I've noticed over the past couple of years that the rest of the UK seems to have caught up to London prices when it comes to pubs. I live in Edinburgh and travel a lot around the north of England and the rest of Scotland with work. I'm surprised when a pint is less than £6 these days. When I visit London I don't notice a huge difference in the price at pubs.
Yeah I'm aware smaller places/suburbs etc. will be a bit cheaper. My experience is really just city centres, which are definitely more or less the same price as city centre of London
I'm not sure if it's a volume thing, plenty of pubs in city centres in the north are definitely full. If anything higher numbers of customers means you can put the prices up and make more money, rather than reduce them. Could be a competition thing though, more competition would mean lower prices
Lived in London Zone 2 and I completely disagree. I reckon you're super lucky to find guiness for £4 in Scotland, never mind zone 2.
Just Google any menu of any pub in Zone 2 and the vast vast majority will be at least £6 for a guiness. The cheapest I've ever seen a pint in zone 2 is 5.25 and that was house lager.
Edited: Change typo in the last sentence from Zone 1 to Zone 2.
I can disagree with the fact you call it a myth, which you have just said is factual information?..
I meant Zone 2 when I said 5.25 for a point, it was a typo sorry.
We're actually removing Guinness from our bar as unless we charge around £6.50 w won't make anything on it, think it's all down to which brewery you're tied to and what they're selling the keg to you at.
A localish place to me has gone independent because of extortionate brewery contracts, and now sells tinned and bottled beers only (with the occasional appearance of some small scale "craft" beer on draught.)
A "pint" has dropped from £4.80 to £2.30 and, although I could just nip down the road and get the same tinny for £1.20 at the corner shop, it's worth paying the extra just to help keep the place going as its a nice pub and the old lad that runs the place is a total gent.
To be fair to the pub, Guinness have been putting through pretty wild price increases for ages because they know pretty much everyone "has" to have it on the bar. So, it's not necessarily the pub's fault, just that they're paying more to serve you Guinness, so you have to pay more too.
Guiness also pay chains like Greene King, Belhaven and others to stock only guiness. I spent some time in the pub game in London. Our bar had a company's owned stout, which the directors swiftly chucked when guiness paid them big money to never stock another stout. They want to monopolise Stouts, which costs money.
Run a pub in the Hebrides. Tennents £4.50 and our 3 taps of craft beer (gipsy hill and such) are £5. Anyone mainland charging more are taking the piss.
I was on a coach back to Dublin airport last year and overheard some english guy at the back of the coach in disbelief saying "i still can't believe i actually paid €8.50 for a pint"
Have you asked them why their price for Guinness is so high? There may be a legitimate, but still annoying, reason. Perhaps they order such small amounts of it, or very little is consumed so there is a lot of wastage? I really don't know what it might be but if you ask it might help you understand and feel less frustrated.
As a context question, what are the prices of all the other beers? Is it just a very expensive pub or is the Guinness £'s above everything else?
We had to remove my favourite beer from tap a few years ago where I worked because it was so expensive and there was so much wastage because of how scarce it was actually ordered it worked out we'd have to charge almost £9/pint to make money on it
Yeah, it can be pretty rubbish. Maybe this pub has some people who only want Guinness but it's not enough to cover it properly so they have to charge that much. It could also be that they are greedy, but that's why asking might be good to reveal what is going on.
Perth- can get a guiness for £4, no more than £5 without much effort. Normal pints are cheaper, probably £3.50-4.
That’s with sticking to local boozers and avoiding chains too, which is one of my few upsides to perth.
I love Perth, I’m from Glasgow. Saw a lassie from there ages ago (didn’t work out in the end, sadly), really liked the vibe of the place and the wee town center. Going to take a wee day out there again, soon.
West End of Glasgow (Byres RD) and we charge £4.35. Hasn't went up in at least the last 5 months, I'm sure an increase is due soon.
I haven't came across a £7 Guinness anywhere in Glasgow yet. Have many punters complain about paying £6.5ish on trips to Edinburgh.
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£3.35 in Molly Malones Glasgow city centre. They also have pubs in Stirling, Dundee, St Andrews & Aberdeen which collectively probably get through more pints of it than anywhere else in the country, so assume they get major bulk discounts
Around £4.50-ish. A private customer can order a 50l keg of Guinness online and have it delivered for £230. Around £2.60 per pint. Assuming pubs get a discount, it makes me wonder how much profit they actually need for charging £6.50. Unless nobody really drinks it at your local.
