what do you consider expensive for a drink?

Depends what pint your having, pint of vodka, lager what?

lager hornets, it was pretty much down to the person though

as always your input is invaluable

Anything over £3.50 at the moment annoys me, but really it should be lower than that.

£3.50 borders on sodomy

shouldn't be over £2.50 imo

If you've only got 99p, £1 is expensive

What's average in Sheffield Owl? I'm guessing it's a bit lower than in or around London prices.

local pubs - carling - £2.50, becks - £2.70 ****ss £2.90

obviously wetherspoons lot cheaper

You don't realise how lucky you are, well cheap. A pint cost me £4 yesterday, i was looking for coppers on the floor to help me pay for it.

At newbury racecourse it is £4.40 for a bottle of magners, i can buy 4 for that price.

Paris !

I must admit the pubs in the town i live in are struggling at the moment. You can definately see why.

£4.40 is obscene

feckin criminal

Motherwell fans were struggling to get a pint under £5 when they were in Odense this week.

Paris is shockingly expensive. Nice city but you pay through the nose when you are there.

you can understand profit and overheads but for something that costs less than £1 at source then they are now taking advantage.

all of france is exopensie as is sweden. i begrudge the 3 30 odd it is in london at least!

£2.50 is expensive in Liverpool

You can easily pay £6+ a pint in Copenhagen, and the worrying thing is the Swedes come over as they see this as something of a bargain!

Mate paid £8 for a shot in Oslo

12 euros for a bottle of beer in the superclubs in Ibiza

20 euros for a spirit + mixer

Total fkin rip-off.

15 quid for 2 pints of fosters in dubai airport

Why thank you owls

For a pint of lager, you can get one at weatherspoons for £1.29 so judging on that and my local price of £1.89 id say £2.30 would be the limit, im off into central london next weekend and if its above that price i will drink half and then walk out without paying, ill get back to you on the prices it cost me down there

i honestly try not to think about it when i have a night out these days.. i just take a couple of hundred or my card and hope im not wincing too much in the morning..

Paid £2.80 for 1/2 Leffe yesterday in a trendy Taunton Brasserie. I was pretty shocked but then I realised I'd have paid that for a decent coffee without a problem.

some tight barstards pon this fred. Anything less than £3.50 for a pint in London is a bargain. For those that seem unaware, pubs do have costs other than the beer they sell, and these have to be covered or the pub doesn't exist. You should all be drinking ale anyway, not Carling you chavvy fu(kers. [:p]

Anything less than £3.50 for a pint in London is a bargain

£3.50 is way too much mate

i know pubs have overheads other than stock some prices are just crazy now

once spent £55 on three drinks(2 large g&t`s, 1 kahlua & coke)
still have nightmares.

The cut-off point for drinks, for me:

Pint £2.80
Alcopop £1.00 (Needless to say, I don't drink these)
Shot £1.00 (Very rarely these)
Cocktail £3.50 (Same)

What I find baffling is people who are happy to pay £3.00 for a 330ml bottle of Kronenbourg when they could have 568ml (a pint) for less, in the same pub.

yeah that is strange

Some pints taste like dishwater, chemicals, watered down? Maybe a reason for bottles.

A fair point. Generally though I don't find the standard to be too horrific to make it a bad idea.

Was £3.70 a pint this weekend at the v festival,a bit steep i thought

>£2.50 for single spirit & mixer
>£3 for lager
>£2.50 for bitter
imvho

above £3.40 is overboard imo.

£3.30 and under I'll happily pay.

less than three quid is rare these days, but I hardly ever go to the pub anymore.

i dont go the pub anymore, modern day robin hood thieving barstewards....imo

I wouldn't say that Dan.  they offer a price and it is up to the punter whether or not they pay it.  Nothing thieving about it.  Lots of pubs going under every week, so I think a lot of them are struggling and the overheads are real (need to turnover a fk of a lot to cover sky rental).

Can get a pint of Deuchar's real ale for £1.99 a pint near here. £2.40 for most real ales.

