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Sam Barker

Wetherspoon pub selling pints for £1.49 - and could be the cheapest in London

A Wetherspoon pub in London is selling pints of beer for a likely record low in the capital - at just £1.49.

The bargain price is far from the norm, with many London boozers selling the amber nectar at up to £8 a pint.

One Wetherspoon pub, The Walnut Tree in Leytonstone, East London, is selling Ruddles Best and Greene King IPA for £1.49.

Tripadvisor commenters raved about the cheap prices online.

"I went out with my friends and we were shocked how cheap and good this place is," one said.

A Wetherspoon spokesperson said: "Like all Wetherspoons pubs, The Walnut Tree is known for its competitive prices.

The inside of the pub is recognisably a Wetherpoons (Tony Kershaw / SWNS)

"People in the area are aware that the pub food and drinks are fairly priced and that is an attraction as it - good service, a wide range of real ales and no music.

"The cheapest pint is a Ruddles or Greene King at £1.49 and The Walnut Tree is a very popular pub."

However, earlier this year many Wetherspoon pubs were selling the pints for even cheaper - 99p.

This was due to a super-cheap drinks offer, which ended in February 2022.

The outside of The Walnut Tree on the High Road, Leytonstone (Tony Kershaw / SWNS)

Britain's most expensive beer will set drinkers back an eye-watering £80 per pint.

The Craft Beer Co chain has imported the American craft ale to go on sale at its boozer in Brixton, south London, at £105 for a 750ml (1.3 pints) bottle.

At 11% ABV, it's a dark, sour brown ale, made by AleSmith Brewing Company, an "artisanal" microbrewery in San Diego, California.

The Reforged 20th Anniversary Ale is aged in a barrel for 18 months and has a thick, syrupy consistency and contains roasted malts and hops, coffee, chocolate, vanilla, caramel and barley wine.

It is a fusion of three other beers brewed by the same company- Speedway Stout, which sold on tap for £22.50 at the same pub chain in 2018, Wee Heavy and Old Numbskull.

Earlier this year thousands of Wetherspoon workers began to earn more than £10 an hour for the first time after a mass pay rise.

The 20p pay hike means many Spoons staff are earning above £10 an hour, though exact hourly salaries vary.

The increase in pay does mean all Wetherspoons staff are getting more than the National Living Wage, currently £9.50 per hour.

On April 1 the National Living Wage for workers over the age of 23 went up by 82p to £9.50.

The hourly rate for earners aged 21-22 rose by £9.18 an hour, up from £8.36.

The apprentice rate also went up from £4.30 an hour to £4.81.

In March, The Mirror reported Wetherspoon stopped selling Russian beer following the country's invasion of Ukraine.

The much-loved pub chain has said bottles of Baltika Lager - which is brewed in St Petersburg, the birthplace of Vladimir Putin - have been axed at its 870 boozers.

All bottles of the Russian beer - which cost £2.99 - were returned to distributor Carlsberg.

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