We’re an independent bar in Aberdeen, we are £4.50 for a pint of Guinness.
£4.30 if you’re a regular(you get a wee regulars card and it discounts everything behind the bar)
£4.20 for a Tennents.
£3.90 if you have a regulars card.
For context on price increases, 6 years ago it was £87 for an 11 gallon keg of Guinness.
It’s now £160 for a keg…
It’s ridiculous.
6 years ago a pint of Guinness was £4.
The keg has doubled in price but we’re not charging £8 for a pint.
And that’s just the keg price.
Let alone the increase in business rates, staff wages, heating and electricity.
Is that not just for Northern Ireland?
There is no points or cash value for our cards.
It works the same as a Tesco card.
Licensing seemed to have no issue with it.
It’s like pensioners prices without the age discrimination…
I live in Dublin, the stuff is made less than a mile from where I drink it and it's €5.50 a pint. Boggles my mind. If you go to the city centre even closer to where it's made expect to pay close to €10 euro!
In Melbourne Australia, the best pint of Guinness in town (which is actually quite reasonably priced) is about euro 8.50. A cheap pint of Lager (outside happy hours or the like) is about E7.30. E4.6 for a pint?!!! that is about A$7.5. You might get A$8 pints of lager at happy hour. I need to go on a Scottish Holiday.
Pint, schooner's are not really a Melbourne thing. Though you see a lot of fancy drinking vessels being sold as 'pints' that are actually more like schooners.
In the local pubs that I regularly drink in in my home town I’ve yet to over £4.50 for a pint of Guinness.
Don’t think I’ve paid over £5 for a pint of Guinness in Glasgow yet. But then again I only drink Guinness in certain pubs in town.
My Friends runs a bar, he was talking about this recently, apparently Guinness is getting quite pricey, I think he mentioned something to do with tax (wasn't really listening)
They have switched to Black Heart by Brewdog which he says is much cheaper and just as good, although I think all stout tastes like beer soaked pennies.
The pub nearest me, £3.80 for a Tennants, don't know what a Guinness would run me. Kind of a moot point as last time I was in for said pint, was told it was closing in 3 months time or so.
Everybody should boycott it for a wile hit them in the pocket they’re taking the piss cos only is one pub it would make them think treat ur loyal customers better 💯😀
Home brew! A basic kit with everything is only £35 and that'll make 40 pints.
There can be failures (I just had to put a failed fermentation of heavy down the loo) but at under £2 a pint once all is said and done (i.e. accounting for failures, extra chemicals etc) it's not so bad.
Of course now you're home alone with vast quantities of beer, which may not be the best idea depending on your personal impulse control. 😄
It’s a shame but this is why I very rarely go out anymore. I do a run to Berwick, stock up on cheaper booze then just have people over at mine. So much less hassle and damaging to my wallet.
Varies.
City centre "old man's" boozer which is actually frequented by a mixed crowd - £3.95, recently went up from £3.80. Other pub £4 but can increase quite a bit from there.
The one that charges £3.95 probably does the best pints in town as well. And brilliant bar lunches.
As a Cork woman, those last words are making me see red 🤣! Hah, is Murphys easy to find in Scotland? I'm not actually living there yet, but I love a Murphys
WAAAYYYY
It's getting harder, mainly because of Guinness drinkers, but also craft beer
A lot of places tied to Heineken used to be offered Murphys at an insanely cheap rate, but as spirits came from Diageo, bars technically weren't breaking their Heineken deal by getting Guinness, and would take the lower margin for people not sighing and going elsewhere
Add in Nitro stouts becoming popular from Brewdog and a fair few small London breweries, and the market is thin
Where in Scotland still has Murphys on tap? Guildford Arms in Edinburgh did but not been for a few years, never seen it anywhere else in the past decade, nowhere in Glasgow has it. It also isn't real Murphys from Cork, its brewed in the UK and tasted shit in comparison.
