lager

[laticmon]

how much was a pint of lager in 1972

[Allen Crisp]

Don't know definitely about lager, but 1972 was when I started going (underage) into pubs and a pint of bitter was 11p just about everywhere in south-east England.

[laticmon]

cheers that will do

[alan30]

http://www.hbosplc.com/economy/includes/16-04- 05GeneralElectionsandhouseprices.doc

Scroll down, there are prices for 72 and 74

[maxi29]

I think Allencrisp must have been drinking in some cheap places: I started drinking in 1973 (in Brighton) and bitter was about 15 or 16p and lager was about a penny dearer - I don't think that the price would have gone up 5p in a year.

Surely it depended where you drank: in those days there was a different price in the saloon and public bars and pubs on the seafront tended to be more expensive. I also remember being shocked when I went to uni in Yorkshire and found that bitter was about 4p cheaper than it was at home.