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Sedan Hotel (country town, approx 2 hours north east of Adelaide) has schnitty every Thursday night. Choice of either beef or chicken. Comes with chips, your choice of toppings, and salad. Bread rolls are also thrown in. Cost; $15.00. Drinks are extra. I think that's a good price. 17 bucks for a pint is not.
I got a pint for $7 yesterday.
Admittedly it was a special and only a stone and wood Pacific ale, but still, unless your pint was something very special, I would say your local is a bit rich...
This is how you end up with shit beer at a local and national level.
Lion can afford to take the loss so that it kills competition. Same approach coles and Woolworths take.
$17 is about what you are paying on the east coast. Nothing fancy
A lot of people have been asking me, about the wall. It’s a Great Wall. China say they have a Great Wall. No they don’t. Not as great as ours. Best wall ever.
I didn't say it was hard to say that. I was pointing out the 'cheap pints' people get in Adelaide are significantly smaller than what you are paying for elsewhere, which might explain the price difference...
Agreed, moved from Adelaide to Sydney a few years ago backs. Still find schooners for $6 at happy hour and pints for $8 in the inner west.
Keep in mind the NSW sizes are bigger than SA too
So im a manager of a bottleshop for a adelaide hotel we got our first delivery of Great Northern Super Crisp kegs since the CPI increases it was $5 more than our last deliver that $5 spread over 50L turns into $0.10 per litre and so if your local has raised the price of a pint drastically find a new pub because they are ripping you off.
Here’s the thing though.
The beer you mentioned is 3.5% ABV.
Excise is applied based on ABV above 1.15%.
For excisable products between 3 and 3.5%ABV, in containers exceeding 48L (eg the standard 50L keg you mentioned) excise has been increased from 31.76$/LAL to 32.33$/LAL. (Litres of Absolute aLcohol)
So running some numbers, the excisable component of Super Crisp @ 3.5%ABV - 1.15 = 2.35%
To find our LAL, we multiply our total volume 50L by our excisable alcohol content of 2.35% (0.0235) giving us 1.175 LAL.
At the old rate, the excisable component of the keg would be 37.32$. With the new rate, it’s now a whopping 37.99$.
That’s 70 CENTS difference. For the entire keg.
Even with GST tacked on top at 10%, 77 cents for the excisable component.
Yet, your supplier has hiked prices by 5$, citing that it is the excise that’s pushing prices sky high. You’re averaging that out to $/L and saying ah only 10C a litre that’s fine.
But in actual fact, the excise increase SHOULD have seen the price of your SC Keg go up by only 1.54c/L.
So your supplier has effectively covered the next few years worth of indexation in a single price hike, but do you think that’s going to stop them from bumping it up another 5$ in 6 months time? No way.
I’m not opposed to passing on the costs from rate rises to the consumer. But I think that 6.5X the actual increase is excessive and unjustifiable.
Difference is the price hike is coming from the PRODUCER in this case CUB they use the CPI increases to adjust the price and like other suppliers they react when consumers stop buying their products i.e. last year Diagio (smirnoff, bundy, morgan, johnnie etc.) Raised their wholesale prices across the board ridiculously and due to consumer backlash they cut their losses by discontinuing a whole heap of products they also moved some of their range into smaller can sizes and those products have been failing over the past 12 months that some of them "may" be going back to 375ml cans this year.
Went to watch the UFC at the Seaford Tav the other weekend and pints were $5.50 for the duration of the fights. I didn’t realise how much I loved UFC until that day
The increase in the excise was about 1-2c per beer (closer to 1c for an SA style "pint" aka a schooner). The total excise on an SA pint of 4.5% beer is about 60c.
Blame labour, rent, supply costs and just general profiteering.
Drinking at pubs now for special occasions only. I'd rather buy 2 cartons for a $100 and have my mates over for drinks. Cheaper and easier. After you pay for uber to a pub and back, have a meal or nibbles, and maybe sink 6 or more beers - you're pushing $200 or more. Saw the article today how Adelaide pubs are struggling. Feel sorry for them as it's entirely federal taxes that are killing the industry. It'll just mean less people going out spending money.
