No wonder pubs are dying. Even at uni a few years back most people I knew preferred throwing house parties for their friends rather than going out with them. Your money goes so much further buying alcohol from the shops than a pub or nightclub.
Cannot even afford to drink our depression away these days.
In the craft beer scene there’s already national or imported beer at 10 a third…. 5 or more a third been here for years..
If fosters or guiness hit 14.. then.. wow.
It’s been a while that red fat face Tim Martin hasn’t opined on the state of the UK.
Where’s he at?
Hmm 2 pints or a bottle of jack hmm tough choice.
£6.50 for a pint is now pretty standard in my local/s in zone 3. Absolutely wouldn’t be surprised to see it nudge up to £7 in the next couple of months.
You can either buy a pint or buy a crate on offer in a supermarket…assuming you can still get crates on offer that cheap, dunno, stopped drinking in 2016 so I could be wrong
That being said, I remember when Asda would do 3 crates of 20 bottles for 20quid sometime around 2006/7, that was pretty fucking good for (slightly) underage drinking in a field in the middle of nowhere in the sun with some buddies…I mean what
The last time I was out up north I remember places doing £1 pints… for £14 you could get 6 to 7 pints and have enough for a kebab with change.
I also remember back in the early 90’s boxing at an event in Canary Warf? Isle of Dogs or some place like that… some posh hotel place paying £8 for a half glass of Lemonade.
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It’s ridiculous.
Lot of people about to discover that actually they don’t need a drink.
My local pub finally reopened after months of being closed….as a Starbucks.
Pricing it out of existence ..
At that point, you’re not buying a pint, you’re renting space until your train is due.
An 18 pack of bog standard, 440ml lager in Morrisons is about 12-13 quid.
And here I was complaining that the pints In my local have gone from £3.30 to £3.50.
Went for a visit to the 3 pubs local to us…1 round for 4 in each…£60 for half an afternoon’s social activity. No wonder all 3 of them were dead on a sunny afternoon
I will literally make it myself before I pay anything close to that.
Also, this is just not true, yes of course if you want to have your small brewery, small run ale then it is more expensive. But a pint is nowhere near £14 and it just won’t get there by 25 . It’s far too expensive but not £14
I went to a restaurant in Kings Cross the other day that charged £6.50 for a *half pint* so I can definitely see how this is true. Regular working people are eventually going to be priced out of anything and everything.
Glad I live in the countryside. Local chain pub is average 4.50 for a pint
It’s time to start and stay in and buy cans of beer, £14 quid a pint is no joke.
It’s a crying shame that institutions which created a sense of community all across this country are dying out. I grew up in a village where 18 year old mixed well with regulars up to 80. Both groups benefited hugely from our “shared living room”. It’s bleak what is happening to this country, getting to the point you work to just exist. Forget pleasure. For so many on a UK average wage its just getting by. Doesn’t seem right.
Man that’s crazy… My local spoons sells pints for between £2.80 – £3.40 depending what it is why is it only London with higher pricing?
I had a £2.50 pint in a Sheffield spoons the other day lmfao. Guess drink inflation is super regional
This won’t happen because most pubs will close before this due to the energy costs to run them now.
That will kill off pubs, there closing round me because of the engery costs alone
There will be nothing left in this country soon. The Tories want us to be a 3rd world slave nation. We will be like North Korea by 2030!
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When I first started going out drinking (1990) I remember the old un’s complaining that the price of a pint had just gone over a quid.
Ah, the days when I could go out with ten quid, have six pints, 10 B&H, a bag of chips on the way home and still have a bit of loose change.
Quick calculation, and the fact you can only buy packs of 20 fags these days, that would be £40-45 nowadays.
If pubs charge that I don’t really care if they shut down, there’s no enjoyment in paying that for a pint regardless of what you earn.
It wasn’t that far back everyone was up in arms about the £5 pint.
I just paid £11 for a box of 20 Budweisers in Aldi and I was quite chuffed about that.
Thankfully Nottingham still has a lot of places where you can get pints for less than £3.50. Chances are in 2025 inflation might drive them to be current London prices.
The lease on the pubs is the issue. So many landlords turning away from the industry as it’s just not feasible to make a profit. Can’t blame them for putting prices up
Can’t wait for more headlines about gen z and millennials killing pubs by not going
To right-wingers, damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
If you pay this, you’ll be blamed for not saving for a house.
If you don’t pay this, you’ll be blamed for collapsing the pub industry.
Liverpool – £2.19 for a bitter in spoons’, £3.20 for a San Miguel in a pub near Goodison Park. Not too bad to be fair.
This article is complete bollocks.
Penfold, who wrote it, are a PENSION PROVIDER.
They also assume that the behaviour of the last few months continues repeatedly over the next 2.5 years. it’s just taking one point of data and amplifying it massively for clicks.
It’s impossible to find the actual study, this is just a bunch of ragged clickbaity sites (metro, lbc, evening standard, daily mail etc) copying each other and sensationalising utter trash.
this isn’t science, it isn’t financial analysis, this is just feeding outrage to dumb people. Don’t be part of it, downvote and move on.
4 cans of red stripe for a fiver out the shop, it goes towards a poor countries economy.
IRIE!
Wow, it’ll be like living in Scandinavia.
Without the social system and quality of life
r/homebrewing great time to take a look and get into the game. Made my university years an absolute blast, what with how expensive booze is.