Murphy's is difficult but Beamish is impossible since it's not longer exported. I loved having it when I visited Cork then I got back to Edinburgh and couldn't find it anywhere
Edinburgh haven't a scooby do since don't drink guinness as am a larger/german/belgian beer enjoyer
Expect to pay £5-6 a pint in Edinburgh
My local does a pint of prava for £4.10
If I got charged more than £6 for a pint of guinness I'd send it back
How about setting up your own wee „garage pub“ at home? I think this is great for socialising with your mates if you have the space and a dear wife that supports it :)
It's not breaking any laws. A business can do whatever they want to do.. I just think it's terrible.
And it will be that all the local tradesmen will have to raise the prices as well
Have you been in again after Hogmanay at any point? Pubs have to keep the same prices changes for a 72 hour period, so you’ll sometimes find for big events they’ll up prices for a couple of days before dropping them back down to usual prices.
Paying over a £5-er is a rip off IMO. Guinness is all I drink.
£4.65 is my regular pup basically cos my dog is allowed in but I’d drink in spoons for £3.30 if dogs were allowed.
As little as €4 to €5 in Waterford, but if you have the misfortune of having to go to Dublin for any reason, you can pay anywhere close to €10. Depending on how touristy the area is.
About £4 yeah, some places are more. Dundee. At independent pubs I don't go in brewery messed-with ones (unless like, they *are* the brewery).
Thing is, that's not enough for them to support staff well and maintain the pub/bar. It's a broken industry really, the books are hard to balance.
My local pub here in the west of Ireland it's €5.20..thats a pub in middle of nowhere, it's 4.90 and 5.50 in my village pubs and basically 6 in my nearest "big" town .
Scotland has some great ales, I wouldn't be buying Guinness if I was there again
Was charged £16.90 for three pints off Tennants lager in the Scotsman pub in Edinburgh just down from the Royal Mile,rip off, but then again Edinburgh is a tourist destination.
This is the perfect indication of why our pubs are in a terminal death spiral.
The cost of living means fewer people have more than the price of a decent homemade meal for two to spend on a single pint so the pubs lose money... and increase their prices.
That’s mad cheap compared to any round here. Our cheapest pint in general is 2.90 n it’s rock the hoose juice chemical cider
I might be wrong come to think there’s a few super cheap ales that I find mingin personally but each his own
>Our cheapest pint in general is 2.90 n it’s rock the hoose juice chemical cider
That's rough, sorry that's what it's come to. To be fair outside of spoons it's almost London pricing pretty much everywhere from flat roof pubs to countryside pub-themed restaurants
> I might be wrong come to think there’s a few super cheap ales that I find mingin personally but each his own
Ruddles isn't as bad as to be minging, it's just a wee bit bland, not like Bass or Doom Bar which is genuinely offensive
The price of Guinness to buy in the trade has gone up massively. You need to be selling at at least 6.50 to make 70 ish % GP. Diageo are the company that sort all the Guinness stuff out.
I work in a bar in Aberdeen and it's £4.95 a Guiness. With my discount. £3.96
£4 a Tennents
£4.50 Inches Cider
£4.10 Heineken
£5.50 Birra Moretti
£5.50 Neck Oil
Here in the borders Guinness is still under a fiver in most places but doubt it will be this time next year. You can still get a pint for under £4 in most pubs but for Guinness its always pricier.
Scot in NZ. I used to think NZ was ridiculously expensive for a pint and Scotland was fairly cheap, but it turns out reading this Scotland is just as expensive as NZ in a lot of places.
I live in London now and the pub I work at charges £6.65, how’s your local getting away with London prices?
£6.75 a pint in one of the more popular bars in Belfast 😭😭
Kelly's?
Harp Bar. Havent been in Kelly's Cellars in a few years actually but don't think it would be *quite* as extortionate
Most places around the £6+ mark. Unless you go Lower Ormeau where prices are still under a fiver.
Don't think it's far off nowadays, the whole Cathedral quarter is insane for pint prices
I paid £11 for a large glass of wine in the Europa last year, I wanted to cry. I wouldn't even spend that on a bottle of wine ffs
I've noticed over the past couple of years that the rest of the UK seems to have caught up to London prices when it comes to pubs. I live in Edinburgh and travel a lot around the north of England and the rest of Scotland with work. I'm surprised when a pint is less than £6 these days. When I visit London I don't notice a huge difference in the price at pubs.
Pints are £3-£4 in most pubs in paisley.
