Sobering news: pubs say average cost of a pint will rise above £5
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/24/sobering-news-pubs-say-average-cost-of-a-pint-will-rise-above-5
Posted by pajamakitten
Sobering news: pubs say average cost of a pint will rise above £5
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/24/sobering-news-pubs-say-average-cost-of-a-pint-will-rise-above-5
Posted by pajamakitten
19 Comments
Surprised to hear in some places you can get one for less than £5. Been paying £7+ in a large city for years now.
£5?!? Where? Everywhere is at £7! I had to quit, cut drinking out because it was too expensive and a nasty drug that the government promotes for nefarious reasons. I feel great and I bought myself a dog. Don’t drink alcohol!
Simultaneously see articles asking why clubbing is dying out.
You see boss, the price of a pint has doubled since I’ve legally been able to drink, BUT my pay packet simply hasn’t. Given a choice between feeding myself + saving for a rainy day (which are becoming ever more regular) and going out on the lash, well common sense isn’t it.
Round here Lancashire it’s well above that now fosters I drink weak larger out of Preston it’s £3.50 – £4 a pint, in town it’s £8 – £9 a pint so I won’t go out with them prices
Well that’s going to get people into pubs isn’t it?
Stoke is still at 3.50/4 tops in most pubs,
Everyone come up north, big night out this weekend my treat!
You can buy a pint for less than a fiver?
That will be a shock for anyone who lives in the bottom third of the country.
10-15 years ago, places like fabric & egg would charge us £3-£4 just for a bottle of water. They must be a tenner now.
Funny how their killing of something that is mostly tax.
This has made me basically stop drinking so thanks. But don’t blame the public when all the pubs shut down.
Is this an old post? Been paying over £5 per pint in the south for years
It’s funny. I stopped going to pubs when a double morgans and coke went above £5.
Waiting for the “Gen Z is killing pub culture” articles that are exact copies of the “millennials killing pubs” articles from 5 years ago.
Pints at ulour village pub are already over £6 each
Madness
At least it’s not NZ prices, alot of places it’s about £7 a pint here 😭
Surprised by all these comments saying they’ve been paying over £5 a pint for years. Live in Southampton and most beers are between £4-£4.50
Paying bar staff living wage significantly increases costs + NI increases, rents, energy, I’m surprised they’re only £5 a pint
I run a rugby club bar, our lagers are £5 each, however cost for cider and ale is much less so they sell for £4 and £3.30 each
Nothing wrong with Spoons. Decent service, cheap booze, clean, toilets with modern fittings, usually a decent outside smoking area, relatively edible (also cheap) food etc.
Not fkn £8 for a pint of flat stuff through pipes the publican last got cleaned back in the 90s.