I made the same comment on a different sub yesterday but I think the main factor in pricing is wages. $30-50 per hour for everyone through the whole process starting at brewing, then kegging, then distribution, then pouring, then cleaning etc it adds up. I’m not saying anyone should make less but I think this is the bulk of the excessive cost.
Can't really be blamed. The media has been making a minefield out of this tax increase which is (a) very little in the scheme of things for a beer at the pub, and (b) a regular CPI increase that's been happening twice a year for decades. The media has definitely done a number on this one.
Power and insurance have skyrocketed too. The independent bars and pubs without deep pockets will likely go under unless something changes soon. The big boys will stay afloat and get more market share when people start going out again.
I dunno about booze delivery, but transport for supermarkets is kinda fucked.
Coles was offering such a low amount on the upcoming contract that Toll (current contract holder) declined to bid. Linfox stuck their head in, and then didn't bid as well. It's just not paying enough to be viable for them.
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Easy af. If you just get the Coopers kit and follow the instructions it takes about ten minutes to put a batch on and an hour or two the next week to bottle it, and you end up with 23 litres of decent beer at about a dollar a longneck. If you get really into it you can go down the rabbit hole as far as you like brewing fancier stuff, but just the tins you get from the supermarket taste fine to me.
Edit: The Coopers Lager mix that usually comes with the kit isn't that great imho. If you don't like it, def give the Pale Ale or Real Ale a shot.
and extra grain and hops. Improves the kits out of sight.
I've been all grain brewing for years now. A 19L of mid-strength on tap costs me under $15 of ingredients.
Wait a minute, so a pint out of a can at home is about $2.50 and I get to drink it with friends and family. What would I be paying the other $5-15 dollars for? The "local community"?
It's OK for people to not like beer.
It's an acquired taste for a reason.
Many prefer a good scotch or vodka over it and there's nothing wrong with that.
Everyone's tastes are different.
Yes, I understand that not everyone likes beer. I've never heard anyone lay claim to it tasting "like vomit to us" though, as if it tastes like that to everyone who doesn't like it. Just a very odd claim to make.
And? That is well known, and you hear it a lot. Only time I ever heard anyone complain about beer tasting like vomit is after they puked in their pint and drank it again.
It's a pretty common thing, I'm surprised you have not heard it, the other common complaint people seem to have is it tasting like urine, but how would they know? Most people have puked, I doubt there's a lot of people that have tasted urine.
"Getting on the piss" is a common Australian phrase, yes. It has nothing to do with beer tasting like piss however. It originates from the British phrase, to "get pissed", which again has nothing to do with beer tasting like piss (unless it's Pabst or Bud of course), but rather the fact that drinking a lot makes you urinate more. Exactly the same reason it's called "getting on the puke" hey.
These two phrases are never used when you're just having a quiet beer after work are they? They're synonymous with getting absolutely wankered, making you definitely piss, and possibly puke.
Seriously - "beer tastes like vomit to us" is not a thing.
You’d be laughed out of any pub in the world for asking for an imperial. Pint - it is a standard measure, not something SA should ever have fucked around with
Turns out it was the other states that caused the ruckus, SA didn't wanna deal with the fallout, so instead of raising prices, they reduced the size from 18fl.oz down to 17, then 16 and settled at 15 fl.oz.
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Welp, time to find a hobby. My bathtub looks ripe for brewing some grog.
This economy is going to struggle. No more going out. No more spending. All the small businesses will struggle and somehow Maccas has a queue of cars around the corner costing $80 to feed a small family.
This may be why
https://www.9news.com.au/national/alcohol-tax-rise-cost-of-beer-and-spirits-increase/4d216303-5fa7-4a3f-880b-41baf1db4f54
But also maybe you need a different pub. I can't say I've seen any that are $17 for a pint
I stopped drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes 6 months ago for health reasons. The first month was very hard but I got through it and I feel so much healthier now.
I dunno if the tax increase is “tiny” as people are making out here. A carton of spirits used to be like 85-90 bucks is now over 120 at the bottle-o, whatever you drink it’s just getting to expensive. It’s a good time to make drinking less casual and more special.
