[Closed] Last night I had a decent pint of beer for £1.82....

Last night I had an OK beer at Stockholm airport for £7.73

I had to go to Shanghai for work last week. £7/pint for Stella in the hotel 😯

my pint cost me about 35p last night.

I'm enjoying this homebrew malarkey 😀

It's grim darn sarf.

In my local down south a coupe of months ago I paid £10.40 (without realising before I ordered) for 2 pints of craft lager!

You were clearly hijacked. For a start, theres no such thing as 'craft' lager. Its just lager. 'Craft' is a stupid hipster affectation, almost as bad as *ing 'Artisan' used to double the price of bog standard stuff, then sell it to clueless bearded trustafarian *-wits, probably in a bloody jam jar. It was in a jam jar, wasn't it?

Decent beer is under 3 quid a pint in the bloody fantastic microbewery down the road. Grim former northern mill town, obviously 😀

I had a pint of mild at the weekend. I don't recall the price, nor did I notice that i'd suddenly turned into an old giffer who thinks that mild was delicious.

Staying oop north (live on the south coast) nr Mansfield and had a pint of beer in the hotel bar last night for £1.82. That was the premium beer, the "mild" was £1.45.

Yes, but you had to go near Mansfield to get it. And that's not oop North, it's the Midlands even before you take Scotland into account!

I think I'd rather not go to Mansfield and just pay the extra.

Pub night tonight.

Small village pub. Regional CAMRA pub of the year. 14 hand-pulled real ales at the bar - selection changes every week, but many are from breweries within a few miles. Most are £2 to 2.50 😀

Standing arrangement that an informal group of us local dads meet up there every Thursday. Sometimes there are only three or four, sometimes fifteen, but there is always someone to have a pint with and always good craic. £10 buy-in for the kitty behind the bar and maybe another £10 later if you're making a session of it.

Banter, lock in, then a short stagger home through safe streets.

Aye it's grim up north.

Sam Smiths pubs up North are great – only sell their own stuff (no Kopperberg Apple, Potato & Custard ciders) and around £1.50 a pint for bitter, £1.80 for lager.

It is an acquired taste, but they actually make the stuff using all natural ingredients and hardly any (if any at all) unnecessary additives.

But I love the bitter – it tastes like I imagine beer used to taste 200 years ago when you sat in your village pub surrounded by friends you've known for a lifetime.

Last night I found a bottle of slow gin we maid a few years ago while looking for some tyre leavers.

It was very nice.

A pint in my local is £3. It's very nice but still a tad high.

120 NOK - £9.50 for a pint of ok'ish beer in Flam, Norway. Sat outside so a least the scenery was spectacular.
There probably isn't a Norwegian word for hangover

£3.30 for draught ales in the village pub. Doom Bar last night. Delicious after a short sharp road ride.

Nb this is also in the Midlands, not far from Mansfield. But much better.

$9.50 (AU) for a selection of schooners or really awesome beers local and a bit more exotic 🙂

Last night I had food poisoning, slinging up the contents of my stomach at 4am, I think you all win over me!

You were clearly hijacked. For a start, theres no such thing as 'craft' lager. Its just lager. 'Craft' is a stupid hipster affectation, almost as bad as *ing 'Artisan' used to double the price of bog standard stuff, then sell it to clueless bearded trustafarian *-wits, probably in a bloody jam jar. It was in a jam jar, wasn't it?

And oh so true.

Sam Smiths pubs up North are great

I must make a trip to the Boltmakers again sometime soon 🙂

But not as good as Tim Taylors

£2.75 in my Midlands local, it is a private club though

rOcKeTdOg earlier, in his private club....

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😀

But not as good as Tim Taylors.

Sam Smiths pubs up North are great

as are most of the ones in London (particularly The Cock, Old Cheshire Cheese and The Rising Sun)

Last night I found a bottle of slow gin we maid a few years ago while looking for some tyre leavers.

Autocorrect is a bugger isn't it 😀

£2.45 for most hand pull stuff in my local. Lager is closer to £3.20 which is good because it keeps all the ****s out.

£3.30 for draught ales in the village pub. Doom Bar last night.

I was paying £2.20/pint for Doom Bar last night. Unless anyone from work is reading, in which case I mean "at the weekend."

Well it's still £1.00 a pint if you catch a bottled beer "special" at Booths. Some beers work better than others bottled and poured into a decent glass you'd almost think you were in the pub.

Some beers work better than others bottled and poured into a decent glass you'd almost think you were in the pub.

you'd almost think you were in the pub.

You can add to the effect by having a group of pickled old codgers sitting in your front room making casually racist remarks, then getting an angry man in a tracksuit to come and glass you

Then spill some chilli sauce down your shirt, and develop some digestive problems to recreate the walk home

you certainly drink in some shit places Binners

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First rule, Flat Roof - NO!

My actual local is lovely Mike. Hence me spending FAR too much time in there. I'll be in later, seeing as its the start of the weekend. Cheers! 😀

Drink?HebdenBridge on Market St is doing really nice keg beer at £3 a pint. Worth a visit.

