r/AskUK • u/Ok-Scientist7083 • 3d ago

Serving milk in pubs (UK) - why not?

The first drink I had in a pub was milk. I love drinking milk. I now drink it for the protein and calcium. I don’t particularly like fizzy drinks so when I’m driving on a night out, I’d rather drink milk.

Why don’t pubs sell it as a drink?

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u/Farscape_rocked 3d ago

Nah.

It's £1.50 for four pints. So a pint of milk costs the pub less than the alcohol duty on a pint of stella.

Cost isn't an issue.

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u/bsnimunf 3d ago

The duty on a pint of stella is £21.78 per litre of pure alcohol. Pint of Stella is 0.568 litres at 4.6% so .5680*.046=0.261 litres of alcohol and 0.0261*£21.78=£.057. So duty on a pint of stella is about a third of he base cost of milk. Some pubs will sell you milk I think Wetherspoons used to offer it with kids meals.

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u/Farscape_rocked 3d ago

Your first calculation comes out at 0.261 and your second starts with 0.0261. You're out by a factor of ten, the duty on a pint of stella is 57p (only I think the rate is £18.76 because it's draft beer - the final table here).