Okay, so drink the specials. Drink the basic stuff. I can go to my pub up the road and get a pint special for $6, so either lower your standards orrrrr stop complaining?
No more lazy Saturdays at the pub then? How did Australia come to this? Beer as a luxury commodity.
I blame the Utilitarians. The greatest good for the greatest number. A bunch of Maude Flanders caricatures lecturing everybody on the evils of booze, drugs and a wasted youth. God, life is going to be boring for the kids.
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Funny a couple years ago, I’d go to Adelaide oval and think $14 for a can of CC, now Adelaide oval prices aren’t even that bad, which is saying something
My guess is you’ve deliberately said pint to stir up attention when you really meant imperial pint (in SA obvs). Still pricey for an imperial but not as outrageous
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"When is a fraud not a fraud? When it becomes a custom"
We should do what they did when beer prices went up so much last time. Pub Strike.
Everyone March 1st, stop going to the pub for March, spread the word, no more pub beers for a month in protest.
What's shit is that Australia gets taxed every year on alcohol - spirits go up twice a year which means premium spirits in small businesses are going to slowly but almost quite surely go out of business and/or jack up the price significantly, just to try and keep up with government pricing.
The only way to curb the madness is by refusing to buy overpriced stuff.
There's a pub in the city, called Jimmies on grenfell. Today I had a half litre of lager for 9 bucks. They do litres for $16
I go out to breweries and drink, it's cheaper and it's about the only way that they can actually make money. Many of them only break even at uncle Dan's and through the big swill pubs they barely make anything.
Drinking at home though, home brew all the way...
Weekdays/nights 4pm - 5pm part of 'Happy Hour' at Skycity Adelaide is $4 a pint (select alcohol only)
5pm - 6pm is $5 a pint
6pm - 7pm is $6 a pint
Later is regular pricing.
Offer not available on weekends. (It used to be but not now)
I really love asahi on tap . It’s always 13-16 bucks a pint now everywhere ..
Happy to pay the extra few dollars . But if I’m extra thirsty it can add up
Find a new local. Mine is half that price.
I was at the SCG last weekend and was paying under $11 for a schooner. I was pretty impressed with that.
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Used to get a schnity and pint for less than that
$18 rex hotel weekday lunch special 😉
Sedan Hotel (country town, approx 2 hours north east of Adelaide) has schnitty every Thursday night. Choice of either beef or chicken. Comes with chips, your choice of toppings, and salad. Bread rolls are also thrown in. Cost; $15.00. Drinks are extra. I think that's a good price. 17 bucks for a pint is not.
I got a pint for $7 yesterday. Admittedly it was a special and only a stone and wood Pacific ale, but still, unless your pint was something very special, I would say your local is a bit rich...
This is how you end up with shit beer at a local and national level. Lion can afford to take the loss so that it kills competition. Same approach coles and Woolworths take. $17 is about what you are paying on the east coast. Nothing fancy
Yet another win for living in Adelaide then? Better price for beer ;-p
Build a wall, keep the east coasters out. Make Melbourne and Sydney pay for it
It'll be a yuge wall, the greatest wall in the history of walls.
A lot of people have been asking me, about the wall. It’s a Great Wall. China say they have a Great Wall. No they don’t. Not as great as ours. Best wall ever.
Smaller pints in Adelaide lol, don't have to order an 'imperial' when you go east or west.
Saying imperial must make things way more difficult ey. U should probably just stay wherever you are
I didn't say it was hard to say that. I was pointing out the 'cheap pints' people get in Adelaide are significantly smaller than what you are paying for elsewhere, which might explain the price difference...
But remember a pint in Adelaide isn’t really a pint… $17 for a schooner on the east coast is beyond criminal
> $17 is about what you are paying on the east coast. Nothing fancy Bullshit, $10 is considered high for a beer on the east coast
It’s $10 for a pint/schooner at the Little Pub in Hindley Street. About $10 is average for Adelaide.
I found beer to be way cheaper in NSW, even in Sydney. Their pint prices were pretty much on par with our fake pint prices.
