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A BOOZER selling Britain's 'most expensive' beer has stunned thirsty punters looking for a pint.
The Cask Pub in Pimlico, South London, was caught charging the equivalent of almost £60 for a single pint of beer.
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The cheeky pub was charging £19 for just a third of a pint of “Iris 2025”, a 15 per cent speciality beer from Belgian speciality brewer Cantillon.
Rob Healy, 52-year-old a retired TFL worker, said he was “outraged” when he saw the menu.
“It’s the principle of the thing,” he told The Sun.
“I know it’s London prices but that’s ridiculous.
“I do enjoy my real ale and don’t mind paying for good stuff. But these prices are just unfair and would put anyone off drinking.”
He added: “I realise the place is put together for a certain type of clientele, but I don’t know how they are getting away with this during the current cost-of-living crisis.”
The pricey Cantillon Iris is also available to buy online from other retailers.
It is described as a completely original beer which, contrary to the other products of the Brewery, is not brewed with 35% of wheat.
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The Iris is only made with malt of the pale ale type which gives a more amber colour to the beer.
This conserves the typical flavour of the spontaneous fermentation, the complex aromas and the vinous taste.
The hopping is different too with the Iris using 50 per cent of dried hops and 50 per cent of fresh hops.
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After two years in the barrel, the Iris undergoes a second fresh hopping two weeks before the bottling.
A linen bag, filled with hops, is soaked in the beer for two weeks.
This technique, called "cold hopping", gives the beer a more intense savour and makes the smell and the taste more bitter.
The Sun have contacted The Cask Pub for comment.
London's previous most expensive beer was priced at an unbelievable £80.15 a pint back in 2022.
The imported American craft ale was on sale for £105 for a 750ml bottle (1.3 pints) at The Craft Beer Co in Brixton.
Now no longer on offer, the Reforged 20th Anniversary Ale is made by the AleSmith Brewing Company, an ‘artisanal’ microbrewery in San Diego, California.
The 11% ABV beer, aged in a bourbon barrel for 18 months, is dark brown in colour and has a thick, syrupy consistency.
The average pint now costs £5 and an American-style tipping system could soon be arriving in Britain, a new report has found.
A whopping 2,500 hospitality businesses, staff, and customers gave insight into the industry for the research, which also revealed where priciest wets are.
Unsurprisingly, London has the most expensive pint in the country, with the average one costing a frightening £7.15.
Belfast, at £6.71, and Brighton and Hove, at £6.60, come in at second and third respectively.
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Meanwhile, the cheapest pints in the country can be found in north Wales and Scotland.
The new research was commission by hospitality tech company three rocks - which also found that between January and March four licensed premises closed a day round the country.
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