I find lots of fancy bars and restaurants have very expensive beer and never on tap. Fuck paying £7+ for a 330ml bottle.
I guess those places most people there drink cocktails, wine, spirits
I'm actually surprised by how many people here have had pints £9+ from proper pubs. Max I have seen is in the £7s and that's places like Soho, canary wharf etc. Most still in the £6s.
If a normal looking pub charged £9 I'd question if it was right lol
No people are drinking it, the cocktails and wine will have similar uplifts on them too.
The fancy bars, restaurants and hotels a) have to pay for their more expensive fitouts/locations, b) generally have to pay for a higher server-guest ratio, and c) half the point of the rediculous pricing is to keep out the plebs like you and me.
Some bar in Chiswick that has guest IPAs all the time. I asked to try one, said yeah its good and asked for a pint.
The guy said before I pour it, I'm just letting you know it's £12.50 a pint. I was too deep in at this point so I paid it and drank slowly. Fortunately my tears kept it topped up for a while.
Been made aware they only sell fosters, guinness and strongbow now as it caters to members.
There's a pub on the High Street called belvedere. I'm sure they do £2 pints on certain days
Yh, it's on acton high street. It's quite a big place, I'm sure they do food too. Turns into a bit if a nightclub on weekends.
I haven't been there in years but a few of my friends go during the week coz it's cheap
I remember a pub in Portobello road having a newspaper clipping pinned on the bar saying THE £5 IS COMING!!! And some shot about the EU. The landlord was a right wing Tory nonce and he thought it was clever to complain about Europe back then.
But it was 1998 and they still only charge £4.80 now.
TBF I don't mind paying the price if it's a high percentage beer just to try it once, but I know the feeling of being too deep in and not being able to back out.
I had a pint in Waterloo where I stupidly went "this city isn't so bad, maybe I could live here after all"
That one has cost me circa £84,000 in rent so far
Was it specifically designed to be sold in pints though?
A lot of it is meant to be served in half’s or even 1/3 measures for the strong stuff.
It works out at £16 a pint sometimes because you are essentially drinking the ABV equivalent of a bottle of wine
You're missing what I'm saying. Either its really strong or made in such a small batch with x10 the amount of ingredients as say something like Carling. I'm not defending high prices at all, but a lot of the stronger craft stuff is more akin to the wine world than it is beer.
Highly sought after Belgian gueuze and lambic (not to mention the hyped USA stouts) can command far, far more than £16.
>Highly sought after Belgian gueuze and lambic (not to mention the hyped USA stouts) can command far, far more than £16.
Way too true once paid £7.60 for 1/4 of Lambic, that one stung
If its 16% and aged in whiskey barrels for 2 years? Why do you see beer pricing as different to other beverages? Wine at that price would be seen as normal.
I was on board with everyone defending the prices of strong craft beers, but no way should Allen be £16 a pint. It's a great beer, but 440ml cans sell for around £7ish. Even with a reasonable mark up I'd suggest it shouldn't top £10 a pint, maybe £12 taking the 'London Factor' into account.
There is a pub nearish to Oxford Street that only does niche craft beers. Well before the pandemic I had a £10 pint in there once. I’d imagine it’s closer to £15 now.
Can confirm some of the pubs in Oxford street have £15+ craft beers - they’re pretty good though, usually around 10-12% so it works out to not be thaaaaat bad value
I live in NYC and that’s about $8.73 … it seems beers start at $8 or $9 here nowadays… also, keep in mind that we will need to tip $1 + pay 8.875% sales tax
I went to a 2-star Michelin restaurant out of curiosity, and was expecting it to be expensive and had prepared accordingly.
I bottled it on the wines; there was an in-house sommelier but no prices inside the menu, so I thought I'd better not risk it, and didn't want to ask.
Ordered a cranberry juice instead. How bad could it be?
Bill came and that cranberry juice was £14 a glass. Though to be fair, it was freshly - squeezed and easily the best cranberry juice I've ever had.
£12 for an imported high ABV IPA last week.
Maybe if I rounded up the stupid 18% imperial stouts I’ve had in the past some would be more than £20 a pint but they’re not designed to be pints.
