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| posted by Load Toad 292 days ago |
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Lowest pub beer sales since 1930s
06:15 - 20 November 2007
Pub beer sales are at their lowest level since the 1930s, brewers have said.
Seven million fewer pints per day are being sold in Britain compared to the beer market's 1979 peak - a 22% drop.
Overall beer sales across pubs, bars, supermarkets and off-licences are at their lowest level since 1969, according to the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA).
In pubs, beer sales have plummeted 49% since 1979 but supermarket and off-licence beer sales have increased over the same period, lessening the overall decline.
The BBPA have sent a letter to MPs calling for a freeze on beer duty. It cites the soaring costs of barley, malt, glass, aluminium and energy as factors which are squeezing brewers' profits.
The BBPA's calls follow the launch last week of the Alcohol Health Alliance which wants tax on alcohol to be increased.
But the BBPA complains that between 1997 and 2006 beer duty increased 27%. This compares to tax hikes over the same period of 11% for cider, 16% for wine and 3% for spirits.
Major brewers in the UK saw their profits slump by 78% between 2004 and 2006, the BBPA said.
In the open letter to MPs, BBPA chief executive Rob Hayward said: "We believe the benefits that have been enjoyed by other drinks from a tax freeze should be extended to Britain's national drink - beer. British brewers and beers are of world renown."
The BBPA's members account for 98% of beer brewed in the UK and nearly two thirds of Britain's 58,000 pubs.
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| posted by Paps of Jura 292 days ago |
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It's cos we are all going dead posh drinking champers, vino and the likes of vodka redbull etc
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| posted by adfundum 292 days ago |
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.......Also, beer guts are not as GQ as they used to be ;-)
You mean... you mean... that Chef, BB and I are no longer "With it" ? 
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| posted by Paps of Jura 292 days ago |
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You never were !!
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| posted by adfundum 292 days ago |
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Cutting !
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Even sick puppies need love...
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| posted by puyi 292 days ago |
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would take a big knife and a few hours.....................
darren rudd is and never was a sinophile
but the reports were a smoggy mistake
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| posted by AKA 292 days ago |
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I thought it had something to do ith the big shops like Tesco and Sainsbury's sell the beer rilly cheap so people knacker-drink more often, spending less in the pubs
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| posted by Lola 292 days ago |
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AKA's right; there was bit in paper while I was in Mud Island saying beer in supermarkets was cheaper than water.
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| posted by AKA 292 days ago |
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Lola's right about me being right
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| posted by Paps of Jura 292 days ago |
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Good ol' Tesco
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| posted by Juno Watt 292 days ago |
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Tescopoly shurely?
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| posted by AKA 292 days ago |
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wow they even do universities now?
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