LAGERPOOL Scousers sup cheapest pints in UK
RAISE a glass to Liverpool – the toast of the nation for cost conscious lager lovers. Stoke at £ 3.20 and York £ 3.35. Among the most expensive places are Edinburgh at £4, Brighton and Oxford, £4.25.
But despite prices, Brighton has the highest pub-to-population ratio in the UK, with one bar per every 861 people, a study shows.
Sheffield has the lowest, with just one pub for every 2,793 people. Gareth Brown, marketing manager at Thames cruise liner Bateaux London, which commissioned the survey, said: “Cities like Brighton, Liverpool, and York are growing into real drinking hot spots for the average beer drinker.
“And each of these cities are now seeing many microbrewerieses and craft pubs opening up.
“While London didn’t perrhaps perform as well as we e expected in the data, the city y still boasts the greatest varietyy of pub and entertainment t offerings in the UK.”
The Rake pub in London on Bridge has been selling a pint nt for £13.40.
But operators said aid Cloudwater’s North West Doubleuble IPA was a speciality beer and nd it had to be ordered through a distributor, making it more expenpensive. It was pointed out at nine e per cent strength it was “never going to be cheap”. Average cost of a pint of lager: 1 Liverpool £2.90 2 Sheffield/Nottingham £3 3 Southampton/Hull £3.10 4 Stoke £3.20 5 York £3.35 6 Birmingham/ Manchester/Leeds/Newcastle/ Norwich £3.50 7 Reading £3.65 8 Bristol £3.80 9 Cambridge £3.83 10 Edinburgh £4 11 Oxford/ Brighton £4.25 12 London £4.50