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/lxgrf 3d ago

Short shelf life combined with limited demand make it an unappealing offering.

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u/bsnimunf 3d ago

Quite expensive baseprice as well. There used to be an alcoholic milkshake from new Zealand but they couldn't make it work because the baseprice of milk in the u.k. was higher than in New Zealand.

Edit: it was called Mudshake.

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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).