invergowrie arab Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 (edited) Chatting to pals today and although we are "only" mid 30s when we first started seriously going to pubs every weekend around 2001/02 everyone drank heavy or in fancy pubs Caffreys. Seems like a hundred years ago now everyone is on 5 quid IPAs that young lads would be on the 80. What were you drinking when you first went out and when was it? ETA what did it cost? 2 quid a pint in my day Edited December 7, 2019 by invergowrie arab 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 (edited) McEwans Export. Three pints and the room started spinning. About 15/16 and 17p a pint. I'm old. Edited December 7, 2019 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Cider, vodka, guiness. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeAreElgin Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Carlsberg Export at Elgin's Wetherspoons, £1.69. Halcyon days. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 (edited) Started going to pubs in 1977/78. Can’t remember the price, but we were just having bog standard draught lager. McEwans or Tennents... in the Cochrane House Hotel, Spateston. The height of sophistication back then was a pernod & blackcurrant, especially as the 1980s arrived and we started wearing white jackets with the sleeves pushed up, and went to Coanes Wine Bar on Johnstone High Street. Happy days. Edited December 7, 2019 by pozbaird 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 When I was at Uni the lagers on tap were Fosters and Kronenberg. Fosters was £1.45 and Kronenberg was £1.65. So £10 and some change got you seven pints. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Budweiser. Utter pish water. Thankfully now enjoy the glorious Tennent's. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Pints of Vodka and Irn Bru (6 shots of Vodka in a pint glass topped up with a can of Irn Bru). 30p a shot from the long gone Berlins bar on Windmill brae in Aberdeen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutz_the_Squirrel Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Bottles of grolsch in Spoons for 99p. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 (edited) Tartan Special, Thunderton, circa 88. Got punched outside as well. ETA, less than £2 for sure. Edited December 7, 2019 by Melanius Mullarkey 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 (edited) 44 minutes ago, invergowrie arab said: Chatting to pals today and although we are "only" mid 30s when we first started seriously going to pubs every weekend around 2001/02 everyone drank heavy or in fancy pubs Caffreys. Seems like a hundred years ago now everyone is on 5 quid IPAs that young lads would be on the 80. What were you drinking when you first went out and when was it? ETA what did it cost? 2 quid a pint in my day 2/6d a pint. Lager (Switched to heavy pdg). 1970 Edited December 7, 2019 by Jacksgranda 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Tartan Special, Woodside in Falkirk, nearly 20p a pint, late 70s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UsedToGoToCentralPark Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Pints of lager/tins of red stripe depending on where I was.Moved onto Special, velvet, caffreys, Guinness, etc for a while. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 (edited) Think it was about 40p a pint for lager, a good few years before my 18th, probably around 1977/78ish. Eta: not a bad comparator. Edited December 7, 2019 by Sergeant Wilson 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 4 minutes ago, UsedToGoToCentralPark said: Pints of lager/tins of red stripe depending on where I was. Moved onto Special, velvet, caffreys, Guinness, etc for a while. Velvet seems to have disappeared now. Can mind in years gone by my drinking buddy, who drank nothing but lager, hated asking for it when it was his round, reasoning it sounded like something gays would drink. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishopburn boy Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Christmas Eve, 1981, Burns Tavern , sunny St Ranraer, McEwans pale ale ( the green one , not the red one ) 63 p a pint as memory serves , 4 of us in a kitty so we could buy rounds and not look like the 15 & 16 year olds we were strangely I was only ever once asked my age , on my 18th .. , suspect it was a put up job 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Black and tan back in the early 80s. I can still mind the price of pints in Leven in 1982. Lager 54p Heavy/ Special 51p Light/ Ordinary 49p 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jock_the_squak Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Summer 1985 aged 16 in the Rock Hotel, Blackwaterfoot, Arran. Pint of Fosters about £1 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Tout P'ti FC Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 My first landlord, Mr Bobby Smith (Hibs, Leicester, Dunfermline), of the eponymous Smith's Bar in Dalkeith. What I'd give to relive a typical Friday or Saturday night in there in 1996. The absolute best of times.Usual drink back then was Cider. Or Carlsberg. About £1.70 a pint I'd say. A decent night out for a tenner.Bobby was a great host. Sadly missed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Am Featha Taigh Nan Clach Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Started going to Firkins in Falkirk when I was 16, circa 2004. It was £1.30 a pint of Carling which was ridiculously cheap. Most other pubs were just edging over £2 for a generic pint 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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