Cheapest places for a pint of beer revealed including quaint town where you’ll pay just £2

BEER lovers who hanker for the days erstwhile a pint outgo conscionable £2 should caput to Wrexham, a survey found. 

Famous for its football club, owned by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, it tops the array for fund bevvies.

It comes aft authoritative information released this period showed the mean terms for a pint of lager successful the UK was £4.79 - a staggering 140% pricier than the aforesaid tipple successful the Welsh city.

The past clip British drinkers parted with an mean of £2 for a pint of brew was successful the twelvemonth 2000, Office for National Statistics figures show. 

Next champion worth spot for a pub crawl successful 2024 is Bury, Greater Manchester, wherever a pint of brew is typically priced £2.75.

Nearby Bolton (£3.10), Blackpool, Lancs (£3.25) and Kilmarnock successful Ayrshire, Scotland (£3.25) circular disconnected the large 5 savers for ale fans.

North of the Border brew hotspots Dunfermline and Glenrothes, wherever pub-goers tin stroke the froth disconnected a acold 1 for conscionable £3.40, Hull, East Yorks (£3.47), Northampton (£3.50) and Scottish municipality Ayr (£3.50) implicit the apical 10.

The data, collated by hospitality proviso steadfast Alliance Online, covers draught lager, different keg beers, and accepted cask existent ale.

Researchers recovered the cheapest pint successful Wrexham astatine Wetherspoon watering spread The Elihu Yale, wherever a pint of Bud Light oregon Worthington's Creamflow was £1.99, conscionable 10 minutes' locomotion from the Red Dragons' STōK Racecourse stadium.

While landlady astatine The Long Pull, Lisa Lock, said: "Cost of living is simply a large 1 for the full industry, but we negociate to support our prices arsenic debased arsenic imaginable and the customers support coming back."

Elsewhere, Glyn's Bar, wherever Wrexham supporters bask matchday bevvies, said it served pints for conscionable £2.30 connected Thursdays.

The study said: "The Welsh metropolis of Wrexham is crowned the cheapest spot successful the UK for a beer.

"Famous for Wrexham AFC, headed up by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, their fans volition beryllium blessed to cognize that they person entree to bargain brew aft a match."

Alliance Online selling manager Rachael Kiss added: "Our survey shows that customers tin inactive precise overmuch get a bargain brew if they look for one."

Why person brew prices risen?

Prolonged periods of precocious inflation person led the terms of a pint to emergence implicit the past fewer years.

World issues specified arsenic Russia's penetration of Ukraine besides mean the terms of barley, which is simply a cardinal constituent successful beer, has risen.

These factors, coupled with rising energy costs, person meant that galore pubs and bars person had to rise the outgo of pints to screen their ain overheads.

This has damaged the UK hospitality assemblage with galore businesses forced to adjacent for bully arsenic punters tin nary longer capable to spend a travel to their local.