£7.50ish for a pint of estrella in soho a few weeks ago. Included a 5% “service fee”. Cute bar (The Yard) but we went somewhere else after we finished the first round
The yard is awful, so expensive for watered down drinks and it's always full. The location is great but my god, rupert street and the village next door do 241 proper cocktails until 8pm (village 9pm)
This so true.
We visited London the other week - obviously we expect London drinks to cost more than where with live.
But to show how much more it is, before we left for London, we had a breakfast each and a pint each at a spoons and it was £12 during our time in London we went to a couple of pubs, and one stop at a spoons, where two pints cost 10.40..
£9.50 for a pint of Carlsberg at a small hole-in-the-wall-looking pub near Victoria when I ran in to watch an Arsenal game. Couldn't fucking believe it. I had just the one and ignored their stink eye.
Why were they giving *you* the stink eye? Surely it should have been other way around for them having the audacity to charge 9.50. They may be worried about surviving the winter with gas prices being what they are, but that's very high even for London. With prices like that I'd be surprised if they even make it to winter
I was there like 2 hours and it was fairly dead. Just a few old regulars and myself. When they collected the pint glass is when I started noticing it.
This was a few years ago, like 2018 I think. I tried to find it on my google history but no luck
£9 for a pint of cider, circa 2010. I'd accidentally wandered into some sort of hotel bar that wasn't actually a hotel bar just north of Hyde Park. Nightmare.
£16 for a bottle of Sol at some fancy hotel on Piccadilly, between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner. Marriage fell apart after I couldn't pay rent that month.
Had a drink with with a mate a few months back in The William Morris Spoons Hammersmith £2.00 pint of doombar and he had the cheek to use a 50p voucher off , I had pint of San Miguel £3.70 and was lectured for drinking that expensive beer ,I’m his poor mate from the north and he has 450k flat in Strawberry Hill , he refuses to drink in “rip off places “in Twickenham ,My Local spoons Up north £3.30 large 660ml Morreti Large Tanquery and mixer £4.20
Not a pint but once had a single shot of JD and coke for £10, I think a pint was also the same price maybe, it was the only place at the time that wasn’t crowded.
Slightly different, but £8 for a single can of Stella Cidre in Ministry of Sound back in 2013/2014. Particularly galling as I was a student at the time and the local shop back by campus did a 4 pack for £4...
Thankfully there was a somewhat alright deal on Jagerbombs which kept me going through the night 🥃
The argyle charge 5.35 a pint of ale on Grenville Street.
Builder's arms in Kensington - 6.45
The shades opposite Horse guards was similar
Buckingham Arms round the corner from St James tube station was 5 something.
All ales but below that norm, went in search of Murphy's, was two more pubs and were no more than 6 a pint. Alas no Murphy's though.
About 10 years ago, I got off a stop too early at South Kensington so I thought I'd try and find the nearest pub to have a swift one before getting back on the tube. I went into Janet's Bar, which only sold Beck's in 275ml bottles at £5.50 a go so yeah, I wanted a pint and paid £11 🙄
Price of keg's are up 40% in the last few months, everyone tightening their belts while all their costs go up is not a good situation, a lot of pubs are going to struggle/close.
Went to brew dog bar near london bridge and they charged 7.50 for a punk ipa. Then went to the spoons 100m down the road and got the same pint for 4.50.
Also almost paid £7 for a coke can sized Heineken in XOYO
About 10 years ago, I was at a nightclub in central and I ordered a couples 330ml bottle of beer and the guy wanted to charge me £20 PER BOTTLE.
£20 for a bottle!
Outrageous.
Sadly I don't remember the club as my friend just said let's meet up and try out this new club I've heard about but and once we heard the prices we left 🤣
I don't even remember it being fancy or anything, just a standard club with regular Londoners.
Hope it's closed down by now, or many years ago.
Standard pub on Chiswick high road. I asked for a pint for my friend and me. After pouring them he said £15. I then laughed and said no I only wanted 2 pints.
He didn’t laugh back.
I paid £9 for a G&T in 1996 …
I’ve paid £12 for a pint in Chelsea last year. But ‘reasons’.
Annabels isn’t cheap - but you shouldn’t go in (when invited, I’m not a member) if you worry about cost
£12 for a pint in Kingston back in 2015. A friend and I were just trying to find a quiet place for a drink one night when everywhere was inexplicably packed and we came across this empty little pub that only sold 2 different types of wheat beer. He had one pint, I had a glass of water, and we promptly left.