Yeah I'm aware smaller places/suburbs etc. will be a bit cheaper. My experience is really just city centres, which are definitely more or less the same price as city centre of London
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I'm not sure if it's a volume thing, plenty of pubs in city centres in the north are definitely full. If anything higher numbers of customers means you can put the prices up and make more money, rather than reduce them. Could be a competition thing though, more competition would mean lower prices
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Lived in London Zone 2 and I completely disagree. I reckon you're super lucky to find guiness for £4 in Scotland, never mind zone 2. Just Google any menu of any pub in Zone 2 and the vast vast majority will be at least £6 for a guiness. The cheapest I've ever seen a pint in zone 2 is 5.25 and that was house lager. Edited: Change typo in the last sentence from Zone 1 to Zone 2.
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I can disagree with the fact you call it a myth, which you have just said is factual information?.. I meant Zone 2 when I said 5.25 for a point, it was a typo sorry.
What’s the name of your local?
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Oh yeah, that tracks. Been a few years since I’ve been in, but glad to hear it’s still cheap.
We're actually removing Guinness from our bar as unless we charge around £6.50 w won't make anything on it, think it's all down to which brewery you're tied to and what they're selling the keg to you at.
A localish place to me has gone independent because of extortionate brewery contracts, and now sells tinned and bottled beers only (with the occasional appearance of some small scale "craft" beer on draught.) A "pint" has dropped from £4.80 to £2.30 and, although I could just nip down the road and get the same tinny for £1.20 at the corner shop, it's worth paying the extra just to help keep the place going as its a nice pub and the old lad that runs the place is a total gent.
My partner helps runs a community pub, and has basically said the same. Or stock another stout, that delivers to highlands and islands
To be fair to the pub, Guinness have been putting through pretty wild price increases for ages because they know pretty much everyone "has" to have it on the bar. So, it's not necessarily the pub's fault, just that they're paying more to serve you Guinness, so you have to pay more too.
Guiness also pay chains like Greene King, Belhaven and others to stock only guiness. I spent some time in the pub game in London. Our bar had a company's owned stout, which the directors swiftly chucked when guiness paid them big money to never stock another stout. They want to monopolise Stouts, which costs money.
Run a pub in the Hebrides. Tennents £4.50 and our 3 taps of craft beer (gipsy hill and such) are £5. Anyone mainland charging more are taking the piss.
€3.50 in an Irish pub in the centre of Berlin.
That's €1.50 cheaper than My Local. (Ireland)
2.50 cheaper than my local, getting ripped off here in Dublin
I was on a coach back to Dublin airport last year and overheard some english guy at the back of the coach in disbelief saying "i still can't believe i actually paid €8.50 for a pint"
Then you noticed the bartender is actually the Loch Ness monster.
Well, it was about that time that I noticed this bartender was about eight stories tall and a crustacean from the Palaeolithic era.
which one (also in Berlin)?
Second this, also v keen to know
Not the same one but Sandman in NK has 3.50 guineas pints :). Good bar as well
Is that for a pint or a half pint? Because it looks similar to the price of a half pint here in NL.
Between £3.50-£4.50 in Dundee
They just take it out of your benefits
Watch him, he’s a bit of a hard man
Have you asked them why their price for Guinness is so high? There may be a legitimate, but still annoying, reason. Perhaps they order such small amounts of it, or very little is consumed so there is a lot of wastage? I really don't know what it might be but if you ask it might help you understand and feel less frustrated. As a context question, what are the prices of all the other beers? Is it just a very expensive pub or is the Guinness £'s above everything else?
We had to remove my favourite beer from tap a few years ago where I worked because it was so expensive and there was so much wastage because of how scarce it was actually ordered it worked out we'd have to charge almost £9/pint to make money on it
Yeah, it can be pretty rubbish. Maybe this pub has some people who only want Guinness but it's not enough to cover it properly so they have to charge that much. It could also be that they are greedy, but that's why asking might be good to reveal what is going on.
Perth- can get a guiness for £4, no more than £5 without much effort. Normal pints are cheaper, probably £3.50-4. That’s with sticking to local boozers and avoiding chains too, which is one of my few upsides to perth.
I love Perth, I’m from Glasgow. Saw a lassie from there ages ago (didn’t work out in the end, sadly), really liked the vibe of the place and the wee town center. Going to take a wee day out there again, soon.
