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dragonyphoenix ([personal profile] dragonyphoenix) wrote2014-08-09 12:11 pm

cheapest drink in London?

Back just after Rupert's Ripper-days, if someone were drinking in a real dive in London, what would be the cheapest way to go. I want the drink to be alcoholic and something that could be nursed, like a beer. I'm thinking the equivalent of Pittsburgh's Tech Beer, which is the dregs of Iron City beer.
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[personal profile] il_mio_capitano 2014-08-10 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not old to have been drinking in the seventies so my knowledge is patchy. I think men drank pints of bitter or mild back then. Halves for the ladies. Lager came in a little later. I don't think cost was an issue really. Can't tell you specific brews from London area, though I think Watneys Red Barrel was probably national from what I remember of adverts of the time.

[identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com 2014-08-10 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I wasn't old enough to have been drinking then either, and I was in a completely different country! ;-) Thanks.