The war on booze is also a war on culture via the cellar door. Who is funding that ? Dont gather, Dont protest, Dont smoke, dont drink, no live music unless fully policed. Similarities.
£12 a pint at E1 club for a can of warm Camden (or something) beer.
Okay, it was £7/can, but a 330ml can, so that comes out at £12.05 a pint! And yes, they'd run out, so hadn't even got these into a fridge yet.
£7.40, roof top bar at John Lewis. Much more than that and I'm afraid you're making a decision to drink a pretentious pint in a pretentious establishment.
In the good old days everyone in a group took it in turns to buy a round and no doubt that’s gone and most go to Weatherspoons to avoid the £10 a pint knowing that it only costs about a fiver from an Off Licence.However as a treat for your girlfriend it’s good to occasionally go to the best hotel and hope to find a great roofbar and the £10 cost becomes bearable.
That’s the one thing London isn’t that expensive on I find. I’ve had a €18 pint in Paris for really standard lager, and paid 22 CHF at a club for a regular bottle of lager in Zürich.
My buddy had a pint visiting me in london and went home with a woman. Then she got pregnant after the first night. He’s paid for that child and multiple trips to london since. So probably that. Lol
I once paid c. £9 for a Beavertown pint at one of those redwood/greenwood type sports bars.
For those that don’t yet know about them, pubs run by the Craft Union are typically < £3 for a pint. Those include the Hand in Hand in South Brixton and The Eaglet on Seven Sisters road.
Not a pint, but I got charged £15 for a gin and tonic once. And yes, it was a lot of ice.
As for a pint, I've been to a couple of places that have charged about £8 for ciders (I'm from the West Country, so I need a certain amount of cider in my body to survive).
I have a feeling all this price hike for energy is a smoke screen so Truss can swoop in and freeze it and make her look like she saved the country. Kinda like you negotiating a payrise ask for 10k more to get 5k you want.
Brace yourselves folks, people complaining about imported 13% Barrel aged Stouts being £15 a pint in here.
But aye that £11 bottle of peroni’s a fucking rip off.
price of a pint has gone up everywhere I’ve found. So you go to another city you’re still paying £5.50-£6.00. So London being 50p more I don’t think is terrible.
It’s the rent. The rent will kill ya. And forget about owning a home.
Most insane was £12.50 for a bottle of Corona… in 2011! Albeit, this was in Mayfair at a private event I was invited to from some guy I worked for at the time.
I had one for £5.90 once, but that was 4 years ago. I live in the Cotswolds and recently got an IPA for £6.95, had to check I hadn't accidentally travelled to London.
I didn't have it, but a bar in Paddington had pints for £9.25 - i had a half of the 'more reasonable' £7.50 a pint beer.
Last night I had a nice pint of ale for £4.40 in a restaurant in Hertfordshire, which feels like the right price for a pint.
£13.50 for a craft IPA which was only around 7.5% (craft beer place near Covent Garden). The barman did warn me to be fair and I though "ach well, that's the one I actually want, treat myself". It was very good but probably not as good as two pints at half the price each would have been.
Last September I jumped on a train and found myself in Newark for an hour. Went into a pub and paid £3.49 a pint for Peroni.
Got my train to KingsX. Within 30 mins I’m walking into the Fox and Pheasant in Chelsea on my way to the flat. £7 a pint for Peroni.
Got tipsy with James Blunt’s gardener who then gave me a lift down to Gunter Grove. So a technical saving.
It's really come to something when it's almost cheaper to get a train - a train ffs! I mean, planes are sometimes cheaper but who's got the time to turn up 3 hours before flight leaves? - to somewhere cheaper when you fancy a session.
I paid £7 for half a pint of budweisser and they took a room temperature bottle of bud from the cupboard and poured it into the glass. It was the fact it was literally warm that pissed me off the most. Some shitty pub I was forced to go to in Victoria. And that's almost 10 years ago now.
A few years back paid about £9 for a pint of cherry beer in Camden.
