25th Years of Good Pubs

Lancashire and Staffordshire offer the cheapest pints in the UK, while licensees in Surrey are, by a significant margin, charging the mos, according to The Good Pub Guide 2007. This year’s bible is the 25th anniversary edition and is launched tomorrow.The guide’s editors, Alisdair Aird and Fiona Stapley, point out that if the price increase in the last quarter of a century continues, a pint in London could cost as much as £10.60 in 25 years’ time. The current national average (calculated using the price for the cheapest real ale in a pub) is £2.33. Aird and Stapley have noticed a number of other trends throughout their years of compiling the guide, such as an improvement in town-centre pubs, as well as a vastly improved offering in pubs of food and wine. In the last 25 years, 66 pubs have been listed in every single edition: about one in every thousand UK pubs. To celebrate this, a number of these pubs around the country will be offering 1982 prices tomorrow.