This is beyond eye-wateringly expensive. Over the last two days I've had six halves of cask from small-scale brewers at the following pubs. I can't remember what I had where, but it was a wide variety of styles and ABVs from 3.7% to 6.00%, the prices taken from my phone's payment log:
Earl of Essex - £2.60
The Myddleton Arms - £2.35
Old Fountain - £2.60
Southampton Arms - £2.35, £2.88
The Wenlock Arms - £2.40
To clarify, the cask in Hopwoods is ‘only’ £5.50 a pint, I think the half that Peter Ashworth had was a keg beer. Still pretty extortionate for Preston.
Last edited by Brainypool; 17-03-2022 at 07:33.
Not bad for keg, but outrageous for cask; I've paid £3.85 for a half of Neck Oil. I can get a pint for under £4.50 at the Southampton, Admiral, Cock and the Railway Porter last night at Railway Tavern was £4.30, though they were using some pretty coercive pricing measures, with a half costing £3.00; the Five Points XPA was also £4.30 but £2.20 for the half.