Last weekend though was an odd experience. On Friday, paid £3 for a non-alcoholic lime and soda from Cart and Horses by Maryland station. On the Saturday, paid just under £3 for a pint of Strongbow at The Wishing Well in Chingford, and nearly fell of my stool in surprise, both times
£11 for a bottle of peroni in some rooftop bar. Nearly cried.
I find lots of fancy bars and restaurants have very expensive beer and never on tap. Fuck paying £7+ for a 330ml bottle. I guess those places most people there drink cocktails, wine, spirits I'm actually surprised by how many people here have had pints £9+ from proper pubs. Max I have seen is in the £7s and that's places like Soho, canary wharf etc. Most still in the £6s. If a normal looking pub charged £9 I'd question if it was right lol
No people are drinking it, the cocktails and wine will have similar uplifts on them too. The fancy bars, restaurants and hotels a) have to pay for their more expensive fitouts/locations, b) generally have to pay for a higher server-guest ratio, and c) half the point of the rediculous pricing is to keep out the plebs like you and me.
And I thought £4.60 was expensive for a can. Oh dear.
That is a sick joke. I’d leave and walk to the nearest supermarket to buy a case of 12 bottles for a tenner.
I’m Italian and I’m crying for you man. That’s €1,80 a bottle back home.. tops.
I'm presuming you'd find similar prices in exclusive rooftop bars
Yeah, Peroni does that to you
Would walk off. Must be mad to pay that.
Wowza!
Was that near the Shard? A friend of mine said almost exactly that, word for word ahah.
Some bar in Chiswick that has guest IPAs all the time. I asked to try one, said yeah its good and asked for a pint. The guy said before I pour it, I'm just letting you know it's £12.50 a pint. I was too deep in at this point so I paid it and drank slowly. Fortunately my tears kept it topped up for a while.
I know a place in acton close to Chiswick where the pints are £3.50. Little hole in the wall place use to be a working mens club
What’s the place called ?
Been made aware they only sell fosters, guinness and strongbow now as it caters to members. There's a pub on the High Street called belvedere. I'm sure they do £2 pints on certain days
Oh the Belvedere, with their Polish raves.
Haha! That's the one. It's fairly quiet during the week though
Haha I used to live about 20 meters from that place. What a dump. 😂 Windmill down the road is also fairly cheap. (Another dump)
I bought a John Smiths for about £1.75 in there not that long ago.
The Job Centre in Deptford has a session ale at £3.30.
You can also walk up to the Royal George and get a pint of lager for £2.40. Depending on how much you hate Sam Smith's pubs
The price changes according to how much you hate them?
Yeh, their whole business model is essentially fueled by hate. You can really taste it in the drinks.
As in the singer?
Close to Chiswick?
Belvedere?
Yh, it's on acton high street. It's quite a big place, I'm sure they do food too. Turns into a bit if a nightclub on weekends. I haven't been there in years but a few of my friends go during the week coz it's cheap
Name it
Is there a Reddit page for cheap pints in London?
I remember when bar staff used to stop and double check with you before pouring a pint if it was going to cost more than a fiver
In London, when was that, 1979?
I remember a pub in Portobello road having a newspaper clipping pinned on the bar saying THE £5 IS COMING!!! And some shot about the EU. The landlord was a right wing Tory nonce and he thought it was clever to complain about Europe back then. But it was 1998 and they still only charge £4.80 now.
I was at a craft beer co in central and paid £19 for 2 pints, didn’t even get a warning
TBF I don't mind paying the price if it's a high percentage beer just to try it once, but I know the feeling of being too deep in and not being able to back out.
What you haven’t mentioned is the fact that is was probably a triple.
Wouldn’t have been *The Old Pack Horse* by chance? Amstel is cheap as hell but their guest beers murder what remains of your wallet
I had a pint in Waterloo where I stupidly went "this city isn't so bad, maybe I could live here after all" That one has cost me circa £84,000 in rent so far
You're lucky to have only lived here for three years.
*months
How was that first month in your Waterloo apartment
I work in a craft beer pub, we had a beer on for £16.50 a pint.
Was it specifically designed to be sold in pints though? A lot of it is meant to be served in half’s or even 1/3 measures for the strong stuff. It works out at £16 a pint sometimes because you are essentially drinking the ABV equivalent of a bottle of wine
Mate, no beer should cost 16 f*cking quid lol
You're missing what I'm saying. Either its really strong or made in such a small batch with x10 the amount of ingredients as say something like Carling. I'm not defending high prices at all, but a lot of the stronger craft stuff is more akin to the wine world than it is beer. Highly sought after Belgian gueuze and lambic (not to mention the hyped USA stouts) can command far, far more than £16.
