It comes up from time to time but I thought I’d make a thread on it.

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    5 months ago

    I nipped in the Admiralty on Trafalgar Sq last Saturday lunchtime for a swift one, expecting to get royally horsed for being in a) London, b) in a tourist hotspot, and c) generally daring to have a pint outside of my own home.

    £6.50. I wasn’t even mad. I thought it was even cheap given the above factors, even if it was Amstel.

    In my local though, £4.10 for a pint of best or something similar.

    Offtopic: I ordered two large blonde lattes at the local Starbucks, and it was £10.10. it’s literally cheaper to go on the piss than drink average-but-decent coffee now.

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    5 months ago

    my “local” is a tap room and mostly sells silly beers, I don’t think it’s pricing it a useful metric from pubs in general

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    10 AUD if you can get a special, 15 AUD otherwise. And maybe you get the place that doesn’t do pints, only schooners but still charges pint prices for them.

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    3 months ago

    Love a pint of Theakston, I warm mine up on the radiator for a bit(!) it really opens up the flavour.

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    £3.50

    But that’s just a small town pub, pretty much everyone in there will be a local they don’t get a lot of tourists around here.

    A few miles away, but in more touristy parts, you can easily pay over £5.

    So the moral of the story is that you need to live in a boring back water like I do. Around here if somebody gets their roof retiled it’s practically in the local paper.

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      5 months ago

      But the ABV is probably also twice what’s on the sign

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        5 months ago

        That’s actually very accurate. My local Illinois brewery charges 7.50 USD for pretty much all their beers. Be it 4.5% or 7.5%.

        I wish I could get some bitter for $4.

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    5 months ago

    3.8%? Is that what they call beer over there?