Must be nice. Not only is it harder to come by but a bottle of BT is at least $40 if not more around my neck of the woods.
I would be willing to bet it is cheaper than a pint (16 US ounces) at a bar in Boston or New York City. Cheers!
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lon...d-butlers-stonegate-greene-king-b1161418.html Average Imp. pint in London L5.43. or about $7.25. But you get about 25% more beer compared to US pint. so reduce London price by about $1.75. In London that comes out to about $5.50 per US pint. In the US you might need to add sales taxes. Also, Britain is more conscious of requiring full measure. The US bars might well be selling 12 or 14 oz "pints". And you will probably be expected to tip more heavily in the US. All in all, $5.50 in London sounds pretty good.
Was going to pick up a 4-pack of DDH King Sue yesterday. Saw the price of $22 for the 4x16 and bought a 4x16 of Bell's Two Hearted instead for $9. I've actually started going back to the breweries I drank before I got into the more local stuff: Deschuttes, Founders, Bells, Sierra Nevada, etc... I can still get 12-packs of Fresh Squeezed for $16.49 or Sierra Nevada Hazy Little Thing for $15.99. And those two are better than probably 60-70% of the hyperlocal IPAs in my area. Much rather the extra cash go towards my kids' college funds or my 401k than my craft beer hobby...
Exactly. After tax and tip, the cost of a "pint" where I live is pretty close to $10 now. The wife and I were in London for a few days last year, and I thought the price for a pint was pretty comparable to what I was paying back in PDX. Except that I wasn't expected to leave an additional 20% tip for the bartender to pour it.
There's at least one other advantage to using a "standard" craft beer from a larger outfit. The beer is more likely to be available regularly at convenient locations. That means I don't have to search for a replacement beer as often, when one of my regular beers disappears out of the market. I don't want to experiment much with questionable purchases, since that cuts into my relatively limited beer quota. I reserve the right to be choosy. Price also can be a factor.
Definitely. Another thing I've noticed is that those beers from standard outfits tend not to become shelf turds. I've bought Fresh Squeezed, Founders All Day, Two Hearted, SN Pale Ale, etc. regularly for ages, and have never seen them more than 3-4 months old, which is perfectly fine for those beers if they are canned and (mostly) stored cold. I've even gotten some incredibly fresh batches, like 2-3 weeks old, way out here in MN! On the other hand, I now regularly see Toppling Goliath beers that are 6+ months old, and some of the hyperlocal stuff is even worse. I never will forget trying a hyperlocal IPA in March 2022 with a canned month of January - thought it was 2 months old. Tasted odd... until I saw it was actually canned January 2021, 14 months earlier!!!
That's around $11, which is pretty high. Wife and I were last in London a bit over a year ago and stayed in the Hyde Park area. I paid nothing like that for a pint. As I recall, pint prices for Fullers ESB at the local pub down the street from our hotel were running around $7. Of course there was some price fluctuation from pub to pub, and certainly some places were more expensive than others, but I don't ever recall paying $10 or more for a pint. Granted, this was back in June 2024, so prices could have risen somewhat since then, but £8 on average for a pint seems really, really high.
I recently checked a taplist at a cask bar and the shits still £6 to £7 . Pints of "IPA" thought were £9 What a buncha suckers
That's insane. I think I was paying between £5 and £6 on average last time I was there, which was still on the high side I thought. However... considering there was no sales tax and no expectation of an automatic 20% tip, that took some of the sting out of the pricing. Here in Washington, pints are petty much $10 a pop for an APA or IPA, once you include the tax and tip. If you're ordering a BA stout, BW, saison or lambic, the sky's the limit.
I was in London last May and stayed near Westminster Abbey. At the Sanctuary, a pint of Fuller's ESB was about 6.40 GBP. Standard cask (4-5% ABV) was about 6 pounds per pint with GBP = $1.27 at the time.
You youngsters! When I was in high school we would drive 90 miles to Slidell Louisiana and buy Dixie Beer from New Orleans for $0.69 per sixer. My standards were somewhat lower in 1971 but that was certainly a price I could afford with my job that paid $1.05 per hour.
Oddly, in France red wine consumption is way down because young people are drinking far more beer and far less wine.
To the OP's question about outrageous prices, in my area of France there are lots of small breweries that have opened in the past 10 years. Their beers all taste the same, are generally designed to have little hop bitterness, and are expensive. Normally these breweries produce a blonde, a blanche(wit beer) and an ambree(sweetish brown). They are all around 5.5% ABV, so if you want a buzz it's gonna require multiple bottles. Almost all of them sell for at least $3 a 33 cl bottle(12 oz), so around $40 for 12 bottles. OTOH, at the grocery store near here I can buy Chimay Red for about $1.50, Blue for $1.75, German 50 cl bottles for around $2-2.50. Even the higher end Westmalle and Rocheforts are well under $3 a bottle.
