The Price of beer in Pubs

[derbyowl]

No Golf today, So I called at the local pub for a couple of vessels and to catch up with the folk who live nearby. When I got in the pub there was very few people in the pub except for those eating sunday dinner. and now I know why £2.80 for a pint of Pedigree! now this is not London this is not even derby city center this is a local village pub.

Going to the pub on a sunday used to be my religon I think I will have to save up in future to enjoy such a luxury! Is £2.80 normal?

 

[BrewStew]

that's cheap!!!

if you get the wrong pub in london, expect nearly £5 per pint!

round 'ere in northampton, your nearing (or overshooting dependant on pub) £3 per pint

 

[derbyowl]

that's cheap!!!

if you get the wrong pub in london, expect nearly £5 per pint!

round 'ere in northampton, your nearing (or overshooting dependant on pub) £3 per pint

A fiver!!!! thats it then its weatherspoons, the gof club or home brew for me

 

[prodigal2]

I look at any pint under £3.00 cheap now

Also I am very fussy now where I go for a pint so that:
A) I enjoy what I have paid for
B) the trade goes to a pub that provides me with A
C) If we don't us them we loose them.

I try and find the good boozers and give them my trade, as times are hard, and even the good pubs seem to have to rely on the food to make ends meet, as many pubs on sales(units sold) have gone down by 30% in the last year. And at the end of the day £2.80 ain't bad when you break it all down :thumb:

 

[derbyowl]

I look at any pint under £3.00 cheap now

Also I am very fussy now where I go for a pint so that:
A) I enjoy what I have paid for
B) the trade goes to a pub that provides me with A
C) If we don't us them we loose them.

I try and find the good boozers and give them my trade, as times are hard, and even the good pubs seem to have to rely on the food to make ends meet, as many pubs on sales(units sold) have gone down by 30% in the last year. And at the end of the day £2.80 ain't bad when you break it all down :thumb:

Sorry I have to disagree £2.80 is in my opinion disgusting, I dont mind if there are added benefits ( the dreaded value add in corporate speak ) but this is a local pub no live music no event just a bar and some beer. I dont blame the individual lanadlord but everybody here knows how much it costs to produce great beer in small quantities ( yes i know there is a lot of tax ). There is something fundamentality wrong when you can make beer in a bucket for less than 15% of the price of a pub

 

[A T]

About 4 euro a pint here everywhere and it's all ***** :evil:

 

[Aleman]

I know one Essex Micro that had to raise his prices last year to £1.10 a pint . . . so 2.80 to 5.00 is a bit rich . . . although given the increase in costs and the decrease in custom . . something has to give.

 

[prodigal2]

I know one Essex Micro that had to raise his prices last year to £1.10 a pint . . . so 2.80 to 5.00 is a bit rich . . . although given the increase in costs and the decrease in custom . . something has to give.

The bottom line is that, a pub has all the supplementals that it costs in the UK to run a business. Business rates, lease/rent/mortgage, waste collection, staffing costs, insurances, running and maintenance costs and then you have all the utility costs. once they are dealt with you still need to try and make a profit.
And to a homebrewer or someone who buys in macroswill from the supermarkets, yes it looks expensive. But it is not that simple. If you want to go for a pint go and take your trade where you are getting what you want, and do it less often but enjoy it.

I know it sounds like I'm being a bugger, but in a normal(not a supermarket) offy or localy run shop a bottle of ale is usualy running in excess of £2

 

[falafael]

round here a pint of worthingtons is £2.40, in the next village to me a pint of samuel smiths bittet is £1.80, i rarely go to pubs nowadays, hell i remember getting a half lager and a gold label for £1.11!!, and i thought that was expensive, years ago mind..

