Comments on: Beasts of Bodmin and the Price of a Pint http://boakandbailey.com/2012/03/beasts-of-bodmin-and-the-price-of-a-pint/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beasts-of-bodmin-and-the-price-of-a-pint Going on about beer and pubs since 2007 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:46:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: wee beefy http://boakandbailey.com/2012/03/beasts-of-bodmin-and-the-price-of-a-pint/#comment-6065 wee beefy Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:10:41 +0000 http://boakandbailey.wordpress.com/?p=4077#comment-6065 Curmudgeon’s “innate sense of value” resonates.

I regularly mention price on my blog because I can’t take it out of my assessment. I am a thirsty lad, especially if I find a pint I like, so I could be saving my bus fare if am avoiding 30p a pint less.

I would always praise a pub selling good beer at a perceived “lower price” but too often in pubs appearing to charge over the odds the paying for quality ethos is absent, and I feel cheated. So that sense is portrayed in my reviews.

]]> By: Martyn Cornell http://boakandbailey.com/2012/03/beasts-of-bodmin-and-the-price-of-a-pint/#comment-6064 Martyn Cornell Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:10:01 +0000 http://boakandbailey.wordpress.com/?p=4077#comment-6064 The only place I find myself getting particularly price-conscious is in the supermarket, where I balk at anything much over £1.75 a bottle and buy up in quantity (if the beer’s any good) the 4-for-the-price-of-3 offers. Pub prices bother me less, probably because my wife drinks large glasses of dry white wine, which will set you back £5 or more a pop in almost any pub in London today.

]]> By: Curmudgeon http://boakandbailey.com/2012/03/beasts-of-bodmin-and-the-price-of-a-pint/#comment-6061 Curmudgeon Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:17:23 +0000 http://boakandbailey.wordpress.com/?p=4077#comment-6061 Yeah, but you have to drink the warm, flat piss served at beer festivals. And do a bit of work into the bargain. And pay your bus fare.

]]> By: Carpe Zytha / Cooking Lager http://boakandbailey.com/2012/03/beasts-of-bodmin-and-the-price-of-a-pint/#comment-6060 Carpe Zytha / Cooking Lager Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:12:47 +0000 http://boakandbailey.wordpress.com/?p=4077#comment-6060 Never a better time to prostitute your blog for free grog, then. When needs must, the devil drives. Tand tells me you can get pissed for free by volunteering for pong and vinegar festivals. Always one of them occuring.

]]> By: Carpe Zytha / Cooking Lager http://boakandbailey.com/2012/03/beasts-of-bodmin-and-the-price-of-a-pint/#comment-6063 Carpe Zytha / Cooking Lager Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:09:38 +0000 http://boakandbailey.wordpress.com/?p=4077#comment-6063 Cannot do an Irish accent. Can do Scottish & Cockney. If I try to do Welsh it sounds Indian, but not in a good way. In a 1970′s racist comedy kind of way.

]]> By: Curmudgeon http://boakandbailey.com/2012/03/beasts-of-bodmin-and-the-price-of-a-pint/#comment-6057 Curmudgeon Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:58:54 +0000 http://boakandbailey.wordpress.com/?p=4077#comment-6057 Paying top whack for duff beer really is galling. In my experience, many of the pub company outlets charging well over the odds (often because they are a bit upmarket and foody) have served up the poorest beer.

]]> By: The Beer Nut http://boakandbailey.com/2012/03/beasts-of-bodmin-and-the-price-of-a-pint/#comment-6062 The Beer Nut Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:47:04 +0000 http://boakandbailey.wordpress.com/?p=4077#comment-6062 If it were you, Cookie, that’s exactly what I’d do. You can get a pint of Foster’s for €3.50 in this town if you know where to look. Might want to do something about the English accent in those pubs, mind.

]]> By: Curmudgeon http://boakandbailey.com/2012/03/beasts-of-bodmin-and-the-price-of-a-pint/#comment-6059 Curmudgeon Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:42:25 +0000 http://boakandbailey.wordpress.com/?p=4077#comment-6059 I have to say I keep a kind of mental map of prices in all the pubs I regularly frequent. In recent months, I’ve been in a position where I do have to count the pennies a bit more than normal. This hasn’t forced me on to a diet of Tesco Value Lager, but if I’m just going out for a pint or two I do have to think “is it worth paying £2.90 for Robinsons, when I can pay £1.99 for a guest ale in Spoons (even if it is a shed) or £1.66 for Old Brewery Bitter in a Sam Smith’s pub?”

I recently paid £3.40 for a pint in a Brunning & Price pub. The pint was nice, as was the pub, in its own way. But it did sort of offend my innate sense of value.

The Magnet in Stockport, which is arguably the town’s premier beer enthusiast pub, is also notably good value against much of the local competition, with standard real ales typically at £2.30-£2.40 a pint. It’s been nicely refurbished and is certainly far from being a scruffy dump

]]> By: Carpe Zytha / Cooking Lager http://boakandbailey.com/2012/03/beasts-of-bodmin-and-the-price-of-a-pint/#comment-6050 Carpe Zytha / Cooking Lager Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:40:14 +0000 http://boakandbailey.wordpress.com/?p=4077#comment-6050 If it were me I would hope you’d point me in the direction of the cheapest grog with the odd tip for avoiding the Garda

]]> By: Carpe Zytha / Cooking Lager http://boakandbailey.com/2012/03/beasts-of-bodmin-and-the-price-of-a-pint/#comment-6045 Carpe Zytha / Cooking Lager Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:36:23 +0000 http://boakandbailey.wordpress.com/?p=4077#comment-6045 As an addition, I would throw the question back. Is price insensitivity a mark of beer geekery? Like a league. The more price insensitive to beer the better ones geek credential? A rank, like having stripes in the army

If so is this a factor greater or lesser than being able to drink the type of muck that would make regular drinkers gag and declare it “An interesting and bold experiment on breaking the boundaries of the IBU level of a pale ale”

There are factors here I need to study more.

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