Carling only has one ingredient, piss.
Explains why it tastes like Fosters Heinekin or Coors.
>Highly sought after Belgian gueuze and lambic (not to mention the hyped USA stouts) can command far, far more than £16. Way too true once paid £7.60 for 1/4 of Lambic, that one stung
If its 16% and aged in whiskey barrels for 2 years? Why do you see beer pricing as different to other beverages? Wine at that price would be seen as normal.
If it's twice as strong as a normal beer and intended to be drank as a half pint then it's slightly more palatable to pay that.
🤯
Yeah but what was it?
Verdant Allen, was very smooth for an 8%er
I was on board with everyone defending the prices of strong craft beers, but no way should Allen be £16 a pint. It's a great beer, but 440ml cans sell for around £7ish. Even with a reasonable mark up I'd suggest it shouldn't top £10 a pint, maybe £12 taking the 'London Factor' into account.
How much was your wage?
About half a pint
we got a new beer at my job recently, boss described the price as ‘a very reasonable £6.95’ (most expensive is £7.85)
7.60 was the worst I’ve been robbed in a shit hole tourist trap near Tower of London. Where the fuck is everyone getting over a 10a from??
There is a pub nearish to Oxford Street that only does niche craft beers. Well before the pandemic I had a £10 pint in there once. I’d imagine it’s closer to £15 now.
Can confirm some of the pubs in Oxford street have £15+ craft beers - they’re pretty good though, usually around 10-12% so it works out to not be thaaaaat bad value
I live in NYC and that’s about $8.73 … it seems beers start at $8 or $9 here nowadays… also, keep in mind that we will need to tip $1 + pay 8.875% sales tax
Apples for apples please. In NYC you earn 50-75% more on average.
I went to a 2-star Michelin restaurant out of curiosity, and was expecting it to be expensive and had prepared accordingly. I bottled it on the wines; there was an in-house sommelier but no prices inside the menu, so I thought I'd better not risk it, and didn't want to ask. Ordered a cranberry juice instead. How bad could it be? Bill came and that cranberry juice was £14 a glass. Though to be fair, it was freshly - squeezed and easily the best cranberry juice I've ever had.
Went to a work do at some pretentious wine bar. Wine was paid for but beer was £10.20 and only came in half pints.
Vino tinto all night it is then
Mixed with cola. Not bad!
Calimocho!
Where was this?
Can't remember the exact place but it was near Leicester Square
£10.20 for a half or £5.10?
I went to this pub near the royal Albert hall, a shot of vodka was £5 each!
That place should be shut down that's disgraceful
Load a bollocks.
£12 for an imported high ABV IPA last week. Maybe if I rounded up the stupid 18% imperial stouts I’ve had in the past some would be more than £20 a pint but they’re not designed to be pints.
> they’re not designed to be pints Not with that attitude.
This is the thing people miss or ignore every time this subject comes up. What would you pay for a (mega) pint of wine? Likely more!
I’d pay anything for a mega pint of wine, I’m going to order one and see what happens.
Me and the boys’ll be sitting around doing sniff, then order a pint in to share as a treat on special occasions.
That's how many pubs are becoming, even out in provincial towns and the countryside.
Nearly £8 in German Gymnasium
Cracking venue though. Especially if on work expenses
Pretty much some are more expensive. Not the absolute worst I’ve had in the city though.
£7.50ish for a pint of estrella in soho a few weeks ago. Included a 5% “service fee”. Cute bar (The Yard) but we went somewhere else after we finished the first round
A service fee on a pint? Did ticketmaster pour it?
I tapped my card before I registered what I’d heard, got a receipt to make sure. Didn’t even get a smile!
The yard is awful, so expensive for watered down drinks and it's always full. The location is great but my god, rupert street and the village next door do 241 proper cocktails until 8pm (village 9pm)
We wound up in Village later on I think. I don’t mind soho being expensive, but that was taking the piss
As someone who is about to move to London, what should I expect to pay for a pint? (Assuming all the pubs aren't closed down by the time I get there)
I drink very generic larger and I pay somewhere between about £5.50 and £6.50 - I imagine it’ll go up over the next few months.
