

Trumans - drank a lot of it as a student - terrible bland stuff as i recall - amazed that some supposedly trendy east london outfit revived the brand. And their versions aren't dramatically better.

Spoons in Deal is less than £2: was amazed as it's in the south. Best to sit outside though - an echo box inside. Spoons colne £1.89 as i recall and often excellent strong beers.
 
Location
London
Boddington's was 71p in the vault, and 73p in the lounge.

Then a Joseph Holt's pub opened about 200 yards from our house, a month before my 18th birthday, I was the first one to be served in there at 51p a pint, happy days. :smile:
Ah yes, i well remember doing a double take in a manchester pub when buying a round in one of their places :smile:
 

Electric_Andy

Heavy Metal Fan
Location
Plymouth
My first pint in a pub was in 1997, I used to drink John Smith's and I think it was £1.50 a pint. Stella was around £2.20 and was seen as an extravagance.
 
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User482

Guest
Bowland brewery in the neighbouring "affluent" borough of Ribble Valley has a pub/bar on its premises. You'd think it'd be cheaper a pint as there are no transportation costs etc. No,it's a staggering 4 quid a pint!:ohmy:
It's priced to keep the riff-raff out.
 

BoldonLad

Not part of the Elite
Location
South Tyneside
A pint for 10d (that is less than 5p to you children).

That would be 1963 (when I was technically "underage").

If we look at this in terms of earnings, at that time, I earned the equivalent of 25 pints per week, delivering newspapers, 7 mornings and 6 evenings, per week.
 
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