UK beer costs soar as average price of pint tops £8 in one London pub

Clive Watson, the chair of City Pub Group, says beer ingredient costs are up 10%. Photograph: coldsnowstorm/Getty Images/iStockphoto

The price of a pint in London has long been bemoaned as the sign of how expensive it is to live in the capital.

However, as crowds flocked to central London to toast the Queen on the jubilee bank holiday weekend, some would have been staggered if they ordered a round of drinks in one pub, after it emerged the the average price of a pint has topped £8 for the first time.