| Pint prices 12:06 - Aug 18 with 6691 views | RobTheMonk |
Myself and Madge went out for a bite to eat the other day. Generally pints are quite expensive round here but £5.50 for a pint of Red Stripe or Estella seems rather steep - local pub. It's made me not overly fussed to head back, when for a tenner I can get 4-5 bottles of nice Czech lager.
I guess it's a gamble of higher price but lower footflow vs lower price but more footflow, and with less footflow prices have been raised. Have anyone else noticed an increase? |  | | |  |
| Pint prices on 14:57 - Aug 18 with 1892 views | itfcjoe |
I remember when anything more than £10 for 4 pints was too steep, then that changed to 3 pints and realistically that is now 2 pints.
I tend to try to go to nicer establishments - but anything more than £5 a pint out this way is taking the proverbial |  |
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| Pint prices on 15:25 - Aug 18 with 1871 views | Bluefish |
| Pint prices on 14:29 - Aug 18 by cressi |
Tavern Sudbury
Pint of
Carlsberg £2.20
Strongbow £2.50 |
Seems more overpriced than the peroni earlier |  |
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| Pint prices on 16:07 - Aug 18 with 1831 views | jeera |
| Pint prices on 15:25 - Aug 18 by Bluefish |
Seems more overpriced than the peroni earlier |
Again, when I was living up your way for a while, the pub local to me tried to put 20p on to a pint.
The response was amazing really. The locals just weren't having it and threatened to boycott en masse.
I think there was some compromise of 5p or something in the end.
Edit: It was still only around the £3.25 mark. [Post edited 18 Aug 2020 16:56]
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| Pint prices on 16:50 - Aug 18 with 1802 views | NormanBlue |
| Pint prices on 14:51 - Aug 18 by factual_blue |
I got the inside track on 'Spoons pricing strategy the other day.
They no longer operate on short-dated beer. They offer to buy vast quantities at a price a brewery would normally not entertain. 'Spoons won't negotiate on their offer. After initial resistance the breweries see the attraction for them - greatly increased sales and national exposure of their brand.
'Spoons now have an office in many breweries (including Greene King). In fact the Westgate Brewery in Bury regularly does an entire production run just for 'Spoons. |
The Station Hotel in Ipswich is ridiculous. Went there for the first time last week, had just missed a Cambridge train. A pint of Aspalls and a pint of Guinness totalled £9-80. The cider was a fiver. No other cider on draught and no beer on hand pump. A lot of pubs outside stations are buzzing. Amazingly this one had two other people in it. I have no idea why. |  | | |
| Pint prices on 16:59 - Aug 18 with 1788 views | hype313 |
| Pint prices on 16:50 - Aug 18 by NormanBlue |
The Station Hotel in Ipswich is ridiculous. Went there for the first time last week, had just missed a Cambridge train. A pint of Aspalls and a pint of Guinness totalled £9-80. The cider was a fiver. No other cider on draught and no beer on hand pump. A lot of pubs outside stations are buzzing. Amazingly this one had two other people in it. I have no idea why. |
That place is doomed, it had a tart up to try and entice the returning commuter mob to stop in for a social pint, with commuter numbers down and I can't see the numbers returning for a long time, it's USP is lost, it's hardly somewhere you would seek out. |  |
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| Pint prices on 17:13 - Aug 18 with 1770 views | Radlett_blue |
| Pint prices on 16:59 - Aug 18 by hype313 |
That place is doomed, it had a tart up to try and entice the returning commuter mob to stop in for a social pint, with commuter numbers down and I can't see the numbers returning for a long time, it's USP is lost, it's hardly somewhere you would seek out. |
The hotel gets shocking ratings on Tripadvisor, but if it was getting decent occupancy pre-COVID, the owners would have been making a decent return & may have been happy with that & fleecing their captive audience of guests for their drinks.
The Red Lion in Radlett is also hideously expensive for a drink, but I understand that the hotel has done well so maybe the owners don't care about boosting bar profits. |  |
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| Pint prices on 18:18 - Aug 18 with 1748 views | noggin |
Ha! Sit down and I'll tell you all about expensive beer. |  |
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| Pint prices on 18:20 - Aug 18 with 1748 views | eastangliaisblue |
| Pint prices on 12:09 - Aug 18 by SitfcB |
£6.10 for a pint of Peroni in the Station Hotel in....Ipswich!! |
I'm pretty sure that p1ss is expensive in most pubs. Not sure why though, does anyone know? |  | | |
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| Pint prices on 18:55 - Aug 18 with 1708 views | Meadowlark |
£3.20 for Adnams Southwold bitter in my local. Same as before LD. |  | | |
| Pint prices on 19:00 - Aug 18 with 1699 views | jeera |
| Pint prices on 18:55 - Aug 18 by Meadowlark |
£3.20 for Adnams Southwold bitter in my local. Same as before LD. |
And that is how much a pint should be.
