How Much?

[london calling]

Camra,s latest price survey has listed London as £3.31 a pint.I think this is way below the price i pay and wonder how much Wetherspoon pubs effect the final price.Seems like they checked about 60 pubs in each region.They also reckon prices only went up in London by 7p in the last year up to Feb.

[Mobyduck]

Camra,s latest price survey has listed London as £3.31 a pint.I think this is way below the price i pay and wonder how much Wetherspoon pubs effect the final price.Seems like they checked about 60 pubs in each region.They also reckon prices only went up in London by 7p in the last year up to Feb.
I'm paying £3.50 for a pint of average session bitter out in the sticks of Hampshire, wouldnt mind a bit of £3.31 action, ( not in Wetherspoons though,) :sick: :evilgrin:

[Aqualung]

Camra,s latest price survey has listed London as £3.31 a pint.I think this is way below the price i pay and wonder how much Wetherspoon pubs effect the final price.Seems like they checked about 60 pubs in each region.They also reckon prices only went up in London by 7p in the last year up to Feb.

The trouble is that Central London is where the highest prices apply (which is why I mainly don't bother with the area). You could probably add Fuller's, Young's, McMullen's and Shep's tied houses to that list which again makes me reluctant to visit them as the wrongly maligned supermarkets sell their bottles so cheaply (the supermarkets are not forcing the breweries to sell their beers to them). I've only seen McMullen's beers in ASDA and they weren't that cheap or apparently selling very well.

Wetherspoon's would most definitely affect the prices as there are so many of them in some parts of London with little creditable opposition.

Some Wetherspoon prices actually decreased last year as after the Summer £1.99 offer disappeared some of them dudn't go back to the same prices as before.

I suspect that the £1.99 pint in a pub is a thing of the past other than Ruddles Worst in Spoons outside of Central London.

[oldboots]

Seems like they checked about 60 pubs in each region.

The annual price survey specification is to do at least 12 pubs in each branch area, three real ales in each pub plus a real cider and a lager (where possible). A range of beer strengths as well as a range of tied, free and pubco pubs are also to be included. Not all branches complete the survey but a fair UK wide representation is usually gained.

We may need to remember that a mean average can sometimes be a meaningless mean, a modal average is probably closer to most peoples experience.

[Aqualung]

We may need to remember that a mean average can sometimes be a meaningless mean

Would a mean of meaningless means mean that a meaningful mean had been achieved? I'll get me coat.

[Mobyduck]

Would a mean of meaningless means mean that a meaningful mean had been achieved? I'll get me coat.

What do you mean?

[ETA]

What do you mean?

Don't be mean.

[london calling]

meanwhile.My daughter bought me a pint of the rarely seen(thank god) Banks -bitter 3.8 in a local pub on Easter sunday.Rubbish pint and it was £3.90.

[Rex_Rattus]

meanwhile.My daughter bought me a pint of the rarely seen(thank god) Banks -bitter 3.8 in a local pub on Easter sunday.Rubbish pint and it was £3.90.

Don't knock it mate. "Daughter buys dad a pint" - surely that should be in News of the Day?

[Farway]

In pub today and was told, [so second hand hearsay] that a pint at local gastro pub is £4.50. We all found it hard to believe but maybe they can? Knowing rhe pub it is more food than beer so perhaps it fits in

[Farway]

Don't knock it mate. "Daughter buys dad a pint" - surely that should be in News of the Day?

I am hoping for this at the weekend, my 70th birthday on Monday :cheers:

[london calling]

Euston tap had on last night
magic rock -highwire 5.5 (cask) very nice beer at £3.60 a pint
also
magic rock -highwire 5.5(keg) its the same beer at £5.20 HOW MUCH?

[Mobyduck]

Euston tap had on last night
magic rock -highwire 5.5 (cask) very nice beer at £3.60 a pint
also
magic rock -highwire 5.5(keg) its the same beer at £5.20 HOW MUCH?
I know which one I'd go for.

[MJ71]

meanwhile.My daughter bought me a pint of the rarely seen(thank god) Banks -bitter 3.8 in a local pub on Easter sunday.Rubbish pint and it was £3.90.

Lovely drink. I grew up in Banks's country but 3.90 is obscene for that strength.

[Aqualung]

Lovely drink. I grew up in Banks's country but 3.90 is obscene for that strength.

You can buy 500ml bottles of it for £1.00 in any large Tesco. I'm assuming this wasn't in a Banks's house, please don't tell me that Banks's houses are being rebranded as Marston's!!

I would prefer Banks's Bitter and Mild to anything of similar ABV from the non Banks's Marston's stable.

[NickDavies]

£2.75 for most of the generally Marston's or W&Y related beers in my Bramwell pubco local, bookended by Courage Best at £1.99 and the inevitable London Pride topping the bill at £3.05. All remarkably good value, given that the Wifebeater brigade are quite happy to pay well over four quid for lager (this is filthy rich Surrey commuter belt)and that there is no real competition, only two other so-so pubs in walking distance.

[Strongers]

Earlier this week I paid £4.10 for a pint of Hophead in the Mermaid in Rye. Stella was the same price.

[sheffield hatter]

Just back from a few days in London. £3.85 for an average pint of St Austell Tribute at the Oak & Pastor (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/25372/) in N19 (and I mean average in the true sense of neither outstandingly good, nor horribly bad, just somewhere in the middle), followed by the same beer in very good condition at £3.50 in The Wrestlers (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/25481/) in N6. Later I was drinking Woodforde's Wherry for just £3.20 at The Victoria (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/25479/) just down the road. (Incidentally there's an excellent jazz band there on Wednesday evenings - the Swinging Garcons.)

Good to be back in Sheffield, where I can still get change out of £3.

[NickDavies]

£7 in some Brighton pubs

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10351931.City_pubs_charging_up_to___7_for_pint_of_ beer/

[gillhalfpint]

A day of 2 halves in Melton Mowbray today.

Ann of Cleves - Both Castle Rock Elsie Mo and Everards Yakima were £3.60 a pint.
Grapes - Scottish Borders Willacade Broughton and Grays Traditional Mild. One was about £1.50 a pint and the other about £1.76. Too gobsmacked to write the prices down.

P.S. The mild at 3.8% was one of the best milds I have had.

[hondo]

" a milestone moment "
http://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2013/04/milestone-moment-as-average-price-of-beer-passes-3-a-pint/