Pub Prices

asfish · **Joined:** 5th Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 3353

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Seriously though, young people nowadays simply don't drink, and it's a huge problem for pubs.

Even the ones that do don't spend in pubs. The postroom guys at work are all in their 20's and told me they get tanked up at home on supermarket booze before they go out around 10pm. Then they mostly drink water in clubs until the early hours.

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Not as badly, as cooking takes skill and effort (compared to opening a can) but less people are going to restaurants.

For us its almost 2 ends of the spectrum for eating out these days.

If its the wife and I then I will be very choosy as I cook at home and I know the prices of meat and fish, I have to really push myself to go out as I can do as well as most places locally myself for a lot less money.

I get that there is a huge different cooking for 2 and running a restaurant though.

With my son its more about what he will eat and the best chain place we can find, so usually its Wagamama as that's quite good and the food is fresh in most dishes. Sometime we do Pizza Express as that ends up costing next to nothing with a few Tesco Vouchers @4-1 face value.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

asfish wrote:

most of his peers don't get pissed as they fear making fools of themselves on social media.

Bloody hell.

Jem · **Posted:** Tue Jul 26, 2016 16:32

Cras wrote:

asfish wrote:

most of his peers don't get pissed as they fear making fools of themselves on social media.

Bloody hell.

That's the best part of a good night :DD

I don't drink pints but a vodka (or vodka and lemonade if I'm feeling wussy) will be anything from £2 to £8 locally. Decent cocktails circa £6 - £8 but lots do happy hour where it's two for one (and then I just order the whole menu).

As a young(ish) person I do like going to pub/socialising but probably drink way more at home just because I don't have to find a babysitter to do that!

Anonymous X · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2046

Hearthly wrote:

Who really goes to the pub regularly these days?

When I was growing up pubs were places you went to because they were better than home. There was one telly in the house that you couldn't choose what to watch on 'cause your dad had it all booked out, and there was fuck all else to do, so of course you were down the pub with your mates all the time once you could get served. (Yes you might have had a computer on a portable telly in your room or something, but there was no internet or shit like that.)

Pubs had alcohol, and pool and darts, and pinballs and video games and fruit machines and fanny - it was the obvious choice, and because loads of people liked going to the pub, they were lively places to go to.

Fast forward to today and thinking around my friends who have offspring of 'pub-going age' hardly any of them bother, and why would they? Pubs are shit, the drinks cost a fortune, and there are far more forms of entertainment at home. Why pay £1 for a game of pool on a knackered table with shit cues when you've got Battlefield 4 at home and can Snapchat pics of genitals back and forth with your girlfriend?

And amongst my peers the number of times we go to the pub per year probably doesn't even get into double figures, we'll do a session once in a while as a sort of social occasion, but the old concept of 'going out to the pub' as a standard leisure pastime is just totally gone.

The prices don't help of course, a decent lager will set you back north of £4 per pint, bitter probably about £3, and if you move onto spirits things can get very expensive, very quickly.

I don't think the pub will die out completely, but the current trend of their numbers substantially declining still has some way to run IMO.

I can relate to a lot of that, despite not being in my early 20s, or quite as old as some as you lot.

When I was A-levels age, I rarely went to pubs, as I couldn't see the point and din't enjoy it. Spending money to spend time in a dark, loud place filled with carcinogenic fumes and aggressive randoms… No thanks. My main friends could afford to go regularly, as unlike me they didn't enter further education and had jobs or were on the dole but living with parents, but I couldn't spend income that I didn't have. (I wanted to save what money I had for going to university as well.) And to be honest, I didn't like how my friends acted in pubs, they were the violent sort so that wasn't an issue, but went all introverted and quiet and miserable whenever they consumed alcohol in the pubs. At home, in a well-lit atmosphere where we could hear each other, and perhaps play a few games, it was OK. Even quite good fun. But not in pubs.

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Aug 01, 2016 11:19

Wasn't there a stat banded about a few years ago that said pubs were closing at the rate of 2 a day or something like that?

