Yeah let’s screw over tons of people just chilling and having fun because a few people can’t handle their beer.
I’ve been priced out of pubs since covid. 10 years ago I could get multiple pints and a bag of chips for the walk home on a £10 budget. Now it doesn’t even get me 2 pints.
Pubs are dying out and I’m not surprised. They no longer serve as a community space that caters to everyone.
Sadly I don’t see it getting any better.
For any policy makers out there wanting to win an election, running on a base of making pubs great again would secure you an election. Cheaper fun is always going to be a vote winner.
I think the UK people should make this a cross party issue.
I’m 23 and have just recently started going to pubs but when it’s £5.75 for a pint of Old Peculier (even when properly cellared and pulled) I don’t make it a common occurrence.
On the radio the other day it was mentioned that taking inflation into count from the late 1970s a pint of beer should be around £1.70 now.Such a shame, having a local pub kept my grandad sane when my gran died, now most the pubs are gone in my town
I’m in a quiet corner of Scotland (which is weirdly over served by pubs) and can buy two pints of Bellhaven Best for about £1 more than a single pint of similar quality hand pump beer in London. It’s much easier to enjoy yourself out when you’re not constantly counting.
More and more gonna move to drinking at home/at a mates. I hardly ever drink in a pub anymore. Why go to the pub and spend £30-40 on 5-6 pints when I can get a 10 pack for £10 from the supermarket.
*weeps in Brighton pub prices*
I won’t miss these Victorian Crack Houses when they’re gone. These places are black holes in the tapestry of this country. Like poop under your shoe or cosplaying patriots, they are a big sucking drain on society.
Beer tax, energy costs, pubs not doing enough to bring communities back. Its not enough now to just sell good food and beer. Youve got to have loyal customer groups with reasons to be in your pub. Board games, darts groups, dating nights etc.
But the main thing is alcohol duty. Its obscene and it needs to be reduced.
Knock it all you want, but spoons is the place. I refuse to pay £5-6 a pint when that could get me a four pack at my local off license.
I paid £10.50 for a pint of Camden Hells at the o2 London last year. I had to confirm with the bar staff that the price was one pint, and not one case. It’s obscene now. The price of two pints is now what I used to pay for concert tickets in the 2000’s.
What is this hotminute page that keeps getting posted here
Paying 6.50 for a pint of Guinness in Leamington stung.
I met a friend from Canada at a hotel pub we were spending a night before flying… Luton. The pints were £2.05 I knocked back 5 in an hour and she asked me what the hell I was doing . I explained that where I live… Cotswolds… The 5 pints would have cost me about 27 quid instead of 10.25.
Pub culture was part of British culture for a long time. Shame British culture is being eroded.
Local cricket club for me in the summer. Cans are 2 quid a piece. Spirits and mixers are 3 quid.
Massive beer garden. Good atmosphere and always busy.
Bands on outside most Saturdays. Or inside of it’s lumping down.
If we went into the pubs in town,it’s double the price if not treble and the taxi fares on top are extortionate Usually see some bell end kicking off aswell.
Labour tax strikes again
Just got a bottle of Fanta in the shop and it cost me 2 quid. I’m fucking done with the bullshit and refusing to buy any beer, soft drinks and coffee until they stop profiteering
I just nipped in to my local whilst taking the kid out because sunny and a bit of a thirst.
Quiet tavern style – nothing special. £6.60 for a middle road pale ale / Neipa. Really puts me off going there more often.
Luckily we have a few taprooms down the road from me where you can get a pint £5.25-£5.50. On Friday’s 12-4 is £4 a pint as well.
The sad thing is that that’s now a great deal. When I was mid 20’s I was living in Leeds and could grab 3-4 pints for a tenner on a slow Sunday – was a weekly occurrence.
Now I’d rather just get a can from the corner shop and drink it at home. Boring but cheap.
It might be a London thing, but I don’t see pubs closing. Everything is jam packed all the bloody time no matter the price!
Actual cost of a pint vs overheads eg staff NI increase etc etc?
So glad I gave up drink about 7 years ago, could have a night out, probably including buying a few drinks for mates and some food on the way home, for like £50.
I can still get 2 pints for under a tenner, not in a Spoons,a regular pub. But I doubt that will last much longer.
20 years ago, I got £4.95 on minimum wage and a pint was £3.00-£3.50 (spoons was £2)
Now minimum wage is over £12 and a pint is £5.50-6.50
I’m not saying it’s cheap to drink out, but I don’t think it’s the price of beer itself that’s the issue it’s the border lack of disposable income
Part of culture being eroded slowly over time, when it dies a lot of people will struggle socially
I think an underrated factor is the cost of electricity. Not specifically for the pub but for the brewing supply chain. It’s a pretty energy intense process and energy prices have shot up post Ukraine war, 2022, as they’re tied to gas. Who exports the most gas, Russia does.
