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    Quote Originally Posted by Mobyduck View Post
    Agree that £4.50 is the average but Iv'e recently had pints in The Harp and Tapping The Admiral under £4.00 (albeit with CAMRA discount, £3.50 in the latter),Oakham Citra at £3.80 in the King Charles 1 , Kings Cross ,without discount, The Southampton Arms and Euston Tap may have just recently broached the £4.00 mark. That said it no longer shocks me to be charged nearer £5.00 in other places.
    The Union Tavern £4.30 a pint seemingly in October 2017, but several recent trips have delivered pints at just sub-£4.00 prices yet this pub is in an increasingly very expensive area. Nice pub too.
    A recent trip to Tapping the Admiral delivered several pints at sub-£4.00 prices and that was without a CAMRA card - one of the reasons why I like it so much.

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    The price a pub charges doesn't just reflect the price the landlord paid for the beer but includes overheads.Same goes for us buying the beer.I used to spent £20 +a week on fares while ticking beers around London.I have for the past 5 years had free travel so a £4.50 a pint is my total cost.Maybe you can get £3 a pint in the East Midlands but add the travel costs and you are paying £5 a pint.Nice for locals but not for travellers

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    The Union Tavern is a nice pub owned by Fullers so it pisses me off to hear they have beer at that price .I have paid £5 +a pint in two local Fullers pubs before Christmas and also up the city a few weeks ago.

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    While waiting for my wife to do some shopping in Kingston today I had a choice of drinks
    starbucks coffee £2.40
    Albany pub -half of Wylam -coconut cream porter 5.8 £3.50
    Wetherspoons -pint Oakham -citra £1.95 using a spoons voucher

    rather good citra as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by london calling View Post
    Maybe you can get £3 a pint in the East Midlands but add the travel costs and you are paying £5 a pint.Nice for locals but not for travellers
    The advance railcard return fare to Wolverhampton now comes to £11.20. Great Western prices are Mild £2.65, Bitter £2.70 and Special £2.95. Guests are £3.00 to £3.40. Batham's pub prices are £2.45(?) Mild and £2.85 Best. Lych Gate (BCA) prices are £3.00 to £3.40 for guests. I reckon I almost make up the rail fare cost by going there rather than having an extended session in the only two local pubs I use and neither opens before midday. Compared to central or inner London then it saves me money going there. There's no question of that and I'm not ending up paying anything like £5.00 a pint.
    The East Midlands might be a different matter as the trains are expensive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aqualung View Post
    The advance railcard return fare to Wolverhampton now comes to £11.20. Great Western prices are Mild £2.65, Bitter £2.70 and Special £2.95. Guests are £3.00 to £3.40. Batham's pub prices are £2.45(?) Mild and £2.85 Best. Lych Gate (BCA) prices are £3.00 to £3.40 for guests. I reckon I almost make up the rail fare cost by going there rather than having an extended session in the only two local pubs I use and neither opens before midday. Compared to central or inner London then it saves me money going there. There's no question of that and I'm not ending up paying anything like £5.00 a pint.
    The East Midlands might be a different matter as the trains are expensive.
    Depends how much you drink.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mobyduck View Post
    Depends how much you drink.
    I'm there for about 7 hours so it isn't just a couple of pints!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aqualung View Post
    The advance railcard return fare to Wolverhampton now comes to £11.20. Great Western prices are Mild £2.65, Bitter £2.70 and Special £2.95. Guests are £3.00 to £3.40. Batham's pub prices are £2.45(?) Mild and £2.85 Best. Lych Gate (BCA) prices are £3.00 to £3.40 for guests. I reckon I almost make up the rail fare cost by going there rather than having an extended session in the only two local pubs I use and neither opens before midday. Compared to central or inner London then it saves me money going there. There's no question of that and I'm not ending up paying anything like £5.00 a pint.
    The East Midlands might be a different matter as the trains are expensive.
    I wasn't meaning specific pubs but generally that if you include travel etc its not such a bargain.Like Moby said I also know pubs up London where you can get beers for £4 ish but don't want to be restricted to where I drink based on cost but am def avoiding rip off pubs where I can.

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    An additional service not mentioned in the entry for this pub


    https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1736...n/?ref=mr&lp=7
    Last edited by NickDavies; 20-01-2019 at 19:45.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NickDavies View Post
    An additional service not mentioned in the entry for this pub


    https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1736...n/?ref=mr&lp=7
    Apparently a common service in the darker corners of Victorian pubs, cost 2d hence the old saying about not giving a tuppenny toss.

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