Cattive notizie per i prezzi della birra nel Regno Unito
di Shiny-Tie-126
Cattive notizie per i prezzi della birra nel Regno Unito
di Shiny-Tie-126
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>The new statistics come after the BBPA revealed the average price of a pint has broken the £5 barrier for the first time, partly due to rising costs placed upon the sector.
I know this sub has the memory of a goldfish, but remember when the CV fraudster “running” the economy said prices of a pint would go down during the budget? How many more lies do we need before she gets the boot for someone that actually has the qualifications to do the job.
Just no longer worth it at this point. Maybe have one now and again on a sunny day but sitting all day or evening in a pub is no longer even close to worth it
Has anyone been in a bar in London lately I took a customer out for a meal the other day and we had some drinks afterwards. I was paying 7.80 a pint
Farming, Fishing, Brewing done, what’s the next industry in this country this government want to kill off,
I’m surprised homebrewing isn’t more popular. You can buy a kit for £20-30 that’ll make 40ish pints. After that, all you need is a big bucket, some sugar and containers (you can buy/save glass bottles and get a capper, or just use plastic bottles). Homebrewing is a pretty inexpensive hobby, the kits are often very good, and you can go beyond using kits and experiment with your own beers. Main issue is storage space!
I got into homebrewing at the beginning of the pandemic and haven’t stopped. I make cider, mead, wine and other fermented beverages too, so whatever I fancy one evening, I’ve got it. Can’t really see myself ever buying (fermented) alcohol from the supermarket again, and I rarely drink alcohol in the pub because of the absurd prices.
Distilling is the next thing I’m going to try – just brought a still. Strictly speaking it’s illegal in the UK, but they’re not exactly hard to buy, and there’s plenty of stuff online teaching you how to do it, including from British people!
As a member of a covers band I have seen a decline in the amount of people out drinking in standard pubs. The age is also getting higher of the usual suspects. There are some outliers though , busy pubs and younger folks. But I think slowly pubs are dying.
Picked up 4 pint cans with some burgers for the inlaws BBQ last week, £8!!… £8 for 4 cans of beer!
My head nearly fell off.
Yeah, I knew that employee rights and paying people a decent wage would be on their list of complaints somewhere.
If you can’t make a profit charging 7 quid a pint for what is essentially 95% water you should sack yourself.
Government: *raises the price of Beer (indirectly through making it harder on businesses).
Also Government: “Why are the young people not drinking?”
If the French are limiting the price on baguettes, we should be limiting the price of a pint to £5.
Cheaper to buy tinnies and take a few of those ahaha
Grew up in the north west and moved to a small city in Virginia. It’s still cheaper to drink when we visit England that it is here, especially after adding tips.
Who remembers 50p a pint nights! We didn’t know how good we had it. 🙄
Must be fake news. The amount of brexit benefits we get should mitigate any rises in price.
The problem that people don’t mention is that beer prices are rent prices. It’s the same with every industry and is the major reason everything is becoming so unaffordable.
Given alcohol is one of the few proven carcinogens (same category as asbestos, radiation, and tobacco) you’d think they’d be reducing prices if anything
Glad I don’t drink personally for the health and financial benefit
Most wetherspoons I pass, regardless of the day or time of day, are usually heaving. Only thing they have on everybody else is price
Can someone educate me on what the actual breakdown of the cost is (rough estimates of course). Like how much of it is the actual cost of producing and selling it at a profit, and how much is taxes etc.?
I have no clue how it could be changed but I have always felt that the way alcohol is priced is completely backwards, it should be cheaper to go and and have some in a pub and more expensive to buy it in a supermarket and have it at home.
I was considering buying a round for the lads when I was back in the UK but thought better of it when I approximated how much it would cost.
It’d as if they want to make their entire profit off of selling 2 beers. As opposed to enticing more customers in with cheaper beers and dealing I’m high volume then upselling high margin items, like crisps, nuts, fries. But that’s just sensible business talk which not many business owners seem to understand anymore. Just blame the fact you have to pay wages and taxes.
Don’t even go to the pub for one pint now because of the price. Even more so if all the family is out and we all want a drink. Can easily amount to £25 for just one drink each for us all.
