The Brighton/Sussex +£4 a Pint Thread of Shame

[fork me]

well, electronics and clothes are cheaper there, but at least I get to have a good laugh at beer prices...!!! :-D
Im not a big drinker but Id be fairly pissed if I spent 4 quid on beer..

I was in Prague for New Year. Spent the night in O'Che's.

To be fair, the UK is STILL cheaper than a lot of Europe. Paid €6 a pint in Rome only last week. Athens wasn't much better. Central Amsterdam is now €5 a pint minimum and never less than €4 even in the outskirts. Here in Cyprus it varies, but down in the tourist area where the pubs are you pay between €3 and €8 a pint depending on where you go. Some of the local Cypriot cafes and bars are a lot cheaper, but not all of them.

 

[Sonic]

£4 a pint is disgusting. I'm a bitter drinker and generally pay about £3.10 - £3.30 a pint, which makes it even more amazing to me that people pay £3.60 a pint for pissy fizzy lager, never mind £4. Get yourself down a Crown Carvery pub - £2 for Harveys.

 

[daveinprague]

You know what..ive lived here four years and never once been in O'Che's....not out of choice..just out of circumstance..i really should make the effort to go in..

 

[pasty]

Even worse is the price of wine in pubs. Mrs P likes a nice glass (or 3) but at just over £5 a glass it's getting stupid. A pint for me and glass of wine for her is very nearly £10 now. 'kin outrageous when you can buy three half decent bottles for a tenner and 6 or 8 cans of lager for a fiver in most supermarkets.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

And make 2p a pint in the process.

Silly you - you're not taking account that it makes it easier for you as it's "friendly numbers". Strangely, at school I was taught to count in ones rather then tens and so "friendly numbers" to me is anything that is a whole pence.

 

[daveinprague]

Even worse is the price of wine in pubs. Mrs P likes a nice glass (or 3) but at just over £5 a glass it's getting stupid. A pint for me and glass of wine for her is very nearly £10 now. 'kin outrageous when you can buy three half decent bottles for a tenner and 6 or 8 cans of lager for a fiver in most supermarkets.

In my bar it would cost you 60.00 CZK = 2.02699 GBP

Long fecking taxi drive home though...

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Silly you - you're not taking account that it makes it easier for you as it's "friendly numbers". Strangely, at school I was taught to count in ones rather then tens and so "friendly numbers" to me is anything that is a whole pence.

Why not just round it up to a nice crisp fiver and do away with all that unfriendly coinage?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Why not just round it up to a nice crisp fiver and do away with all that unfriendly coinage?

My feelings exactly

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

to be fair to jj mclure...all he said was that that was going on in a pub he works in

he didn't say that he was making the decisions

 

[Westdene Seagull]

to be fair to jj mclure...all he said was that that was going on in a pub he works in

he didn't say that he was making the decisions

Apologies - the pop wasn't at him - just the profiteering breweries and bar owners !

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Even worse is the price of wine in pubs. Mrs P likes a nice glass (or 3) but at just over £5 a glass it's getting stupid. A pint for me and glass of wine for her is very nearly £10 now. 'kin outrageous when you can buy three half decent bottles for a tenner and 6 or 8 cans of lager for a fiver in most supermarkets.

And a reasonably decent bottle of new world red for 4.49 in supermarkets.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

And a reasonably decent bottle of new world red for 4.49 in supermarkets.

To be fair though, there's a number of pubs that do a bottle of Jacobs Creek or whatever for under a tenner.

 

[crodonilson]

£4.30 for a pint of Carling, £4.40 for a Guinness in my local.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

To be fair though, there's a number of pubs that do a bottle of Jacobs Creek or whatever for under a tenner.

Maybe, I've never drunk wine in a pub - was just responding to pastys fiver for a glass. Sounds over the top, even with all the overheads pubs have, charging the equivalent of £15-£20 for a bottle you can buy for 5 is not reasonable (but then, I guess restaurants do it).

 

[Biffer]

OK the VAT may have gone up by around 7p per pint (plus an increase on everything else of course) but you have to look ahead.
Next month the breweries will increase the price of a pint by probably 15p-20p plus then a month or two after that we have another budget.
This ridiculous duty escalator on alcohol is still active so expect at least another 10p per pint here too.
Maybe pubs have hiked up a pint by around 30p per pint now in order not to make 3 smaller increases over the next few months.
Alas, in contrast a bottle of vodka can still be bought for £7.50 or something similar thanks to supermarkets selling alcohol below cost price thus making the life of a pub operator even harder. Grim times.

 

[fork me]

You know what..ive lived here four years and never once been in O'Che's....not out of choice..just out of circumstance..i really should make the effort to go in..

I liked it. Nice friendly pub. Obviously NYE it was packed, but we went back in on NYD when it wasn't so busy and it was still friendly. They pull a decent pint too.

 

[house your seagull]

shit me!

£4 buys you a f***ing maisonette in manchester

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

OK the VAT may have gone up by around 7p per pint (plus an increase on everything else of course) but you have to look ahead.
Next month the breweries will increase the price of a pint by probably 15p-20p plus then a month or two after that we have another budget.
This ridiculous duty escalator on alcohol is still active so expect at least another 10p per pint here too.
Maybe pubs have hiked up a pint by around 30p per pint now in order not to make 3 smaller increases over the next few months.
Alas, in contrast a bottle of vodka can still be bought for £7.50 or something similar thanks to supermarkets selling alcohol below cost price thus making the life of a pub operator even harder. Grim times.

Death of the pub as we know it for sure. RIP.

 

[Easy 10]

£4.30 for a pint of Carling, £4.40 for a Guinness in my local.

£4.30 for a pint of CARLING ?? That'd have me doing a swivel-heel at the bar pretty sharpish.

I'm paying £3.30 at the moment for a pint of Kronenbourg down my local. Its probably going to go up, but not to THOSE kind of levels I'm sure.

 

[Goring Gull]

£4.30 for a pint of CARLING ?? That'd have me doing a swivel-heel at the bar pretty sharpish.

I'm paying £3.30 at the moment for a pint of Kronenbourg down my local. Its probably going to go up, but not to THOSE kind of levels I'm sure.

Just go to Wetherspoons. Went to the one in Huddersfield yesterday and £3.60 for 2 pints. Bargain.
Brighton city centre has always been a rip off for beer anyway.

Over £4 a pint in Brighton! Last time i was in Worthing i paid £3.60 for a Kronenbourg in the Hare and Hounds and thought that was pricey.

Makes Helsinki not sound so bad at 5 euros a pint.