Price of Beer

Discussion in 'Just Talk' started by Pollowick, Mar 17, 2019.

  1. SteveMJ

    SteveMJ Active Member

    I do with my son. He pointed out how low cost it was - except it doesn't factor in any equivalent labour charge.
     
  2. SteveMJ

    SteveMJ Active Member

    I met my son in a bar in Kings Cross station. I said buy a couple of beers for us while I pop to the loo - I'll pay. £13.50 each for a bottle of some special wheat beer! I think it was a half pint too for that.
     
  3. KIAB

    KIAB Super Member

    Want to try Muntons Hand Crafted - Old Conkerwood brew, very dark, lovely ale.

    And it's available locally,I know were I'm going tomorrow.:)

    https://www.brewbitz.com/b/106-muntons-hand-crafted-old-conkerwood.html


    And Woodfordes Norfolk Nog, superb dark beer, which I use to brew back in the 90's is still available today.[​IMG]
     
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  4. dinkydo

    dinkydo Screwfix Select

    8304DDE6-81D6-4911-8B0D-4757D0B1E276.jpeg My local Spoons now stocks this only £1.80 a bottle a lovely drink, good ole Tim :)
     
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  5. Pollowick

    Pollowick Screwfix Select

    Bunch of cheapskates - the lot of you!

    There is a bar at Kings Cross with some speciality beers - they start around £40 for a 500ml bottle at 8.5% and the top of the range is around £250 yes, two hundred and fifty pounds. Lucking for me I have a supply at home with about 10 of the £250 and 30 or so at £40 to £50.
     
  6. Baxi Boy

    Baxi Boy Active Member

    Yes I remember well! Boots made their own brand kits,and they were dead good! In those days,over 20 years ago,it was about 10p a pint! Woodfords is a great kit today,but costs 60-70p a pint.
     
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  7. CGN

    CGN Screwfix Select

    London basement. 2 bottles of Becks(which is rubbish)...£8.50 a bottle!
     
  8. chippie244

    chippie244 Super Member

    It leaves a bitter taste in your mouth though :p
     
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  9. dinkydo

    dinkydo Screwfix Select

    Where can I get a crate of these ?
     
  10. Pollowick

    Pollowick Screwfix Select

    I can do you a case of the cheaper ones - say £30 bottle.
     
  11. Astramax

    Astramax Super Member

    That's greedy, I'll beat that @ £29.99 a bottle.
     
  12. chippie244

    chippie244 Super Member

    My mate's getting Guinness for £2.55 a pint in Whitley Bay tonight.
     
  13. dinkydo

    dinkydo Screwfix Select

    I use that to entice our garden slugs into a watery grave :)
     
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  14. dinkydo

    dinkydo Screwfix Select

    Talking of Guinness has anyone tried the stuff that they pour out of a can into a glass and stand the glass on a vibrating plate to give it an head ?
     
  15. chippie244

    chippie244 Super Member

    You are attracted to trolls aren't you Tinky Winky?
     
  16. DIYDave.

    DIYDave. Screwfix Select

    All the supermarkets now have a great range of beers, lagers, IPA, etc and often have deals on multi buys

    Aldi has increased their beer range and has some great buys, 500ml bottles, no speacial offers but just good prices and no gimmicks

    I particularly like their Banks Bitter and Medusa Ruby Ale

    The so called Craft Beer explosion winds me up though to be honest ....
    Some of it’s just a con and a license for the bar/pub to charge extortionate prices whislt the punters lap it up ..... literally

    Fancy labels, exotic sounding names, breweries you’ve never heard of, sediment in the bottle so you can’t even drink the whole bottle otherwise you get a mouthful of gunge, and at around £10 a pint ...... avin a larf

    Nice pint of John Smiths in my local Weatherspoons is around £2.20, always good and they’ve now got Moretti on draught, also a very nice pint and previously sold by very few pubs but becoming more widely available

    Anyway, it’s all down to personal taste but it’s not pleasant being ripped off whislt enjoying a tipple
     
  17. Astramax

    Astramax Super Member

    Glad I don't go down the pub, sounds like a mortgage is required to buy a round. :eek:
     
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  18. gadget man

    gadget man Screwfix Select

    If I'd known that he could have bought me a pint..:)
     
  19. chippie244

    chippie244 Super Member

    He's in the Firestation, wearing a hat, deaf as a post with a Stevenage accent.
     
  20. gadget man

    gadget man Screwfix Select

    Only ever been in there once, I'm not too keen on Weatherspoons. :(
     

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