I love the atmosphere of a traditional pub, but if my only affordable option is spoons i’d rather just buy a crate of beers and have some at home with a friend instead. Fraction of the cost and I get to enjoy the comfort of my own house.
Only time i got a decent priced pint was in Bolton which was for £2 a couple years back. But i mean,,, It’s Bolton so thats the caveat really.
I stopped buying beer from anywhere but the supermarkets when it hit £7 a pint, so I won’t notice this. Pubs are just not going to be a thing in a decade.
I’ll save my money for decent cask conditioned real ale in good pubs, a product that I can’t get anywhere else in the world, including at home. I can still find a good pint for ~£5-£6, and that’s worth it to me.
If wages aren’t keeping pace with the rising costs, then whole sectors will suffer. It’s hardly rocket science.
Makes me laugh how they keep putting beer prices up. They’ll soon start moaning when their pubs are empty.
Drink locally brewed beer. A pint of craft beer from my local brewery is still under £5 and tastes a hell of alot better than expensive mass produced shite
This country has an alcohol and drug problem. It’s not the worst thing for the price to go up IMO. Specifically shop sold Alcohol.
I live in a city in the East (North or Midlands, depends who you ask).
My used to be go to pub, which isn’t fancy but also isn’t as cheap as the footy pubs or spoons, charges £6.50 for a pint of the unfiltered birra on tap. Same in several others. A single and mixer is also about £6.
It’s timed well for me cutting back on drinking but not even being able to get 2 pints out of a tenner where I live is insane.
The government is taxing pubs into oblivion. Pubs are a mainstay of our culture whether people like to admit it or not. They serve as meeting points and places to rub shoulders with your community. As these are dying, our social fabric is eroding. Whether you drink or not, hopefully you can understand why pubs are important and stand against the heavier and heavier burdens our government is putting on them.
If you’re worried about alcoholism, tax the supermarkets more. Alcoholics are often off their heads on Tenants Super and 2L bottles of cider. They’re not spending £100 per night at the pub.
I like craft beers and so does my partner, but every time we go out we end up paying roughly £100 for drinks and food (which is nothing more than pub grub, and still a burger with no fries is £16). But when you add it all up, it becomes depressingly expensive to have a good time out with friends.
I enjoy going for a beer but in the process of buying a new house with a large garden. Once that completes all my money will go into making it the perfect spot for my family to enjoy and the pubs can do one.
drop tax on alcohol sold at pubs and raise it on booze sold in supermarkets.
Honestly one of the best things the pandemic did for my wallet was get me out of the habit of pubbing every week.
Pre 2020 I’d often have 2 sessions on weekend, could easily get close to £100.
Now I go maybe once or twice a month for 2 or 3 quiet beers with my wife. Even in North Wales where you can still get a pint under a fiver, I’d rather save the money most of the time and have a few tinnies at home instead
Unfettered Capitalism removing the joys from life one step at a time.
Me and my mates are back on the park bench with a 3 litre bottle each
Taxes are too high, and there is too much regulation.
I’d like the government to incentivise cask ales by reducing tax on them, but anything seen as being ‘pro-alcohol’ will get shamed by health groups.
Since my local went over £5 a pint I’ve hardly gone in.
4 pints for over £20 sorry but no.
Average price of a pint is a figure that gets branded about but doesnt tell you a great deal. The price depends on what you drink. Cask ale, keg beer, local beer, mass produced stuff. Its all different and all has different price points depending what you like
Its like saying the average price of a restaurant meal is £x. It depends what and where you eat
Spoons near my old school still has pints of Guinness for £4. Many beers are £3 for a pint.
I am thankful for central London spoons and finance bros subsidising ours.
Brew your own.
It’s cheap, 40p per pint
It’s easy, not much more complicated than making a giant cup of tea
Start saving your bottles now, and when you have 40 or 50 get brewing.
The whole point of a Public House was that it was *better* than your house. It had heating and seating, beers and snacks, seemingly limitless music choices on the juke box, quiz machines, big screens for watching the football, pool tables and dart boards.
Now, my house is better than a pub. It’s warmer, more comfortable, I have better drinks and food, I have actual infinite music on Spotify and a console to play anything I want, a 65″ telly with surround sound and a dodgy firestick to watch anything I want, there are ~~no~~ fewer coked-up knobheads, and I don’t get piss on my shoes every time I walk to the toilet.