Drinkers paid an average of £ 2.30 a pint in 2008, but rising ingredient prices pushed it to £ 3.95 this year.
This represents a 72 percent increase after the financial meltdown, according to consulting firm CGA in the hotel industry.
The highest price he found was £ 8.06 in London, while the cheapest cost was just £ 1.79 in Lancashire.
The CGA did not specify the locations, but this is the first time that regular analysis of prices from random samples of 90,000 bars and pubs in the UK has seen the pint exceed £ 8.
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Clive Watson, chairman of City Pub Group, which runs 41 pubs in London and the South, said ingredient costs had risen 10 percent, “wage inflation is likely 7 percent and electricity inflation is 100 percent, so the mixed cost is likely to increase the price of a pint of beer by 12 to 13 percent.
Mr Watson said his company would keep prices down this year, adding: “We just want people to go back to the pub.
Greene King, a chain that operates about 2,700 pubs, said last month it was raising prices by an average of 4.7 pence a pint, while Marstons, the brewer, raised prices by about 8 percent in March.
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