http://www.car4play.com/forum Car4play forum en-gb Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:37:11 +0100 Copyright: Car4play webmaster@car4play.com (Technical) 5 car4play692508 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:37:11 +0100 The only beer in my local in Settle over £5 pint (£5.10 a few weeks ago) is Taylors. Vastly overrated in my opinion, but they have recently increased their brewing capacity and can sell all they make…mostly in the SE so good luck to them. Recently changed the name of their winter brew from RamTam to Landlord Dark. 20p pint Camra discount for me so I normally pay circa £4.50 pint…currently ‘on tour’ in northern Spain and stocked up with Alhambra Especial (5.4%) 33cl @ 50cents + 21% vat at local C & C so drinking that. http://www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?m=692508&v=e car4play692503 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:31:57 +0100 You don’t beer, you only rent it. http://www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?m=692503&v=e car4play692502 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:28:31 +0100 Best keep to tapwater then at around halfpence a litre. http://www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?m=692502&v=e car4play692498 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:54:39 +0100 It still staggers me that while we grumble at paying £1.80 for a litre of petrol (= £8/gallon or £1 a pint) people gladly pay out four times that (or more) for stuff which mostly drops from the sky without needing to be dug out of the earth. It's been like that for many years ! http://www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?m=692498&v=e car4play692489 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:06:03 +0100 Paid £4 for an excellent pint of ordinary bitter at a lovely pub (i.e not Spoons) in Greater London the other week. The answer, as ever, is "it depends". http://www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?m=692489&v=e car4play692485 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:33:56 +0100 'Spoon's yesterday £3.19 (JHB guest ale). Other beers are available for less. http://www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?m=692485&v=e car4play692484 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:33:02 +0100 >> Recent visit to Liverpool £4.80 >> Lexden Crown Colchester £7.00 >> Mate in London last week £9.00 >> Blimey, I remember feeling cheated in the Two Puddings in Stratford because the were charging a whopping 20p for a pint of bitter. http://www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?m=692484&v=e car4play692481 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:55:08 +0100 Recent visit to Liverpool £4.80 Lexden Crown Colchester £7.00 Mate in London last week £9.00 http://www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?m=692481&v=e car4play692479 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:34:41 +0100 >Seems to me that many of the old breweries are going or have gone, now What's the ballpark price of a pint these days? http://www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?m=692479&v=e car4play692477 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:06:46 +0100 >> Seems to me that many of the old breweries are going or have gone, now >> being mostly owned by a small handful of large drinks companies these days. >> >> I saw one of my favourites, Hobgoblin, is now owned and brewed by Carlsberg, no >> longer at the Wychwood brewery but the Marstons in Burton. Wonder where it'll and up >> >> Amusing pun tough :-) We are going back in time to the 1970s when the choices were simple - Party 7, Watneys Red Barrel, Double Diamond, Worthington E. Craft beers from specialist small scale breweries were clearly an aberration! http://www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?m=692477&v=e car4play692472 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:39:24 +0100 Recent article in a Wilshire newspaper that was on Facebook mentioning a local tyre garage was closing down. The headline was "sad times ahead for long established garage" I got a few thumbs up by suggesting the headline should have been "local tyre garage have not had a Good Year" http://www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?m=692472&v=e car4play692462 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:57:56 +0100 Seems to me that many of the old breweries are going or have gone, now being mostly owned by a small handful of large drinks companies these days. I saw one of my favourites, Hobgoblin, is now owned and brewed by Carlsberg, no longer at the Wychwood brewery but the Marstons in Burton. Wonder where it'll and up Amusing pun tough :-) http://www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?m=692462&v=e car4play692445 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:36:10 +0100 The Marston’s brewery in Burton upon Trent is set to be shut down nearly two hundred years after the company started making beer in the town. In a bitter blow to the British beer industry, http://www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?m=692445&v=e