Beer Prices


Tbf this thread is called Beer Prices, not wine, taxi and takeaways prices. If you live round here, nobody should be spending more than £75 on beer on a night out.
 
The Top House. :lol:

I'd heard it was back open like. Did they not gut it when it turned into that bridal shop or whatever it was?
It was a restaurant. My memories of the pub are vague (only went in a couple of times), but I don't think the layout ever changed. The bar's still there.
 
Pubs in the UK are doomed, the next couple of years is going to be carnage, as the few survivors finally fall, only the great and good will survive. Sad indeed for those of us who remember a pub nearly every couple of hundred yards on a main street and on many back street corners.

Another bugbear for me, is pub opening times, for some reason many think the way to address falling demand is to open later, close earlier, close on Mondays/Tuesdays etc, I just don't get that at all.

Also apart from the prices, lifestyles have changed. I was in Edinburgh looking for an early pint Saturday gone, none of the pubs opened before 12, some even later than that, yet the coffee bars were bouncing. Its a sign of the times, students in the cities drinking coffee by day and going to the pub at 9pm on an evening, oh for the days when a group of mates could go to an away game or a pub crawl, and take it for granted that every pub would be open at 1030 or 11 and closing at 10 or 11, 6 days a week. Of course pubs then closed for 3 hours in the afternoon, but that gave you a chance to draw breath and have something to eat, and there was usually always a dodgy pub that stayed open if need be. Drinking in places like York back then was heaven, now it would be a nightmare to organise a pub crawl, unless you aren't fussy about where you drink. Some of the micro pubs just shut on a whim if there are no punters in, another reason why I rarely bother going out midweek these days.

A few places near me have gone down the "Close on the lunchtimes and evenings when we're quiet", it never works as people forget when they're open and when they're shut and just go somewhere else. You have to be open all the time, even if it's just the Landlord kicking his heels watching the TV, you need to have the doors open and the lights on. You never know when a bunch of people might just turn up.
I remember going on a lads weekend away and had to take a detour to a village in the back of beyond so some lad could drop something off for a family member. We found ourselves needing lunch and a couple of pints outside this little village pub. We all piled in (about 20 of us) and ended up staying for about 4 hours. Barman said it was the busiest he'd been in 4 years, including new years eve!
 
A few places near me have gone down the "Close on the lunchtimes and evenings when we're quiet", it never works as people forget when they're open and when they're shut and just go somewhere else. You have to be open all the time, even if it's just the Landlord kicking his heels watching the TV, you need to have the doors open and the lights on. You never know when a bunch of people might just turn up.
I remember going on a lads weekend away and had to take a detour to a village in the back of beyond so some lad could drop something off for a family member. We found ourselves needing lunch and a couple of pints outside this little village pub. We all piled in (about 20 of us) and ended up staying for about 4 hours. Barman said it was the busiest he'd been in 4 years, including new years eve!
You'd think where there's 3-4 boozers in a village/certain area of a town they'd get the heads together and work something out.
 
It was a restaurant. My memories of the pub are vague (only went in a couple of times), but I don't think the layout ever changed. The bar's still there.
Was my local (along with the Cricketers RIP) as a young chap before I started branching out further afield. Was decent enough if you knew the people in there. The middle house was always a bit strange and generally let the knackers run amok.
 
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Unless you're an absolute alcoholic does it make a great deal of difference to your life? I don't throw money about willy nilly but I'm never bothered how much a pint costs when I'm out.

Same here. I guess potentially you are relying on the more frequent and heavy pub goers to keep some places open? Especially the shit tips.
 
You'd think where there's 3-4 boozers in a village/certain area of a town they'd get the heads together and work something out.

My mate is a spark and was doing some work in a little country pub once.
It gets to 5ish and a stream of blokes would come in, buy a pint, read the paper, some not even talk and then leave.
As it kept going, my mate asked the barman what the deal was with this constant flow of people not interacting having a pint and leaving.
Barman said that they pub was going to close a couple of years back and the publican wrote to every house in the village and said that unless people used it, there wasn't any point staying open and he'd sell up. So the village council agreed that people would spend a few pounds a week per household to keep it open so that when they wanted to use it, it was open. Seemed to work well, it was quite a posh village and they liked the idea of the place being there as a facility, so most of the blokes would all call in and have a pint a day on the way home from work.
As the place was now always open, it now got a bit of passing trader and started doing food, so it didn't need the daily visits, but many just kept it up as they got used to a pint after work before going home.
 

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