| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? 19:34 - Aug 10 with 6240 views | Lord_Lucan |
I think for me it was around 50p around 1979
I then remember it going up to 60p where it hovered for a while before eventually getting to £1. Once at £1 it seems to have stayed that price for some time.
Early days for me, if I can remember correctly, it was Skol, Harp and Tennants on offer - mind you I can only remember The Falcon for some reason - where they used to do Double Diamond, which I quite liked as it happened.
Moving on a few years it was Hansa and Dab.
Can’t remember the beers, think they were mostly Tolly.
What’s a pint these days? I always pay by card so I don’t really know, £4.50?
I think UK is quite cheap for beer on the whole. |  |
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| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 10:21 - Aug 11 with 1061 views | Blue_Moses |
| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 23:07 - Aug 10 by yesjohn99 |
Around 99-2000 The Newt and Cucumber did £1 entry then £1 a pint on Sunday and Wednesday evenings.
Always a strong Chantry contingent in there. |
Newt & Cucumber and Wig & Pen used to be £1 a pint. Chicago's was £12 all you can drink on a Thursday. This would have been a couple of years earlier, 1996-ish.
Drinking in Ipswich Town centre today you're lucky to get a pint under £6 |  | | |
| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 11:42 - Aug 11 with 1006 views | itfcjoe |
| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 08:49 - Aug 11 by unbelievablue |
Did you ever go to the bar in Sheffield (there were others across the country I believe) that had the stock market type dealio? A massive monitor behind the bar with variable drink prices.
The barman would ring the bell as if a big trade had just gone down, and VK Orange would be 30p a bottle for 6 minutes or something. |
We used to have that at the end of term to use up the stock of what was left |  |
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| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 11:44 - Aug 11 with 997 views | clive_baker |
| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 08:49 - Aug 11 by unbelievablue |
Did you ever go to the bar in Sheffield (there were others across the country I believe) that had the stock market type dealio? A massive monitor behind the bar with variable drink prices.
The barman would ring the bell as if a big trade had just gone down, and VK Orange would be 30p a bottle for 6 minutes or something. |
Absolute scenes when bottles of Reef dropped to 50p. Strawpedo a few of them, lovely. |  |
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| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 11:47 - Aug 11 with 992 views | ElephantintheRoom |
The pub next to the Civic College as was sold pints of bitter to under age drinkers for 10p a pint - so your dinner money went quite far in the early 70s. I seem to remember it was 12p a pint in the falcon on the way home. | |
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| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 11:47 - Aug 11 with 992 views | nodge_blue |
| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 19:48 - Aug 10 by Lord_Lucan |
I constantly have the sh1ts anyway.
Just checked the price of a pint as I’m in the pub. Pint of Ghost Ship £4.20 Trafford Arms, Norwich.
Very reasonable. |
I used to live on Grove road right next to the Trafford Arms. What are you doing there...are you from Norwich or just popping in?
I paid £2 for a pint of lager in Oban Scotland just before the pandemic which I thought was a total bargain. |  |
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| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 17:23 - Aug 11 with 920 views | unbelievablue |
| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 08:10 - Aug 11 by unbelievablue |
£1.80 a Tennants in the Golden Key on Woodbridge Road, which for some reason became our regular haunt as 16 years olds in 2006.
The Farmhouse in Kesgrave was similar at lunch times when I was at Sixth Form there - £1.85 a carling.
Tonight I presume to be paying £6.50 a pint in the Waterloo area. |
£6.10 a Budvar, and a glorious pint it is! |  |
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| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 18:09 - Aug 11 with 895 views | LegendofthePhoenix |
Growing up in Southwold in the 60s and 70s, there were 14 pubs and one brewery. Not much else to occupy a young teenager, was regularly drinking in pubs from 14. I think in '75 a pint of Adnams was about 30p, although back then I preferred a pint of lager and lime. I managed to get done for underage drinking when I was 16.
The Uggeshall Buck was a funny place. Could get there on a moped, the landlord would leave the bar open when he went to bed, trusted customers to leave the cash for any beers. Those were the days. |  |
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| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 18:53 - Aug 11 with 870 views | jontysnut |
Slightly underage in the Harlequin - Norwich/Romford Bitter and possibly Skol. I seem to remember getting three pints and some chips for about £1 and then going home and trying to have a sensible conversation with my dad about Match of the Day. |  | | |
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| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 19:02 - Aug 11 with 863 views | stonojnr |
it appears to be £7.30 at West Ham this season, Man Utd only charge £3, but I think its budweiser, there were some Norwich fans complaining at the weekend they were being charged over £5 a pint, best part of all it was Greene King beer :D | | | |
| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 20:40 - Aug 11 with 815 views | bracknell_blue |
I seem to recall at age 16 (!) I could get 4 pints of Abbot on a Saturday night out and get change from my 50p pocket money. So probably 11 or 12p. 50 years on still drink Abbot but a tad more expensive! |  |
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| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 02:59 - Aug 12 with 742 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Probably 2-3 quid in town during the early 2000s? Can’t really remember. I do remember university well though and all the student cards you used to get to go in all boozers.
I wonder if the yellow card and scream pubs are still a thing in the midlands and up north?! Then there was the Tuesday and Wednesday night where it was a quid a drink in awful cheese bars. I’m sure broad street in Brum must have been full of them as well. God the amount of sugar consumed in booze for those on a budget was dreadful.
That said Nottingham/Sheffield/Derby/Leicester seemed like the bright lights, full of girls and an unbelievably chilled night out compared to scrapping your way back to the taxi rank via silent street.
Ipswich always seemed rough as f on a night out when I first started drinking. Would never not see a row circa 2002-2006. [Post edited 12 Aug 2022 3:04]
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| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 05:00 - Aug 12 with 717 views | shady |
Two Bob(10p) a pint of Tolly bitter in 1966
and I believe mild was 1 shilling and 8d(8 1/2p)
I think that price was relatively stable for some years.
Also I remember working in a bar in Brighton on 15/2/71 Decimalisation day
We had dual labels on all the optics and pumps, rather well organised.
And the customers were content.
Really grateful to existence that was able to get drunk every night for less than £5 a week. Also to see football of great quality at low cost
Those were the days. |  | | |
| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 06:49 - Aug 12 with 701 views | jontysnut |
| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 19:02 - Aug 11 by stonojnr |
it appears to be £7.30 at West Ham this season, Man Utd only charge £3, but I think its budweiser, there were some Norwich fans complaining at the weekend they were being charged over £5 a pint, best part of all it was Greene King beer :D |
It was £7.30 for a pint of Carlsberg at Millwall. No wonder they're always angry. | | | |
| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 07:52 - Aug 12 with 672 views | Bluebell |
I love threads like this. They bring back so many memories.
When I was a teenager, being female, my first ever drink was vodka and lime. I was about 16 and only asked for that because it was what my older sister always drank. I moved on to Babycham because I liked the cherry they always put in.
As to the price, I haven’t a clue because in those days boyfriends always paid!   |  | | |
| What price was a pint when you started drinking - and what was on offer? on 07:57 - Aug 12 with 670 views | Wonky |
Mild 90p a pint, in Manchester, in 1995. |  | | |
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