The cheapest place for a pint revealed and prices start at just £2.50
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THE cheapest place in the UK for a pint has been revealed - and the average price is just £2.50.
Pubgoers in Burnley, Lancashire, can get the cheapest pints, according to data analysed by small business comparison site Bionic.
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Drinkers can get two pints in Burnley for less than the price of one pint in London, Belfast or Oxford
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Coming in just slightly more expensive was nearby Bury, where a pint will set you back just £2.75 on average.
Pints in St Helens, Merseyside, and Harlow, Essex, cost £3 on average.
The average cost of a pint in Southport or in Blackpool is slightly more at £3.25.
You would pay roughly £3.40 in Salford, or £3.50 in Blackburn.
Drinkers in other cities pay almost twice as much.
If you're in London, Belfast, Watford, Oxford, Cambridge, Hemel Hempstead, Guildford and Basildon, you'll be paying a huge £6.
You might be surprised to find, though, that London doesn't have the most expensive pints.
In Brighton and Hove, the average price is £6.05 - and in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, it's a whopping £6.10.
That's £3.60 more than the cheapest average pint in Burnley.
Bionic also analysed the most popular pint of choice in the UK - and found BrewDog came out on top.
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The analysis looked Google searches, social media trends data, and the popularity and fame of different alcohol brands.
Guinness - which has got everyone talking with its "splitting the g" game - was the second most popular.
Meanwhile, Black Sheep was the nation's favourite craft beer and Kopparberg was the UK's favourite cider.
Why pubs are pushing up prices
The latest figures come after the British Beer and Pub Association warned the average cost of a pint across the UK will rise from around £4.80 to £5.01.
It said pubs are expecting to raise their average prices by 21p.
Figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) found the cost of a pint of draught lager in pubs jumped almost 3% in the year to January 2025.
Pubs say they have been forced to push up prices because of a series of cost increases announced in last October's Budget.
They say the only way they can stay open is to pass the raised costs on to customers.
Simon Dodd, chief executive of Young's, said the chain planned to increase its prices by between 2.5% and 3%.
Wetherspoons also recently hiked the price of some of its drinks and meal deals by up to 30p.
Meanwhile Heineken increased the price of its draught beer by an average of 2.97% for pubs in February.
More than 400 pubs across England and Wales were demolished or converted for other uses last year, figures from Altus Group show.
As a result, the number of pubs across the two countries fell below 39,000 for the first time.
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