Map reveals where to nab Britain’s cheapest pints for just £2 – is your area on the list?
PUNTERS are raving after it was announced a handful of pubs will be serving pints for just £2.
A map has revealed which pubs beer lovers can visit to grab Britain's cheapest pints - is your area on the list?
The average price of a pint in London is upwards of £6.75, with some pubs charging as much as £8.
However, several of the best sports bars in the capital will serve £2 pints on August 8.
This offer applies only to pints of Heineken or Heineken Zero.
Punters can grab these cheap pints at seven venues across the city, including Beechwood in Shoreditch, Greenwood in Victoria, and Broadleaf in Liverpool Street.
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The sports bars in Bank, Angel, Westfield and London Bridge are also set to take part.
They are excellent venues for watching sports, regularly showcasing the big tennis, football, and Olympic events, according to The Standard.
The venues are likely to be screening the sporting events from the Paris Olympic Games.
Fans can watch the men's basketball semi-finals, men's boxing semi-finals, and the men's football final - while enjoying a £2 pint.
Fortunately, the deal is available all day, allowing pubgoers to take advantage of the bargain after they finish work.
The cheap pints will come as a relief to drinkers who regularly have to pay upwards of £6 for a pint.
Last year the price of a pint topped £9 - while the average cost of a beer has doubled in 15 years.
The eye-watering tab was found at a bar in London’s West End.
Paul Bolton — from industry tracker CGA — said yesterday: “These aren’t one-off prices for a super strong, exotic craft beer. These are normal draught pints.”
The cheapest found in a survey of 90,000 drinking spots was £1.85 in Hyde, Greater Manchester.
Overall, the average price is now over £4 for the first time — at £4.30, compared to £2.30 in 2008.
The cost of a pint would be £3.55 if it had risen in line with inflation for consumer goods.
CGA regularly checks prices at UK hospitality outlets, with results reported anonymously.
This latest survey covers the 12 weeks to August 5.
Big price rises over the year have been blamed on soaring costs for brewers — in particular for energy and grains after the start of the Ukraine war.
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It comes after news that pubgoers' favourite draught beers could vanish under plans to force landlords to serve zero-alcohol pints.
And punters are being stung for up to £114 a year by pubs short-measuring their beer and wine.
Grabbing a pint at local pub is becoming ‘unaffordable luxury’ as whopping average price revealed
A PINT down the pub is becoming “an unaffordable luxury” as the average price climbs closer to £5, campaigners warn.
Data shows a draught pint of lager has hit £4.77 — 21p more than last year.
The Campaign for Real Ale said that the figure — from the Office for National Statistics — showed customers will stop visiting pubs.
Chairman Nik Antona: said: “A pint of beer, cider or perry in your local could become an unaffordable luxury, as made evident by the latest ONS data.
“With the cost of a pint continuing to increase, consumers will soon struggle to support their local pubs, social clubs and tap rooms.
“Unfortunately, pubs have had no option but to raise their prices in order to survive, as the only alternative would be to close their doors forever.”
Mr Antona added: “Both the UK brewing and pub industries are in the throes of a perfect storm.
“The skyrocketing cost-of-business crisis, customers tightening their belts due to the cost of living, sky-high energy prices and unfair business rates are a brutal mix that threatens to be the death knell for many community venues.
It came as new data shows 784 pub businesses went bust in the past 12 months.
The number of insolvencies - including operators with multiple sites - has soared by almost a third in just one year.
Peter Kubik, at accountants UHY Hacker Young, which revealed the data, said: “Current alcohol prices mean more people are choosing to drink at home.”