I managed to hijack the “VIP-club” thread in GQ and have thus decided that this issue is worth it’s own thread
So how much does a beer/drink cost at your local water hole?
Over here, you buy a beer for 700 ISK which granted is only 5 bucks at todays rates. But if we look at “purchase parity power”* (which we should) it’s more in the neighbourhood of twice that. Hence around 10 USD for a pint of lager on tap.
A standard drink is 1500-2000 ISK, which would be around 20-25 bucks.
This at standard places in d/t Reykjavik.
*Basically, how much you can afford if you earn local money compared between currencies.
Dallas, TX: During happy hour at a bar with lousy service and worse food, we pay $1.75 for mixed drinks with cheap, cheap liquor and $2 for draft domestic beer. On Mondays, you can get decent liquor in mixed drinks for $2.
At a decent but not fancy Mexican place, a decent Margarita is $4-$6.
What does package liquor or beer cost in Iceland? At those prices, I think I’d drink more at home . . .
Depends on how nice the place is. I don’t drink enough to have a regular bar, but I went on a pub crawl a couple weeks ago and had a glass of wine at one place for $7 and then a couple mixed drinks at another (not as nice) place for, I think, $4 each.
Plus 20% tip, of course.
At those prices, I don’t think I’d ever go out in Iceland.
If you go to a bar in a college town, they may have some drinks at $2, or some $1 shots. Other drinks are about $6. Fancier drinks may cost more, but I don’t think it goes up to $25. And they may have $1-$2 beers, which are usually the local generic (Abita in LA, for example) or major brand. They may also have beer specials on other brands, depending on the night.
I know of what I paid, I never paid more than $6 for drinks and sometimes what I requested was paid by someone else, so I never knew the price.
Same as I wrote in the other thread. My bar experience is mostly Baton Rouge (LA), although I’ve seen similar prices listed in Athens (GA) (my current town). If I drink it either means I’m staying in the same place, not moving, for a looong time, or I have someone to take me home. In Athens I haven’t found a person for the later, so I don’t tend to drink.
Pretty much every bar here will have domestic lagers for $2-$3 a pint. Microbrews and craft beers will go for $3-$4 a pint. Mixed drinks are anywhere from $3-$7 for well/call liquor.
One local place here, though, has a “Duff Hour.” Starting at 4 PM on weekdays (when they open,) a random keg will be $1 drafts. Though despite the name, it’s not for an hour, it lasts until the keg runs out. Due to laws around here, bars and restaurants can’t do traditional happy hours. Drink specials have to be for either the whole night, or until the given alcohol runs out.
I like going there because they don’t have any cheap “Bud/Miller/Coors” type of beer. Everything is microbrew (most of those local) or brewed in-house.
My favorite watering hole down DC way (The Saloon, 1207 U Street NW) sold very good beer for around $5-7 a tall pint. Watering hole down the road from here (Village Pub in Hampstead NH) sells most pints at $3.50.
The only “decent” pub locally charges $6/pint for Sierra Nevada. Needless to say, we don’t go there much any more. Our favorite Mexican restaurant charges $4.95 for a decently-sized Margarita.
Around here, you pay for the ambiance. $1.75 beers and $2.00 mixed drinks at the shit hole dive place. If you don’t own a gun, buy one before you go in those places.
At a nicer place, you will pay $4+ for a domestic beer and $6+ for a regular mixed drink
I tend to only drink in dives…I prefer them for the clientele and the price. Not sure here in Vegas because I hate going out here but back in Tuscaloosa my favourite dive had beers as low as 75 cents, a long island iced tea for under $5 and standard mixes for around $2.
Never saw a fight there, not even any raised voices.
Most of the places I used to go to in Roppongi would be about $8 for a drink, although small beer would be $5. Restaurants are in that range as well. I like the beer here, so I don’t mind.
My local watering hole is in a small college town, where you can still get a bottle of beer for $2 to $3 any night. Mixed drinks are about $3 to $4 on average.
A pitcher of beer is about $6.
When I was in college, in a different small college town, we could still get .10 tap beers!! (1983). And the average pitcher of beer was only $2.
Here in Arcata, California, beers cost about $3-$4/pint, mixed drinks maybe $5-$7, and specials include things like dollar pint nights. They usually offer a good mix of domestics, micros, and imports.
It’s a tiny college town and there are 4-5 bars (mostly the same, not quite dive, not quite upscale type places) right next to each other, so the competition is pretty fierce.
There are also a few Indian casinos in the area, and the ones with nicer lounges might charge 50% more.
Most of the bars I’ve been to around Tokyo charge in 600-900 yen range, which would be about US$6-9. Some Izakayas (restaurants where it’s expected that people will also be drinking a lot) advertise beers for 300yen/mug, and of course one can always find more expensive drinks if they look.
I live about 40 miles southwest of London. My local pub has 10 real ales on all the time ranging from £2.70 - £3.10 per pint. There’s always a lower strength (3.5% ABV or so) for £2.50. The Xmas brews can go up to 9% ABV and sell for £3.50. I’ve no idea what wine or spirits sell for there.
A pint of lager or beer is usually £2.50–£3.00. Anything is over £3.00 is deemed expensive and will not be visited again. Rarer or premium beers may cost more, though.
There was a pub in town that used to do pints of shit lager (Carling) for £1. There’s also a club where my friends and I go where you get triple vodka + coke/red bull for £3.