This headline sounds like hysteria – they’ve clearly extrapolated a trend and then predicted everything will double in price in a few years – well done, you have completed Abusing Data 101
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No wonder pubs are dying. Even at uni a few years back most people I knew preferred throwing house parties for their friends rather than going out with them. Your money goes so much further buying alcohol from the shops than a pub or nightclub.
Cannot even afford to drink our depression away these days.
In the craft beer scene there’s already national or imported beer at 10 a third…. 5 or more a third been here for years..
If fosters or guiness hit 14.. then.. wow.
It’s been a while that red fat face Tim Martin hasn’t opined on the state of the UK.
Where’s he at?
Hmm 2 pints or a bottle of jack hmm tough choice.
£6.50 for a pint is now pretty standard in my local/s in zone 3. Absolutely wouldn’t be surprised to see it nudge up to £7 in the next couple of months.
You can either buy a pint or buy a crate on offer in a supermarket…assuming you can still get crates on offer that cheap, dunno, stopped drinking in 2016 so I could be wrong
That being said, I remember when Asda would do 3 crates of 20 bottles for 20quid sometime around 2006/7, that was pretty fucking good for (slightly) underage drinking in a field in the middle of nowhere in the sun with some buddies…I mean what
The last time I was out up north I remember places doing £1 pints… for £14 you could get 6 to 7 pints and have enough for a kebab with change.
I also remember back in the early 90’s boxing at an event in Canary Warf? Isle of Dogs or some place like that… some posh hotel place paying £8 for a half glass of Lemonade.
​
It’s ridiculous.
Lot of people about to discover that actually they don’t need a drink.
My local pub finally reopened after months of being closed….as a Starbucks.
Pricing it out of existence ..
At that point, you’re not buying a pint, you’re renting space until your train is due.
An 18 pack of bog standard, 440ml lager in Morrisons is about 12-13 quid.
And here I was complaining that the pints In my local have gone from £3.30 to £3.50.
Went for a visit to the 3 pubs local to us…1 round for 4 in each…£60 for half an afternoon’s social activity. No wonder all 3 of them were dead on a sunny afternoon
I will literally make it myself before I pay anything close to that.
Also, this is just not true, yes of course if you want to have your small brewery, small run ale then it is more expensive. But a pint is nowhere near £14 and it just won’t get there by 25 . It’s far too expensive but not £14
I went to a restaurant in Kings Cross the other day that charged £6.50 for a *half pint* so I can definitely see how this is true. Regular working people are eventually going to be priced out of anything and everything.
Glad I live in the countryside. Local chain pub is average 4.50 for a pint
It’s time to start and stay in and buy cans of beer, £14 quid a pint is no joke.
It’s a crying shame that institutions which created a sense of community all across this country are dying out. I grew up in a village where 18 year old mixed well with regulars up to 80. Both groups benefited hugely from our “shared living room”. It’s bleak what is happening to this country, getting to the point you work to just exist. Forget pleasure. For so many on a UK average wage its just getting by. Doesn’t seem right.
Man that’s crazy… My local spoons sells pints for between £2.80 – £3.40 depending what it is why is it only London with higher pricing?
I had a £2.50 pint in a Sheffield spoons the other day lmfao. Guess drink inflation is super regional
This won’t happen because most pubs will close before this due to the energy costs to run them now.
That will kill off pubs, there closing round me because of the engery costs alone
There will be nothing left in this country soon. The Tories want us to be a 3rd world slave nation. We will be like North Korea by 2030!
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When I first started going out drinking (1990) I remember the old un’s complaining that the price of a pint had just gone over a quid.
Ah, the days when I could go out with ten quid, have six pints, 10 B&H, a bag of chips on the way home and still have a bit of loose change.
Quick calculation, and the fact you can only buy packs of 20 fags these days, that would be £40-45 nowadays.
If pubs charge that I don’t really care if they shut down, there’s no enjoyment in paying that for a pint regardless of what you earn.
It wasn’t that far back everyone was up in arms about the £5 pint.
I just paid £11 for a box of 20 Budweisers in Aldi and I was quite chuffed about that.
Thankfully Nottingham still has a lot of places where you can get pints for less than £3.50. Chances are in 2025 inflation might drive them to be current London prices.
The lease on the pubs is the issue. So many landlords turning away from the industry as it’s just not feasible to make a profit. Can’t blame them for putting prices up
Can’t wait for more headlines about gen z and millennials killing pubs by not going
To right-wingers, damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
If you pay this, you’ll be blamed for not saving for a house.
If you don’t pay this, you’ll be blamed for collapsing the pub industry.
Liverpool – £2.19 for a bitter in spoons’, £3.20 for a San Miguel in a pub near Goodison Park. Not too bad to be fair.
This article is complete bollocks.
Penfold, who wrote it, are a PENSION PROVIDER.
They also assume that the behaviour of the last few months continues repeatedly over the next 2.5 years. it’s just taking one point of data and amplifying it massively for clicks.
It’s impossible to find the actual study, this is just a bunch of ragged clickbaity sites (metro, lbc, evening standard, daily mail etc) copying each other and sensationalising utter trash.
this isn’t science, it isn’t financial analysis, this is just feeding outrage to dumb people. Don’t be part of it, downvote and move on.
4 cans of red stripe for a fiver out the shop, it goes towards a poor countries economy.
IRIE!
Wow, it’ll be like living in Scandinavia.
Without the social system and quality of life
r/homebrewing great time to take a look and get into the game. Made my university years an absolute blast, what with how expensive booze is.
This headline sounds like hysteria – they’ve clearly extrapolated a trend and then predicted everything will double in price in a few years – well done, you have completed Abusing Data 101