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submitted 5 months ago by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/askuk@feddit.uk

It comes up from time to time but I thought I'd make a thread on it.

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[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I nipped in the Admiralty on Trafalgar Sq last Saturday lunchtime for a swift one, expecting to get royally horsed for being in a) London, b) in a tourist hotspot, and c) generally daring to have a pint outside of my own home.

£6.50. I wasn't even mad. I thought it was even cheap given the above factors, even if it was Amstel.

In my local though, £4.10 for a pint of best or something similar.

Offtopic: I ordered two large blonde lattes at the local Starbucks, and it was £10.10. it's literally cheaper to go on the piss than drink average-but-decent coffee now.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

£3.50

But that's just a small town pub, pretty much everyone in there will be a local they don't get a lot of tourists around here.

A few miles away, but in more touristy parts, you can easily pay over £5.

So the moral of the story is that you need to live in a boring back water like I do. Around here if somebody gets their roof retiled it's practically in the local paper.

[-] Eol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago
[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

But the ABV is probably also twice what's on the sign

[-] Jayb151@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

That's actually very accurate. My local Illinois brewery charges 7.50 USD for pretty much all their beers. Be it 4.5% or 7.5%.

I wish I could get some bitter for $4.

[-] ODuffer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Love a pint of Theakston, I warm mine up on the radiator for a bit(!) it really opens up the flavour.

[-] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A pint of lager is £5.60 in our local. A year ago it was £5.20.

[-] Mex@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

my "local" is a tap room and mostly sells silly beers, I don't think it's pricing it a useful metric from pubs in general

[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

3.8%? Is that what they call beer over there?

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

For the bitters, yes.

[-] lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

10 AUD if you can get a special, 15 AUD otherwise. And maybe you get the place that doesn't do pints, only schooners but still charges pint prices for them.

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