Real ale prices????

[arwkrite]

Arthurish, you forgot number 5 which is...

Do I buy Petrol or Beer ?

The prices of which are becoming ridiculous. It is no good the Govt. of the day blaming the producers of both products when it is they who impose such heavy taxes on them. I think it is a conspiracy to stop us travelling around in search of cheap beer.

[Arthurish]

Arkwrite,

I didn't forget, I don't drive so no contest.

[RogerB]

Noticed that my local 'Spoons are now charging more for ales over 5% - currently £2.10 for under and £2.25 for over (+ VAT increase to hit us from tomorrow). 3 months ago it was £1.90 across the board.

[Quinno]

A new Reading high recorded last week - £3.50 for Brakspear Oxford Gold at the Duke of Wellington, Twyford.

I am fully expecting to record a £4 pint of ale somewhere come this time next year.

Brewdog Punk IPA was selling for £3.80 at the Hobgoblin in Reading a few days back but I'll let them off as it is 6%!

[Maldenman]

A three pint round ( two ESBs and a Chiswick) in The Wych Elm, Kingston last night came to a staggering £11.10. Thankfully it wasn't my round

I reckon that's £3.80 for ESB and £3.50 for Chiswick.

[Rex_Rattus]

Is this a Fuller's thing I wonder? In The Blacksmiths Arms (a Fuller's pub) yesterday I got charged £3.90 for a pint of Fuller's Front Row, a relatively weak 3.7% ABV ale. In my review I use the same highly appropriate adjective as Maldenman

[Farway]

Is this a Fuller's thing I wonder? In The Blacksmiths Arms (a Fuller's pub) yesterday I got charged £3.90 for a pint of Fuller's Front Row, a relatively weak 3.7% ABV ale. In my review I use the same highly appropriate adjective as Maldenman

If it is I think it must be a London / Home counties thing, here in darkest Hampshire all still around the £3 mark in Fullers [ex Gales] pubs

[Alesonly]

I was charged £3.95 for a Pint of ESB in a Fullers Pub at Finchley a few weeks ago its probably gone up again by now too over four quid.

[Maldenman]

Is this a Fuller's thing I wonder?

I think it probably is, we did seven pubs yesterday in Teddington and Kingston and the general round for three was just under a tenner, only creeping slightly over once in The Park Tavern, Kingston but then we were all on premium 5.2% Everards Original (£10.20 ie £3.40). ESB granted is a higher strength beer but it isn't silly strength, and Chiswick is a low gravity pint.

[oldboots]

£2.10 to £2.20 in Leeds yesterday for cooking bitter .

The most I paid (apart from that bloody awful Brew Dog stuff at £2 a half) was £2.95 in Nicholson's Victoria Hotel and that was for Thwaites MILD.