British pub closing time

the pub closing time in scotland is different to Britain/England/England&Wales (whatever way you want to put it.

its 1am here .

You'll find that the rise in price of beer isnt a pubs fault.
You make a pint for around 30-50p (Used to be a great amount less, but that's what you get when America is buying up every grain for eco-friendly fuel.)
Then you need the money for what you need to sell it :-
Rent and council tax on a pub is around 3x a normal house
Electricity is 3x a domestic rate
Water is also 3x a domestic rate
There are tons of pipes from the cellar to the bar and they can cost anywhere between 6grand to 22grand to set up.
Oh and dont forget the measly wages since most bar tenders work for minium wage.

So imagine if a pub was open those few more hours, you wouldn't even break even with the cost of electricity and water and wages.

But hey, what am I saying, I could do with a few extra shifts.

And Rat, you can take it home. But its illegal to drink on the street and the pub would be providing an open vessel.

What are the laws...
I Have just bought a bottle of wine from a local pub.Half finished it but was told I could not take it home out the premises . I said Its mine I bought IT so now if it belongs to me and is not in a pubs glass I can Take it home ? Help and comments please...

Well, it is nearly 2010, and the £5-00 pint has not yet arrived, but the £5-00 supermarket case has, a lot better having the tv on, 6ft pc projector screen on, and a 50p can of cold lager in your hand typing away, instead of getting ready to go down the pub and spend whats left.

in a way tho I fink they r avin fun .. why spoil it ?

I agree.
to be honest I think pubs should only let people drink a limited amount of beer/wine .
there is youths everywhere getting slaughtered which is also not a pleasant site.

Cannot agree more!!!! I have spent 13 years of my life in Russia - places are open 24 hours, everybody is happy. Greece, Spain - everywhere the same! Closing pubs at 11pm (or even at 1am like in Scotland) doesn't solve anything, the ones who want to drink and get messed up - will do it anyway!

I hope all the pubs go down the pan then the government won't be able to add more on a pint of beer because they won't have a pub to drink it in and the brewerys will loose a lot more workers jobs so that will cause more unemployment think about it . taxing beer is a bad idea
so the next time we have a budget think about what your doing . but then you'll have no options
so then supermarket beer will get hammered with tax then drinking will become exctinct ?
oh and stop blaming everything else

smoking ban / binge drinking/ happy hours / it doesn't really matter .to many idiots in power
let british people have a life . who cares any more (nobody) it's greedy breweries and politics
who are killing the pub industry . not just smokin bans and yobs that will always be with us
its the price of a pint ( bottom line) . if beer was a lot cheaper people could go out more than
just weekend. people find there own pubs like yobs do . and the smoking bans a waste of
time . we should have a choice . not be told what to do . its us who pay taxes. so give people
a chance to at least try to enjoy themselves ( go and tax something else ) you greedy
idiots. or stay at home with your bottle of red wine. normal people and people on low incomes
don't care . about smoking bans ./yobs / 24 hr drinking / happy hours / they just want a pint.

I enjoy haveing a good night out with my friends, but I am finding it harder and harder to enjoy it because pretty much every decent traditional pub in our area has closed down and been turned into some "trendy" bar where your constantly dictated on how to dress and forced to listen to rubbish loud dance music and if thats not enough you have to put up with a bunch of general idiots who have no intelligence what so ever and think its hilarious to try and pick fights on you for dressing slightly different, and the best thing is most the people causing trouble are usually good mates with the bouncers.

Mmmmmm a more continental environment for the tourists?!?!?! Before the licensing laws were relaxed the pubs would be closed by midnight, the clubs a little bit later. By 4 am the streets would be relatively clear of the drunken yobs wanting to fight the world. Now thanks to these relaxed laws there is no let up in the yobbish anti social behaviour. They continue drinking until they can't stand, the fighting, urinating, vomiting in doorways ,continues up until 8 or 9 am. The emergency services can not cope in the relentless weekend onslaught of pillocks they have to pick up, patch up or lock up. Thanks Labour, another job well done!!!!!!!!

Being surrounded by three "spit and sawdust" relics of pubs dating back to the late 1800's, which have degenerated into gathering places for those whose aim in life is never to be sober instead of places where a few hours pleasant relaxation was to be had, and who nightly is serenaded by breaking bottles, thrown cans and glasses, shouting screaming and apparently multiple vomiting sessions, the sooner all of this type of "establishment" closes the better.

As someone suffering from "pub blight" in the property sales market, why doesn't Bully Brown tax these out of existence and do us all a favour!