Sobering news: pubs say average cost of a pint will rise above £5

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1. Surprised to hear in some places you can get one for less than £5. Been paying £7+ in a large city for years now.

2. £5?!? Where? Everywhere is at £7! I had to quit, cut drinking out because it was too expensive and a nasty drug that the government promotes for nefarious reasons. I feel great and I bought myself a dog. Don’t drink alcohol!

3. Simultaneously see articles asking why clubbing is dying out.

   You see boss, the price of a pint has doubled since I’ve legally been able to drink, BUT my pay packet simply hasn’t. Given a choice between feeding myself + saving for a rainy day (which are becoming ever more regular) and going out on the lash, well common sense isn’t it.

4. Round here Lancashire it’s well above that now fosters I drink weak larger out of Preston it’s £3.50 – £4 a pint, in town it’s £8 – £9 a pint so I won’t go out with them prices

5. Well that’s going to get people into pubs isn’t it?

6. Stoke is still at 3.50/4 tops in most pubs,
   Everyone come up north, big night out this weekend my treat!

7. You can buy a pint for less than a fiver?

   That will be a shock for anyone who lives in the bottom third of the country.

8. 10-15 years ago, places like fabric & egg would charge us £3-£4 just for a bottle of water. They must be a tenner now.

9. Funny how their killing of something that is mostly tax.

10. This has made me basically stop drinking so thanks. But don’t blame the public when all the pubs shut down.

11. Is this an old post? Been paying over £5 per pint in the south for years

12. It’s funny. I stopped going to pubs when a double morgans and coke went above £5.

13. Waiting for the “Gen Z is killing pub culture” articles that are exact copies of the “millennials killing pubs” articles from 5 years ago.

14. Pints at ulour village pub are already over £6 each

    Madness

15. At least it’s not NZ prices, alot of places it’s about £7 a pint here 😭

16. Surprised by all these comments saying they’ve been paying over £5 a pint for years. Live in Southampton and most beers are between £4-£4.50

17. Paying bar staff living wage significantly increases costs + NI increases, rents, energy, I’m surprised they’re only £5 a pint

18. I run a rugby club bar, our lagers are £5 each, however cost for cider and ale is much less so they sell for £4 and £3.30 each

19. Nothing wrong with Spoons. Decent service, cheap booze, clean, toilets with modern fittings, usually a decent outside smoking area, relatively edible (also cheap) food etc.

    Not fkn £8 for a pint of flat stuff through pipes the publican last got cleaned back in the 90s.

20. I haven’t seen a pint under a fiver in a LONG time anyway!

21. I’m reading too many comments along the lines of “well I’ve been paying more than £5 for a while”. Do people not understand how averages work?

22. I’m surprised it’s lower than that now. It’s like £7 in warwickshire and even when I go home to Boro I didn’t think it was less than a fiver outside spoons.

23. It’ll be more sobering for the pubs when they close down. £5 a pint is absolutely indefensible.
    Then they’ll cry about how they “weren’t supported by their local community”.

24. Now this wouldn’t save pubs, but if a pint isn’t going to get any cheaper. Couldn’t someone open a large pub like building but it’s like a BYOB business.

    You or your group pay for a table and glasses (could be for a limited or unlimited amount of time) and each table or area has fridges to keep your drinks cold. And then after you finish the business disposes of your cans and bottles.

    Would this work?

25. Interesting chart, I didn’t realise how much it has risen since I left the UK in 2013.

    Assuming this is a national (UK) average, I wonder what the numbers are like when split between England, Wales, Scotland and N. Ireland

26. No problem.. they can all just start closing like the clubs did..

27. Wait you guy been paying  beer for less than £7 ?
    *insert confuse kid meme 

28. I live in Sheffield and pay around £5.50 a pint and have done for a long time. I was worried about going to Dublin a few months ago for a stag do thinking this will be horrific but it was just the same as drinking in Sheffield. Was pleasantly surprised!

29. Zero sympathy to any pub which goes under serving pints above 5 pounds.

30. In London here and there are many places that do pints for less than £5.

    • ⁠the Chandos Covent Garden
    • ⁠McGlyns KX
    • ⁠Bush house Embankment
    • ⁠Golden lion Camden
    • ⁠pickled hen George street
    • ⁠Strongroom Shoreditch
    • ⁠The Glad SE1
    • ⁠the Anchor tap SE1
    • ⁠The Blue Posts Berwick Street
    • ⁠Around 65 JDW locations depending on your definition of central London
    • ⁠Around 35-40 Sam Smith pubs. (Alpine Lager and Old Brewery Bitter.

    There are likely more.

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