Anyone know why these seem to have rocketed recently? A year ago, central London Sams' pubs were selling Old Brewery Bitter at £2.11. A few months ago, this went up to about £2.72 I think and more recently to £2.90. I make that a 37.5% increase in a year. I never quite understood how they managed to keep it so cheap before, but this does seem a big rise and I wonder how much of this is cost push, whether they've worked out they'll do better being slightly cheap instead of extremely cheap, or part of other changes to their business model. Not that the beer's that great, but I do like a lot of their pubs for other reasons and it's always a bonus if it costs less.