‘It’s disgraceful’: Locals guess average pint cost in London

We quiz Londoners on how much the average pint costs in the capital. (It’s £6.75!)

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00:00How much do you think an average pint costs in London?

00:04It's going to be, depends where you are, but like £5 to £6 now, which is disgraceful, really.

00:10Yeah, so the average pint in London now is just under £7.

00:13What?

00:14So it's £6.75. What do you think about that?

00:17I mean, that's... I'm used to New York prices, but even still, that's too much.

00:23Like, I mean, I'd pay $7 for 12 ounces, which is also a rip-off, but £7 for a pint, that's...

00:33Like, pubs are going to die out, basically, if you keep on charging that much money.

00:37How much do you think the average pint costs in London?

00:42I'm not really a drinker, but I'm going to guess about £6 to £7.

00:48Yeah, pretty much, so it's £6.75.

00:51Yeah.

00:52Do you think that's a fair amount for a pint, or do you think that's too expensive?

00:56For someone who makes an average of £11 an hour, I don't think so, no.

01:03£7.50.

01:04£7.50, so you think it's that, so it is £6.75.

01:08It sort of stops you going out, because you just think, well, you know, you go here, and you can pretty much get a pint for a pound.

01:16Yeah.

01:17So you just have your mates around.

01:20Do you think less and less people will go to pubs?

01:22That's why they're all shut in.

01:24Er... £6.50.

01:29Pretty close, so yeah, it's £6.75.

01:31Wow, OK.

01:32So you're pretty close to a pint.

01:34I don't like paying more than £5 for a pint, really, even in the West End, you know, because, you know, that's my limit, you know.

01:45I'd say about £6.

01:47Yeah, so it's £6.75.

01:49Yeah, and I'm going off to Sainsbury's to get my supply for the weekend, so yeah.

01:55I mean, yeah, it's expensive.

01:57Maybe we all got to drink a bit less.