The £4 Pint

[gettin2dizzy]

The average price of a pint of beer could hit £4 after poor weather forced up the price of hops.
Scottish & Newcastle today forecast "material price increases" next year. The brewer, which sells three of the top 10 beer brands in Europe including Kronenbourg and Foster's, is also reviewing its supply chain in a bid to cut costs.
Industry experts are now predicting rises of up to 60%. According to the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA), the average price of a pint of lager is £2.50, with bitter fans paying around £2.20. A 60% hike would take the average cost of lager to £4 and that could be even higher in some bars.


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[Ceri JC]

Good thing I tend to drink spirits rather than pints if I'm having more than 2-3 drinks.

[timwilky]

I currently pay £2 - £2.15/pint for cask bitter depending on which guest is on. and £1.93 for the Tetley and Boddingtons muck in my local.

Go to see my brother in law and the Holts (Acquired taste) is about £1.80 - £1-90 depending on pub.

I wouldn't pay more than £2.50 city prices before I gave it up and sat at home with my home brew kit

[jambo]

I wouldn't pay more than £2.50 city prices before I gave it up and sat at home with my home brew kit

My dad was planning on buying me a home brew kit for Christmas. I'm planning on inviting people round and offering them a pint to see how polite / honest my beer supping friends really are:D

[philbut]

Beer is regularly £2.80+ round here. One pub i went into the other day charged £3.60 for a bloody larger! shalln't be going there again. It's already over 4 quid in clubs here.

Interesting that all this increased price oh hops also co-insides with the government threatening to raise the tax on drink...hmmmm, industry counter measure possible?

[CB1ROCKET]

Night club and bars are ripping £4 now! with that increase it surely well gonna be more like £7 for a pint!

[Viney]

Good thing im teetotal then. More money to spend on petrol.

The silly thing is, that i bet theres more uproar over this than the rising petrol costs.

[CB1ROCKET]

Goverment also mentioned they wanted to increase duty on alcohol as well, typical goverment more stealth tax!

[gettin2dizzy]

A lot of this increase is due to fuel increases and the ****ty crop this year though, not just government meddling

[CB1ROCKET]

do bear in mind that 80% of fuel is duty and tax!

[ooger]

Economically speaking, its cheaper to drink petrol.

At £1.04 for a litre of unleaded, thats a mere 59p a pint!

Until petrol hits £1.60 a litre it is still cheaper (pint for pint) than £2.80 for a pint of Kronenbourg.


*Government statistics probably indicate that this isn't a healthy diet*:smt018

[tigersaw]

oddly the price in supermarkets is as cheap as I've ever seen it, practically giving the stuff away.
Ahh, its all imported.

[MeridiaNx]

In the paper today was a story saying beer brewers (by this I think they were referring to ale though they weren't specific) are possibly going to call for tax exemption given that on every pint they currently make £0.07 profit per pint, while the government takes over £0.30 in tax per pint.

I'll drink to that! ;)

[gettin2dizzy]

In the paper today was a story saying beer brewers (by this I think they were referring to ale though they weren't specific) are possibly going to call for tax exemption given that on every pint they currently make £0.07 profit per pint, while the government takes over £0.30 in tax per pint.

I'll drink to that! ;)

You seem to have forgotten that this is a no fun country!

Look at the margins on petrol - they'd make you sick! :smt103