O'Neills central London pub adds £2 surcharge to pints ordered after 10pm

[marty21]

Away from London a pint will be between £4 and £6. But a pint here is 20 imperial fluid oz. (but we don't really use fluid oz here, apart from pints and gallons (also bigger than yours) we are metric all the way). So a UK pint is 1.2 Us pints and costs (outside London) between $5.15 and $7.72. remember that that is inclusive of all tax because we always express prices with all taxes and, if you are just drinking, we don't tip in pubs (food in pubs is different).

At this point I would traditionally make the obligatory comment about your beer being weak tasteless shit, but recently some of your craft breweries have got quite good.

I had a £4.95 pint in the Clapton Hart a few weeks ago, Sambrooks Pumphouse - so even in non-spoons places in London, you can still dip below £5.

 

[marty21]

Isn't american beer much weaker than British beer too? I remember when I was a student in New York, I found a place that sold Newcastle Brown Ale, my fuck you up juice of the time, only to discover that they shipped a weaker version of it to the US for the American market. 'Keggers' at student parties were like drinking tea at a kid's tea party too, having to pretend you were getting drunk when you really weren't. Or perhaps they all were. I wasn't, I know that much.

When I lived in the US , the beer was weaker than UK beer, we got around this by drinking more of it.

 

[kenny g]

Seriously? Blimey!

I am on the Sussex coast, south of London, a pint in my local micro-pub comes in just £5 with the loyalty card.

It's £5.50 a pint, but for every 10, you get a free pint.

A free pint to help you on your way. Sounds ideal.

 

[Dr. Furface]

When I lived in the US , the beer was weaker than UK beer, we got around this by drinking more of it.

We got round it by shotgunning cans before we hit the bar

 

[Saul Goodman]

We got round it by shotgunning cans before we hit the bar

Seems like a terrible waste of beer. But if it was that Pissweiser, shooting was too good for it.

 

[skyscraper101]

I found beer in the US to be fine tbh. The reputation isn’t deserved nowadays, there are a lot of good breweries and dark/pale ales if you shop around.

Yes they have plenty of weak beers too but that’s a taste/market dominance thing by massive corporations like Budweiser/Miller. And it’s actually not a bad thing given you need a car to get around almost everywhere.

I have far more issues with what passes for chocolate there.

 

[Gerry1time]

I have far more issues with what passes for chocolate there.

Preach.

 

[Serge Forward]

I nip in here once a week after work. It's a fiver for a pint of the moreish Titanic plumb porter in this little place by Leicester castle

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I had a £4.95 pint in the Clapton Hart a few weeks ago, Sambrooks Pumphouse - so even in non-spoons places in London, you can still dip below £5.

Sambrooks is nice, too. There's a pub in Bermondsey that does a pint of Volden for £4.30. These places are rarities, though.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I have far more issues with what passes for chocolate there.

And cheese.

 

[Epona]

I had a £4.95 pint in the Clapton Hart a few weeks ago, Sambrooks Pumphouse - so even in non-spoons places in London, you can still dip below £5.

When we go to our local, our round of a pint of Neck Oil and a pint of Carlsberg is £9 (not sure of the price of each drink individually), I'm still pissed off that it's gone up by 25p recently.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

When we go to our local, our round of a pint of Neck Oil and a pint of Carlsberg is £9, I'm still pissed off that it's gone up by 25p recently.

Wow, that's really good. Neck Oil is generally over 6 quid a pint. For some reason, it's a 'premium' beer.

 

[Epona]

Wow, that's really good. Neck Oil is generally over 6 quid a pint. For some reason, it's a 'premium' beer.

We're in what is still considered the shit bit of London, it's not a destination where people come for a night out to drink, I think the Carlsberg is £4.20 and the Neck Oil is £4.80

Which might demonstrate that a lot of London pubs are taking the fucking piss.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Hammersmith has two Spoons, a couple of hundred metres from one another. The one a tiny bit further out is more than a pound a pint cheaper. So if you're not a Neverspoons, always go to the other one.

 

[brogdale]

Hammersmith has two Spoons, a couple of hundred metres from one another. The one a tiny bit further out is more than a pound a pint cheaper. So if you're not a Neverspoons, always go to the other one.

Yes I noticed that when I was over in Hammersmith last month. We did use the William Morris for a toilet stop, but there were no tables free and, by the time we'd made our way up to the other (Premier Inn?) one, we had no time left before the play started. Did like the Woodpecker tapestry in the WM hanging above the stairs to the bogs.