Surely they should all be shut by now?

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Aug 01, 2016 11:23

No, a few are being opened. Weatherspoons open a few a month

asfish · **Joined:** 5th Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 3353

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No, a few are being opened. Weatherspoons open a few a month

They tend to open town centre places at lot still, so I guess with the size of the company and the fact they are know for cheap booze they still work out.

The pub down the bottom of the road has been closed for 18 months now, the 3 years before that it has a couple of "under new management" signs on it when new people took it on. At the same time there was always a huge sign telling you who to call if you wanted a go a leasing the place, like they knew it was doomed to fail!

nickachu · **Posted:** Mon Aug 01, 2016 15:52

A beer here is anywhere between 6 and 10quid. A session at the pub can get very expensive.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38457

To be fair, fermented herring juice is very difficult to make.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

Wetherspoons have our are trying to sell in the region of 80 pubs in the past year. 50 in the past 3 months or so.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Aug 11, 2016 13:02

£3 a pint is an "unaffordable luxury".

It was £4 a pint in Leeds on Tuesday for a pint of localish 5.5% pale ale

asfish · **Joined:** 5th Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 3353

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A pint in a local is becoming an unaffordable luxury, driving people away from the safe and social environment of the pub

Not sure that would describe very many pubs that I've drunk in!

The Great Tyrant · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2016 10:35

I'm always in a pub, whether with mates of by myself. It's just social. I get to know the staff, regulars, and usually mates will turn up at some point without the need for organising an event or whatnot. But maybe I'm just strange like that.

London pub prices are fucking stupid, but you need to also read the environment. There's a proper pub near me that does local ciders for £2-3 a half (at 7%, sometimes a half is just fine) and nearly always has a dog in the beer garden, but there's also a hipster pub in Shoreditch that will charge you £17 for a vodka and Diet Coke whilst some DJ prat tries to awkwardly mix a bunch of jazz vinyls together.

GazChap · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2016 10:38

The Great Tyrant wrote:

but there's also a hipster pub in Shoreditch

Just one?

The Great Tyrant · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2016 10:44

GazChap wrote:

The Great Tyrant wrote:

but there's also a hipster pub in Shoreditch

Just one?

One of several

There's also a few good boozers in Shoreditch I don't mind going to on the reg. I even got told to move out of the way by Danny Dyer in one.

GazChap · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2016 10:52

Did he call you a FACKING CAHNT while doing so?

asfish · **Joined:** 5th Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 3353

Just got home from a session in the same place that started this post

No difference in beer prices....... but the first pub we always start in had Red Stripe on tap, which is according to the bar person is a relaunch.

It was so good that for the first time in 5 years we stayed in the one pub and did the 6 pints before food standard allowance.

Now for 5 hours sleep before child comes looking for me

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10074

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

A premium pint like Peroni in a fairly posh pub is about £4.20 round here, and a quid less for a Stella in somewhere unremarkable. If we want cheap, we can go to the Wetherspoons.

Spoons was knocking delicious Devils Backbone out at 1.99 a pint on Tuesday, getting rid of draught in favour of bottles.

So the enormous losses due to Wells and Young being unable to brew it properly (easily 20% loss on super-carbonation) are now at my expense not theirs. Boo!

Grim... · **Posted:** Sat Mar 11, 2017 4:13

So... Are we doing prices? Tonight in London it was £4.50 for a pint of Carlsberg.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sat Mar 11, 2017 8:47

Grim... wrote:

So... Are we doing prices? Tonight in London it was £4.50 for a pint of Carlsberg.

The Moretti was £5

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

TIL: Glasgow and London pub prices are about the same.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

One of our locals does three double vodkas and a can of Pepsi for £9. (Admittedly it's a house vodka that's actually called 'Moonshine', but even so.)

And yet, at a poncey place in Douglas last week I paid £10.60 for two double vodkas and a Coke.