I think part of it is that the landlord has to understand that if you're notmaking loads of money then you have to work the bar yourself.  My local is a lovely pub, but I know he is struggling - but he must pay £500+/week in wages.  A bit of help now and then is no doubt necessary, but he has two full time bar staff and others that I see in there now and again.  I'm afraid being a landlord is hard work and a lot of hours.  That is a disadvantage.  The advantage is you work for yourself and you have no travel to work,and well at the end of the day there are plenty of worse jobs than working behind a bar.  But you have to put the hours in, that's my two penneth.

£17 for half a lager and a brandy in bergen

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Was £3.70 a pint this weekend at the v festival,a bit steep i thought

thats quite cheap as most pubs in that area are around £3.30

£3.50 the cheapest pint in London I hope your joking, im gonna be having a nice chunk gone then by the end of the weekend. Cheapest hotel i found for friday/saturday/sunday was £115 a night all the cheaper ones were grotty or fully booked. Absolute rip off and i cant believe i booked all 3 as i live only 45 mins on the train from victoria

I just dont understand how petrol is cheaper than beer that is 90+% water...thieving gits..

How is it thieving?  You pay it or you don't.  Your choice ffs.

oh do fook off you pompous tw@t

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£3.50 the cheapest pint in LondonShocked I hope your joking, im gonna be having a nice chunk gone then by the end of the weekend. Cheapest hotel i found for friday/saturday/sunday was £115 a night all the cheaper ones were grotty or fully booked. Absolute rip off and i cant believe i booked all 3 as i live only 45 mins on the train from victoria


find yourself a sam smith's pub. about £2.20 a pint in london.

a golf only £15,150 now that is theft

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oh do fook off you pompous tw@t

wit-ham £3.70 is expensive when your jumping around p1ssed spilling most of it

[;)]

Thanks Dstyle ill google it now and try and find one near to where we are staying

£3.65 for a pint of Stella in a crappy pub in Crystal Palace, I go in there sometimes because they show the racing and my mates hang out there but 11 quid for three pints is pretty outrageous. I paid £55 for two gin and tonics at The Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris 20 odd years ago although having said that there were quite a lot of naked women doing the can can on stage at the time so I didn't mind so much.

A liver.

$425 a bottle of Vodka in Jet Niteclub in the Mirage

How times change

i wouldnt pay £5 for a pint anywhere

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some tight barstards pon this fred. Anything less than £3.50 for a pint in London is a bargain. For those that seem unaware, pubs do have costs other than the beer they sell, and these have to be covered or the pub doesn't exist. You should all be drinking ale anyway, not Carling you chavvy fu(kers. [:p]
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^ tbf Londoners are quite thick so why not overcharge the feckers ?

Its the overheads guv'nor !

I paid £4.20 a pint last night in Catford, thought that was cheap for London tbh

Mu local Sam Smith's pub will be £3.80 for a pint of lager ....................... and a pint of mild.

Went to the arc probably 30 years ago; the year three troikas won; 8 of us were in a clip joint and Reg Boyle bookmaker; rip; went to the bar and ordered the drinks it came to £64, he said I am not paying that and the bar man told him there was a price list so he asked were it was and the barman pointed up to the ceiling, you would have needed binoculars to see it, the gendarmerie were called and poor Reg was ordered to pay

A bad result for Reg but not as bad as the business man from Teesside who got mugged outside the same joint.

The La Galerie Lounge at the George V hotel in Paris charges 32€ for 2cl measures!

I once ordered a vodka red bull in a nightclub , the girl said that's £8.90 , i said £8 **** how much , she said just pay it or i'm calling security , i already didn't get on politely with the security so said 'can you make it a double with ice'

I remember my first 5 pound pint. FGS .. there was a program about India the other day, that's like 2 days wages!

£13 A PINT borough market and they sold out ffs

The absolute nectar Belgian beer.."Barbar Bok" is £2.42 for 20 x 33cl bottles & plus delivery which was £4-ish

Barbar Bok  Beer
Brewery : Lefebvre brewery
Volume : 33cl
Alcohol Content (ABV) : 8.5%

I've had three orders x 20 but, superb though it is,it's hard to stop after one bottle, as a treat, so often had two or three.