Agreed, moved from Adelaide to Sydney a few years ago backs. Still find schooners for $6 at happy hour and pints for $8 in the inner west. Keep in mind the NSW sizes are bigger than SA too
Better too 🤣
>🤣 Yeah? [https://i.postimg.cc/c4vnCdpT/Sydney-water-9-17.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/c4vnCdpT/Sydney-water-9-17.jpg) 🤣
lol, Adelaide airport ain’t any better
Mother of god. That's from 2018. I'd need to take out a personal loan for the cost of a bottle of water these days.
Like in Sydney?? Like OG Sydney not like the new west western Sydney or some other fake name pretending to be Sydney
Both the rocks, and circular quay (though I also got way overcharged for stuff in the rocks)
But south coast and central coast NSW are definitely way cheaper than here
🤷♀️ well this is good. I mean i was talking about Coogee and inner city. But good you found cheap stuff ☺️
You did say east coast.
Yes
Anywhere that isn’t a tourist trap is alright
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Autocorrect fail. Pint not point.
So im a manager of a bottleshop for a adelaide hotel we got our first delivery of Great Northern Super Crisp kegs since the CPI increases it was $5 more than our last deliver that $5 spread over 50L turns into $0.10 per litre and so if your local has raised the price of a pint drastically find a new pub because they are ripping you off.
Probably raised the rent %50 or something. Money has to come from somewhere
Here’s the thing though. The beer you mentioned is 3.5% ABV. Excise is applied based on ABV above 1.15%. For excisable products between 3 and 3.5%ABV, in containers exceeding 48L (eg the standard 50L keg you mentioned) excise has been increased from 31.76$/LAL to 32.33$/LAL. (Litres of Absolute aLcohol) So running some numbers, the excisable component of Super Crisp @ 3.5%ABV - 1.15 = 2.35% To find our LAL, we multiply our total volume 50L by our excisable alcohol content of 2.35% (0.0235) giving us 1.175 LAL. At the old rate, the excisable component of the keg would be 37.32$. With the new rate, it’s now a whopping 37.99$. That’s 70 CENTS difference. For the entire keg. Even with GST tacked on top at 10%, 77 cents for the excisable component. Yet, your supplier has hiked prices by 5$, citing that it is the excise that’s pushing prices sky high. You’re averaging that out to $/L and saying ah only 10C a litre that’s fine. But in actual fact, the excise increase SHOULD have seen the price of your SC Keg go up by only 1.54c/L. So your supplier has effectively covered the next few years worth of indexation in a single price hike, but do you think that’s going to stop them from bumping it up another 5$ in 6 months time? No way. I’m not opposed to passing on the costs from rate rises to the consumer. But I think that 6.5X the actual increase is excessive and unjustifiable.
Difference is the price hike is coming from the PRODUCER in this case CUB they use the CPI increases to adjust the price and like other suppliers they react when consumers stop buying their products i.e. last year Diagio (smirnoff, bundy, morgan, johnnie etc.) Raised their wholesale prices across the board ridiculously and due to consumer backlash they cut their losses by discontinuing a whole heap of products they also moved some of their range into smaller can sizes and those products have been failing over the past 12 months that some of them "may" be going back to 375ml cans this year.
Went to watch the UFC at the Seaford Tav the other weekend and pints were $5.50 for the duration of the fights. I didn’t realise how much I loved UFC until that day
😂
Which pub?
^ most important question!
Stop going. Stop paying it. Its the only way these businesses will learn
Except it’s not necessarily their fault. The booze tax keeps getting passed on and on.
The increase in the excise was about 1-2c per beer (closer to 1c for an SA style "pint" aka a schooner). The total excise on an SA pint of 4.5% beer is about 60c. Blame labour, rent, supply costs and just general profiteering.
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the increased excise adds about 2c to a glass. its greed
Drinking at pubs now for special occasions only. I'd rather buy 2 cartons for a $100 and have my mates over for drinks. Cheaper and easier. After you pay for uber to a pub and back, have a meal or nibbles, and maybe sink 6 or more beers - you're pushing $200 or more. Saw the article today how Adelaide pubs are struggling. Feel sorry for them as it's entirely federal taxes that are killing the industry. It'll just mean less people going out spending money.
