Each year the Good Pub Guide editors carry out a national survey of beer prices.

This year, for the first time ever, the survey shows a very low increase in the average price of a pint. The price increase is just 1p –from £3.46 to £3.47, compared to 15p for the previous year. However, there is still a whopping 87p-a-pint difference between Herefordshire the cheapest county at £3.21, and London, the most expensive at £4.08 (last year the price difference was 82p-a-pint). Another finding of this year’s survey is that Britain’s ever-growing range of pubs brewing their own beer typically costs £2.99 a pint which is 48p less than the national average of a pint of beer.
Here’s a breakdown, in average price order:

Bargain beer
Herefordshire (£3.21), Yorkshire (£3.25), Derbyshire (£3.29), Cumbria (£3.30), Worcestershire (£3.32)

Fair-priced beer
Wales (£3.33), Cheshire (£3.33), Northumbria (£3.33), Lancashire (£3.33), Shropshire (£3.35), Northamptonshire (£3.39), Leicestershire & Rutland (£3.40), Dorset (£3.40)

Average-priced beer
Cornwall (£3.41), Devon (£3.41), Lincolnshire (£3.42), Somerset (£3.44), Nottinghamshire (£3.45), Scotland (£3.46), Gloucestershire (£3.46), Wiltshire (£3.47), Essex (£3.47), Staffordshire (£3.47), Bedfordshire (£3.48), Cambridgeshire (£3.48), Warwickshire (£3.49), Suffolk (£3.50), Norfolk (£3.51), Hampshire (£3.54)

Expensive beer
Oxfordshire (£3.62), Buckinghamshire (£3.63), Isle of Wight (£3.66), Hertfordshire (£3.67), Sussex (£3.68), Berkshire (£3.70), Kent (£3.72)

Rip-off beer
Surrey (£3.75), London (£4.08)