what's the cheapest drink at the pub?

Snaggles

I like peppermint & soda, although not all pubs have peppermint cordial. It's normally pretty cheap and tastes lovely! Agree with the point about the cost of non-alcoholic drinks though, especially when you have children with you.

chriswuk_2

£1.60 for a pint of Carlsberg

Or in Liverpool City Centre, you can get an ice cold bottle of Stella for 50p

madfrenchgirl

I dont drink, only for very special occasions like getting the house, a promotion, xmas and new year's and even like that, it is only for the taste.

OH does not drink, he is hypersensitive to alcohol, one glass and he gets all red and itchy and drunk.

It is a real pain to see that soft drinks can be so expensive. I dotn have any problems with the coke they serve me but the price of it all makes me sick. Feels like the people trying to be healthy are being taxed for it! Try to get a salad in a pub, why does the salad costs as much as a steak and chips? Same thing in work canteens...

smurf_chick

catch22 wrote:

I actually feel very strongly about this subject. I am a alcoholic (gave up seven years ago) and have never uderstood why the government in all its binge drinking attacks has never told pubs to cut the cost of non alcohol drinks. They should also be forced to offer happy hour prices on them too.

Well said :T

surfsister

Idiophreak wrote:

Never really realised this was a case of being brave...You just say "can I have a glass of tapwater please" and they give it to you.

I generally have blackcurrant, however - a little more flavour.

I like both of them, because as I drink it I feel like I'm "sticking it to the man". If they chose to rip me off on coke, I'll just drink tap water instead, or 20p blackcurrant, which probably costs them money by the time they've washed the glass.

Some places charge something like 80p/pint for blackcurrant (you can even see the tesco value bottle of squash under the bar..), so it's defo tap water in there.

Catch 22 also made an awesome point above: It really does nothing to encourage sobriety when you can have a pint of icky tap coke for £1.80 or a pint of the good-old house ale for £1.60, does it. Sadly, however, the government would never pressure pubs to make soft drinks cheaper, makes far more sense for Gordon just to raise tax further on everything else. Could call it a green tax - less people drinking the "special brew" would probably cut emissions

If you want an alcoholic tipple, shandy's probably pretty cheap. It tastes good too, and you almost feel like you're having a real drink with everyone that isn't driving :beer:

Well in the pubs we usually eat at if you ask for tap water they stare at you for a bit, then sigh, then say do you want perrier then? I find it hard to say no tap water please but think i will persist especially when spending £20 on ameal anyway. Thanks for all the ideas I like the peppermint & soda water one.

Most pubs I go in have a list of drinks behind the bar where you cannot possible read it?

surfsister

Raspberry_Swirl wrote:

what works out cheapest is generally a pint of lager/beer, if you can stomach it! in the pub i work in it's £2.60 for a pint and £2.50 for a measure of spirit and a splash of coke so you get far more liquid for your money on beer.

wine is extremely overpriced in pubs, as are soft drinks such as j2o...

thanks! which soft drinks are cheapest for kids

& is lime & soda a cheap choice or could you recommend anything else

eg how much is shandy?

ta

zenmaster

Idiophreak wrote:

If you want an alcoholic tipple, shandy's probably pretty cheap. It tastes good too, and you almost feel like you're having a real drink with everyone that isn't driving :beer:

Not always so. We stayed in a Holiday Inn for a wedding last month.

1 pint lager = £2.80
1/2 pint lager shandy = £3.20