the price of beer

[Jazz]

I don't come onto this particular part of planet figure very often but today I feel I must.
Today my wife and I visited the Cotswold village of Stowe On The Wold and at lunchroom visited one of the pubs in the village. I bought a pint of Guinness for myself and half a Guinness for my wife. As is usual in British pubs there is no price guide for beers displayed despite it being a legal requirement, but being a true Brit one never asks the price of beer before ordering it. I was amazed to discover that the price in total was a whopping £6.15p. Just for a pint and a half!! Back home I can buy 4 pints of bitter at the local supermarket for just £4.
Now I'm not a cheapskate by any means and if something is worth the value I don't have a problem with that but I really felt ripped off just because I was in a picturesque little Cotswold village. Prices for food, wine, even coffee was displayed openly but nowhere could the prices of the beer be seen. My wife doesn't like me complaining as it only makes us look bad but I think these establishments really play on that. The only course of action I feel I have left is to have a rant amongst friends and see if they have also been ripped off in this manner.

 

[Davy]

Is it a pub that has tourist and local prices? Mind you you've got all the fake posh types moving there from London so think they can charge rip off prices like in London

 

[DEL]

Of course we have pretty much par for the course in lots of Brit pubs nowadays.
In Edinburgh (a tourist trap somewhere east of No Mean City) you can add a £ or two to this.
You'd be very lucky to get a pint and a half of Guinness anywhere you'd want to take your wife for much less.

 

[billyturnip]

Oh my God, a tight fisted Englishman.There's a change!

Not really it's quite common round here.

I've been conducting a survey of the recycling boxes when they're put out on a Monday morning when I take the dog out and it's plain to see where everyone's doing their drinking these days and it isn't in the pub.

 

[Jazz]

Oh my God, a tight fisted Englishman.There's a change!

Not tightfisted Brian, just peed off with being ripped off.

 

[brian]

Not tightfisted Brian, just peed off with being ripped off.

I know the feeling well.The price of beer in some places is a joke.A pub with modern surroundings and full of wine drinkers etc, and they charge you like a wounded bull.Where as in a normal working blokes bar, it's cheaper.I guess they must charge you more for the ambience.Robbery without violence!!!!

 

[Mark S]

I find the best way around this distressing problem is to have so many beers that they all seem really bloody cheap and good value for money and indeed priceless by the end of the night.
But then another strategy you could employ in this situation would be to ask the price of the beverage before ordering thus giving you the option of going ahead and buying the drinks or choosing not to do so.

 

[Nap]

Boy am I just glad I don't drink

A right rip off as Jazz says

Nap

 

[Blind Pew]

No wonder they reckon pubs aren't what they were. They're just too darned expensive. Last time I went boozing I was astonished as well. What they charged, about six quid seems about the norm. Anywhere with anything resembling a captive audience is way dearer still.

 

[Davy]

Some decent beers about these days which you can't get in a bar so have to buy in a shop. Williams Bros are a prime example although some can be found on draught in Wetherspoons. But go into Glasgow and see the price difference between say the likes of the Royal Scot/Goose and Sloanes there's almost a £2 difference for the same drink.

 

[Mark S]

It is much the same here as well,Jazz............unfortunately if you can remember when the price of a beer was the equivalent of the cost of a postage stamp today, as I can, the new prices certainly seem outrageous.
Also down here our pubs aren't simply satisfied with high prices, everyone of them have poker machines in them, making them all little casinos.....terrible atmosphere for a quiet drink.

 

[MalcC]

Sounds like you need to take out a mortgage to buy a round.

Malc

 

[Davy]

Hate to see how much it costs now but back in `93 in Denmark it was around £5 for a pint of Carlsberg got talking to some Swedes who told us they came over on the ferry at the weekend as it was cheaper to drink there

 

[theBaron]

It's the same here in the US. That's a big reason I don't like to go out to drink--I already have beer that I like, at home, and I paid a better price than the prices bars charge.

In this case, though, I'd have said something to the publican on the way out. Nothing rude, but just to ask in a friendly way, "Hey, I noticed you have food and wine prices posted, but not beer. How come?"

Prost!
Brad

 

[DEL]

Was talking about the cost of beer with a couple of old mates.
Being big nasty gits the three of us played rugby for the FP's as 16 year olds. The team drank in a pub run by an ex cop who played for us. The tactics meeting took place on Friday night and all players were expected to attend even the 3 of us. The older guys in the team always covered the cost for us.
The cost of a pint of heavy was 1/10p (8p), 10/- (50p) got you 4 pints and a fish supper.
Used to love the place, it was the 'school' pub and on Fridays it was full of teachers which was pretty odd for us, nobody ever said boo to us as rugby was taken pretty seriously and the 3 of us were the most likely to score tries.......happy days

 

[Colin_Fraser]

Its called a death spiral. Prices go up so fewer buy....so prices go up more to cover the establishment's fixed costs....so fewer order.....so prices increase etc. until only the 1% are in the pub swigging wine.

 

[tonydawe]

For roughly the same amount of money as a pint of beer in the pub, I can buy a decent bottle of locally grown red wine. Much more to my taste.

 

[Eludia]

I gave up drinking in pubs many years ago. I can have a nice pint at home at half the price (or less) and there aren't many pubs where you can drink naked without someone having a go at you