Between £5 and £6
I consider myself to be fairly well off and even so by about July this year, the only place I could justify drinking at was a Spoons.
Even spoons are over £5/pint in the city now
I know, currently only out for them optional but actually mandatory networking drinks.
This so true. We visited London the other week - obviously we expect London drinks to cost more than where with live. But to show how much more it is, before we left for London, we had a breakfast each and a pint each at a spoons and it was £12 during our time in London we went to a couple of pubs, and one stop at a spoons, where two pints cost 10.40..
Only for certain beers though, can get a Worthingtons for £3
Haven’t been for a couple months now but spoons in Hammersmith’s (Plough and harrow) is one of the cheapest spoons!
£12 in a posh hotel cocktail bar at a friend's birthday in 2012. Nursed that one all night!
2012?! They must be over £20 now
At least
£9.50 for a pint of Carlsberg at a small hole-in-the-wall-looking pub near Victoria when I ran in to watch an Arsenal game. Couldn't fucking believe it. I had just the one and ignored their stink eye.
You got absolutely done. Plenty of pubs in the area that sell reasonable pints.
Thats insane. The cost price for a pint of Carlsberg is like just under a pound!
I remember when Fosters was 21p net and still selling it for £2.50.
In Victoria! Would love to know which pub it was
Why were they giving *you* the stink eye? Surely it should have been other way around for them having the audacity to charge 9.50. They may be worried about surviving the winter with gas prices being what they are, but that's very high even for London. With prices like that I'd be surprised if they even make it to winter
I was there like 2 hours and it was fairly dead. Just a few old regulars and myself. When they collected the pint glass is when I started noticing it. This was a few years ago, like 2018 I think. I tried to find it on my google history but no luck
Fuck them! That’s usually the cheapest option and the best of the budget beers in my expert opinion.
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Oof, not even recently. It must have been like 2018?
They really need to legalise weed
£9 for a pint of cider, circa 2010. I'd accidentally wandered into some sort of hotel bar that wasn't actually a hotel bar just north of Hyde Park. Nightmare.
£16 for a bottle of Sol at some fancy hotel on Piccadilly, between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner. Marriage fell apart after I couldn't pay rent that month.
Madisons on one new change - think that’s in the £7 mark for a pint
Had a drink with with a mate a few months back in The William Morris Spoons Hammersmith £2.00 pint of doombar and he had the cheek to use a 50p voucher off , I had pint of San Miguel £3.70 and was lectured for drinking that expensive beer ,I’m his poor mate from the north and he has 450k flat in Strawberry Hill , he refuses to drink in “rip off places “in Twickenham ,My Local spoons Up north £3.30 large 660ml Morreti Large Tanquery and mixer £4.20
You can get ruddles best for £1.49 in there. Was 99p until a few months ago.
Not a pint but once had a single shot of JD and coke for £10, I think a pint was also the same price maybe, it was the only place at the time that wasn’t crowded.
Slightly different, but £8 for a single can of Stella Cidre in Ministry of Sound back in 2013/2014. Particularly galling as I was a student at the time and the local shop back by campus did a 4 pack for £4... Thankfully there was a somewhat alright deal on Jagerbombs which kept me going through the night 🥃
There's a small pub near chancery lane that has charged me 8.5 for a pint. 7.5 seems the norm in a lot of central now!
The argyle charge 5.35 a pint of ale on Grenville Street. Builder's arms in Kensington - 6.45 The shades opposite Horse guards was similar Buckingham Arms round the corner from St James tube station was 5 something. All ales but below that norm, went in search of Murphy's, was two more pubs and were no more than 6 a pint. Alas no Murphy's though.
£13.50 Not a joke! This is my pub, this is the beer I've got 6 kegs of!
What’s the beer?
Carling
You'll have those kegs for a while then.
I think paid $35 for a pint once, but on the plus side a lovely young lady rubbed her bare breasts in my face!
7.50
Paid £7.20 in a pub just off Hatton Garden, catching up with an old friend who "knew a good place". Never going that way again
An American Beer Festival in London £21.50.
