Guinness Watch

It’s not Guinness but I’m so shocked I needed to share it somewhere and this felt like the best place for comparisons.

I’ve just paid £6.90 for a pint of Red Stripe in the recently reopened Fat Walrus in New Cross.

£4.10 at the Old Ale Emporium on Green Lanes.

Burnley Cricket club has recently bumped the price up from £2.50 to £3.

It was £6 a can at All Points East. No draught available.

£6.90 in a pub though is probably even worse

Yeah it stung for sure. They had Guinness as well but I didn’t want to gamble on how much that was after the Red Stripe. I did end up paying £6.25 for 330ml cans of Two Tribes at Rally festival last month which was also tough.

£7.50 at a local in East Sussex. Won't be going back.

I think the increasing price of beer is a vicious circle. Youngsters don't drink beer, want cocktails and fancy shit. Less beer sold, conventional pubs go to the wall. Prices go up. Less beer drunk. Repeat. Fewer pints sold means higher prices.

How much!!! Where, so that I can avoid it?

The excellent Harvey's best available locally for 4.25 a pint I'll be sticking to that from now on

A pint of some generic Spanish lager during the Davis Cup was £7.75 at the AO Arena in Manchester. I just couldn’t.

Were you there till the end? Quite the finale!

4 pack of Nigerian Guinness (the proper stuff) £9.95 at my local corner shop.

Was there all day Saturday and in the Sunday, with a long drive home ahead and a 45 minute gap announced between the singles and doubles (not sure why as 10 minutes between the singles and no one in second singles played doubles?) took the wise decision to head off.

Felt that it was a baller move after the 1-6 first set but as my wife watched on her phone while I drove less so. Arrived home 5 minutes after it was all done but rewatched the last 45 minutes with relaxed excitement rather than shredded nerves.

A pint at the AO being 30% more than Wimbledon can still do one though.

A pint at the AO being 30% more than Wimbledon can still do one though.

I'm sure I was paying about £7.50 at Wimbledon

My memory isn’t always reliable but think it was about £6 once you’d taken the refundable £1 pint glass off?

Not all the bars were the same price but I'm pretty sure I was generally paying £7.50 plus the £1.

I guess them’s the breaks on the Members Terrace 😀

I looked back and it was £6.20 (although they let you bring in your own hooch whereas the AO Arena would barely allow a small packet of beef jerky).

Anyway, apologies for non-Guinness derail

Not guiness, maybe this should just be pint watch, but £7.20 for a neck oil now at the spurstowe with a tip prompt when you pay.

Gulp.

Can you still get proper guiness, not drawn through a lager cooler? Seeing as all guiness is from Dublin now ;)

Can you get Nigerian guiness in barrels here or just bottles?

A new 'brewery' type of establishment under the rail arches in Windsor - prices on board above the bar, ordered 3 pints and parted with £22 something although IMO should be £16 or so - bastards advertising 2/3 pint prices. Never had a 2/3 pint in my life before, what con is that?

Tail end of July I was charged £5.05 for a pint of Guinness in a pub in Leigh.
I then proceeded to spend £11 for a can of jazzy imperial stout in a bouji bottleshop next door.

Bouji bottleshop being Vino Vero or Hopsters I take it? Thing with Hopsters is they don't put a price on their cans... I've spent a lot of money in there in the past and not got much back... glad to say non-alcoholic beers in there are a bit cheaper!

it was Hopsters.

I've been a couple of times and it is always about £10 a can/bottle.
TBF they do warn you if it is over £10 a can when you pop it on the counter, and I always go just after payday and get carried away. (and those lairy stouts don't come cheap)

I paid £7.80 for a guiness and an Estella at the pig and whistle, Latimer Road. Good sturdy Irish pub that

It's easy to get carried away in there, I think most of the Verdant and Pollys are all around £8 a can... there's a place called The Crafty Half on London Rd that used to be pretty good but not been there for a while now

Just thinking I don't think I've been to a pub this year, which can't be right but I honestly can't think of a time this year.