Tube Map Shows The Cheapest Pint Near Every Tube Station

[editor]

Adam conducted this gruelling research for StoreKit, a company that specialises in card-payment systems. He's spliced and diced his data in many imaginative ways, summarised in three blog posts. Find out which line offers the best-value pub crawl. Discover which tube station is farthest from any pub. What's the cheapest zone to drink in, and the most consistently affordable brand of beer? Or, if you're so inclined, you can drill down into his data, criticise his methodology and challenge his definition of a pub.

Tube Map Shows The Cheapest Pint Near Every Tube Station

 

[Pickman's model]

Badgers

whoever said "carling" at the princess of wales deserves a pint

 

[skyscraper101]

It's a good effort but some of these are questionable.

The William Morris in Hammersmith does a cheaper pint than £4.10 you'd pay in the Swan and is within a stones throw. E.g. you could get a Doom Bar for £1.99. In Shepherds Bush, a pint of Greene King at the Central Bar is £1.89 so less than the £1.99 quoted for Bud Light.

 

[Pickman's model]

like skyscraper101 i don't think it is the cheapest pint near any tube station, for example by highgate station the woodman's £4.30 pint can probably be bettered by a two minute walk down the way to the highgate tavern.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

It's a good effort but some of these are questionable.

The William Morris in Hammersmith does a cheaper pint than £4.10 you'd pay in the Swan and is within a stones throw. E.g. you could get a Doom Bar for £1.99. In Shepherds Bush, a pint of Greene King at the Central Bar is £1.89 so less than the £1.99 quoted for Bud Light.

Yep. I've drunk at the WM and can attest that it is mega cheap. £2.10 a pint of ale.

tbh a map of Wetherspoons locations is going to get pretty close to this.

£1.89 for a pint of Greene King is £1.89 too much, mind.

 

[Badgers]

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whoever said "carling" at the princess of wales deserves a pint

 

[existentialist]

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whoever said "carling" at the princess of wales deserves a pint

Fucking hell, if I ever moved back to London, I think I'd have a terrible shock. I get grumpy when a pint's more than £3.70.

 

[skyscraper101]

Back in the day I was awed by tales of the price of a pint in places like Norway being equivalent to £5. How we laughed.

 

[editor]

Back in the day I was awed by tales of the price of a pint in places like Norway being equivalent to £5. How we laughed.

How much is beer in Norway now?

 

[joustmaster]

How much is beer in Norway now?

£6 or £7

 

[salem]

for example by highgate station the woodman's £4.30 pint can probably be bettered by a two minute walk down the way to the highgate tavern.

The Highgate Inn? Fantastic pub

 

[skyscraper101]

£6 or £7

Almost £8 in Oslo for a pint of draught!

Cost of Living in Oslo

 

[Pickman's model]

The Highgate Inn? Fantastic pub

yeh highgate inn, used to be the black rose and then rose's

 

[joustmaster]

Almost £8 in Oslo for a pint of draught!

Cost of Living in Oslo

Norway - Pintprice, compare beer prices from around the world

 

[Pickman's model]

The Highgate Inn? Fantastic pub

do they still have a pool table in there?

 

[hash tag]

Its all very well stating the price of what is possibly the cheapest pint but is it drinkable? I mean, Bud Light, Fosters, Carling Etc.
Come on, you just wouldn't.

 

[Treacle Toes]

This map shows the cheapest pint near every single tube station

 

[neonwilderness]

I’ve had pints for less than that near Kings Cross

 

[Treacle Toes]

I’ve had pints for less than that near Kings Cross

WRITE A STERN LETTER NOW!

 

[neonwilderness]

WRITE A STERN LETTER NOW!

Nah, I don’t want all the good pubs ruined by hipsters

 

[Treacle Toes]

Nah, I don’t want all the good pubs ruined by hipsters

Cunning!

 

[Gramsci]

Good to see the Brixton Beehive on the map.

 

[Gromit]

I think I prefer the other thread:

Tube Map Shows The Cheapest Pint Near Every Tube Station

 

[Gromit]

Rutita1's thread is better:

The cheapest pint near every single tube station?

 

[editor]

merged

 

[Adam Stead]

Hi – some people here are saying it shows the cheapest pint near any pub. That's not the case. It shows the cheapest pint in the closest pub – only one pub was called per station, so if "there's a cheaper pint further from the station" that's not relevant to what's being explored here. Here's the full methodology:

The London Underground, by the Pint, Notes on the Project | StoreKit

 

[Epona]

The difference between pub and bar definition section of that ^ is well worth a read - quite amusing

 

[marty21]

I’ve had pints for less than that near Kings Cross

Don't mention McGlynns

 

[neonwilderness]

Don't mention McGlynns

I was on about the other place

 

[editor]

The difference between pub and bar definition section of that ^ is well worth a read - quite amusing

It is well worth a read. It's as if Adam was doing his very best to ward off nitpickers in advance. Good work, sir!

Here's a snippet:

A bar is not a pub. A building which describes itself as both a bar and a pub at different moments is generally judged a pub – but what’s written on the side of the establishment holds more weight than how it’s described online. Therefore, Springfield Bar & Grill in Bounds Green is a pub, because it has the word “Tavern” written on one side of it; whereas the Railway Bar & Grill near Buckhurst Hill is not a pub, despite some pub-like elements. Daly’s in Harrow & Wealdstone is a pub – they appear to have listed themselves variously as a bar and a pub; the front of the building does not say “bar” (it merely says Daly’s); plus, Daly’s participates in some key “pub” criteria (see below). The Ashbourne near Hanger Lane is not a pub, despite its pubby name – because it appears to describe itself as a bar and restaurant from the front, and is available on Just Eat.