Cost of beer in pubs

[simon.r]

Inspired by this quote from @postman:

"1967 Double Diamond two shillings a pint.Teytley Mild one shilling three pence,Tetley Bitter one shilling one pence" on this thread: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/another-feeling-old-thread-pre-decimal-currency.221768/

How much was beer when you started drinking in pubs?

Bitter at 52p in the lounge, 51p in the bar for me.

I reckon we could age people fairly accurately from the responses!

 

[Tanis8472]

No idea, I was 15 when I started

 

[cubey]

I remember 10p a pint night at the local nightclub in Wakefield, gave you a right headache next day though.

 

[Tim Hall]

34p for a pint of Younger's IPA.

 

[midlife]

28 pence for lager rings a bell..

 

[ianrauk]

I do remember when the price of a pint went above £1. There was a right old hoo haa.

 

[Tanis8472]

I think it was about 90p.
Its a bit vague though

 

[Beebo]

When I started uni in 1993 the beer was £1 a pint in the union bar.

 

[nickyboy]

70p a pint.

£5 = 7 pints = good night out

I remember my Dad did some plumbing at the Posthouse that was about to open near Lancaster. "£1 a pint.....I can't believe it". That must have been about 1986

 

[Brandane]

How much was beer when you started drinking in pubs?

Bitter at 52p in the lounge, 51p in the bar for me.

I reckon we could age people fairly accurately from the responses!

Yep; you started drinking in pubs around 1978, same as me! If you started at 16 as I did (naughty, naughty; I know) then you were born in '62.
My first pub pint was in the Cathadhmara in Glasgow, 43 pence IIRC.. I was on an induction course at Glasgow Nautical College, August 1978, and was cacking myself in case I got a "knock-back" in front of all my new found workmates. Despite being an acne ridden, young looking 16 year old, all went well.

 

[Apollonius]

I worked in a bar selling Brickwoods at 1/10 a pint. (That is one shilling and tenpence for you youngsters - about 9p in today's money.)

 

[Markymark]

I just about remember when I could get change from £10

 

[simon.r]

Yep; you started drinking in pubs around 1978, same as me! If you started at 16 as I did (naughty, naughty; I know) then you were born in '62.
My first pub pint was in the Cathadhmara in Glasgow, 43 pence IIRC.. I was on an induction course at Glasgow Nautical College, August 1978, and was cacking myself in case I got a "knock-back" in front of all my new found workmates. Despite being an acne ridden, young looking 16 year old, all went well.

1979, at 17. Pretty accurate! Although the theory needs refining to take into account location and working men's clubs.

 

[simon.r]

I just about remember when I could get change from £10

Genuine LOL at that Top tip - avoid anywhere calling itself a "bar and kitchen".

 

[Tim Hall]

I do remember when the price of a pint went above £1. There was a right old hoo haa.

You should have been there in '79.