I can only imagine this has been discussed many times before (?) but what did you pay for your first pint? I have the kind of mind which retains such trivia so I can tell you that in 1978 we used to pay 38p for a pint of Tetley bitter or similar. When I went to university in 1980 it was more like 48p in the student's union but due to a government plot it leapt to 60p in one budget. Did any of us buy our first in shillings and pence?:lol:
How much was your first pint?
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ã1 a pint wasnââ¬â¢t uncommon in 1997. Paid over ã5 in London the other day!
Can't remember my exact first pint, but around '87, Batemans XXXB was 88p a pint in the Malt Shovel. It was proper fighting juice in them days, 5.7%!
Saisonator
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I think in 1987 it was Holstein Export for a bit less than ã1, cigarettes were a similar price.
MmmBeer
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Probably in about 1985, I would have paid about 90p for a pint of Hoffmeister. 
I was young, I needed the money.
I was young, I needed the money.
Linalmeemow
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I think it was about ã1.50 or so a pint when I first started drinking, though I remember clearly it being ã1.05 for a pint of lager in the student union when I first arrived at uni. It was rubbish beer though, 3.5% Heineken.
My first pint was Double Diamond but I cannot remember how much it was (10 fags were 26 pense couldn't afford 20) which was bought by my grandad in a pub that closed many years ago, it was in the early seventies
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Only became legal in the later 90s. I remember it was ã1.05 a pint in the rugby club for years. It slowly creeped up 5p a year and people weren't hapoy. ã1 a pint in uni was decent.
chesters-mild
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It was about 2 shillings a pint for bitter when I started, mild was about 1 shilling and 11 pence, wept bitter tears a few years later when the bitter in our local rose to half a crown a pint.
Cheers
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1 Shilling and 8 pence!!!!!! Now I really do feel old.
Dunno. But a fiver would get you leathered at the local W.M.C. and buy fish 'n' chips on the way home. I went past the other day and the chalkboard outside said Stones ã1.80 a pint...
Didn't know you could still get Stones. I loved the flavour of that bitter even though I could only get it on keg. Must. Find. Recipe.
First beer I had in a pub as far as I can remember was 9d for a half of bitter so that's 1/6d or 7.5 'new pence' a pint. Mild would have been even cheaper.
At the end of the 60s beer in the Midlands and the North was was rarely above two bob (10p) a pint, well at least in the many pubs I visited.
At the end of the 60s beer in the Midlands and the North was was rarely above two bob (10p) a pint, well at least in the many pubs I visited.
chub1
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Back in 1966/7 i am guessing that my first pint cost me less than 2/-,yup two bob:lol:
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