Not ordering any more now......

......£2.42 per bottle, based on 20 x 33cl

8.5 that's some kick, I like the beer brewed by the monks,one is triple xxx @ 12.5

I WENT TO THE ARC AND IN THE HOTAL BAR.big mac told me not to bother go next door its 16 euro a glass in here,prices on track were the cheapest I paid all weekend,that was the year penny something won the cambridgshire

Aug 23, 2010 -- 2:23AM, Psychic Mutley wrote:

Paid £2.80 for 1/2 Leffe yesterday in a trendy Taunton Brasserie. I was pretty shocked but then I realised I'd have paid that for a decent coffee without a problem.

Wasn't Brazz was it??? Living in Taunton I can sympathise. Hence why the Coal Orchard (Spoons so £2.49 for Carlsberg) and the Race Horse (£3.60p for a pint of Cold Guinness/Carlsberg) are about as far as I go in town.

five bells is nice though

At a hotel wedding at 'Hotel Du Vin' York, in April,and paid £19.30 for a pint of Stella, two glasses of dry white, and a white wine spritzer!

btw....not the largest size glasses....

kenny...'Barbar Bok' has honey in it.

Does the monk's one also have honey?

I don't think so

http://www.belgiansmaak.com/westmalle-tripel/

Will have to give this a try kenny.....

From where did you get some and how much is it?

Found it.....lowest price £3.19

Haven't checked delivery costs

wont do your waistline any good though me lady

Just paid £6.50 for a large red wine this lunchtime in a local pub! I'd say that's a rip off! Don't normally buy wine, but it goes well with a roast Sunday lunch (which was very good and only £9.95).

SO YOUR SUNDAY LUNCH WAS £16 45

all down to sacle - £4 a pint is o way expensive if that's all youre drinkling -but if youre drinking 5 pints then it's  very expensive  - there should be a sliding scale -oir maybe £5 admission then £1 a pint thereafter

scale

Paid €1.80 for a glass of red wine with a free tapas thrown in here in the Poniente Granadino.

1st time poster - yes, that's correct! I think like a lot of eating places, they make their money on the drinks.

I am an ex pub landlord. I spent 13 years learning the trade working for a national brewer, before taking the plunge and owning and running my own freehold for 22 years, before finally selling up last year.
Trust me, when I say this, but it is almost impossible for a pub to make a sizable profit in this day and age. If a freehold pub is charging over what you consider to be a reasonable price, the chances are, it's not the pub for the likes of you, or you really have absolutely no idea of the overheads involved in order to satisfy government legislation.
As for tied pubs, if it's a tenancy, no matter how successful the pub is, you can bet your bottom dollar that that because the pub company knows your barrelage, your rent will go up each year accordingly. If its a managed house,then the Licensee (I won't call them a landlord), has no input into the pricing, other than filling in a price survey of nearby pubs for the area manager to peruse.

TheCoat is 100% correct and Breweries have also sold their products to the supermarkets at such a low price they are able to sell it on at a price which is less than the wholesale price landlords have to pay for the same product.

TheCoat - yes, I understand what you're saying.

Further to your comments, it reminds me of an eatery place just north of Romsey in Hampshire where the landlords were doing really well from all the hard work that they put in over many years and were subsequently penalized by having their rent increased accordingly. Basically, the owners of the hostelry gained from all the landlord's hard work, and not the actual landlords themselves. So, they just packed up and left!

The place went downhill after that. They tried different landlords over the next few years, but they didn't last very long. It did close down for a while, but I think it's reopened again now, but it's only a shadow of its former self as far as being a place to really attract customers. Great shame - I used to visit there regularly. Their roast lunches were really good and the inside of the pub had loads of entertaining trinkets/pictures etc. It's now pretty stark and bare inside.

friend of mine put his redundancy money up to fund his dream of running a pub,took out a tenancy reckons it cost him over £80k in about 2 1/2 years before he jacked it in.never seen someone age so much over a short time now he's completely ****** there must be countless people who've done the same thing because of unrealistic rent & pricing by the pub companies.

landlords get a sweat on when the water bills go up,