London is no longer the most expensive place to buy a pint, a new study says. For the first time, Surrey has overtaken the capital as the most expensive area to buy a drink, with the average pint costing £4.40. According to the Good Pub Guide, Herefordshire and Yorkshire have the cheapest pints at £3.31. The difference in price for a pint of beer is now more than £1 across the country, with the average tipple costing £3.60 - up by 13p on 2016. please log in to view this image Beer in pubs brewing their own brands was typically £3.09 a pint Other cheaper counties where drinkers have a reason to raise a glass include Shropshire at £3.33 a pint, Derbyshire at £3.36 and Cumbria and Worcestershire, both at £3.38. It was bad news for pint-drinkers in Sussex, who pay an average of £3.82, while Hertfordshire comes in at £3.81 and the Scottish Islands, £3.80. However, drinkers in Surrey might not be crying into their beer if they are earning the median full time weekly wage of £669.70, as they can more easily absorb the £4.40 price of their pint. Beer drinkers in Herefordshire might be paying three quarters as much for their pint at £3.31, but their median weekly wage is £460 - only two thirds of what people in Surrey can expect to make. please log in to view this image The price of beer has changed more than the nation's love of it Blue Dowd, who is the owner of the Basketmakers Arms in Brighton, said the most expensive beer his Sussex pub stocks costs £6 per pint. "It's what's known as a craft beer, and a lot more goes into the making of them," he said. "The people who buy premium beers know they're going to be charged a premium price. They buy it because it's a very fine beer." please log in to view this image Blue Dowd said customers expect to pay higher prices for premium beers Beer in pubs brewing their own brands was typically cheaper at £3.09 a pint. The guide also said that increasing numbers of pubs are offering accommodation, food and outside catering services, taking business away from restaurants. Some pubs are also offering delis, book clubs, live music and conferences, it said. The priciest pints, bar none £4.40 average in Surrey, the most expensive in the UK £3.82 Sussex £3.81 Hertfordshire £3.31 in Herefordshire and Yorkshire, the cheapest UK average
Yer talking a fiver in glesga. Don't know who the **** compiled that data but it wasn't fenster. Edit. **** knows what the average is right enough. Star bar in Eglington does a 3 course lunch for 2.50 ffs No surrender folks.
I'd agree that £3.60 is the average but not sure about Surrey being the most expensive, you don't get much change from a fiver in Central London if any at all. Unless Wetherspoon's is bringing the average price down in London, but I guess Surrey must have their fair share of them too.
You're paying for the history though, that hotel reeks of it. One of my favourite places in Scotland, I love the snug bar.
Aye, I liked it too. We're going back in November so it didny piss me aff that much Basically, it's the only boozer for miles so ye pay the price or ye **** off.
I don't drink a lot anyway so prices don't bother me much. That was the first place I had Jeremiah Weed to drink.
Visited my in laws in London back in 79 . Was biting at the bit to go to my first English pub . I walked in and the bartender was talking to a few regulars and then asked " You want a half and half " .Didn't have a clue what he was talking about but answered " No , give me a whole one " . The regulars and bartender laughed their arses off and ended up drinking with them the entire night and a few nights after . Every time I walked in they laughed . Fukin English