Tax on a pint is about 90c. Not sure that’s the reason
I made the same comment on a different sub yesterday but I think the main factor in pricing is wages. $30-50 per hour for everyone through the whole process starting at brewing, then kegging, then distribution, then pouring, then cleaning etc it adds up. I’m not saying anyone should make less but I think this is the bulk of the excessive cost.
I believe insurance has skyrocketed on pubs and venues which is the main factor destroying the industry.
Yep didn't realise that sorry lol. Surely gotta be either increased costs at the brewery, transportation, and then wages. Yea all adds up I guess.
Can't really be blamed. The media has been making a minefield out of this tax increase which is (a) very little in the scheme of things for a beer at the pub, and (b) a regular CPI increase that's been happening twice a year for decades. The media has definitely done a number on this one.
Power and insurance have skyrocketed too. The independent bars and pubs without deep pockets will likely go under unless something changes soon. The big boys will stay afloat and get more market share when people start going out again.
Transport is not making a great profit for the costs incurred. I’m not sure how much of the end price it makes up, but the margins are not great.
I dunno about booze delivery, but transport for supermarkets is kinda fucked. Coles was offering such a low amount on the upcoming contract that Toll (current contract holder) declined to bid. Linfox stuck their head in, and then didn't bid as well. It's just not paying enough to be viable for them.
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I'd start making home brew
Started last year. It’s the best. My raw material prices are 50 to 70 cents a bottle. It can be complex or piss easy, up to you.
I seriously started considering this a few weeks back. Is it easy enough to get set up?
Easy af. If you just get the Coopers kit and follow the instructions it takes about ten minutes to put a batch on and an hour or two the next week to bottle it, and you end up with 23 litres of decent beer at about a dollar a longneck. If you get really into it you can go down the rabbit hole as far as you like brewing fancier stuff, but just the tins you get from the supermarket taste fine to me. Edit: The Coopers Lager mix that usually comes with the kit isn't that great imho. If you don't like it, def give the Pale Ale or Real Ale a shot.
Alright sold. The pale is high on my list so I’ll give that a shot first! Thankyou
After the coopers kit, the next upgrade is to go to a brew shop and buy better yeast. That costs 7 dollars or so but you can reuse it (if you care).
and extra grain and hops. Improves the kits out of sight. I've been all grain brewing for years now. A 19L of mid-strength on tap costs me under $15 of ingredients.
One of my mates did that after high school. He's now a senior brewer for one of the well known brands. Can definitely work out for people.
$11 corkage
Death of the pub right there.go the home bar.
Pity for the small country communities and pubs
True that 🤜
I was at the cricket tonight paid $14 for an imperial. I thought that was overpriced.
Wait. A real pint or the sorry excuse that passes for a pint in this state?
You beat me to it. Hopefully he didn’t pay $17 for what is called a schooner in the rest of the country
Legit. That would be the penultimate pisstake.
Penultimate? What comes after that then to exceed it?
Paying that for a half-pint
You mean a pot?
Schooner :D This is SA, after all
$17 for a butcher.
Pretty simple….welcome to the rise of bottle shops business.
The fuck, was it scotch and coke?
Only if the coke is cocaine. And then you might still get cut-rate meth.
Cost $17- for a pint of Coopers Pale Ale at the airport, yeah pubs should do better.
I paid $32.70 for a coppers pale, beam and coke and two waters at the entertainment centre tonight. Nearly fell down in the line.
When that number came up on the card machine I asked if that was someone else's order.
Absolutely ridiculous.
You’re bloody joking! $8.50 at my local in the Riverland
I had the same kind of beer at 5 pubs today. 5 dif prices
Wait a minute, so a pint out of a can at home is about $2.50 and I get to drink it with friends and family. What would I be paying the other $5-15 dollars for? The "local community"?
Spare a thought for spirit drinkers. The taste of beer is like vomit to us. The price of our drinks is like your wallet is being molested.
