The price of a pint of beer has risen more than 70 per cent since the financial crash of 2008, surpassing £ 8 for the first time in London as pubs are hit by the inflation spiral .
The average price of a pint in the UK has risen from £ 2.30 in 2008 to £ 3.95 this year, according to new data from CGA, a crawler in the hospitality industry.
Pub companies have warned that prices could rise further as the cost of barley, a key ingredient in beer, is forced by supply problems related to the Ukrainian war.
Combs would be 60 pence cheaper today if they had risen in price in line with average consumer prices from January 2008 to April 2022.
CGA regularly tracks prices by surveying more than 5,500 random bars and pubs in the UK’s 90,000.
The country’s most expensive pound exceeded £ 8 for the first time in his research, averaging £ 8.06 at a London pub, which was not named.
The cheapest average pint was at a Lancashire pub for £ 1.79.
Prices have skyrocketed at all levels in Britain as inflation is at its highest point in decades. Food and energy prices have driven much of the 9% rise in inflation.
The beverage industry has warned that beer will continue to rise in price this year due to the war in Ukraine.
Bernstein analysts said this week that the rising cost of barley, of which Ukraine accounts for 17 percent of world exports, was a “big negative” for breweries, estimating that “at worst In realistic cases, there would be an inflation of barley malt of about 70 percent. ” penny ”.
The latest CGA data show that the average price of a pint has risen by more than 7 percent since 2020.
Greene King, a chain that operates about 2,700 pubs, said last month that it was raising prices by 4.7 pence per pint on average, while Marstons, the brewery, raised prices by about 8 percent in March.