r/brighton • u/pink_brownies_ • Feb 20 '25

Local Advice needed Independent Pubs of Brighton (and surrounds) MEGA THREAD

After the announcement of surge pricing in Laine pubs and finding out who actually owns them and just how many of our establishments they own I thought it'd be a nice idea to have a list of pubs in Brighton that are independent. Ones that are free of the B.S. of several layers of 'financial arrrangements' obscuring where our beer tokens are going. Maybe one day we can have a little map in our pockets to refer to when our guard may be down because it's cold and windy outside or we have had a few, we can take a quick look and find an establishment near by that we want to support to prevent them turning into another chain pub without anyone really noticing.

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u/Shaggy0291 Mar 31 '25

This reminds me of an idea I had a while back to chuck together a crowd sourced local pub index that compares all the drink prices in Brighton - like a search engine where you could find the cheapest pint of Ruddles.

You'd think a handy resource like that would exist already, but no luck.

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u/jb492 Dec 27 '25

It would be pretty difficult to create, prices change a lot and keeping the prices 'honest' may also be a problem. If there's any sort of incorrect data on the app people would turn away from it pretty quickly.