How much was your first pint?

[ChrisKH]

1975. Pint of bitter from a little pub on Mersea Island. Can't remember the price but it was less than a Pound.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Local pubs 15p. Student Union bar 14p.

 

[sarahpink]

a pint well dont think i have ever bought a pint lol maybe a glass of wine £2

 

[Gerry Attrick]

Always a first time lass, I'll have a pint of Tom Woods' bitter....ta.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Oooo nice one, Hook Norton 'Old Hooky' for me if you're buying. And a packet of peanuts. And a quadruple single malt. Make it two pints, save going up again.

 

[Davidc]

Like postman I started drinking in 1967 - aged 15 .... (and at 5' 10", slim but well muscled I had no problems passing as 18!)

a pint of courage best was 1/2 in the public bar (thats 1 shilling and 2 pence for those too young to have met the notation) or about 6p in decimal money.

 

[dan_bo]

52p, Holts', The Blue Bell, Moston, Manchester.

Still sup in there from time to time now. 1.96 for the same stuff the cheeky bastards.

 

[andrew-the-tortoise]

Mid/late eighties; bitter 65p, lager 78p. Was expensive at the time I thought - since I only got a fiver a week paper round money ..!

 

[661-Pete]

1/9d I think. And if my memory serves, it was a pint of DD in the Bear at Oxford. Having been urged on by my fellow students. It was loathsome. But I have imbibed more palatable brews since my salad days...

 

[BrumJim]

Can't remember the price of the first pint, but at the Uni Halls of Residence bar, it was 73p, but an extra 6p for the glass, unless you brought your own.

 

[vernon]

1/11d for a pint of Ansell's Mild. I reckon that's about 9p in today's money.

I went into mourning when Ansell's brewery closed down and I have never lived in the catchment area. I suspect that it will have been 20p plus per pint my discovery of it when visiting pals at Aston University, usually in the Sack of Potatoes, was well after shellling out 17p for a pint of Exhibition in the George in Darlington.

 

[Aperitif]

This sounds like a good thread. I haven't read it all yet but I remember the price of beer when I was plucked from the School Cricket pitches after playing a morning game and transported by car by a School 'Old Boy' (my Dad had a bike.) to the Old Boys's Cricket Ground. I played for the second eleven, got loads of wickets including one with my first ball, and that was the very top of the slippery slope of sport!
IPA was One shilling and tenpence - 1/10d. 91/2p about.
Jugs were white enamel and, playing darts, it was winner stays on - loser buys the beer. At age 14, I was bloody good at darts. No money then, apart from ten bob my Dad used to give me. I used to translate that ten bob into comics - but I soon converted to 'beer gauge' division. (Light and bitter was more expensive - just, but was a better deal as it increased one's 'intake' by 40%).
Ah - the good old days!

 

[Slowgrind]

I'd be wrecked with 17/6d from my paper round at our local cricket club!

 

[Bromptonaut]

Started drinking at 18 (got age checked 'til mid 20s) circa 1978/9 when living in Scunny. A pint in the lounge bar of the King Henry was about 35p but paid 29p in a lino & pvc public bar out on the A18.

Fofty pence plus after moving to london was an outrage!!

 

[ColinJ]

I used to go out with £2, get thoroughly, er, drunk on that, buy a bag of chips after the pub, get the last bus home and still have some change. (Mid-70s)