Be Excellent To Each Other

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Mr Dave paid 70p for a round in Leicester.

He also ordered golden ale though. His favourite

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£3:10 a pint in my local.

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

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).

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

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.

I spent £23 on four beers yesterday. Whoops.

Review, please. Also, in a pub?

They were hipster.

£5 a cocktail in Nottingham tonight.

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.

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

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.