RESEARCHERS have revealed where to find the cheapest pints in Britain and it is not where you’d expect.
The most affordable pints are no longer found up north but rather down south, according to the data.
A draught lager in Southend-on-Sea will set you back just £3.25, making it the cheapest pint in the UK.
The Essex seaside resort’s drinks are almost a third cheaper than the national average of £4.77.
Southend is one of two places in the south that feature in the top ten cheapest towns for pints.
In the north, Sunderland in Tyne & Wear, Perth and Scotland were the next most affordable places, with the average price of a pint costing around £3.50.
These were followed by Coventry, Hull and Exeter who all sell their pints for less than £4.
Aberdeen, Carlisle, Doncaster and Dundee, where pints typically sell for £4, completed the list.
Unsurprisingly, the most expensive drinks can be found in London, with pints costing around £6.50.
Locals in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, have to shell out a whopping £6.10 for a drink, making it the second most expensive place for a pint in the UK.
Those living in Brighton or Westminster also have to fork out around £6 for a pint.
Oxford (£5.95), Belfast (£5.50) and Cambridge (£5.25) also featured in the top ten most expensive places to buy a pint.
Both Canterbury and Bristol took the last spots on the list with punters having to pay £5, with locals in Edinburgh paying 25p more on average.
Southampton, Portsmouth, Nottingham, Liverpool and Newcastle are the best spots for after-work drinks with all five serving sub-£5 pints, according to Spacepool, who gathers the figures.
Eugene Tavyev, the company’s CEO and founder said: “The rising price of a pint won’t stop office workers from seeking a nearby spot for a post-work drink.
“The tradition of unwinding and debriefing with colleagues after a long day at a desk is still very much alive.
“But, like with anything, the quality of the things we’re spending our hard-earned money on still comes into play.”
It comes after a study revealed where Brits can find the cheapest pints before jetting off on holiday.
And a longtime lorry driver has made his dreams come true after he quit to buy a quaint little pub to pull cheap pints for people.
By Owen Leonard
PUNTERS can pay just £3.19 for pints at the cheapest Spoons pub in the land, bucking the trend of beer-flation.
Office for National Statistics data shows the price of a pint has skyrocketed 28 per cent across the nation since 2019, or an average hike of £1.03 per beer.
But coming to the rescue are a series of Spoons boozers still selling pints for pennies.
At the top of the apex is The Church House in Wath-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire, where pints set set punters back only £3.19.
It was once a 19th-century house declared sacred by the Archbishop of York.
At those pint prices, today’s beer drinkers surely agree.
