The pubs

[Milzy]

World is screwed, £7 should get you 4 cans. We are doomed.

 

[Accy cyclist]

£6.30 and £7 is ridiculous. When I go out now we avoid the pubs that charge that, there's no need.

When he said it's £6.30 I thought am I hearing right! It's a nice pub I'm in, probably the 'poshest' one in Great Harwood, not Accrington which is 4 miles away, but even so, such crazy prices!😨

 

[Chislenko]

My local is £4.60, and thats for a craft ale not a pint of fizzy pop!

To all and sundry paying over the odds for beer I can highly recommend a week in Kendal. There are five pubs all trying to outdo each other to be the cheapest.

A couple of independents, a couple of Craft Union pubs and a Spoons (which is more expensive than the previous four mentioned)

Not been this year yet but last year in the Horse and Rainbow my pint and the Mrs half was under four quid.

Yes there are expensive pubs and "trendy bars" but personally I won't pay their prices.

Here in Chester we have some pubs charging £6.50, £7.00 a pint and then we have The Leopard with £2.00 Tuesday. It's no contest where I am going to drink. (When it is not £2.00 Tuesday it is ridiculously expensive at £2.95!)

 

[Accy cyclist]

World is screwed, £7 should get you 4 cans. We are doomed.

Around £8 would buy me 2 bottles of McEwan's Champion and 4 cans of Greene King IPA from Tesco, which would easily do me for a night in. I only go to pubs now about once a month, due to their prices. Yes, I can afford them, but it's still too much when you consider like a bloke I was with who said you could get fish, chips and mushy peas at a local chip shop for less than the price of a pint in this pub! My currency is from my window cleaning days. £5 for 20 minutes up and down ladders in all weathers, sometimes making a fiver an hour in crap weather. Folk chuck tenners and fivers around these days like they've fallen off a tree. When I pull a fiver out I think of how hard it was to earn it!

 

[FrankCrank]

Last trip back there the local Reading 'Spoons had Ruddles and IPA at £1.79.
Most I payed for beers was at the local Irish club, and think that was around £4.50/pint if I recall.

Downed a few bottles of San Miguel here last night in BKK, at around £2 a pint bottle.

I live on a pension now, so have to be picky where I sup

 

[Accy cyclist]

Last trip back there the local Reading 'Spoons had Ruddles and IPA at £1.79.
Most I payed for beers was at the local Irish club, and think that was around £4.50/pint if I recall.

Downed a few bottles of San Miguel here last night in BKK, at around £2 a pint bottle.

I live on a pension now, so have to be picky where I sup

I have to ask! Where or what is BKK? I'm thinking Bangkok, as my phone won't let me see your profile photo, but I think it might be Bangkok.😉 If so how does an Irish club work in Bangkok?! 😉

 

[Accy cyclist]

Last trip back there the local Reading 'Spoons had Ruddles and IPA at £1.79.
Most I payed for beers was at the local Irish club, and think that was around £4.50/pint if I recall.

Downed a few bottles of San Miguel here last night in BKK, at around £2 a pint bottle.

I live on a pension now, so have to be picky where I sup

I've just seen your profile and now know you live in Thailand as I thought you did, remembering your previous posts.😉

 

[Electric_Andy]

I have to ask! Where or what is BKK? I'm thinking Bangkok, as my phone won't let me see your profile photo, but I think it might be Bangkok.😉 If so how does an Irish club work in Bangkok?! 😉

There are Irish pubs wherever you find tourists!

 

[FrankCrank]

Yeah, the Irish Club I was referring to is in Reading, and made a few visits there last trip.
I'm second generation Irish, so usually see some old and new friends there.
In fact, I met a girl there, should say lady really, who was in my year at same school, hadn't seen her in nearly 50 years!

There are, as mentioned above, Irish bars pretty much the world over, and Thailand has it's fair share. As with most of them, they're really just sports bars, with a veneer of Irish rose-tinted nostalgia to them. One of the most obscure ones I went to was in Moscow many years back.

As to the Reading Irish club, there are still a few oldies in there from my parents generation, but very few now. A lot of the Irish diaspora were of course economic migrants of that time, my parents included, as were most of the parents of my school friends.

Here's a picture of my dad, taken I think in the early sixties in Reading area, working on track maintenance

My dad is on the far right, working as 'Lookout' at this time. He's wearing his arm badge, flags under arm, and a whistle is used as warning of a coming train. No other safety gear to be seen. Compare this with today, and all the hi-vis gear they have to wear, no idea how they can work on a hot day with all that clobber on. I'm sure Mr Accy will appreciate this sartorial display

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I've just paid £6.30 for something called Neck Oil, or something like that. I have to say it is the most expensive pint of beer I have ever bought in my life!!🙄

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Served in what looks like a child's glass as well, to add insult to injury!!🧐

Neck Oil? Yes that is a common one here, but only at £2+ cheaper!

Personally, yes, the glass is a little bit silly, but I do like a bit of imagination when it comes to decorating them.

 

[stephec]

Neck Oil is overpriced for what it is, a cricket club near me has it for £6.50 a pint. At one time there might have been the production costs of a small independent brewers excuse, but now that they're owned by Heineken it might just be big corporate greed.

 

[Milzy]

Neck Oil is overpriced for what it is, a cricket club near me has it for £6.50 a pint. At one time there might have been the production costs of a small independent brewers excuse, but now that they're owned by Heineken it might just be big corporate greed.

Yes another sell out. Sure they was Beaverton in Wales in the beginning.
I remember the first Doombar before it turned to horse pee. Also Bluemoon was nice before they sold out. Sure there’s many others.

 

[stephec]

Yes another sell out. Sure they was Beaverton in Wales in the beginning.
I remember the first Doombar before it turned to horse pee. Also Bluemoon was nice before they sold out. Sure there’s many others.

They're in London aren't they, are you thinking of Tiny Rebel?

 

[Milzy]

They're in London aren't they, are you thinking of Tiny Rebel?

Yeah Tinyrebel is the Welsh one & much better than Beaverton products.

 

[T4tomo]

Neck Oil is overpriced for what it is, a cricket club near me has it for £6.50 a pint. At one time there might have been the production costs of a small independent brewers excuse, but now that they're owned by Heineken it might just be big corporate greed.

I always find Neck Oil a bit fizzy, but then so is Heineken.