I never thought I’d be paying £5.50 a pint and remember paying £3.50 for an Amstell on Os Road in Newcastle about 10 years ago, thinking it was extortionate compared to the 2.50 a pint I used to pay at home.Depends where you are, but they can't sustain charging £7 for Peroni (or similar) surely? People are just going to choose to drink at home instead.
I don't mind paying £5-6 for something I really like, a good quality Weissbier or something. But most pubs don't sell it anyway. So I can go to the pub with my mate and be charged £5 for Carling, or we sit at home in my garden and drink my favourite beverage at no more than £3.20 a go.
People might pay a premium while the novelty value is there (and if pubs are temporarily raising their prices to account for the fact they can't serve as many people then fair enough), but long term people are just going to go to the pub less aren't they?
Yep. £5.50 gets me 3 bottles of McEwans Champion or Henry Weston's from the garage in Saltburn, so it seems crazier than ever to pay that or more for a pint in a pub, people will stay away I reckon. Especially after getting used to not going. I enjoyed sitting in the garden with a few friends just as much as being in the pub with them.I never thought I’d be paying £5.50 a pint and remember paying £3.50 for an Amstell on Os Road in Newcastle about 10 years ago, thinking it was extortionate compared to the 2.50 a pint I used to pay at home.
I have to say, over the past year I’ve got so used to picking up 3 Ales for £5 from the supermarket, the last couple of Fridays I’ve had no urge to nip down the local for 2-3 pints which I would have normally done after work.
I don’t know if I ever will as much again, and I doubt I’ll be the only one, and that is a potentially worrying trend for hospitality’s long term future.
It's a mystery to me that people have ended up thinking that bog standard lager from another country is some sort of premium product that's worth paying a ridiculous price for.Why is Peroni so expensive ? Surely it's cheaper to brew than real ale...and on a par with other lagers ???
Justifiably so; they have suffered as well.Pubs aren't raising prices. Breweries are.
What about their customers who have also suffered. Furlough, lost jobs etcJustifiably so; they have suffered as well.