Isn't this aimed at benefiting the brewers rather than the public (regardless of what Osborne says)? Which I'm in favour of given the large and growing number of small breweries now in the UK, but not particularly supportive of for the few large breweries that have a stranglehold on pubs countrywide, limiting choice for the public with their homogenous brews.How much would one have to drink in order to notice any difference?For somebody who is constantly drinking the govt's maximum recommended amount, even if the 1p per pint saving was passed on, this will add up to less than £4 per year. Anybody who drinks enough for the saving to be particularly noticeable is probably limiting their chances of surviving another year.For a beer enthusiast like myself who drinks as many different beers as possible but only occasionally to excess, I expect I'll save about £2 a year. I tend not to drink in pubs though, for reasons given above. Does this affect all alcohol sales or only in pubs?It's a lot of noise over a microscopic difference that probably nobody will notice except the accountants at the big pub-owning breweries.On the plus side, hopefully the email I got earlier from CAMRA about the tax escalator will be the last.
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