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Pint of Doom Bar is £4.30, so the wallet will be £20 lighter later, inc the obligatory Pork Scratchings!

No ZH contracts for the bar staff I hope!

as are most of the ones in London (particularly The Cock, Old Cheshire Cheese and The Rising Sun)

The first time I went out drinking we ended up in the upstairs room of a pub in Jesmond, Newcastle. The room was huge, the full length and width of the building, it had padded benches around the walls and dozens of small round tables with chairs. You pressed a button on the wall and a waiter would come with a towel over his arm, take your order and then come back with a round tray loaded with glasses of McEwan's Best Scotch, very dark and with a cream-coloured head. It was a place for serious drinking and had the kind of territorial atmosphere where you didn't dare look at anybody else's pint, let alone their face. You kept quiet, kept your eyes doon and minded your own business.

At about the same time on a trip up the coast towards Holy Island we went into a pub and my Mum asked for a half of lager. The barman replied: "Sorry Pet, nay lager - wa divven't get many ladies in here!"

Binners, thats just a public loo.

£4.20 London Pride less a 10% loyalty discount, £3.60 Marston EPA in club, however £6 for a bottle of beer in a hotel in Guildford at a function was a real shock.

Sam Smiths pubs up North are great

Couldn't agree more.

It's just the beer that's served in them that's 'orrible.

The regulars (in my local anyway) aren't much better either.

Drop out of the woods, narrowly miss the swings and freewheel to the pub.
Sam Smiths mild is £1.30 pint in the Colliers Arms, Elland.

Unicorn for bathams last night,£2.60 a pint, Bostin!

£1/L 🙂

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Small village pub. Regional CAMRA pub of the year. 14 hand-pulled real ales at the bar - selection changes every week, but many are from breweries within a few miles. Most are £2 to 2.50

In Wylam?

Local beer is Chang or Leo so dirt cheap.

Local 'craft beers' imported are around 6quid a pint

Couple of years back in Singapore at a conference, I bought four large bottles of beer in a hoteal bar, and on returning home, realised that the bill came to just under a hundred quid. So nearly 25 quid a pint.

Something's wrong with that Leo picture above.... that looks like a Europiss, not a beer. The same stuff somebody threw in Froomey's face.

Globalti - I love beers and ales when back in blighty but on the beach or in the sun, paler, lighter tasting, colder and fizzier is perfect. It's much nicer than Euro-piss (or American-piss like Coors, Bud etc)

£14 for a Newcastle Brown in Norway. Its imported see.

£14 for a Newcastle Brown in Norway. Its imported see.

Where from, Mars ?

8 grand for a pint bottle of Köstritzer schwarzbier in my local supermarket. Luckily that's in pesos so £1.72. So apparently it's 20 times more expensive to import a beer from Newcastle to Norway than from Germany to Colombia.

£3.50 for proper beer (I'm not saying ale, I hate that word) last night which, for the heart of the Cotswolds, is pretty good.

Globalti - I love beers and ales when back in blighty but on the beach or in the sun, paler, lighter tasting, colder and fizzier is perfect. It's much nicer than Euro-piss (or American-piss like Coors, Bud etc)

Actually I have to confess to hypocrisy here because when in Africa I drink lagers, and they have some very good ones at that. Perfect in a hot climate.

allthepies - Member

£14 for a Newcastle Brown in Norway. Its imported see.

Where from, Mars ?

Thats pretty much what I said. I think they saw it as some artisan local brew from a small community on the english /scottish border . I told them it was p'ss , called 'dog' and that no one drinks it anymore. I think thats true?

Prices are getting a bit mad in Brizzle too. Any decent pub, it's getting towards £4 for a pint of decent ale, and anything in a large bottle can be well over that. Almost worth it for a bottle of pretty much anything from Arbor Ale - comes in a 568ml bottle too! 🙂

As much as some of the old farts may scorn at such things as craft lager, the whole microbrewery boom recently has presented us with some fantastic beers, and that can only be a good thing eh?.

Don't come south for your beer, it's really rather rubbish 😆

The Flower Pots, Cheriton, Hampshire. It's won so many awards for its own Brewed ales I'd fill this page up with them.
£3.00 - £3.50 a pint. Worth double IMO.

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Almost £4 in my local, and I'm up north 😕

As much as some of the old farts may scorn at such things as craft lager, the whole microbrewery boom recently has presented us with some fantastic beers, and that can only be a good thing eh?.

Not arguing with that fella. But 'Craft' and 'Artisan' when placed before something is a stupid hipster affectation. Usually used as some achingly transparent method of hiking the price of something. Beer, lager, ale, whatever... is made by a pretty simple process. Whether that is carried out in a microbrewery, or on an industrial scale, its pretty much the same. It is not, never has been, and never will be 'Craft' or 'Artisan'. And anyone who claims that is should be taken outside and given a proper shoeing.

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[url= http://www.irwellworksbrewery.co.uk/ ]This place[/url] is the microbrwery down the road from me. They brew cracking beer, at under £3 a pint. Sarah would no more use the word 'Craft' or 'Artisan' to describe what she makes, than she would serve pints of fosters

I can't remember the last time I went to the pub.

