Alan wrote:

Youngster too - I used to pay 1/5d (ca. 7p) a pint when I (legally)
started drinking...

http://www.amac.f2s.com/Beer_price/
In the days when breweries printed the list rather than a chalk board
which can be changed every 5 minutes

An interesting exercise is to try and translate that into today's money.
Take the "old strong" at 2/4 per pint. If you try the calculator at:

http://www.measuringworth.com/

it translates to:

£1.38 using the retail price index
£1.41 using the GDP deflator
£2.64 using the average earnings
£3.13 using the per capita GDP
£3.44 using the share of GDP

(obviously those don't take into account the changes in duty)

--
Cheers,

John.

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