How much did your first ever beer cost you?

[BearwoodSeagull]

Living in Birmingham....4 pints of Ansells Brew XI cost me 88p so 22p per pint. I was 15 I think so, 1973.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

Used to get a jug and still have change from a groat.

 

[Goring-by-Seagull]

Er, can't remember my first pint, but I reckon it cost £1.90-£2.00 in about 2002.

And cigarettes would've been about 1999 - I remember B&H had just scraped over £4 for 20, but me and my mates got Royals for £4.12 because you got 24 in a pack!

 

[Questions]

16p for mild and 17p for bitter in the Rose and Crown in Montague Street, Worthing. Not even sure they sold Lager.......poofs drink in those days.

And 10 No 10 where about 10 or 11 p I think.
Christ you could buy 5 Park Drive for about 7 p I think ?

A few years later I do remember one of the old boys saying that the day beer cost 4 bob is the day he gave up.

 

[spig100963]

31p from The West End Cafe. Remember swigging some brut aftershave afterwards to cover the smell of the alcohol from the parents.

 

[dandanthebrightonfan]

Remember paying 60p a pint for toby bitter in the Mile Oak in 1984, i could get pissed on under a £5.

 

[ifuhatepalacestandup]

11p naafi price wage was £11.00p per week after deductions for food luandry ect

 

[HastingsSeagull]

1999 I would have been 16, probably first time we found a pub which would serve us rather than sending a mate or older friend in and drinking outside. Would probably have been like £1.60 in a posh-ish Battle pub when mate's band played or at the pub quiz we used to do sometimes as the pub had pool and jukebox

 

[jakarta]

1976, Greenall Whitley Dark Mild 25p per per pint - long gone Warrington Brewery locally known as Greenall Shitley.....

Mild was everywhere in the NW in those days, I worked behind the Bar of a Working Mans Club near Northwich in 1981-2 and we served two Cask Bitters (Greenalls & Tetley) but three Cask Milds (Greenalls and Tetley plus a Light Mild, can't remember which one) plus Stones Keg Bitter.

There was a ruction on t'Committee when we got a Grunhalle (!) Lager pump installed. As a man none of the regulars would drink 'that foreign mook' although in reality it had been brewed about 10 miles away!

 

[Knightsworld]

1987 - Holsten Export, think it was 79p in The Stanley Arms, Portslade.

 

[Jim D]

1 shilling and 10 pence for a pint of Watneys Mild in the Sussex Yeoman in Worthing - 1969. In those days I didn't know any better.

 

[Ernest]

Pint of Lager in the Nevill about 40p, definitely 2 pints for less than a quid.

 

[the wanderbus]

33p for a pint of carlsberg at the CAFC Sunday night disco 1979. a pack of 19 JPS were 50p from the vending machine. Then down to Jackie Kong's for egg fried rice ( eaten with fingers whilst staggering home). We used to have a good night out on a fiver.

 

[severnside gull]

1s 10d from memory for a pint of Tamplins although a pint bottle of Forest Brown Ale was only about1s 2d I think

 

[Spider]

Not sure if it was my first pint, but I used to drink in The Stand Up in Lindfield when I turned 18 in 2007 and a pint of Hophead was £2.40. It's now £3.60 (although would be £3.10 if the place didn't have shitty new landlords).

That said, it's been going up so fast - when I started Uni you could rely on getting a pint of ale for about £3 (in London), whereas now you're lucky to get much change from 4 (which doesn't seem much, but then it wasn't that long ago!)

First year of Uni was saved by the Wetherspoons £1.50 offer on Ruddles (which I think was only £1 everywhere else). Shame they had a knack of making it taste like complete piss!

 

[Zamora For England]

Aged 17, I think it was £2.80 for a Kronenbourg, circa 2007.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

1976/77 Used to go out with one pound note and get 4 x pints of mild or 3 x pints of lager-----then ride my Yamaha 175 trail bike home

 

[Rambo]

Remember going to Illusions in Worthing on eighties night, 80p a pint. I guess that was back in about 1996, not my first pint by any means but sticks in my mind.

 

[Questions]

1 shilling and 10 pence for a pint of Watneys Mild in the Sussex Yeoman in Worthing - 1969. In those days I didn't know any better.

Ah I,ve heard about that day. Last time you got them in apparently.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Going the other way I paid £7.90 for a pint of Mikkeller Centennial on Friday night after the football as I felt like treating myself.