Belgravia Pub Crawl - Price of Beer!
nicensleazy
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I met up with an old friend of mine yesterday evening and we went on a Belgravia Pub Crawl . http://www.maison-de-stuff.net/john/art ... 01688.html It was great fun visiting some lovely old mews pubs. Anyhow, perhaps I don't get out much, but the price of beer! In one pub I ordered two pints of Broadside ....£7.80....I nearly fell over. No wonder pubs are closing up and down the UK if beer is so expensive. How much is a pint in your area??
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I went to Dublin for a pi55 up Tuesday.
That place is ludicrously expensive!!
Beer was priced between 4.50 to 6.50 a pint!
Won't be going back, spent 100 quid just on the booze!0 -
When I go out in London I only really go to Sam Smith pubs. 2 quid a pint for an average beer
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nicensleazy wrote:How much is a pint in your area??
£3.30 at my local.
I'm glad I don't drink much anymore - it would be an expensive habit these days!0 -
So £3.90 a pint – that is about 80p more than my regular central London pub, The Harp at Charing Cross, which always has half a dozen good guest ales, plus the regular Harveys.
I guess the cost of a lease in Belgravia may be part of it, perhaps it's also too close to the hotels used by wealthy tourists.0 -
Le Commentateur wrote:So £3.90 a pint – that is about 80p more than my regular central London pub, The Harp at Charing Cross, which always has half a dozen good guest ales, plus the regular Harveys.
I guess the cost of a lease in Belgravia may be part of it, perhaps it's also too close to the hotels used by wealthy tourists.
Good point......ah the harp, I know it well. Had a few over the years in the Sherlock Holmes.0 -
NapoleonD wrote:I went to Dublin for a pi55 up Tuesday.
That place is ludicrously expensive!!
Beer was priced between 4.50 to 6.50 a pint!
Won't be going back, spent 100 quid just on the booze!
I was in Dublin working for about 6 weeks over the summer, my expenses were queried by accounts every week " why are you spending £20 on booze with every meal" I only had 3 beers!! aslo a cup of coffee was £4.50
I drink in the local weatherspoons , like em or loathe em I got a pint of Ruddles County yesterday for £1.85"BEER" Proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy0 -
Locals not too bad, aroubd £2.50 for a normal pint.
+1 for Sam Smiths"I hold it true, what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost;
Than never to have loved at all."
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+1 for sam smith's again. a pint of mild and a pint of lager sets me back £2.99 at Nelly's in Beverley "scalare come se al grembo degli dei" (apologies to any Italain speakers if the grammar/spelling is off)0
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I drink Stella if I'm in a boozer (can't stand the other usual suspects on offer: Fosters, Carling, Kronenberg). I have no idea how much it costs anywhere else, but in my local it's £3.00 a pint. £1.55 for a half.Ben
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Marstons here. Cumberland, pedigree, hob goblin, all @ 2.50/pint but you can also get a bottle of hardy's shiraz for 7.50! So not to bad.
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£2.36 for a pint of real ale in the Guest House, Southport.
Last time I was in Lunnon I bought 6 pints of Greene King IPA in the station bar at Euston I only had a £20 note in my hand had to go back to our table for a whip round to make up the price :shock:Fig rolls: proof that god loves cyclists and that she wants us to do another lap0 -
OMGoodness, thanks for the heads up, I have a couple of meetings in SW1 next week. I'll stick to the Glenlivet then!0
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haha... my local is the best! its a scream pub (one of the student type things)
as im a regular, student discounts apply to me too!
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1.95 a pint of carling.
1.25 on a monday! 0 -
bobs bikes wrote:haha... my local is the best! its a scream pub (one of the student type things)
as im a regular, student discounts apply to me too!
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1.95 a pint of carling.
1.25 on a monday!
But is it full of students paying by cheque!?Ben
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Belgravia..... Did you go to Madonna and Guy's pub? Don't they own one round there somewhere? Or perhaps they've sold it since the split. Pubs across London charge 3-3.50 for a pint these days unless as someone mentioned you go to a Sam Smiths, or perhaps a Wetherspoon's pub. Probably why London boozers are closing down and being converted into flats or simply boarded up so fast. I was on a local forum the other day for my area and more than 50% of the pubs that were open just 20 or years ago have now gone.Do not write below this line. Office use only.0
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It was a great pub crawl and I would highly recommend it.......just note the high prices for a pint........went for a curry afterwards in Victoria....more sensible prices!!0
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Ouch, expensive.
At least it keeps out the riff raff."There are holes in the sky,
Where the rain gets in.
But they're ever so small
That's why rain is thin. " Spike Milligan0 -
ohhh I feel warm and fuzzy £1.89 for Tetleys or £2.10 for the guest Ales in my local0
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Cockermouth's few remaining Pubs will sell you a pint of Jennings for about £2.50. Lager anywhere up to £2.85.
Duvel is a cool £3.95!"In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
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disgruntledgoat wrote:
Duvel is a cool £3.95!
Is that for a pint?! :shock: If so, I'd have to say its a bargain - I'm obviously too used to London prices.0 -
My locals vary. One is about £3 a pint, the other about £3.50 - this is for your bog standard mass produced pissy lager. Costs a little more if you drink premium, this is rural Bedfordshire.
I paid £8.10 for a beer and a small wine at our clubs annual dinner last week that was at a local hotel, I nearly wept.
Most I think I've paid was about €7 (which at the time equated to £7) for a large beer in Alpe d'Huez while out there skiing.
Sam Smiths, now there's a memory. Used to love going to the Abbey in Darley Abbey, Derby when I lived up there.0 -
MatHammond wrote:disgruntledgoat wrote:
Duvel is a cool £3.95!
Is that for a pint?! :shock: If so, I'd have to say its a bargain - I'm obviously too used to London prices.
That's a 33cl bottle. I can get the same in the local Sainos for £1.49. Or I can buy a magnum of it on the internet for £30!
By the way, if anyone is ever in the holiday inn at Garforth near Leeds, don't buy the whisky. I was at my mates wedding there and bought a large Lagavulin...£12"In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
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