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Britain’s CHEAPEST pint revealed – it will save you £3 each time you buy it & you won’t struggle to find it
Some beers are much cheaper than others
BRITAIN'S cheapest pint has been revealed and it will save you £3 a drink over the most expensive pour.
You're also not going to struggle to find the low-priced pilsner as it is a favourite of football fans everywhere.
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Carlsberg is the cheapest pint nationally, with an average price across the isles of only £4.25.
That's £3 cheaper than the most expensive beer, a Beavertown Neck Oil bought in London.
The new data from considered more than 30 beers nationally including lagers, craft, cask, and stout.
Londoners were paying the most for 26 of those beers while the southwest paid more for Foster's, Budweiser, and Doom Bar.
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Drinkers in Wales will pay more for Coors Light and Camden Hells, while those in Scotland will pay more for Green King IPA.
Carlsberg was under £5 in all regions, priced at £4.83 in London and cheapest at £3.76 in the north-west.
The north-east was the cheapest region for a whopping 18 beers, while the midlands charged the cheapest price for six pints.
London, the south-west, or the south-west did not have the cheapest pints for any brand of beer.
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The average price difference between London and the north-east was £1.64 per pint.
The data also found regional differences in the price of a pint with London the most expensive and the north-east the cheapest.
Pub sells 'cheapest pints in the UK' going for just £2.30 - almost HALF the average
Londoners are paying a pound more on average, forking out £5.53, while north-easterners are paying only £4.50.
The average cost of a pint in the UK is now over £4 for the first time - at £4.58, compared to £2.30 in 2008 during the last recession.
And a pint in London's West End can top £9 while one in ten taverns sell at between £6-£6.99 and 40 per cent ask the average of £4.58.
It comes after one UK pub was hailed for taking a trip down memory lane and selling pints for as little as £2.30.
The Waggon and Horses in Oldbury, West Midlands, started flogging all beers, ciders and ales for under three quid to encourage punters to drink in traditional local boozers.
A pint of Stella will now set you back just £2.80, while Carling, Coors and John Smiths is £2.40 and a pint of Thatcher's Gold is £2.30.
Leaseholder Matthew Porter said: "I've had this pub for seven years, and it's a proper locals pub. It deserves to be busy every day.
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"There are multi-million pound companies either side of us who are putting their prices up and we're putting ours down to say 'come and drink with us'.
"It's hard for people at the minute, some are struggling and aren't going to go out and spend £40 on a Friday night anymore."
Britain's cheapest beers
- Carlsberg - £4.25
- Carling - £4.27
- Greene King IPA - £4.28
- Foster’s - £4.30
- Hobgoblin - £4.31
- Coors Light - £4.34
- Doom Bar - £4.36
- Wainwright - £4.46
- Abbot Ale - £4.47
- Tribute Pale Ale - £4.48
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