Outrageous Pub Prices

[Gerard_M]

It's about $9 for a pint of LCPA at The Australian here in Sydney. JS pints at Kings St Wharf as Gerard alluded to are also in the $7 - 8 range.

The Australian used to be a bit of a fav for Sunday lunch, with great pizza & awesome beers. Had a quick bite & a few beers there last November & that was the last $$ they will get out of me. How can they charge that much for a beer when you are sitting on a wonky chair on the footpath when you drink it?????

Ok not a bad lurk if you were the guy that owns it I guess.

Cheers
Gerard

 

[albrews]

I gave a $10 note for a Corona in a then chic club called "Rouges" off Oxford Street in ... you know where it is! The bloke behind the bar put the lot in the till. When I asked after my change, he shrugged his shoulders. W@nker. That was well before the new millenium. But the skirt their was worth it

hi, what time of day/night did this price apply.? some pubs are open till 4 am in the morning.

cheers

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

I gave a $10 note for a Corona in a then chic club called "Rouges" off Oxford Street in ... you know where it is! The bloke behind the bar put the lot in the till. When I asked after my change, he shrugged his shoulders. W@nker. That was well before the new millenium. But the skirt their was worth it

Barman probably thought you where a Kiwi with Barrrbra under your arm and charged you double...

 

[Guest Lurker]

At the weekend, not only did I miss Ashers brewday but also had the pleasure of paying probably the highest price for beer in a pub that I can remember.

Kalgoorlie Hotel - Becks $6 a middy

Exchange Hotel, Kal. - $10 a pint of LCPA

Palace Hotel, Kal. - $8.25 a stubby of LCPA

Can anyone better these rip offs or is Kalgoorlie the most expensive watering hole ( hole being the operative word ) in the country?

As I recall, all three of those establishments provide skimpy young ladies to pour the beer, obviously you didnt find the scenery justified the charges?

 

[user 1153]

Every pub in perth when you buy 2 pints of anything and hand over a $20 note you never get any notes back, just some coin.

and yes... it sucks knowing you could have made a whole brew for that.

I just had a friend over for a week and I managed to spend $1000 in the week with 90% of that going on beer (all Matilda Bay and LC of course )

 

[KoNG]

The Australian used to be a bit of a fav for Sunday lunch, with great pizza & awesome beers. Had a quick bite & a few beers there last November & that was the last $$ they will get out of me. How can they charge that much for a beer when you are sitting on a wonky chair on the footpath when you drink it?????

Ok not a bad lurk if you were the guy that owns it I guess.

Cheers
Gerard

Hmmm, i think i may have been there that day GM, my memory serves me differently... the chairs weren't so wonky, but you may have been.. :lol:

 

[Whistlingjack]

Regional was the brand of beer ...

Yeah I know. He's one of the brewers there.

Back OT. I don't know what I'm gonna do for the first few weeks back in OZ. I can't see myself paying those exorbitant prices for draught beer, let alone packaged stuff.

 

[sstacey]

Paid about 8 or 9YTL (~$6-7) for a stubbie of Efes Dark in Fransiz Sokak (French St) in Istanbul.
Outrageous prices for Turkey, but it was an awesome place to sit for a couple of hours drinking beer.

Doesn't really fit in with the rest of the conversation but I've had a few and I want to gloat.

 

[Tony M]

Just knocked up a quick lager---------
4kg Kirin @ 80c = $3.20
200gm crystal @ $6.00 = $1.20
60gm hops @ $13.00 = $0.80
Power & gas say $3.00
Total$8.20, or less than the price of a pint of beer that tastes nearly as good as the stuff we all make. No wonder I am dragged kicking and screaming over the threshold when i have to frequent a pub.

 

[DJR]

Hear hear, Tony. Did a batch last night that was

2kg JW Pils @ $2 = $4
1kg JW Wheat @ $3 = $3
300g Caramalt @ $5 = $1.50
100g Carapils @ $6 = $0.60
300g Cane Sugar @ $0.80 = $0.25

Hops - 55g Simcoe/Amarillo/B Saaz @ $40 per kg = $2.20

Yeast - Recultured WLP036 - free

Gas/Power/Water - $2

Total $13.55 for 23L, less than a sixpack and less than the cost of 2 fancy beers at the pub

Of course, you have to assume that our labour costs nothing and the equipment is fully paid for!

 

[Gerard_M]

Of course, you have to assume that our labour costs nothing and the equipment is fully paid for!

As a home brewer we know that your gear is neverfully paid for, as there is always something that you have just ordered that you really need to add to your set-up.
Cheers
Gerard

 

[paul]

I was out recently on a bucks night. We went to another nightclub and I ended up in a round of jager bombs with six people. These things tasted like **** so I only had one and was drinking dark ale stubbies after. Come my turn to buy a round I found out these were $10 each.

Cost me $56 for 5 jagermeitser and redbull drinks and one stubby.

 

[Mr Bond]

Bloody Hell Those prices that some of you have quoted are absolutely ridiculous.I'm glad i'm an antisocial prick who has an aversion to pubs etc....
I was miffed at having to pay $7.50 ish for a Schooner/midi of Erdinger in hahndorf about 2 years ago.

 

[sstacey]

DJR,
I just plugged your specs into promash.
Your SG must have been around 1.039.
Is this a normal SG? I don't brew anything below 1.055!
I usually use 5-6kg of base malt!

 

[glenos]

Worst, dunno I go to the pub so rarely that it all seems overpriced, I bought a pint of Redback before Pearl Jam last year at Young and Jackson in Melb seemed over priced but I don't know.

Bintang in the pool in Bali is always a good drink, $1.50 for a bottle, 700mL that was a long time ago.

 

[Vlad the Pale Aler]

GL -The 3 pubs visited were decent establishments, The Beast Without Balls made sure of that.
But I did accidentally stumble into one of those dens of eniquity that you are so familiar with, and the beer was actually cheaper!, if nitro-Kilkenny can be called beer.

 

[DJR]

DJR,
I just plugged your specs into promash.
Your SG must have been around 1.039.
Is this a normal SG? I don't brew anything below 1.055!
I usually use 5-6kg of base malt!

1.045 - 82% efficiency :beerbang:

It's a "light" beer - my beers don't usually fall below 1048 OG

 

[razz]

I go out occasionally and if the beer doesn't look any good then I drink red wine. I look at it this way when I do buy a few ales at a pub then I think of it as research for my hobby.

 

[InCider]

Barman probably thought you where a Kiwi with Barrrbra under your arm and charged you double...

If only she had flashed her Lanolin Lashes at the Baa-man my drinks would have been free!

 

[Back Yard Brewer]

Total $13.55 for 23L, less than a sixpack and less than the cost of 2 fancy beers at the pub

Also less than the taxi ride home, or worse still a lot less than the fine from officer Dibble when you blow over.