DOOM: Beer

[AtW]

"Heineken puts prices up by 8.9% and warns of more rises to come

Dutch brewer records better than expected profits as consumers flocked back to bars and restaurants

Heineken has reported better than expected profits after putting up the amount it charges for its drinks by an average of 8.9% and has warned prices will continue to rise in the year ahead.

The Dutch brewer, whose eponymous beer is Europe’s bestselling lager, recorded a 37% year-on-year jump in revenue to €16.4bn (£13.7bn) in the six months to July.

It said that despite the rising prices it was selling more beer than before the pandemic, and it also benefited from customers switching to more expensive products.

Thanks to favourable trading conditions as consumers flocked back to bars and restaurants, the volume of drinks sold was up 0.8% compared with the same period in 2019. Operating profits rose by 20.6% to €2.1bn, surpassing analyst expectations."

https://www.theguardian.com/business...l-rise-further

£6 per pint incoming in 3...2...1...

[Mordac]

£6 a pint? Here in London, £7+ is pretty common already. And Heineken is rats piss. Apart from that, a splendid analysis...

[HoofHearted]

Thieving barstewards

I paid £6 a pint at a golf club over the weekend (I don't play golf, was attending an event), and over £6 at the Headingley Test Match in June, but I help run a charity event in July and we were charging £3.50 and still making a profit without ripping people off.

(Yes, I know, business rates, yada, yada, but it's still a ripoff)

[SueEllen]

£6 per pint incoming in 3...2...1...

In all the places I've been for the last few months it is £6 a pint whether it is a pub or restaurant.

[Fraidycat]

we were charging £3.50 and still making a profit without ripping people off.

(Yes, I know, business rates, yada, yada, but it's still a ripoff)

£3 is still the price at many weatherpoons in london. £4 in some of the more pricey locations.

So £1.50 for half a pint, if on a really tight budget.

[d000hg]

£6 a pint? Here in London, £7+ is pretty common already. And Heineken is rats piss. Apart from that, a splendid analysis...

In trendy wine-bars and for silly 'craft beer' maybe. £7+ is what you pay in Helsinki!

[WTFH]

Someone say DOOM: Bar?


Most of the local beers round here are £3.50-4.00 a pint.

I don't know about lagers, as I tend to avoid them.

[PCTNN]

£3.50 for a pint of Tennent's at my local boozer in the outskirts of Edinburgh. Comes with a plaster included in the price for when you get stabbed on your way out.

[d000hg]

I have a feeling the draught ale I prefer is in the £3.50ish range in both pubs I drink regularly and I assume the Smiths/Carling is similar. The CAMRA place tends to have several in the £3.50-£4.10 range as well as more specialist (often stronger) beer and ciders in the £4.50-6 range.

[PCTNN]

The beer price situation has been horrendous in the whole uk for years, especially in the hipster crafty beery places that charge you 4-5 quid but give you the notorious schooner.

Those places I avoid; if you don't serve pints you don't deserve my business.