HAS BEER BECOME TOO EXPENSIVE IN OUR PUBS?

Yes

IT’S no wonder that on average two pubs a day are closing. Have you seen the cost of a pint these days (“Price of a pint leaves a bitter taste”, August 6)?

Supermarkets sell cans and bottles at a fraction of the cost of what you pay over the bar and people have voted with their feet.

And if you think supermarket ale is cheap, it’s nothing to the low prices drinkers pay in Europe. On a recent holiday to Spain I picked up a case of 24 cans of very nice local beer for around £8 in a nearby shop and we drank the lot on our hotel balcony. Cheers! Carl Hughes, Manchester

No

A BREWERY spent a small fortune on my local, rebranding it as a gastropub and aiming for a “higher class” of customer. It wasn’t the quality of the food that changed the clientele almost overnight, it was charging £4.50 a pint.

The brewery argued that the prices reflected the new dining experience on offer and I suppose its wood fired pizza oven didn’t come cheap.

To be honest, when you’re shelling out £15 for a pizza then it seems a bit churlish to moan about paying almost a fiver to wash it down with a freezing cold pint. Roger Mason,

Leicester