Beer Prices


Paid £4.50 for a Guinness in Chaplins last week. Even in the current climate i thought that was quite toppy for a Guinness. Think its about £2.70 next door in the Cooper Rose.

Like most i'd rather spend in local businesses, but the disparity between what you pay in Wetherspoons and the supermarkets seems to be getting wider and wider.
 
Casual midweek pints for the majority are about finished. It’s going to be about 4 quid a pint in the shitty pubs soon.

10 years ago I'd be in my local for a few pints almost every evening after work. Apart from the odd special event, birthday or World Cup match, I can't remember the last time I was there on a "school night". Cost is one factor as is trying to drink less in general and most of my friends have now settled down with families. I don't want to be the sag git drinking alone too often - though the occasional solo session can be great fun.
 
Last edited:
As soon as the government support for commercial energy disappears prices will go thru the roof.
There’s a display at Eden Project about brewing and the water and energy used is surprisingly high and not great for the environment. I’m guessing a brewery would need an enormous amount of solar panels or wind turbines to be self sustaining in regards to energy.
Water can be pumped from the ground in the right areas but again that costs
 
In Newcastle last night at Tyne Theatre and we popped for a pint after getting off the bus. I got the round in. 4 pints was £24 for 3 Camden Pale & 1 Stowford Press type cider. The beer was utter shite as well
 
Carling :lol:
Paid £4.50 for a Guinness in Chaplins last week. Even in the current climate i thought that was quite toppy for a Guinness. Think its about £2.70 next door in the Cooper Rose.

Like most i'd rather spend in local businesses, but the disparity between what you pay in Wetherspoons and the supermarkets seems to be getting wider and wider.

CR keeps a poor pint of Guinness tbf.
 
Last edited:
Small wine and pint of IPA/Beer around the bars in Durham last week £13+, went into the wetherspoons there, was £4.95 a round!

The Doom Bar was £2.25 a pint!

Feel sorry for the smaller independents, how they can compete with that long term I'm not many will...of course not everyone wants a night in a wetherspoons just for the cheap drink mind.
 
It's not far off that in many places in Newcastle. Especially if your daft mates like a proper ale.
Aye, I'm talking about the mass produced stuff here though, Peroni or whatever. When it comes to craft you're expecting to pay a premium.

The biggest price jump I've seen has been Neck Oil, it's comfortably up there at nearly 7 quid in many pubs around my office just south of the Southbank. It's garbage as well.

Cask is rising dramatically as well. Fullers are now charging about 6 quid for a pint of it in their central London bars.
 
Don’t recall the prices being too bad where we went round London Bridge on Saturday, I wasn’t taking a huge amount of notice when it was my turn to pay like but a quick look at me banking app shows rounds of 3 pints were coming out at approx the £17 mark so £5 odd each, but that included a couple of ‘fancy’ premium lagers like your Camdens, Brooklyn and another one that I can’t remember the name of so the bog standard ones were probably a bit less.

Backs up what I said on here a while ago that I feel like London’s beer prices have stagnated over the years while the rest of the country has caught up quite a bit because I can think of a few pubs in Sunderland and even Washington where the cost of 3 pints would be around about the same £17 mark, and there’ll be loads in Newcastle where that would be the case.

Places like Wetherspoons will just benefit even more. Still staggers me how cheap a round of sometimes up to 7 pints costs us in the Cooper Rose on a matchday compared to what it used to in Fitzies.
I've said it loads now, the only levelling up we're doing is on the price of a fuckin' pint.
 
Aye, I'm talking about the mass produced stuff here though, Peroni or whatever. When it comes to craft you're expecting to pay a premium.

The biggest price jump I've seen has been Neck Oil, it's comfortably up there at nearly 7 quid in many pubs around my office just south of the Southbank. It's garbage as well.

Cask is rising dramatically as well. Fullers are now charging about 6 quid for a pint of it in their central London bars.
I'm with you on Neck Oil. Normal lager is at least £5 in majority of bars in Newcastle
 
Aye, I'm talking about the mass produced stuff here though, Peroni or whatever. When it comes to craft you're expecting to pay a premium.

The biggest price jump I've seen has been Neck Oil, it's comfortably up there at nearly 7 quid in many pubs around my office just south of the Southbank. It's garbage as well.

Cask is rising dramatically as well. Fullers are now charging about 6 quid for a pint of it in their central London bars.
Is that since Heineken (IIRC??) bought them out?


I like Neck Oil like. Good session beer.
 
Is that since Heineken (IIRC??) bought them out?


I like Neck Oil like. Good session beer.

I like a Neck Oil myself but it’s rare that I get it now because I feel like most places are taking the piss with the price of it. Even Craig’s Sports Bar nextdoor to Victors charges nearly £6 for a pint of it and for all I like Craig’s because it ticks a lot of boxes for me, it isn’t what I’d class as high end but that for me (certainly in Sunderland) is a high end price. It’s just as bad in Fitzies as well like and no doubt any other half decent pubs serving it. Not sure why it carries the cost it does, it’s decent but I don’t think it warrants that.
 
Aye, I'm talking about the mass produced stuff here though, Peroni or whatever. When it comes to craft you're expecting to pay a premium.

The biggest price jump I've seen has been Neck Oil, it's comfortably up there at nearly 7 quid in many pubs around my office just south of the Southbank. It's garbage as well.

Cask is rising dramatically as well. Fullers are now charging about 6 quid for a pint of it in their central London bars.
Dont mind Neck Oil TBF, and its my go to drink when I'm in the Prior, but even there its over £5 a pint and taking the piss for a local boozer in the north east.
 
Is that since Heineken (IIRC??) bought them out?

I like Neck Oil like. Good session beer.
Heineken bought them out of the remaining 50% of shares late last year, but have owned half the company for a good few years now. The quality has reduced and the cost has gone up, though the cost of everything has gone up so not sure you could directly attribute it to that alone.

I wish I liked Neck Oil but it's outright bad these days imo, at least to my tastes. I am a fussy bassa when it comes to pale ales though. :)
 
Heineken bought them out of the remaining 50% of shares late last year, but have owned half the company for a good few years now. The quality has reduced and the cost has gone up, though the cost of everything has gone up so not sure you could directly attribute it to that alone.

I wish I liked Neck Oil but it's outright bad these days imo, at least to my tastes. I am a fussy bassa when it comes to pale ales though. :)
It hasn't gone unnoticed.
 

Back
Top