How much did your first ever beer cost you?

[SeagullSongs]

Nothing, someone bought it for me.

This, but I decided against being pedantic.

Remind me never to make same that decision again

 

[Worthingite]

about £2.00 odd in 1998 ish. It was a pint of Hurlimanns (I was 16. I'd not worked out what ABV % meant!!!). Bit of a mistake as I went back to school absolutely bollocksed after 2 pints of the stuff!!!

 

[happypig]

49p for a pint of Watneys Special in the Buccaneer.

Fags I think I paid about 35p for 20 Marlboro

 

[Cian]

€3.50 and ironically enough due to excise duty cuts and a lengthy recession, there's still pubs that charge the same amount... was up to €5.95 in my local pre-recession and is now €4.60

 

[The Buttery Biscuit Base]

£1.85 for a Fosters at The King & Queen circa 2002.

 

[Peever]

Guessing about 2 quid, maybe 2.50

 

[coagulantwolf]

Paid £3 for a pint of Kronenberg tonight in worthing, not my first but still so expensive!

 

[Woodchip]

Think it was about £2.20 for Caffreys c1997 (before they lowered the ABV and made it a girly beer).

 

[jmsc]

... which has set me thinking ...

What was the price of a packet of fags when you first started smoking? Two bob for twenty Number 6, if I remember rightly. Or was it four bob? I can't remember what I first paid for five Woodbines, though.

Not my first but do remember Courage Directors at 17 1/2p & a packet of fags 17p!

It was the last time that fags were cheaper than a pint of bitter, this was early 70's.

 

[Gwylan]

15p for Watney's Red Barrel (hey, I was young and didn't know better) in the Stanmer Park at Fiveways. This would have been end of 1973

 

[martyn20]

£1:12 pint of Fosters, The Branch Tavern, London Road 1987

 

[HOFNSKIN]

2 shillings for a pint of lager, six old pence for lime cira 1969

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

up to €5.95 in my local

Was Paul Barber your landlord?

 

[Zeff]

£1.40 for a pint of lager, Henfield Club 1989, the equivalent price today in there, is still only £2.60

 

[smudge]

Whitbread Tankard, Royal Navy Fleet Club, Plymouth. 1978. I know I had change from 50p.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

15 years old in 1954...had just joined the Navy....Hikers rest....1s 2d......(about 6p now)...we moved to Coldean 1947....now school being turned into a carpark at Falmer.

 

[red star portslade]

I can't remember what i paid for my first one but i'm still shaking my head in disbelief at the last.

While waiting to pick up my takeaway last night, i popped into The Victoria by Portslade station....... £4.40 for a pint of Stella!!!! £4.40 in karzi like The Victoria, i'm still in a state of shock.

 

[cliveh27]

About 45p in 1978? Does that sound about right?

Mine was about the same time. I remember going up to the students union bar at Sussex Uni and getting a pint for 25p. No doubt it was watered down.

 

[vegster]

... which has set me thinking ...

What was the price of a packet of fags when you first started smoking? Two bob for twenty Number 6, if I remember rightly. Or was it four bob? I can't remember what I first paid for five Woodbines, though.

Went on a darts team day out to Dieppe in about 1982 and on the boat in the bar you could get a pint of Holsten AND twenty Rothman's for the wonderful price of 45p each !

 

[VAL1850]

1975, 16p for Bitter, 17p for lager and 18p for light and bitter which was popular at the time - remember being gutted a year or two later when prices increased and could no longer get 5 pints for a pound