Binners, that place sums up the Midlands.

I'd rather be homeless in Lisbon than live near that dump. Is it Corby by any chance?

oldnpastit - Member

I had to go to Shanghai for work last week. £7/pint for Stella in the hotel

Have you tried the Shanghai Brewery? Not cheap but a good choice of beers.

I inadvertently paid 28€ for a beer once in Venice.

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Very glad I never tend to order "the same again"!

I'm in Saltburn this weekend and whilst I thought you'd get a pint for £1.50 and a shag for a bag of chips, I'm clearly wrong and it's £3.50 for Black Sheep and the shag it's seems is a thing that happened only in 70's/80's gritty Northern dramas...

It's £3.50 for Black Sheep in the pub I work in, which is in one of the most affluent villages in Cambridgeshire. 😯

I tend to only drink at wetherspoons or at home these days. Beer is far to expensive around my office in brum, and we don't go go out in the evenings since the kids came along.

I did manage to pay £12 odd for two small bottles of Belgian beer in a little hipster place last Christmas, won't make that mistake again.

£2.90 a pint in my local.
http://www.risingsunsheffield.co.uk/
And since the new landlord took over people actually want to go in!

Thomas Leaper in Derby thursday night. Shortly before watching Peter Hook & the Light.

Better than the overpriced £5 a pint shite they sell in the Bell around the corner.

It was a really nice locally brewed pint.

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Whether that is carried out in a microbrewery, or on an industrial scale, its pretty much the same.

The basic process and chemistry yes.

Everything else, no. You have just shown how ignorant you are of what is actually involved in brewing beer.

It's like trying to say there is no difference between the cheapest catering frozen sausages and sausage produced on a small scale by a local butcher.

I agree that that the word "craft" is used in a lot of sh!te marketing for some over priced rubbish.

However, the US "Craft" Brewing revival, has led to some really good beer, which has spread to the UK and Europe.

In the US they have an agreed definition of what "Craft" brewing is, this is an attempt to protect it from the big boys.

[url= https://www.brewersassociation.org/statistics/craft-brewer-defined/ ]https://www.brewersassociation.org/statistics/craft-brewer-defined/[/url]

[url= https://www.brewdog.com/lowdown/blog/defining-craft-beer ]https://www.brewdog.com/lowdown/blog/defining-craft-beer[/url]

Why do a lot these "craft" beers cost more? A lot of it comes from the cost of ingredients, particularly in a very hoppy beer. Hops are not cheap and in mass produced rubbish, they are used in the most economic way, purely for the bottom line.

If I have to use the word "craft" to help protect the breweries who produce this stuff, then so be it.

****ety **** **** its cheaper to drive than to drink
£15 a gallon rising to £32 a gallon

Home brew is the future at approx £2.40 a gallon for better beer than the pubs serve

howsyourdad1
Newcastle Brown was £1.25 the other week in our local Aldi 😀

I used to drink lots of it many moons ago, in fact it was one of the few drinks in Jills Rock Club as I remember it where they just had crates of it behind the bar.

I've recently got back into it again just for the hell of it really and ......................I actually enjoyed it 🙂

Locally cannot really go wrong with anything from the Dunham Massey brewery

£3 a pint for decent beer in the Brittania in Darlington on Thursday night.

I only paid for one of the three I drank so, technically, a pound a pint 🙂

And anyone who claims that is should be taken outside and given a proper shoeing.

An artisan manufactured shoe?

I think they saw it as some artisan local brew from a small community on the english /scottish border

They sell Tennent's Super like that in Italian supermarkets. Priced and displayed with the premium beers.

Drop out of the woods, narrowly miss the swings and freewheel to the pub.
Sam Smiths mild is £1.30 pint in the Colliers Arms, Elland.

This. And you can sit next to the canal to enjoy it 8)

MoreCashThanDash - Member
£3.30 for draught ales in the village pub. Doom Bar last night. Delicious after a short sharp road ride.

Nb this is also in the Midlands, not far from Mansfield. But much better.

Unfortunatly its the owning PubCo's who are ramping up prices. The landlord has an approved supplier list which is controlled by the pubco.
The PubCo then sets the price , and as pubs are less busy the landlord has to have a bigger mark up.
This clearly does not apply to a freehouse where the owner can choose to stock what ever he likes.
JDW have an annual tender arrangement and you apply to supply JD's for a year. Low input price, bigger volume. And never , ever short dated stock. That is an urban myth which is further than the truth.
Over supply next year will see a price war in whiuch LL's will be able to buy beers at the same price as they were paying maybe 20 years ago, give or take.

I had a lucky escape last night - have gone teetotal following a medical scare, my first out yesterday and we went for dinner at a pub where I remembered as we walked in it serves Landlord. Fortunately it was off and so I remain "on the wagon".......

Home brewing is definitely the way forward for me, the pubs near me are shocking, the odd one will serve up a decent pint of Harvey's but the best beers are on tap in my garage 😆