Also the UK has uncapped rates for energy prices on businesses. So I’d anticipate the overheads of brewing are high, passed onto the pubs who also have high electric bills, passed onto the consumer who is in a cost of living crisis.
I don’t go out much due to the costs. About 15 years ago our village had 6 pubs. Down to 3 now. Worth noting the population has increased by about 5k in that time. The remaining 3 do a good trade.
I’m really sad about the pub situation. I tend to go out to a pub in the next town where my mates do a quiz night. I don’t like quizzes but go to say hi. Get a pint in pre quiz and if noone shows early i take a book and read in a corner and save a table for them.
The whole pub situation is sad, as is the mental health crisis in this country. The pub should be the hub of the community. A chance to talk and meet people and in some cases, gain knowledge. Now people just don’t go out. Get all their knowledge online and get miserable. We are social creatures we should be out and about.
I’m absolutely terrified that pubs will die out.
Beer duty, wages, NI increases, business rates, electricity & gas prices, the cost of purchasing the beer wholesale, all impact the price of the pint. It isn’t as simplistic as inflation.
Fucking disgrace. – actively destroying public culture.
It’s getting silly now, since a lot of places are pushing a fiver a pint I’ve just not drank as much, if we’re talking above 6/7 then I’ll probably not go
Most drinking pubs up north are charging 4.30 a pint for regular larger, 4.90 for premium. I live in a poorer area.
On minimum wage that’s 2 pints of Carling an hour after tax if your lucky. And over half of jobs are minimum wage here.
We’re basically back on peasant wages.
Yes but this average is bullshit. It takes in to account London prices. I live in the midlands and can happily buy a pint for £3:10
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Can’t remember the last time I paid less than £6.00 for beer outside of a Spoons.
It’s no wonder younger people choose to drink at home instead of going to the pub these days, the prices are ridiculous
Bottled and canned beer in supermarkets has been the same price for quite a while now, so it makes less and less sense to go to the pub.
I can buy three bottles of Butty Bach from Tesco for £7 or one pint of something similar for £5-7.
Hopefully we can tax it out of existence like smoking. We’d saved billions £ in RTC’s, the NHS, Domestic violence, addiction.
Edit: Here are some sources to show some data on just how bad it really is
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohol-topics-z/alcohol-facts-and-statistics/alcohol-and-young-adults-ages-18-25#:~:text=Consequences%20of%20Alcohol%20Use&text=According%20to%20the%202023%20NSDUH%2C%2015.1%25%20of%20adults%20ages%2018,alcohol%20use%20disorder%20(AUD).&text=Within%20this%20age%20group%2C%2014.5,met%20the%20criteria%20for%20AUD.
[https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7626/CBP-7626.pdf](https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7626/CBP-7626.pdf)
Yeah let’s screw over tons of people just chilling and having fun because a few people can’t handle their beer.
I’ve been priced out of pubs since covid. 10 years ago I could get multiple pints and a bag of chips for the walk home on a £10 budget. Now it doesn’t even get me 2 pints.
Pubs are dying out and I’m not surprised. They no longer serve as a community space that caters to everyone.
Sadly I don’t see it getting any better.
For any policy makers out there wanting to win an election, running on a base of making pubs great again would secure you an election. Cheaper fun is always going to be a vote winner.
I think the UK people should make this a cross party issue.
I’m 23 and have just recently started going to pubs but when it’s £5.75 for a pint of Old Peculier (even when properly cellared and pulled) I don’t make it a common occurrence.
On the radio the other day it was mentioned that taking inflation into count from the late 1970s a pint of beer should be around £1.70 now.Such a shame, having a local pub kept my grandad sane when my gran died, now most the pubs are gone in my town
I’m in a quiet corner of Scotland (which is weirdly over served by pubs) and can buy two pints of Bellhaven Best for about £1 more than a single pint of similar quality hand pump beer in London. It’s much easier to enjoy yourself out when you’re not constantly counting.
More and more gonna move to drinking at home/at a mates. I hardly ever drink in a pub anymore. Why go to the pub and spend £30-40 on 5-6 pints when I can get a 10 pack for £10 from the supermarket.
*weeps in Brighton pub prices*
I won’t miss these Victorian Crack Houses when they’re gone. These places are black holes in the tapestry of this country. Like poop under your shoe or cosplaying patriots, they are a big sucking drain on society.
Beer tax, energy costs, pubs not doing enough to bring communities back. Its not enough now to just sell good food and beer. Youve got to have loyal customer groups with reasons to be in your pub. Board games, darts groups, dating nights etc.
