Bristol has been ranked the seventh most expensive city in England to buy a beer, with a half-litre of draught domestic ale costing an average of £3.87 here – equivalent to £4.39 a pint.
Figures released by MaxFreeBets.co.uk put London at the top of the dear drinks list, with 500ml of beer costing an average of £5.93 there. Scaling this European measurement up to full pints, the data puts the average cost of a pint at £4.39 in Bristol.
The only other cities serving more expensive domestic beers are Liverpool at £4.65 per half-litre (£5.28 per pint), Birmingham at £4.21 (£4.78), Manchester at £4.08 (£4.63), Bournemouth at £4.05 (£4.60) and Sheffield at £4.03 (£4.57). Researchers took their data from Google, comparing those bars in each city which were the most reviewed by visitors.
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Their study, which covered the entire UK, found that the Home Nations’ capitals all featured in the top six most expensive cities for a pulled pint. London also tops this list with Belfast in second place at £5.20 per half-litre (£5.91 per pint), Edinburgh in fifth at £4.54 (£5.16) and Cardiff in sixth at £4.26 (£4.84).
They are joined by Glasgow and Liverpool – both big cities famous for a lively nightlife – in third and fourth place at £4.71 (£5.35) and £4.65 (£5.28) respectively. In this expanded UK-wide list, Bristol ranks twelfth. As if it were not disheartening enough to learn that Bristol is a particularly pricey place for a pint, MaxFreeBets.co.uk worked out how much more expensive beer has become in the last four decades.
They discovered that the average cost of a pint in Britain, during the 1980s, was just 51p. Adjusted for inflation alone this figure becomes £1.80, suggesting that the price of beer – just like the cost of everything else, it seems – is spiralling beyond all common sense.
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