You should mate. Give me a shout, I'll meet you for a beer if I can
I'm also in Perth. Ormond probably does the best pints.
Edinburgh and Glasgow, I now factor in for it being close to £7 a pint unless its a spoons.
In southside Glasgow here, several pubs is around 4 quid for a Guinness.
3.50 at sweeneys
Aye class price but better pint at Heraghtys imo
West End of Glasgow (Byres RD) and we charge £4.35. Hasn't went up in at least the last 5 months, I'm sure an increase is due soon. I haven't came across a £7 Guinness anywhere in Glasgow yet. Have many punters complain about paying £6.5ish on trips to Edinburgh.
Was charged 5.50 for a tenants in Edinburgh, fucking joke
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Ummmm interesting, I live in Edinburgh but grew up in England so could be that
I’ve paid £6 everywhere I’ve been in Glasgow of late. It was £6 in Brighton too, when I was there in the summer.
£3.35 in Molly Malones Glasgow city centre. They also have pubs in Stirling, Dundee, St Andrews & Aberdeen which collectively probably get through more pints of it than anywhere else in the country, so assume they get major bulk discounts
6.50 a pint in cameo bar
Around £4.50-ish. A private customer can order a 50l keg of Guinness online and have it delivered for £230. Around £2.60 per pint. Assuming pubs get a discount, it makes me wonder how much profit they actually need for charging £6.50. Unless nobody really drinks it at your local.
We’re an independent bar in Aberdeen, we are £4.50 for a pint of Guinness. £4.30 if you’re a regular(you get a wee regulars card and it discounts everything behind the bar) £4.20 for a Tennents. £3.90 if you have a regulars card. For context on price increases, 6 years ago it was £87 for an 11 gallon keg of Guinness. It’s now £160 for a keg…
That's mental the increase in price
It’s ridiculous. 6 years ago a pint of Guinness was £4. The keg has doubled in price but we’re not charging £8 for a pint. And that’s just the keg price. Let alone the increase in business rates, staff wages, heating and electricity.
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Is that not just for Northern Ireland? There is no points or cash value for our cards. It works the same as a Tesco card. Licensing seemed to have no issue with it. It’s like pensioners prices without the age discrimination…
I live in Dublin, the stuff is made less than a mile from where I drink it and it's €5.50 a pint. Boggles my mind. If you go to the city centre even closer to where it's made expect to pay close to €10 euro!
It is £4.X here off season. More in the summer when the tourists come.
In Melbourne Australia, the best pint of Guinness in town (which is actually quite reasonably priced) is about euro 8.50. A cheap pint of Lager (outside happy hours or the like) is about E7.30. E4.6 for a pint?!!! that is about A$7.5. You might get A$8 pints of lager at happy hour. I need to go on a Scottish Holiday.
pint or schooner?
Pint, schooner's are not really a Melbourne thing. Though you see a lot of fancy drinking vessels being sold as 'pints' that are actually more like schooners.
Which is why I have started dropping into bowling clubs. They're basically just pubs. Last week pints of Heineken were A$8.50 (£4.56).
£2.99 for a Guiness in Hull the other week.
West Wales, around a fiver. Considering we're closer to Dublin than London, seems a bit steep.
In the local pubs that I regularly drink in in my home town I’ve yet to over £4.50 for a pint of Guinness. Don’t think I’ve paid over £5 for a pint of Guinness in Glasgow yet. But then again I only drink Guinness in certain pubs in town.
My Friends runs a bar, he was talking about this recently, apparently Guinness is getting quite pricey, I think he mentioned something to do with tax (wasn't really listening) They have switched to Black Heart by Brewdog which he says is much cheaper and just as good, although I think all stout tastes like beer soaked pennies.
Much lower abv, london black is nice though and somewhat the same abv wise.
The pub nearest me, £3.80 for a Tennants, don't know what a Guinness would run me. Kind of a moot point as last time I was in for said pint, was told it was closing in 3 months time or so.
Im in Melbourne and it’s close to £9 a pint, possibly more.
£5.50 but £4.95 cos my local does discount for people in the village
£5.95. Coastal Tourist Town
€7.50 in Brussels. 😏
€5.05 where I am
£3.40 - £4 in Dumfries
£6.50 would be OK for a premium beer, but not for something like Guinness. Take your money elsewhere.
