Yeah the vanilla stout tasted like it had sat in the pipes for a few days.Dont think it was a brewery fault.
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Hand of Glory £6.10 for a pint of Partizan Brewing's IPA.:eek: The most expensive pint I've ever bought.
The Old Ship - BreeDig Punk IPA £6.00! :eek:
The Dolphin - Guinness: £6.00.
ELB's Foundation for £4.00 at the Tapping the Admiral last night; £3.80 with a CAMRA card.
Mad Squirrel's Radiant 45 minutes later at the Southampton Arms; less of a bargain at £4.50, but still low compared to some places.
Someone has to visit these pubs...:)
The Red Lion - Gamma Ray for £7.15.
The £5 pint of cask is truly with us in London 9 years after I first started this thread.The Mitre in Richmond a small back street pub charges £5 for all beers inc mild.Boycotting them for a while I think.Most of the Fullers pubs are charging that or more for London Plague. The Craft beer co are definitely on the boycott list with Kent -pale at £5.20 and best bitter £5.40.Round my way £4.70 seems to be the price which I think is too high for cask beer.
Passed the Belvedere in Acton on Thursday (if you know the pub you will know why I passed by)
Guinness £2.25
carling -£2
john smiths -£1.75
permenant prices
Maybe I am too fussy but wasn't tempted.Good to see prices like this though.
Of 15 beers I had in London Thursday and Friday - halves of course - only two came in at under £4.70/pint. They were in the Salisbury Hotel, Green Lanes, Harringay. Pints at £4.70 were to be had at the Sam Smiths Lyceum Tavern on the Strand (that is, if my half at £2.35 was actually half the price of a pint - perhaps it wasn't). Same applies at the Theodore Bullfrog (off the Strand, Trafalgar Square direction) and the Tabard, Turnham Green, Chiswick.
Everything else was over £5/pint, with a couple of halves of London Pride £2.55 each the cheapest.
I've tried to avoid the London Shame for a while, as I'm sure the recipe has changed, but was charged £5.00 for a Hophead in The Star Tavern the other day and it's in Belgravia.
My pint of Five Points XPA was £4.60 when I spotted you in the Express in late July and a pint of ELB Cowcatcher was £4.00 (£3.80 with CAMRA card) in the Tapping the Admiral a couple of weeks ago, so there is some relative sanity out there. The most expensive area I've found to drink in, is probably Hackney which is hardly a wealth area.
£3.20 in The Baum, £3.25 in the Pint Pot, around £3.30 in the Flying Horse all including CAMRA discount.
Most beer across the town centre £2.70 on D'Ale Wednesdays.
Regal Moon JDW £1.99, £1.49 with a CAMRA token.
Oh! it's STILL grim up North.:whistle:
£5 for a pint of xpa in the goerge and dragon acton on Thurs.nice beer.
It was 6 years ago I started this post not 9.
I was in a craft beer bottle shop and had a couple of tins from the fridge.If the beer was less than £4 you have to pay £1 extra to drink in.So if you buy one for as i did at £4 it was cheaper than say a £3.75 one which would cost you £4.75.As i pointed out to the owner its plain daft.
- The Burlington Arms £2.30 for a half of Ghost Ship and in the heart of Mayfair too.
At the Alex in WImbledon on Friday, a Youngs pub, the cheapest was the Ordinary (sorry, Original) at £5.05, Special I think £5.20 and Proper Job £5.40, going up to Wimbledon Common, presumably rated as a guest, at £5.50. Quite apart from being at the high end, and charging too much for a local ale , it struck me as rather silly having 10p or so differences between the beers.
Bunch of Grapes - £2.70 for a half of Special last night.
Had a pint of Marble -earl grey ipa 6.5 for £4.70 in the Express Brentford last week but the same beer was at the Willoughby Arms beer fest this weekend for £6 a pint.Both on cask.
In York on Saturday at the Fox & Roman on Tadcaster Road (near the racecourse). A Vintage Inns pub but there's nothing old fashioned about the prices. Black Sheep Bitter was £4.15, and when I switched to Timothy Taylor Landlord it was £4.85, which is pretty close to London prices. (On a recent crawl in York none of the beers breached the £4 mark, so those prices at the F&R are seriously high for this part of the world.)
£5 for a Brew York Tonkoko (the ordinary 4.3% one) in the York Tap last Friday. It is a place that has suffered a loss of reputation lately.
Last night at the Hackney Tap:
Redemption - APA: £3.80
Marble - Manchester: £4.00
Interestingly the factory-made Marble clip's mission statement reads: 'Cask conditioned beer produced to drinking standards.' - so reassuring.:rolleyes:
Three pints of Darkstar Hophead in The Harp, at £1.76pp, to celebrate Fullers 176years brewing (apparently). Worth registering for the voucher and the train (now free) up to town.
I had asked about the qualifying beers at the outset and was advised just Hophead and Pride but others, appearing to be more regular than I, were, I think, given greater leeway by the other barman. I was satisfied with my brief smash&grab though.
Sorry I didn't post it on the bargains thread, I forgot until last moment decision to get going.
You were hard done by - the Sanctuary House Hotel and Barrowboy & Banker were selling all their Asahi cask beers at £1.76, including the 6.5% Dark Star Green Hop in the former and the Jack Frost winter ale in the latter.
It is indeed a great walk, and a nice pub, but I'm glad it's not my local..
"Local ales on tap include Harvey’s Sussex Best bitter (£5.50 a pint) "
Miss read the beer board at beer+burger dalston .got.2.halvesof ipa.that I thought were £6 a pint but the price was for 2/3.arrgh £9uy
I thought inflation had taken off yesterday.
Pint in Stockton Witherspoon's, £1.99
Pint of Bass in the Sun Inn, £2.75
Pint of stout in Lucifer's, £3.20
Half a pint of Cannonball in Hope & Union, £3.75