But the main thing is alcohol duty. Its obscene and it needs to be reduced.
Knock it all you want, but spoons is the place. I refuse to pay £5-6 a pint when that could get me a four pack at my local off license.
I paid £10.50 for a pint of Camden Hells at the o2 London last year. I had to confirm with the bar staff that the price was one pint, and not one case. It’s obscene now. The price of two pints is now what I used to pay for concert tickets in the 2000’s.
What is this hotminute page that keeps getting posted here
Paying 6.50 for a pint of Guinness in Leamington stung.
I met a friend from Canada at a hotel pub we were spending a night before flying… Luton. The pints were £2.05 I knocked back 5 in an hour and she asked me what the hell I was doing . I explained that where I live… Cotswolds… The 5 pints would have cost me about 27 quid instead of 10.25.
Pub culture was part of British culture for a long time. Shame British culture is being eroded.
Local cricket club for me in the summer. Cans are 2 quid a piece. Spirits and mixers are 3 quid.
Massive beer garden. Good atmosphere and always busy.
Bands on outside most Saturdays. Or inside of it’s lumping down.
If we went into the pubs in town,it’s double the price if not treble and the taxi fares on top are extortionate Usually see some bell end kicking off aswell.
Labour tax strikes again
Just got a bottle of Fanta in the shop and it cost me 2 quid. I’m fucking done with the bullshit and refusing to buy any beer, soft drinks and coffee until they stop profiteering
I just nipped in to my local whilst taking the kid out because sunny and a bit of a thirst.
Quiet tavern style – nothing special. £6.60 for a middle road pale ale / Neipa. Really puts me off going there more often.
Luckily we have a few taprooms down the road from me where you can get a pint £5.25-£5.50. On Friday’s 12-4 is £4 a pint as well.
The sad thing is that that’s now a great deal. When I was mid 20’s I was living in Leeds and could grab 3-4 pints for a tenner on a slow Sunday – was a weekly occurrence.
Now I’d rather just get a can from the corner shop and drink it at home. Boring but cheap.
It might be a London thing, but I don’t see pubs closing. Everything is jam packed all the bloody time no matter the price!
Actual cost of a pint vs overheads eg staff NI increase etc etc?
So glad I gave up drink about 7 years ago, could have a night out, probably including buying a few drinks for mates and some food on the way home, for like £50.
I can still get 2 pints for under a tenner, not in a Spoons,a regular pub. But I doubt that will last much longer.
20 years ago, I got £4.95 on minimum wage and a pint was £3.00-£3.50 (spoons was £2)
Now minimum wage is over £12 and a pint is £5.50-6.50
I’m not saying it’s cheap to drink out, but I don’t think it’s the price of beer itself that’s the issue it’s the border lack of disposable income
Part of culture being eroded slowly over time, when it dies a lot of people will struggle socially
I think an underrated factor is the cost of electricity. Not specifically for the pub but for the brewing supply chain. It’s a pretty energy intense process and energy prices have shot up post Ukraine war, 2022, as they’re tied to gas. Who exports the most gas, Russia does.
Also the UK has uncapped rates for energy prices on businesses. So I’d anticipate the overheads of brewing are high, passed onto the pubs who also have high electric bills, passed onto the consumer who is in a cost of living crisis.
I don’t go out much due to the costs. About 15 years ago our village had 6 pubs. Down to 3 now. Worth noting the population has increased by about 5k in that time. The remaining 3 do a good trade.
I’m really sad about the pub situation. I tend to go out to a pub in the next town where my mates do a quiz night. I don’t like quizzes but go to say hi. Get a pint in pre quiz and if noone shows early i take a book and read in a corner and save a table for them.
The whole pub situation is sad, as is the mental health crisis in this country. The pub should be the hub of the community. A chance to talk and meet people and in some cases, gain knowledge. Now people just don’t go out. Get all their knowledge online and get miserable. We are social creatures we should be out and about.
I’m absolutely terrified that pubs will die out.
Beer duty, wages, NI increases, business rates, electricity & gas prices, the cost of purchasing the beer wholesale, all impact the price of the pint. It isn’t as simplistic as inflation.
Fucking disgrace. – actively destroying public culture.
It’s getting silly now, since a lot of places are pushing a fiver a pint I’ve just not drank as much, if we’re talking above 6/7 then I’ll probably not go
Most drinking pubs up north are charging 4.30 a pint for regular larger, 4.90 for premium. I live in a poorer area.
On minimum wage that’s 2 pints of Carling an hour after tax if your lucky. And over half of jobs are minimum wage here.
We’re basically back on peasant wages.
Yes but this average is bullshit. It takes in to account London prices. I live in the midlands and can happily buy a pint for £3:10
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