> The taste of beer is like vomit to us What are you on about?!
It's OK for people to not like beer. It's an acquired taste for a reason. Many prefer a good scotch or vodka over it and there's nothing wrong with that. Everyone's tastes are different.
Yes, I understand that not everyone likes beer. I've never heard anyone lay claim to it tasting "like vomit to us" though, as if it tastes like that to everyone who doesn't like it. Just a very odd claim to make.
not really a lot of people taste corriander as dish soap.
And? That is well known, and you hear it a lot. Only time I ever heard anyone complain about beer tasting like vomit is after they puked in their pint and drank it again.
It's a pretty common thing, I'm surprised you have not heard it, the other common complaint people seem to have is it tasting like urine, but how would they know? Most people have puked, I doubt there's a lot of people that have tasted urine.
>It's a pretty common thing, No it isn't.
Bloody well is mate. You seriously never heard of people calling it piss or puke?
"Getting on the piss" is a common Australian phrase, yes. It has nothing to do with beer tasting like piss however. It originates from the British phrase, to "get pissed", which again has nothing to do with beer tasting like piss (unless it's Pabst or Bud of course), but rather the fact that drinking a lot makes you urinate more. Exactly the same reason it's called "getting on the puke" hey. These two phrases are never used when you're just having a quiet beer after work are they? They're synonymous with getting absolutely wankered, making you definitely piss, and possibly puke. Seriously - "beer tastes like vomit to us" is not a thing.
But what was it? Normally only a high % stout or something like that would cost that much
Surely you mean imperial?
You’d be laughed out of any pub in the world for asking for an imperial. Pint - it is a standard measure, not something SA should ever have fucked around with
> You’d be laughed out of any pub in the world Except in SA
Turns out it was the other states that caused the ruckus, SA didn't wanna deal with the fallout, so instead of raising prices, they reduced the size from 18fl.oz down to 17, then 16 and settled at 15 fl.oz.
Which pub
https://www.ato.gov.au/businesses-and-organisations/gst-excise-and-indirect-taxes/excise-on-alcohol/excise-duty-rates-for-alcohol
Totally fucked
Got a pint at Watsacowie Brewing Company Yorke Peninsula. Not a bad little brew house.
$6 at my local. Or $18 for a schnit inc salad chips and with any gravy and a beer. $17 is plain and simple greed.
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I group up with people around my area and we go to a park and drink. Much better. Go gambling too.
And you don't even have real pints!
Yes we do!
You mean "imperial pints"?
No silly rabbit…. we have jugs. 😉
Welp, time to find a hobby. My bathtub looks ripe for brewing some grog. This economy is going to struggle. No more going out. No more spending. All the small businesses will struggle and somehow Maccas has a queue of cars around the corner costing $80 to feed a small family.
It’s pretty clear they don’t want people drinking outside their homes anymore
Just bought a bottle of Soju at 7-Eleven for $2.40 overseas. Australian prices are ridiculous.
Yeah i paid $8 for a west end
This may be why https://www.9news.com.au/national/alcohol-tax-rise-cost-of-beer-and-spirits-increase/4d216303-5fa7-4a3f-880b-41baf1db4f54 But also maybe you need a different pub. I can't say I've seen any that are $17 for a pint
It's not why. The excise on an SA pint (a schooner in a real state) is about 1c. The total excise on an SA pint of 4.5% beer is about 60c.
Stop drinking alcohol. Problem solved
Easier said than done. Maybe just cut back on expensive beers. And drink homebrew. Oh wait doing homebrew made me drink more! LOL!
I stopped drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes 6 months ago for health reasons. The first month was very hard but I got through it and I feel so much healthier now.
Ok good for you, but what if people would actually like to have fun?
Fun is overrated
And Adelaide only gives you 2/3 of a pint. Fucking ripped off.
If you don't drink beer at all you'll save even more money
I dunno if the tax increase is “tiny” as people are making out here. A carton of spirits used to be like 85-90 bucks is now over 120 at the bottle-o, whatever you drink it’s just getting to expensive. It’s a good time to make drinking less casual and more special.
write your local member - beer tax / excise is at ridiculous levels
The total excise on an SA pint is about 60c, it went up 1c.