In proper normal boozers bitter is generally around the £3 mark (the local brew, Okells, is really nice), lager around £4.

You pay more in poncey places but I generally avoid those like the fucking plague. (I was only in one last week because it was someone's leaving do.)

We have no Wetherspoons over here but they do seem to be cheap when I'm over in the UK.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10074

Grim... wrote:

So... Are we doing prices? Tonight in London it was £4.50 for a pint of Carlsberg.

I was more lamenting the loss of draught devil's backbone.

But also, it's about 3 quid a pint at The Little Ale House, Bromsgrove's fun little Micropub. I like it in there.

asfish · **Joined:** 5th Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 3353

The red stripe last night was the thick end of £5 a pint.

Remember getting a £5 note and less than £1 in change from £20 when buying 3 pints.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Mar 11, 2017 11:07

Brooklyn Lager* is £4.50 a pint in Leeds, £4 strong cask bitter, £3.60 session ale.

Saltaire is £2.75 session ale to £3.40 strong ale in Ossett Brewery pub, £3 to £3.70 depending on strength in micropub.

* I am trying to pavlovian condition myself to associate the taste of this with Victory in Netrunner. Consequently, I seldom drink it

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Curiosity wrote:

Grim... wrote:

So... Are we doing prices? Tonight in London it was £4.50 for a pint of Carlsberg.

The Moretti was £5

Is that what it was? The whole night I was ordering "the beer that's not carlsberg"

I hope that cunthole burned to the fucking ground.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Sat Mar 11, 2017 11:49

Mr Dave paid 70p for a round in Leicester.

myp · **Posted:** Sat Mar 11, 2017 12:08

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

Mr Dave paid 70p for a round in Leicester.

He also ordered golden ale though. His favourite

Cavey · **Posted:** Sat Mar 11, 2017 12:10

ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:

Basically, pubs used to be like vaginas. Now they're not.

Hidden gems also lurk in old, unread posts it would appear! Classic...

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sat Mar 11, 2017 15:47

£3:10 a pint in my local.

myp · **Posted:** Sat Mar 11, 2017 16:08

I usually spend £30+ on 8 bottles and cans in my local bottle shop.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Bloody hell - almost £4 each shop prices?!

myp · **Posted:** Sat Mar 11, 2017 16:30

Cras wrote:

Bloody hell - almost £4 each shop prices?!

On average yeah. Most are £3-4 and the top of the range ones are £6-7 for 500ml cans, depending on the strength. Some beers are 10+% and they are more expensive.

I haven't tried any of the 750ml bottles yet because they're mostly £15-20 and if I don't like one it's a lot to tip down the drain (not that I've ever hated anything enough to do this, they know my tastes pretty well).

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5146

£5.50 a pint at Twickenham today which is ridiculous but simultaneously not as bad as I expected.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

One of the less salubrious local hostelries has this sign outside. It's not a bad boozer really but does perhaps cater for the 'less poncey' end of the market, which is reflected in the prices.

They famously got rid of their pool table because people kept twatting each other with the cues. Initially they tried to remedy this by putting the cues behind the bar and demanding a £5 deposit for their release. However, one evening a chap calmly went up to the bar, asked for the cues, paid his £5 deposit, and then proceeded to twat someone with one of them, apparently happy to forfeit his fiver in return for ready access to an offensive weapon.

£2.60 for a pint of Okells ain't bad though.

We'll usually have one or two in there on a night out. The place has been rebranded, relaunched, renamed, redecorated etc more times than I can remember since 1994 when I first went in there, but ultimately it always seems to attract the same sort of folks back to enjoy its hospitality.

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myp · **Posted:** Sat Mar 18, 2017 18:54

I spent £23 on four beers yesterday. Whoops.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Mar 18, 2017 19:10

Lonewolves wrote:

I spent £23 on four beers yesterday. Whoops.

Review, please. Also, in a pub?

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Sat Mar 18, 2017 21:27

MaliA wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

I spent £23 on four beers yesterday. Whoops.

