Draught lager, per pint priced in Bitcoin: 2015 to 2024
Priced in fiat
Priced in sats
Draught lager, per pint (per pint) cost £3.45 in 2015 and £4.77 in 2024, a change of +38% in pounds across 9 years. The figures are annual averages from ONS, RPI: Ave price - Draught lager, per pint (series CZMS). The fiat peak in this series came in 2024 at £4.77.
Priced in sats, the same item went from 1,906,077 sats to 9,119 sats, a change of −99.5%. The conversion uses the yearly average BTC price for each matching year, never a rate from a different era. The least flattering single step for the sats series was 2022 to 2023, when this item moved +4.1% in sats terms. Short windows can and do run against the holder; the direction across the full series is what the chart shows.
The pub pint is Britain's informal inflation index. It has risen every single year of the series without exception.
Small pleasures make good barometers precisely because nobody subsidises or caps them. The main page runs the same comparison across the full basket.
| Year | Pounds | Sats |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | £3.45 | 1,906,077 |
| 2016 | £3.48 | 789,116 |
| 2017 | £3.58 | 125,219 |
| 2018 | £3.64 | 68,783 |
| 2019 | £3.70 | 62,893 |
| 2022 | £4.10 | 18,539 |
| 2023 | £4.56 | 19,301 |
| 2024 | £4.77 | 9,119 |
Source: ONS, RPI: Ave price - Draught lager, per pint (CZMS). Sats = fiat price ÷ BTC price in that currency × 100,000,000, using yearly average BTC rates. Data vintage 2026-07-04. Full method on the main page.