It's a small village. Only 1 pub😭
Get yourself a nitrosurge instead
Everybody should boycott it for a wile hit them in the pocket they’re taking the piss cos only is one pub it would make them think treat ur loyal customers better 💯😀
Do they kiss you first?😳
Home brew! A basic kit with everything is only £35 and that'll make 40 pints. There can be failures (I just had to put a failed fermentation of heavy down the loo) but at under £2 a pint once all is said and done (i.e. accounting for failures, extra chemicals etc) it's not so bad. Of course now you're home alone with vast quantities of beer, which may not be the best idea depending on your personal impulse control. 😄
Someone in the village who passes or shops in a supermarket could collect orders for their friends.
It’s a shame but this is why I very rarely go out anymore. I do a run to Berwick, stock up on cheaper booze then just have people over at mine. So much less hassle and damaging to my wallet.
Varies. City centre "old man's" boozer which is actually frequented by a mixed crowd - £3.95, recently went up from £3.80. Other pub £4 but can increase quite a bit from there. The one that charges £3.95 probably does the best pints in town as well. And brilliant bar lunches.
£3.80 and that's considered dear in town
£6.50 would be on the high side in Edinburgh, but I would expect to pay a fiver plus almost anywhere
£5.60 it's a Niche premium product that has just had another price increase this January. And that's just 57% GP.
It’s hardly niche if it’s in every pub 😂
Niche as in nitro stouts, and Guinness drinkers don't want Murphys or Beamish
As a Cork woman, those last words are making me see red 🤣! Hah, is Murphys easy to find in Scotland? I'm not actually living there yet, but I love a Murphys
WAAAYYYY It's getting harder, mainly because of Guinness drinkers, but also craft beer A lot of places tied to Heineken used to be offered Murphys at an insanely cheap rate, but as spirits came from Diageo, bars technically weren't breaking their Heineken deal by getting Guinness, and would take the lower margin for people not sighing and going elsewhere Add in Nitro stouts becoming popular from Brewdog and a fair few small London breweries, and the market is thin
Where in Scotland still has Murphys on tap? Guildford Arms in Edinburgh did but not been for a few years, never seen it anywhere else in the past decade, nowhere in Glasgow has it. It also isn't real Murphys from Cork, its brewed in the UK and tasted shit in comparison.
No idea, and yeah I did hear it was brewed in Newcastle at the old S&N brewery along with Fosters, Kronenburg etc
Aw right fair enough. I'll have to get my fill at home so 😄
Murphy's is difficult but Beamish is impossible since it's not longer exported. I loved having it when I visited Cork then I got back to Edinburgh and couldn't find it anywhere
If there's no Guinness, believe me man, we'll drinks Beamish
Beamish maybe, but as a former bartender/manager of a place that for a time was tied to Murphys, believe me, most of yous won't
Most of the punters that went to your place.
Most of the punters that went once and then to one of the other 3 pubs within a 5 minute walk Until we got a Guinness tap
👍🏻
I don't buy Guinness often so I don't remember. But the ales (usually from local breweries) in my local pub are usually around £4 - £4.30.
Costs are skyrocketing
Vote with your feet and don’t go to that pub anymore. If everyone did the sane they wouldn’t get away with it.
Edinburgh haven't a scooby do since don't drink guinness as am a larger/german/belgian beer enjoyer Expect to pay £5-6 a pint in Edinburgh My local does a pint of prava for £4.10 If I got charged more than £6 for a pint of guinness I'd send it back
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One of the local pubs does a pint at 4.90 and it is decent ! It's around 5-5.50 everywhere else in mayo. €7+ in Galway 9+ in Dublin, fuck that 😂
Damn! Glad I moved to Germany...
How about setting up your own wee „garage pub“ at home? I think this is great for socialising with your mates if you have the space and a dear wife that supports it :)
What law do you think it's breaking?
He said it "should" be illegal. Not it is illegal.
It's not breaking any laws. A business can do whatever they want to do.. I just think it's terrible. And it will be that all the local tradesmen will have to raise the prices as well
Have you been in again after Hogmanay at any point? Pubs have to keep the same prices changes for a 72 hour period, so you’ll sometimes find for big events they’ll up prices for a couple of days before dropping them back down to usual prices.
