TUC researcher Alex Collinson has been doing some interesting research on the relationship between wages and beer prices. You can find the full set of graphs at at his twitter @Alex_Collinson
Obviously the picture is quite general looking at average wages UK wide and likewise for beer prices. Even so the position is broadly clear. You can get less beer now for your earnings than you could, certainly before 2008. Collinson suggests that very recently the balance may have tilted back a little towards beer being more affordable.
Time perhaps to bring the Assizes of Ale which sampled the quality of beer and set prices up to the late eighteenth century…
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