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Britain’s 145,000 pubs, clubs, hotels and restaurants sold less beer than supermarkets and off-licences last year – for the first time since industry records began
This weekend, Tesco was selling “slab” packs containing 18 cans of Stella Artois for £14, equivalent to about £1 a pint, while Asda was offering a similar multipack of 20 Carlsberg cans for £10, equivalent to 65p a pint. According to the BBPA, the average pub price of a pint of draught lager is in a range between £2.40 and £4.70 – 38% higher than a decade earlier. A pint of bitter has seen similar rises, up from £1.80-£2.56 in 2006 to £2.05-£3.90 this year.
Beer sales in pubs, hotels, clubs and restaurants have shrunk by 44% since 1980
originally posted by: crazyewok
It because of tax.
Our government keep taxing alcohol and as such its becoming prohibitly more expensive for most people to drink out.
originally posted by: crazyewok
It because of tax.
Our government keep taxing alcohol and as such its becoming prohibitly more expensive for most people to drink out.
originally posted by: TheKnightofDoom
a reply to: SprocketUK
Punk Dog
I remember my first Landlord who taught me the ropes at 17. He had a .38 behind the bar loaded with blanks, drank 20 pints a day, 80 fags a 14 stone Rottweiler called Benson and a 4 pound chinchilla called Hedges....Dead at 47 but a right old fashioned landlord cracking bloke. Never left the place sober that place taught me how to fight and deal with drunks I loved it. Yeah managers can't break the law now do to fear of losing their job But John Farrah did .
I think this is more to do with the changing British culture of sit at home watching telly, or texting your mates. We are just becoming less social.
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: paraphi
I think this is more to do with the changing British culture of sit at home watching telly, or texting your mates. We are just becoming less social.
My sister lives in Trowbridge, if i lived there i would never go out either it is a #hole.....
Here in Ausieland the watering hole will never go out of fashion...
This is one of my locals, in saying that i rarely go there as it is full of frigging Europeans and English getting on it...heavily...
Byron Bay! Well mate, only got yourself to blame if you hang around there.