St Patrick’s Day revellers face forking out nearly £4.50 per pint of Guinness on Sunday (March 17) – 8% pricier than 12 months in the past.
The common price for a draught pint of the black stuff is £4.48 – in comparison with simply £4.15 final 12 months – with the well-known Irish stout costing effectively over £5 at many pubs. Predictably, the priciest place within the UK to toast St Paddy’s is London, the place drinkers will sometimes half with a wallet-busting £5.73.
Other cities the place the Dublin-brewed beer is greater than a fiver embody Edinburgh (£5.33), Brighton (£5.11) and Cambridge (£5.08). The best-value bevvy is discovered within the hometown of one other well-known Patrick – TV’s Paddy McGuinness – with watering holes in Bolton, Greater Manchester, charging a median of simply £3.83.
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Those who elevate a jar of the creamy darkish beer to the Patron Saint of Ireland also can pay beneath £4 in Swindon (£3.84) and Rotherham (£3.95). Maxine McCreadie, a private finance specialist at UK Debt Expert, which analysed costs at pub chains throughout the UK, mentioned: “Inflation has significantly pushed up the price of Guinness – just like it has other beverages.
“Even although the rise may very well be attributed to heightened manufacturing bills or shifts in market demand, the rising price of the likes of Guinness might end in additional lowered spending on eating and leisure. Customers will vote with their toes and pubs want to stress the standard and number of their drinks accessible.
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“In the social [media] age, a badly poured Guinness could make your establishment go viral for all the wrong reasons.”
It comes after Cheltenham race-goers had been this week charged £7.50 per Guinness on the well-known competition. The already sky-high value of a pint on the Cotswolds racecourse has been frozen since 2022.
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