 

[editor]

Isn't american beer much weaker than British beer too? I remember when I was a student in New York, I found a place that sold Newcastle Brown Ale, my fuck you up juice of the time, only to discover that they shipped a weaker version of it to the US for the American market. 'Keggers' at student parties were like drinking tea at a kid's tea party too, having to pretend you were getting drunk when you really weren't. Or perhaps they all were. I wasn't, I know that much.

Not any more. There's some fearsome strong craft beers available in the US, and it's not unusual for the strength to be not be displayed prominently.

 

[Gerry1time]

Not any more. There's some fearsome strong craft beers available in the US, and it's not unusual for the strength to be not be displayed prominently.

Lawks. This was 20 years ago, and I've only drank wine every time I've been back since. Maybe I need to try the beers again...

 

[maomao]

I went to a pub in Camden a few weeks ago and asked for a pint of strong beer it was 9.5%! That's ridiculous, nearly five and a half units or most of a bottle of wine.

 

[PR1Berske]

I went to a pub in Camden a few weeks ago and asked for a pint of strong beer it was 9.5%! That's ridiculous, nearly five and a half units or most of a bottle of wine.

A local pub near me recently had on a stout, on cask, that was 7%.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I went to a pub in Camden a few weeks ago and asked for a pint of strong beer it was 9.5%! That's ridiculous, nearly five and a half units or most of a bottle of wine.

I quite enjoy some of the high ABV ones (and they can go well over that). I wouldn't drink them by the pint though that would be a bit much.

 

[8ball]

OK, that is WAY cheaper than here. I don't drink, but if I did, I'd be on a plane for London right now

$14US for a 16oz beer

Wtf!?

I paid almost those kind of prices in the US once a few years back, but it was a fancy beer in a swanky bar in JFK airport while waiting for a flight.

 

[Gromit]

Well here's a pub chain I'm now going to avoid at all costs...

Central London pub adds £2 surcharge to pints ordered after 10pm

Consumer experts say this London pub is using underhand tactics to get customers to pay nearly £10 for a pint

www.independent.co.uk

That's a tourist pub. Been operating as such for decades.
It gets extremely busy.
You need to get there early or potentially get turned away.
They often have bands on the upper level.

I wish them continued success.

Those who prefer a £2.10 pint of craft ale yada yada are often heard complaining about the death of the British pub. Pubs closing left, right and centre.
Is it any wonder with you tight gits? You cheapskates are the problem.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Those who prefer a £2.10 pint of craft ale yada yada are often heard complaining about the death of the British pub. Pubs closing left, right and centre.
Is it any wonder with you tight gits? You cheapskates are the problem.

Fuck off, Gromit.

 

[marty21]

Sambrooks is nice, too. There's a pub in Bermondsey that does a pint of Volden for £4.30. These places are rarities, though.

I think the Antic pubs chain (what's left of it) had a tie in with Volden, it was on offer at the Clapton Hart (since sold by them) at a reasonable price, under a fiver.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I think the Antic pubs chain (what's left of it) had a tie in with Volden, it was on offer at the Clapton Hart (since sold by them) at a reasonable price, under a fiver.

Aren't they owned by Antic? I think they're pretty much Antic's in-house beer.

 

[PR1Berske]

When I lived in the US , the beer was weaker than UK beer, we got around this by drinking more of it.

Americans are soft arses when it comes to drink.

 

[Mr Retro]

Anybody who drinks in that O’Neills in Soho deserves to be ripped off.

 

[Mr Retro]

A local pub near me recently had on a stout, on cask, that was 7%.

As Christmas and winter ales start appearing around now you get some really psychopathic ones. I can’t really tell if a stout or dark ale is strong just by taste especially if it’s well kept. I need to to thread carefully especially as I’ve gotten older.

 

[PR1Berske]

As Christmas and winter ales start appearing around now you get some really psychopathic ones. I can’t really tell if a stout or dark ale is strong just by taste especially if it’s well kept. I need to to thread carefully especially as I’ve gotten older.

I get that, with my rollercoaster relationship with alcohol. Around this time people who don't tend to go to pubs often will be invited to nights out and I think the increase in cask percentages does surprise.

 

[PR1Berske]

OK, that is WAY cheaper than here. I don't drink, but if I did, I'd be on a plane for London right now

$14US for a 16oz beer

My local has been creeping up from before Covid, now some cask pulled beer is around £5 a pint. The best prices I can get are in the suburbs at around £3.30.

Keg/draft is still a crap shoot. From £4 ish a pint or £7 a third, it's a bingo call rodeo.

And I obviously don't mean all Americans are weak asses when it comes to drink