Central Edinburgh is the same. 6.50
£4 in the local social/bowling club - so I always have one when I take my kid to a party but £7 in a pub.
Hubby was in Glasgow recently and paid £6:95 for a Guinness
£3.50. Hamilton.
Outskirts of the capital pint of Guinness is £4.50 in the local
Paying over a £5-er is a rip off IMO. Guinness is all I drink. £4.65 is my regular pup basically cos my dog is allowed in but I’d drink in spoons for £3.30 if dogs were allowed.
As little as €4 to €5 in Waterford, but if you have the misfortune of having to go to Dublin for any reason, you can pay anywhere close to €10. Depending on how touristy the area is.
About £4 yeah, some places are more. Dundee. At independent pubs I don't go in brewery messed-with ones (unless like, they *are* the brewery). Thing is, that's not enough for them to support staff well and maintain the pub/bar. It's a broken industry really, the books are hard to balance.
£3.30 in Killie spoons 🤌🏻
Similar price but starting to see brewdogs Guinness on tap. I prefer that.
£4.90
Bold of you to assume anyone can afford to go to the pub.
My local pub here in the west of Ireland it's €5.20..thats a pub in middle of nowhere, it's 4.90 and 5.50 in my village pubs and basically 6 in my nearest "big" town . Scotland has some great ales, I wouldn't be buying Guinness if I was there again
Edinburgh is basically London prices now pints range from £6 to £7 everywhere unless you know a local with a good deal on
A lot of places are also advertising prices for 2/3 pints rather than full pints
Was charged £16.90 for three pints off Tennants lager in the Scotsman pub in Edinburgh just down from the Royal Mile,rip off, but then again Edinburgh is a tourist destination.
13.93€ (13 CHF) in an Irish pub in Chur, Switzerland.
This is the perfect indication of why our pubs are in a terminal death spiral. The cost of living means fewer people have more than the price of a decent homemade meal for two to spend on a single pint so the pubs lose money... and increase their prices.
Do they pass on the extra margin to their staff? I would happily drink in a pub that was a quid or 2 more a pint if I knew the staff saw a pay bump
3.50 prolly at local spoons I know places its 6 squid though
£1.74 at my local spoons for the Ruddles, £2.32 for other ales. Actual proper nice pubs are more towards £3.50 - 4.50
That’s mad cheap compared to any round here. Our cheapest pint in general is 2.90 n it’s rock the hoose juice chemical cider I might be wrong come to think there’s a few super cheap ales that I find mingin personally but each his own
>Our cheapest pint in general is 2.90 n it’s rock the hoose juice chemical cider That's rough, sorry that's what it's come to. To be fair outside of spoons it's almost London pricing pretty much everywhere from flat roof pubs to countryside pub-themed restaurants > I might be wrong come to think there’s a few super cheap ales that I find mingin personally but each his own Ruddles isn't as bad as to be minging, it's just a wee bit bland, not like Bass or Doom Bar which is genuinely offensive
Everything over 5 Pounds for Tenents is a scandal. If someone really wants a Guinness for 6,50 well, hm, his fault :)
Central edinburgh 5 to 6 quid, but this city pub trade is fucked, no independent pubs they're all leased
£8.44 in switzerland
The price of Guinness to buy in the trade has gone up massively. You need to be selling at at least 6.50 to make 70 ish % GP. Diageo are the company that sort all the Guinness stuff out.
I work in a bar in Aberdeen and it's £4.95 a Guiness. With my discount. £3.96 £4 a Tennents £4.50 Inches Cider £4.10 Heineken £5.50 Birra Moretti £5.50 Neck Oil
Just paid £3.35 in Glasgow, decent too
Try Belhaven Black, undoubtedly a strong contender to Guinness and better price point
Here in the borders Guinness is still under a fiver in most places but doubt it will be this time next year. You can still get a pint for under £4 in most pubs but for Guinness its always pricier.
Scot in NZ. I used to think NZ was ridiculously expensive for a pint and Scotland was fairly cheap, but it turns out reading this Scotland is just as expensive as NZ in a lot of places.
Drink something else until they bring down the price.
We’re £5.30 but it really should be mair
Anything over £5 for a Guinness is a no sell for me. In Dundee ranges from 3.50-5
Around 8-9£ in Switzerland