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According to the results of a survey of The Morning Advertiser readers, highlighted in the Beer Report 2026, Timothy Taylor’s Landlord was the most expensive at £5.42 - a rise of 30p over the past 12 months.
London Pride was 20p cheaper at £5.22 and this had also seen a rise over the period of 40p.
The only other cask brand to be over £5 on average was Tribute Pale Ale at 7p over the fiver mark - a 48p increase and the biggest rise across all nine brands featured.
Price analysis
Both Pedigree and Hobgoblin are now £4.98 on average with the former seeing a drop in price of 18p while the latter was up 41p.
Abbot Ale was the next most expensive pint of cask at £4.93 ( a 23p rise), followed by Doom Bar, which is now £4.77 on average - this was up 20p from last year.
A pint of Greene King IPA is now £4.26 - a decrease of 10p.
Wainwright was the least expensive at £4.57 and the brew also saw a fall in average pint price of 18p.
Category update
Elsewhere in the report, figures from CGA by NIQ showed 1.28m hectolitres (HL) were sold in the on-trade this year but this was a drop of 7.1% from the previous year and an 11.2% all compared with 24 months ago.
However, the financial decrease was not as stark with £982m worth of sales in 2023 becoming £974m last year and £947m now (3.5% and 2.8% drops respectively).
Client director Nick Riley said despite the falls, “there are shoots of hope with a handful of brands having a better time of it.
“And with initiatives and innovation coming from brewers to support the category, there is scope (and hope) for some positive movement here in the coming few years.”