I put a lot of this down to the government or split off, all the time we are having things rammed down our throat, smoking, bad for you, they eventually stopped that, salt-bad for you, take out of food without a choice given to us, fat-bad for you, sugar-no dont eat a natural sweetner, instead lets ptu artificial **** in everything instead, beer and wine-now bad for us, lets try and take it out of view, lets close all the pubs, so eventually we'll know that everyone will be in their houses, unable to converse and speak their mind to others, eventually we'll end up like cattle in this country, seem they want us all to be 'healthy' for some reason?

thats my opinion anyways, god i used to love going in the pub, 11am to 11pm a lot at one time, loved the atmosphere, gone are the prices, gone are tap rooms (one round here!!), sit in a pub nowadays and u have to duck ya head cos of food on plates being shuffled around, kids running around, and yes i have a child myself, but i still maintain that no kids after 6pm.
Oh, and don't swear!, you'll get barred, try telling that to a group of blokes thats been sat in the pub since opening 6 hours earlier, its a part of pub life for christs sake...
Pubs are NOT what they were set up to be, i remember years ago,somone coming into our local, asking if it served food, they got a reaction similar to if you want food..feck off to a restaurant, pubs are for drinking!!

Right thats of my chest!!
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Long post for me as well

 

[percival]

I put a lot of this down to the government or split off, all the time we are having things rammed down our throat, smoking, bad for you, they eventually stopped that, salt-bad for you, take out of food without a choice given to us, fat-bad for you, sugar-no dont eat a natural sweetner, instead lets ptu artificial **** in everything instead, beer and wine-now bad for us, lets try and take it out of view, lets close all the pubs, so eventually we'll know that everyone will be in their houses, unable to converse and speak their mind to others, eventually we'll end up like cattle in this country, seem they want us all to be 'healthy' for some reason?

and death is still the biggest killer but all they managed to do with that is delay it! we want a cure!

 

[derbyowl]

round here a pint of worthingtons is £2.40, in the next village to me a pint of samuel smiths bittet is £1.80, i rarely go to pubs nowadays, hell i remember getting a half lager and a gold label for £1.11!!, and i thought that was expensive, years ago mind..

I put a lot of this down to the government or split off, all the time we are having things rammed down our throat, smoking, bad for you, they eventually stopped that, salt-bad for you, take out of food without a choice given to us, fat-bad for you, sugar-no dont eat a natural sweetner, instead lets ptu artificial **** in everything instead, beer and wine-now bad for us, lets try and take it out of view, lets close all the pubs, so eventually we'll know that everyone will be in their houses, unable to converse and speak their mind to others, eventually we'll end up like cattle in this country, seem they want us all to be 'healthy' for some reason?

thats my opinion anyways, god i used to love going in the pub, 11am to 11pm a lot at one time, loved the atmosphere, gone are the prices, gone are tap rooms (one round here!!), sit in a pub nowadays and u have to duck ya head cos of food on plates being shuffled around, kids running around, and yes i have a child myself, but i still maintain that no kids after 6pm.
Oh, and don't swear!, you'll get barred, try telling that to a group of blokes thats been sat in the pub since opening 6 hours earlier, its a part of pub life for christs sake...
Pubs are NOT what they were set up to be, i remember years ago,somone coming into our local, asking if it served food, they got a reaction similar to if you want food..feck off to a restaurant, pubs are for drinking!!

Right thats of my chest!!
:
Long post for me as well

Agree with all of that I hate what they have done to pubs just like making people sit down at football grounds. Laws made by people who never set foot on a Kop or a Tap Room . I wish they would all sod off and go and implement laws on the Rugger and dinner party set

 

[derbyowl]

I know one Essex Micro that had to raise his prices last year to £1.10 a pint . . . so 2.80 to 5.00 is a bit rich . . . although given the increase in costs and the decrease in custom . . something has to give.

The bottom line is that, a pub has all the supplementals that it costs in the UK to run a business. Business rates, lease/rent/mortgage, waste collection, staffing costs, insurances, running and maintenance costs and then you have all the utility costs. once they are dealt with you still need to try and make a profit.
And to a homebrewer or someone who buys in macroswill from the supermarkets, yes it looks expensive. But it is not that simple. If you want to go for a pint go and take your trade where you are getting what you want, and do it less often but enjoy it.

I know it sounds like I'm being a bugger, but in a normal(not a supermarket) offy or localy run shop a bottle of ale is usualy running in excess of £2

But just like the pubs the local off licence is dying a death. £2 for a bottle of ale when it is 4 for £5 in Morrisons why would would you go to the local shop? and although some will go there it will not be enough to keep it open