If there’s one thing we will always bang on about, it’s when we find a great deal on pints. Sometimes that requires searching high and low, scouring through the tap lists of bars and breweries.
And then, sometimes, someone just, y’know, makes a map and tells you where to find some of London’s cheapest pints. Enter: the Cheapest Pints on London’s map. Yep, that’s a map redesigned for the sole purpose of finding the cheapest pint in every area of London. Hallelujah!
This noble undertaking is the work of Cheapest Pint – a crowdsourced guide to London and the UK’s cheapest pint prices. It should frankly be held up as the gold standard of PR exercises: one which gets us boozed for less. Keen eyes may remember a similar map coming out a few years back – the cheapest pints on a tube map. Well, we reckoned the whole thing needed an update. A lot has changed since 2022 after all!
So, the rules! The focus was on pints at pubs (no clubs, bars, or restaurants) and it can be in any area of London. It turns the whole thing into a wonderfully helpful twofer with a map key that divides the pints into three categories: green for pints less than £6, orange for pints between £6-£7 and red for pints more than £7. Additionally, a star for a pub verified more than three pints of the same price recorded. The result is a rather exhaustive number of pubs across London and some ridiculously priced pints. But it definitely narrows down the journey to finding the cheapest pint in the city!
The Results of the Pint Price Map
Diving right in to the data, there are some very surprising, and not so surprising, results. The average pint price, for example, has risen from £4.47 in 2022 to £6.75 in 2024 in London. But we all knew prices had been going up over the past years with the cost of living crisis.
What is the average cost of a pint? The average cost of a pint in the UK is £5.17. The average cost of a pint in London is £6.75, the most expensive city in the UK. The average cost of a pint around the world is £2.74.
Believe it or not the average cost of a pint around the world is £2.74. And while pint prices have gone up, the cost of the cheapest pint available is actually not too far from what it was in 2019 – which was £1.89. The cheapest pint in London is currently £2. We’re not going to make it too easy for you, though, as you’ll have to find them for yourself on the map!
And clearly, some things are bound to never change, as the pint price map found that the most common cheap pint was Foster’s. The ‘Australian’ lager reigns supreme – for price at least.
Naming and shaming at the other end of the scale, you’re going to want to avoid Peroni pints if you’re simply looking for the cheapest pint, as it came in at the most frequent expensive pint on menus at pubs across the capital.
And while plenty of places are still offering delightfully affordable pints, the most expensive pint at these pubs has risen sharply since 2019 from £6.50 to £7-7.50. We’re not saying that’s most expensive pint in London, remember, before you start writing in with your examples of other expensive pints!
A surprising read, and a heartening read. It turns out London isn’t quite the hell-hole of awful pint prices it’s made out to be. Sometimes we just need to take a closer look… Or consult the map!