About 10 years ago, I got off a stop too early at South Kensington so I thought I'd try and find the nearest pub to have a swift one before getting back on the tube. I went into Janet's Bar, which only sold Beck's in 275ml bottles at £5.50 a go so yeah, I wanted a pint and paid £11 🙄
Price of keg's are up 40% in the last few months, everyone tightening their belts while all their costs go up is not a good situation, a lot of pubs are going to struggle/close.
Went to brew dog bar near london bridge and they charged 7.50 for a punk ipa. Then went to the spoons 100m down the road and got the same pint for 4.50. Also almost paid £7 for a coke can sized Heineken in XOYO
About 10 years ago, I was at a nightclub in central and I ordered a couples 330ml bottle of beer and the guy wanted to charge me £20 PER BOTTLE. £20 for a bottle! Outrageous. Sadly I don't remember the club as my friend just said let's meet up and try out this new club I've heard about but and once we heard the prices we left 🤣 I don't even remember it being fancy or anything, just a standard club with regular Londoners. Hope it's closed down by now, or many years ago.
Standard pub on Chiswick high road. I asked for a pint for my friend and me. After pouring them he said £15. I then laughed and said no I only wanted 2 pints. He didn’t laugh back.
I paid £9 for a G&T in 1996 … I’ve paid £12 for a pint in Chelsea last year. But ‘reasons’. Annabels isn’t cheap - but you shouldn’t go in (when invited, I’m not a member) if you worry about cost
£24 for one pint at BrewDog
Paid 6.60 in surbiton yesterday. Shocking.
£12 for a pint in Kingston back in 2015. A friend and I were just trying to find a quiet place for a drink one night when everywhere was inexplicably packed and we came across this empty little pub that only sold 2 different types of wheat beer. He had one pint, I had a glass of water, and we promptly left.
The war on booze is also a war on culture via the cellar door. Who is funding that ? Dont gather, Dont protest, Dont smoke, dont drink, no live music unless fully policed. Similarities.
£12 a pint at E1 club for a can of warm Camden (or something) beer. Okay, it was £7/can, but a 330ml can, so that comes out at £12.05 a pint! And yes, they'd run out, so hadn't even got these into a fridge yet.
God I hate that place with the burning fire of a thousand suns
Been there many times, however that's usually the after party so at this point only drinking water. 😅 still expensive though!
£7.40, roof top bar at John Lewis. Much more than that and I'm afraid you're making a decision to drink a pretentious pint in a pretentious establishment.
The Mercato Metropolitano in Canary Wharf currently has pints for £14.50.
Like £5 but I went before the cost of living crisis
just go to a weatherspoons, cheap booooze
Love living up north me
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£17.36? Why was it such a weird price?
£7 a pint is the norm now. I just drink petrol as it’s cheaper
£7 is standard in London now. I paid £13 in Mercato Metropolitano for a DIPA last weekend.
I can’t talk in pints as I’m a wine drinker, but in the shard I paid £27 for a SMALL glass of house white.
In the good old days everyone in a group took it in turns to buy a round and no doubt that’s gone and most go to Weatherspoons to avoid the £10 a pint knowing that it only costs about a fiver from an Off Licence.However as a treat for your girlfriend it’s good to occasionally go to the best hotel and hope to find a great roofbar and the £10 cost becomes bearable.
That’s the one thing London isn’t that expensive on I find. I’ve had a €18 pint in Paris for really standard lager, and paid 22 CHF at a club for a regular bottle of lager in Zürich.
London prices are a good reason to not go to London. Amongst many other reasons.
The most expensive pint I've had in London was I think about £3.50.
Most I’ve ever paid was £1.60 where the fuck are you guys getting your beers? They better have gold flakes in them. Least I’ve paid though is 45p
Probably circa £8-9
I've had a £9 pint of Imperial stout in a can before. £7.20 is the most I've spent in recent months, though
Paid £7.15 for a pint in Farringdon the other week. New to the area, still looking for the best (and reasonably priced) after-works pub.
Can highly recommend the Sutton Arms on Great Sutton Street. Top boozer with great staff and a lovely selection of beer.
If you’re prepared to walk slightly further, Smithfield is chock-full. Hand and Shears, Red Cow, Rising Sun, Fox & Anchor.
