How much was your first pint?

[Duxuk]

I can only imagine this has been discussed many times before (?) but what did you pay for your first pint? I have the kind of mind which retains such trivia so I can tell you that in 1978 we used to pay 38p for a pint of Tetley bitter or similar. When I went to university in 1980 it was more like 48p in the student's union but due to a government plot it leapt to 60p in one budget. Did any of us buy our first in shillings and pence?:lol:

 

[Duxuk]

Just realised. I can still brew a pint of decent AG for 38p. Result!

 

[Ciaran12s]

2 quid. Circa 2003/4

 

[britton]

£1 a pint wasn’t uncommon in 1997. Paid over £5 in London the other day!

 

[marshbrewer]

Can't remember my exact first pint, but around '87, Batemans XXXB was 88p a pint in the Malt Shovel. It was proper fighting juice in them days, 5.7%!

 

[Saisonator]

I think in 1987 it was Holstein Export for a bit less than £1, cigarettes were a similar price.

 

[Poochops]

1987 Webster Yorkshire bitter 84p a pint and it was lovely stuff.

 

[MmmBeer]

Probably in about 1985, I would have paid about 90p for a pint of Hoffmeister.

I was young, I needed the money.

 

[Linalmeemow]

I think it was about £1.50 or so a pint when I first started drinking, though I remember clearly it being £1.05 for a pint of lager in the student union when I first arrived at uni. It was rubbish beer though, 3.5% Heineken.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

My first pint was Double Diamond but I cannot remember how much it was (10 **** were 26 pense couldn't afford 20) which was bought by my grandad in a pub that closed many years ago, it was in the early seventies

 

[Leon103]

Only became legal in the later 90s. I remember it was £1.05 a pint in the rugby club for years. It slowly creeped up 5p a year and people weren't hapoy. £1 a pint in uni was decent.

 

[robbym123]

It was charrington IPA at 93p a pint, 1987, I was 14 at the time........

 

[chesters-mild]

It was about 2 shillings a pint for bitter when I started, mild was about 1 shilling and 11 pence, wept bitter tears a few years later when the bitter in our local rose to half a crown a pint.
Cheers

 

[BarnBrian]

1 Shilling and 8 pence!!!!!! Now I really do feel old.

 

[Gunge]

Dunno. But a fiver would get you leathered at the local W.M.C. and buy fish 'n' chips on the way home. I went past the other day and the chalkboard outside said Stones £1.80 a pint...

 

[foxbat]

75p for a pint of Younger's Scotch Bitter or 80p for a pint of the far superior No.3. A pint & a packet of crips and change from a quid. Happy days.

 

[foxbat]

Dunno. But a fiver would get you leathered at the local W.M.C. and buy fish 'n' chips on the way home. I went past the other day and the chalkboard outside said Stones �£1.80 a pint...

Didn't know you could still get Stones. I loved the flavour of that bitter even though I could only get it on keg. Must. Find. Recipe.

 

[Thumper]

Can't remember exactly, but the first pint I bought in a pub was around the £3 mark.This was 2007 in Berkshire. It's now generally up around £3.80 - £4 in the same area.

 

[terrym]

First beer I had in a pub as far as I can remember was 9d for a half of bitter so that's 1/6d or 7.5 'new pence' a pint. Mild would have been even cheaper.
At the end of the 60s beer in the Midlands and the North was was rarely above two bob (10p) a pint, well at least in the many pubs I visited.

 

[chub1]

Back in 1966/7 i am guessing that my first pint cost me less than 2/-,yup two bob:lol: