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I visited the UK last in 2022, I stayed in Bristol. I visited the nearest pub to my hotel many times, it was a Wetherspoons. I know that spoons doesn't have the

I visited the UK last in 2022, I stayed in Bristol. I visited the nearest pub to my hotel many times, it was a Wetherspoons. I know that spoons doesn't have the best reputation but it was clean, lively but not packed. 'Abbot' ale was on special at £1.50 a pint and when the special price ran out, other beers were starting at £2.50 I'd like to know where specifically you were drinking. A Central London hotel bar? Because £7 a pint is ludicrous and not at all representative of normality.

arp242 3y ago
> 'Abbot' ale was on special at £1.50 a pint and when the special price ran out, other beers were starting at £2.50 I would consider that to be very cheap, even when I lived in Bristol (before cost-of-living crisis). I don't recall pints being that cheap at Wetherspoons either. Even most beers at Tesco are more expensive than that. £1.50 is roughly the same price as Tesco[1] (£1.375 for a 500ml can). [1]: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=abbot%20ale&icid=tescohp_sws-1_m-ft_in-abb_out-abbot%20ale https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=abbot%20a...
- 15457345234 3y ago
  It was a 'last barrel' price, I think a deal before the keg expires etc. When that finished we could still get Abbott only it was £3. I did say it was a special deal.
  - d1sxeyes 3y ago
    Wetherspoons have an app where you can order online (never used it before and had the pleasure of discovering how dreadful it is for the first time), but they don't publish any prices online other than that. After multiple attempts to get the app to work, I gave up, and found this: https://pantryandlarder.com/spoons-map/ https://pantryandlarder.com/spoons-map/ Turns out you can still get Abbott for even less than that. Looks like there's quite a lot of variation in Bristol but the Robert Fitzharding seems to be cheapest, selling a pint of Abbott for £2.34, the city centre pubs seem to be selling for £3.42ish, and the less central pubs seem to be around £2.77. It's not at all beyond the realms of possibility that you might still see a special offer of around £1.50 for a pint. Nice!
doix 3y ago
This is Edinburgh where I used to live at the same pub we used to go to after work for years. Same owners and everything, it's not a fancy pub by any means, but it does have good craft beer and whats on tap is constantly changing. I mean, even back in 2020 4-5 quid for a pint wasn't cheap, but the beer was good and always changing. I'm sure you can still find a £2-3 pin _somewhere_ in Edinburgh, but that's not where we used to drink.

arp242 3y ago

> 'Abbot' ale was on special at £1.50 a pint and when the special price ran out, other beers were starting at £2.50 I would consider that to be very cheap, even when I lived in Bristol (before cost-of-living crisis). I don't recall pints being that cheap at Wetherspoons either. Even most beers at Tesco are more expensive than that. £1.50 is roughly the same price as Tesco[1] (£1.375 for a 500ml can). [1]: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=abbot%20ale&icid=tescohp_sws-1_m-ft_in-abb_out-abbot%20ale https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=abbot%20a...

15457345234 3y ago
It was a 'last barrel' price, I think a deal before the keg expires etc. When that finished we could still get Abbott only it was £3. I did say it was a special deal.
- d1sxeyes 3y ago
  Wetherspoons have an app where you can order online (never used it before and had the pleasure of discovering how dreadful it is for the first time), but they don't publish any prices online other than that. After multiple attempts to get the app to work, I gave up, and found this: https://pantryandlarder.com/spoons-map/ https://pantryandlarder.com/spoons-map/ Turns out you can still get Abbott for even less than that. Looks like there's quite a lot of variation in Bristol but the Robert Fitzharding seems to be cheapest, selling a pint of Abbott for £2.34, the city centre pubs seem to be selling for £3.42ish, and the less central pubs seem to be around £2.77. It's not at all beyond the realms of possibility that you might still see a special offer of around £1.50 for a pint. Nice!

doix 3y ago

This is Edinburgh where I used to live at the same pub we used to go to after work for years. Same owners and everything, it's not a fancy pub by any means, but it does have good craft beer and whats on tap is constantly changing. I mean, even back in 2020 4-5 quid for a pint wasn't cheap, but the beer was good and always changing. I'm sure you can still find a £2-3 pin _somewhere_ in Edinburgh, but that's not where we used to drink.