N0124 The Roundabout

We've all seen those old signs showing "the price of a pint" over a series of years, and can see that single penny increments were dropped for 5p increments at some time in the 1990s on most of those lists. 

I had now assumed that increments were 10c or maybe even 20c for most places; so I was somewhat surprised to be charged 6.05 for my pint. Of Cobra, as there's a fairly odd tap lineup in the lounge here.

There's also signs up claiming that Five Lamps is the locally brewed beer for the area. At 6.6km crow-flies to the Five Lamps Brewery on Camden Street, it is marginally closer than the 7km to Diageo; but there are two problems with this claim.

The first is that Hope are 3.6km away, with multiple other licenced breweries closer than 6.6km (Porterhouse, Brewdog, Urban, Hopkins & Hopkins and maybe more); so Five Lamps isn't the closest. 

The second is that the Five Lamps Lager being sold there is made in Clonmel. Only low volume products are made on Camden Street. So even without any Hope/Porterhouse/etc products, the Diageo stuff still wins.

But the pub doesn't supply the adverts, and likely doesn't care to vet them - and we'll see that sign again later, more problematically.

The lounge here is quite nice, renovated recently enough I'd imagine. Suburban pubs sometimes don't have a lot to write about, hence the rambling about prices and locations.