A half of Sharp's Doom Bar in The Dovecote in Minster Lovell, near Witney (in essence an Indian restaurant with a functioning bar), was a staggering £2.75 a half. I enquired how much a pint was to be told £4.50. Got to be the biggest disparity between half-pint and pint pricing I've ever come across...
"Breakneck speed we drown ten pints of bitter"
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41183028
Ah, Surrey...
"At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.
In Manchester yesterday, a round of three pints of mild came to £12.15 here, a Nicholsons pub. The next pub visited was this one, where four halves came to £9.80. Two of them were Marble Piwakawaka 6.2% which was priced at £3.80 for 2/3rds, or £5.70 a pint, so the other two halves were around £4 a pint on average. Fortunately the day's other pubs were more normal, with most rounds of four halves coming in at around £7.20 to £7.60. One of my drinking companions, who usually complains about the prices in the Sheffield Tap, commented over a final half that it was quite reasonable in there, really!
Come On You Hatters!