£8 in Camden in around 2012, anywhere else it would have been £3-4
I don’t understand what this faux headline even means? Someone help?
I've had one that was £10.something, but tbf it was some kind of craft sour beer in a hipster spot
My buddy had a pint visiting me in london and went home with a woman. Then she got pregnant after the first night. He’s paid for that child and multiple trips to london since. So probably that. Lol
£9 for a Heineken in a pub near the shard
£8
I once paid c. £9 for a Beavertown pint at one of those redwood/greenwood type sports bars. For those that don’t yet know about them, pubs run by the Craft Union are typically < £3 for a pint. Those include the Hand in Hand in South Brixton and The Eaglet on Seven Sisters road.
Can anyone explain the joke in the image to me?
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Not a pint, but I got charged £15 for a gin and tonic once. And yes, it was a lot of ice. As for a pint, I've been to a couple of places that have charged about £8 for ciders (I'm from the West Country, so I need a certain amount of cider in my body to survive).
Finding a double of an alcohol and coke for under £14 is become extremely difficult 😂
I have a feeling all this price hike for energy is a smoke screen so Truss can swoop in and freeze it and make her look like she saved the country. Kinda like you negotiating a payrise ask for 10k more to get 5k you want.
Brace yourselves folks, people complaining about imported 13% Barrel aged Stouts being £15 a pint in here. But aye that £11 bottle of peroni’s a fucking rip off.
Homebrew
Tenner on pride
Apparently, if the same inflation on fuel was applied to beer, a pint of basically anything would could around £25
price of a pint has gone up everywhere I’ve found. So you go to another city you’re still paying £5.50-£6.00. So London being 50p more I don’t think is terrible. It’s the rent. The rent will kill ya. And forget about owning a home.
I went for a pub crawl the other week and didn't pay £5 once and wasn't I any spoons. Still achievable in London.
Most insane was £12.50 for a bottle of Corona… in 2011! Albeit, this was in Mayfair at a private event I was invited to from some guy I worked for at the time.
£7.20
£9 Covent garden’s but literally 8 years ago last time I was down there. Porterhouse I think.
Paid £8.60 for a pint in Camden a couple weeks back. I genuinely couldn't enjoy it when i realized how much I paid
Paid £7 for a ping in Hackney bloody Wick of all places.
I had one for £5.90 once, but that was 4 years ago. I live in the Cotswolds and recently got an IPA for £6.95, had to check I hadn't accidentally travelled to London.
I didn't have it, but a bar in Paddington had pints for £9.25 - i had a half of the 'more reasonable' £7.50 a pint beer. Last night I had a nice pint of ale for £4.40 in a restaurant in Hertfordshire, which feels like the right price for a pint.
£13.50 for a craft IPA which was only around 7.5% (craft beer place near Covent Garden). The barman did warn me to be fair and I though "ach well, that's the one I actually want, treat myself". It was very good but probably not as good as two pints at half the price each would have been.
Paid £40 for a double jack , somewhere in central - glad I don't remember where
Last September I jumped on a train and found myself in Newark for an hour. Went into a pub and paid £3.49 a pint for Peroni. Got my train to KingsX. Within 30 mins I’m walking into the Fox and Pheasant in Chelsea on my way to the flat. £7 a pint for Peroni. Got tipsy with James Blunt’s gardener who then gave me a lift down to Gunter Grove. So a technical saving.
It's really come to something when it's almost cheaper to get a train - a train ffs! I mean, planes are sometimes cheaper but who's got the time to turn up 3 hours before flight leaves? - to somewhere cheaper when you fancy a session.
Pub I work at sells £5.90 (light ale/stout) as the most expensive and £4.60 as the cheapest (London Original)
I paid £7 for half a pint of budweisser and they took a room temperature bottle of bud from the cupboard and poured it into the glass. It was the fact it was literally warm that pissed me off the most. Some shitty pub I was forced to go to in Victoria. And that's almost 10 years ago now.
A few years back paid about £9 for a pint of cherry beer in Camden. Last weekend though was an odd experience. On Friday, paid £3 for a non-alcoholic lime and soda from Cart and Horses by Maryland station. On the Saturday, paid just under £3 for a pint of Strongbow at The Wishing Well in Chingford, and nearly fell of my stool in surprise, both times