Most expensive pint ever?

[Mick Mac]

If it's the Rake at Borough Market you are referring to, I went there with a couple of smokers and spent the evening drinking expensive beer in a car park. Took the edge off the nice beer experience.

[Otta]

Seabag Wrote:

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> I think we've been and gone with the "them

> Hipsters" bashing/snidey thing

Really? Says who?

Boring.

[Jeremy]

Seabag = Hipster dad

[Otta]

He's just trying to impress RosieH.

[BrandNewGuy]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> If it's the Rake at Borough Market you are

> referring to, I went there with a couple of

> smokers and spent the evening drinking expensive

> beer in a car park. Took the edge off the nice

> beer experience.

Some people enjoy drinking cocktails on top of a piss-smelling multi-storey car park in Peckham. Takes all sorts ;-) FWIW I love The Rake. Only five minutes from work and always a friendly welcome. It's fair to say they always warn people if the beer is 'pricey'. And, as been pointed out, there's always a decent ale on for under four quid.

[Jeremy]

I like The Rake too. Just think it should be possible to serve interesting keg beers for a reasonable price (i.e. a fiver).

[DaveR]

I like the Rake, but currently drinking more frequently in the Old Red Cow in Smithfield, which has a great selection of cask and keg, and is the closest pub to work that's not a City hell-hole. I still have a psychological block about paying more than a fiver a pint (or at least much more than a fiver), and most of the really expensive stuff is way over strength IPA which I don't like anyway.

[El Pibe]

yeah, that's my go to pub when I'm in the office.

Tuesday lunch if you're about?

[Seabag]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Seabag = Hipster dad

:))

Ha - funny!

[Jeremy]

DaveR Wrote:

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> I like the Rake, but currently drinking more

> frequently in the Old Red Cow in Smithfield

Bit out the way for us south-Londoners though, innit?

> most of the really expensive

> stuff is way over strength IPA which I don't like anyway.

I quite like that stuff, but it's really only suitable if you're staying for "just the one".

[Parkdrive]

All I can say is I hope the dearest pint ever is not served in the Salisbury in St Martins Lane because that's the hostelry I shall be frequenting tonight.

[DulwichFox]

Googleing Most expensive pint in Britain

At ?5.80, London pub sells probably the most expensive pint in Britain

The Coach & Horses proclaims itself as Soho's "most famous pub" ? but it now has a less appealing claim to celebrity.

The historic watering hole for some of London's most raffish residents sells what is claimed to be the most expensive pint in Britain.

Even legendary former clients such as columnist Jeffrey Bernard may have baulked at the eye-watering ?5.80 for a pint of Leffe, the draught Belgium beer, sold at Tesco for about ?2.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/at-580-london-pub-sells-probably-the-most-expensive-pint-in-britain-6471997.html

Obviously Google has never heard of or reached East Dulwich..

DulwichFox

[Jeremy]

The article is 5 yrs old, and pre-dates the popularity of imported American craft beers.

[david_carnell]

Or maybe things have changed since 2010 when that was written?

[david_carnell]

Just be glad you don't live in Greenland where the average pint is ?7.35.

 

[DulwichFox]

You can still get a pint of Lighthouse in the EDT for ?2.90..

Not a craft beer but drinkable and must be the cheapest pint in the area.

DulwichFox

[DaveR]

Average price of a pint in London = ?3.79 (Sept 2014)

http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/General-News/Good-Pub-Guide-2015-Regional-breakdown-of-beer-prices

[Jeremy]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> You can still get a pint of Lighthouse in the EDT

> for ?2.90..

>

> Not a craft beer but drinkable and must be the

> cheapest pint in the area.

Agreed... great value and very drinkable!

[Jah Lush]

Oooh. fooking heck chuck. When I were a lad keg beer was considered so fooking shite that CAMRA was formed and got rid of all that crap like, ooh here we go, trip down memory lane... Watneys Red Barrel, Worthingon E, Double Diamond and Charrington's Best.

Mine's a light and bitter. Ta luv.

[red devil]

Some of Betty's HotPot wouldn't go amiss...

[Jah Lush]

And a tab of acid.

[Jeremy]

Good and bad beers come in keg, cask, bottle and can...

[????]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Oooh. fooking heck chuck. When were a lad keg beer

> was considered so fooking shite that CAMRA was

> formed and got rid of all that crap like, ooh here

> we go, trip down memory lane... Watneys Red

> Barrel, Worthingon E, Double Diamond and

> Charrington's Best.

>

> Mine's a light and bitter. Ta luv.

Yup if only the big breweries back then had grown beards and made it "Craft Red Barrell" they'd have got away with selling gassy kegged crap for a premium price too

[????]

Crafty beers are good in a bottle...but Keg...drink proper beer

[Jah Lush]

???? Wrote:

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> Crafty beers are good in a bottle...but

> Keg...drink proper beer.

My point exactly.