This is my biggest gripe with the pub trade in the UK in general, the profit margin that some, and I repeat, some of the small local pubs make on selling beer/drinks.
It has all ways been 100% of the buying price. ie... the pub buys a pint of beer for £1.00 and sells it to the customer for £2.00. This covers tax, overheads and profit. Now the owners of pubs are selling at 150-200% of cost.
Now this really pisses me off, so I did a little research.
My favourite micro/commercial beer (Hobgoblin) is sold for £100.00 for a firkin (72 pints). This is delivered to the pubs door. That works out at about £1.38 per pint, yet, when I went into a pub recentley they charged me £3.75, This works out at 272% profit. What other commodity is sold at a 272% profit???
I explained the above to the bar owner/manager, who replied "It all goes to the government in taxes"
"B0llOcks" I said. "Out of the £3.75 yuo have just charged me, £0.65 goes to the Government in tax. It costs you £1.00 to buy, so that leaves £3.10.
So you have overheads to pay, OK Ill give you 100% on that. That leaves £1.55 clear profit on every pint of Hobgblin you sell. £1.75 x 72 = £144.00 profit per barrel x 5 barrels a week = £720.00 a week.
It is not the Government taht is killing the pub trade in the UK, it is greedy bar owners.
Craft beers/micro breweries = big profits, at the customers expence.
This is why I hate the pub trade in the UK.
P.S. My last batch of A/G H/B cost me £0.19. so they can all fcuk off