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It's Cheaper Down the Pub

  Photo Credit: David Holden ( @yesaleblog ) Pouring Track Brewing Sonoma at Stalybridge Buffet Bar.  Doing the rounds the past couple of weeks has been a discussion about where people do their drinking and/or why many choose to drink at home rather than socially.It was discussed on the latest Hopinions show podcast and on blogs by Pete McKerry and Boak and Bailey. I’m biased as I’m a   staunch defender of pubs and would like to see more people use them. Continuous images on Twitter and Instagram suggest that a lot of people I interact with over social network do not agree. For the main, a lot of the reasons given as to why they choose to stay at home I understand and sympathise with. What I can’t get m y head around is the stance – that makes up a quarter of the responses in this Hopinions poll – that it is cheaper to drink at home. I do not question the fact that it certainly can be cheaper to drink at home. When a 4-pack of Sainte Etienne i...