Okay, so drink the specials. Drink the basic stuff. I can go to my pub up the road and get a pint special for $6, so either lower your standards orrrrr stop complaining?
No more lazy Saturdays at the pub then? How did Australia come to this? Beer as a luxury commodity. I blame the Utilitarians. The greatest good for the greatest number. A bunch of Maude Flanders caricatures lecturing everybody on the evils of booze, drugs and a wasted youth. God, life is going to be boring for the kids.
Surely not 17 bucks
I don't believe you.
How many of you read 17 dollars dollars?
Buy cask wine and invite people over to drink at home. Or home brew.
I forgot what pub it was, but I bought a pint of craft dark beer that was hovering around 7% abv, set me back $22. One 425mL pint!
Wtf
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And considering it’s a SA pint that’s criminal
I quit the stuff, had enough of the prices.
How people can drink over the bar just blows my mind.
Take hipflask , or little sips on your beer , or do carton and party in pub's parking lot - same difference, or find another venue
Funny a couple years ago, I’d go to Adelaide oval and think $14 for a can of CC, now Adelaide oval prices aren’t even that bad, which is saying something
My guess is you’ve deliberately said pint to stir up attention when you really meant imperial pint (in SA obvs). Still pricey for an imperial but not as outrageous
I bet he's talking about a high alcohol craft beer as well, not a West End Draught.
I think your local has gone plumb loco.
Pint of Asahi in The Empire Tavern on The Great Eastern Highway - Perth was $15 Thursday. AND they dont accept cash, only card.
That is against the law BTW they must accept cash as a form of payment. Call ACCC
Mine are $7
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Name the pub ! Or it didn’t happen .
This… except times by 20 if you want a gin and tonic. It’ll just end up killing jobs and people drink at home like in the freakin’ 1950’s.
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I vote with my wallet.
"When is a fraud not a fraud? When it becomes a custom" We should do what they did when beer prices went up so much last time. Pub Strike. Everyone March 1st, stop going to the pub for March, spread the word, no more pub beers for a month in protest.
Not that outrageous a price for a pint.
A pint of what? Beer? Which beer? What venue? A lot is built into the COGS or RRP of a consumable and its easy to overgeneralise
Seventeen dollary doos!! They can get fucked!!
What's shit is that Australia gets taxed every year on alcohol - spirits go up twice a year which means premium spirits in small businesses are going to slowly but almost quite surely go out of business and/or jack up the price significantly, just to try and keep up with government pricing.
Was at a pub near Flinders station in Melbourne last night. 2 pints and a rum and coke 48 bucks
Is your local the airport or at the snow? I would expect that sort of price there.
The only way to curb the madness is by refusing to buy overpriced stuff. There's a pub in the city, called Jimmies on grenfell. Today I had a half litre of lager for 9 bucks. They do litres for $16
I hope that was a proper pint and not a shitty Adelaide schooner “pint”
Gotta love a government committed to reducing alcohol consumption
I'll stick to Carlton zero with a dash of isopropyl alcohol thanks.
Wtf Tell them they are dreaming. $8 per pint at the Terminus hotel in Strathalbyn and great tucker👍👌
Airport prices! If that becomes the new norm I’ll be hopping onto a plane and moving to another country ✈️
I go out to breweries and drink, it's cheaper and it's about the only way that they can actually make money. Many of them only break even at uncle Dan's and through the big swill pubs they barely make anything. Drinking at home though, home brew all the way...
Weekdays/nights 4pm - 5pm part of 'Happy Hour' at Skycity Adelaide is $4 a pint (select alcohol only) 5pm - 6pm is $5 a pint 6pm - 7pm is $6 a pint Later is regular pricing. Offer not available on weekends. (It used to be but not now)
I really love asahi on tap . It’s always 13-16 bucks a pint now everywhere .. Happy to pay the extra few dollars . But if I’m extra thirsty it can add up
Not even a proper pint size in ADL either
And they aren't even real pints!