Review, please. Also, in a pub?

They were hipster.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Sat Mar 18, 2017 22:16

Lonewolves wrote:

I spent £23 on four beers yesterday. Whoops.

£5 a cocktail in Nottingham tonight.

myp · **Posted:** Sat Mar 18, 2017 23:33

MaliA wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

I spent £23 on four beers yesterday. Whoops.

Review, please. Also, in a pub?

Mikkeller Hallo Ich Bin Eine Berliner Weisse raspberry (1 pint can, Belgium 3.7%) - new version of this awesome Berliner Weisse previously available in cherry and peach flavours. 8/10

Omnipollo Magic #3.5 pineapple gose (330ml bottle, Sweden 3.5%) - bit disappointingly thin. Nicely tart but not enough pineapple. 5.5/10

Mike Hess Grazias cream ale (1 pint can, USA 6.3%) - this uses dark malts with chocolate and vanilla flavours, but with lager hops so it's definitely a unique flavour. 7/10

Mikkeller Beer Geek Cocoa Shake imperial stout (330ml bottle, Belgium 12.1%) - I'm a sucker for an imperial stout but this is better than most. So much coffee and chocolate and really boozy. I love it. 8.5/10

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sun Mar 19, 2017 0:42

Lonewolves wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

I spent £23 on four beers yesterday. Whoops.

Review, please. Also, in a pub?

Mikkeller Hallo Ich Bin Eine Berliner Weisse raspberry (1 pint can, Belgium 3.7%) - new version of this awesome Berliner Weisse previously available in cherry and peach flavours. 8/10

Omnipollo Magic #3.5 pineapple gose (330ml bottle, Sweden 3.5%) - bit disappointingly thin. Nicely tart but not enough pineapple. 5.5/10

Mike Hess Grazias cream ale (1 pint can, USA 6.3%) - this uses dark malts with chocolate and vanilla flavours, but with lager hops so it's definitely a unique flavour. 7/10

Mikkeller Beer Geek Cocoa Shake imperial stout (330ml bottle, Belgium 12.1%) - I'm a sucker for an imperial stout but this is better than most. So much coffee and chocolate and really boozy. I love it. 8.5/10

Price breakdown plz

myp · **Posted:** Sun Mar 19, 2017 1:21

Curiosity wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

I spent £23 on four beers yesterday. Whoops.

Review, please. Also, in a pub?

Mikkeller Hallo Ich Bin Eine Berliner Weisse raspberry (1 pint can, Belgium 3.7%) - new version of this awesome Berliner Weisse previously available in cherry and peach flavours. 8/10

Omnipollo Magic #3.5 pineapple gose (330ml bottle, Sweden 3.5%) - bit disappointingly thin. Nicely tart but not enough pineapple. 5.5/10

Mike Hess Grazias cream ale (1 pint can, USA 6.3%) - this uses dark malts with chocolate and vanilla flavours, but with lager hops so it's definitely a unique flavour. 7/10

Mikkeller Beer Geek Cocoa Shake imperial stout (330ml bottle, Belgium 12.1%) - I'm a sucker for an imperial stout but this is better than most. So much coffee and chocolate and really boozy. I love it. 8.5/10

Price breakdown plz

I can't remember. The Cocoa Shake was £9 I think.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Sun Mar 19, 2017 11:58

Fucking hell, Myp. That's a lot to spend on a few tinnies!

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6506

Hearthly wrote:

They famously got rid of their pool table because people kept twatting each other with the cues. Initially they tried to remedy this by putting the cues behind the bar and demanding a £5 deposit for their release. However, one evening a chap calmly went up to the bar, asked for the cues, paid his £5 deposit, and then proceeded to twat someone with one of them, apparently happy to forfeit his fiver in return for ready access to an offensive weapon.

They clearly missed a money making opportunity here - they should rent out offensive weapons. Keep a bunch of baseball bats and mattock handles behind the bar and give them out for a tenner a pop.

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