I will accept up to 4 quid nowadays but beyond that is off-putting.
Where I live one pub charges £3.70 and for the same pint a few streets away it is £4.30 or something like that.
Both free houses too. | |
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| Pint prices on 19:11 - Aug 18 with 1685 views | BluedanW |
I can remember going to Reading away at elm Park in the mid 90s when Williams scored that goal where he ran from the half way round. The other amazing thing that day was the first time I ever paid more than £2 for a pint of lager. | | | |
| Pint prices on 19:13 - Aug 18 with 1684 views | jeera |
| Pint prices on 18:20 - Aug 18 by eastangliaisblue |
I'm pretty sure that p1ss is expensive in most pubs. Not sure why though, does anyone know? |
I think it's to make spotting the mugs much easier for the staff. | |
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| Pint prices on 19:15 - Aug 18 with 1678 views | stonojnr |
| Pint prices on 12:55 - Aug 18 by Bluefish |
mental! Surely no one buys it? I'm not one for checking prices of pints or caring but that is ridiculous.
The cost of beer hasn't really changed since the days of £2 per pint. The wastage has no doubt gone up, as well as other costs but that is scandalous |
the days of £2 a pint were basically 20 years ago.
I think youll find the tax element has risen considerably in that time, the beer duty escalator increased the tax element in five years it had increased the tax take on beer by 42%, the government scrapped the escalator, they did not reverse the tax hike.
1/3rd of the price of your pint is just tax. last year September 1st was declared pub tax day, because it represented the point at which for the remainder of that year everything spent on beer in pubs went straight to the taxman, worth considering given we are almost at that point now.
Peroni is considered a premium euro lager, so it will be priced more expensively than other lagers | | | |
| Pint prices on 19:15 - Aug 18 with 1678 views | BluedanW |
| Pint prices on 19:13 - Aug 18 by jeera |
I think it's to make spotting the mugs much easier for the staff. |
I paid £3.20 each for a pint of coke in marstons flying shuttke haverhill on Friday for me and my daughter. No wonder so many people are still getting caught drinking and driving | | | |
| Pint prices on 19:22 - Aug 18 with 1664 views | Herbivore |
Usually pay a shade north of £5 a pint here but that's on proper craft beer rather than standard pissy lager. |  |
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| Pint prices on 19:22 - Aug 18 with 1666 views | jeera |
| Pint prices on 19:15 - Aug 18 by BluedanW |
I paid £3.20 each for a pint of coke in marstons flying shuttke haverhill on Friday for me and my daughter. No wonder so many people are still getting caught drinking and driving |
That is poor.
Like you say, how can a soft drink be in the same ball park as a beer? | |
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| Pint prices on 19:24 - Aug 18 with 1666 views | stonojnr |
| Pint prices on 14:51 - Aug 18 by factual_blue |
I got the inside track on 'Spoons pricing strategy the other day.
They no longer operate on short-dated beer. They offer to buy vast quantities at a price a brewery would normally not entertain. 'Spoons won't negotiate on their offer. After initial resistance the breweries see the attraction for them - greatly increased sales and national exposure of their brand.
'Spoons now have an office in many breweries (including Greene King). In fact the Westgate Brewery in Bury regularly does an entire production run just for 'Spoons. |
they never operated on short dated beer, theyve always used volume and their size to leverage the price,and the big brewers like volume because the cost of making the beer drops for them the more you can make because you buy in more ingredients in bulk, your brewery is more efficient if its continually in operation not start/stop, which means by selling lots of beer to Wetherspoons, Greene King can make its beer for its own pubs at a lower cost as well and make more money. | | | |
| Pint prices on 19:54 - Aug 18 with 1644 views | jontysnut |
I can never quite get why a bottle of Adnams beer costs more to buy from the shop at the brewery than it does in my local supermarket 200 miles away. I know they buy in bulk but even so. |  | | |
| Pint prices on 22:40 - Aug 19 with 1509 views | davblue |
| Pint prices on 14:57 - Aug 18 by itfcjoe |
I remember when anything more than £10 for 4 pints was too steep, then that changed to 3 pints and realistically that is now 2 pints.
I tend to try to go to nicer establishments - but anything more than £5 a pint out this way is taking the proverbial |
I remember pints being £1.80 I’m only 38. |  | | |
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