These are all mostly pretty darn proper prices, even with the tipping.
Thanks for the input!
Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me. No tipping in Japan. The price you see is the price you pay. At some of the bars in Roppongi that have western staff, tips will be accepted, but at most Japanese bars it would actually be considered impolite.
At your “Typical Wisconsin Supper Club” in beautiful downtown Pipersville (the town has 10 houses and the restaurant) prices are close to…
Old Fashion- $4
Call OF- $4.75
House Wine- $4 glass
Call Wine- $6-8
Rail Mixer- $3.75
Call Mixer $4.50-6.00
Martini/Manhattan- $4
Call M/M- $5-7
Domestic Beer, Tap or Bottle- $3
Micro Beer, Tap or Bottle- $4
Ice Cream Drinks/Cordials- $6 + a damn good tip for ordering one in the middle of a Friday night Fish Fry, more if you order a Grasshopper and an Alexander. The wrath of god if you order those plus a Pink Squirrel.
Barrels-
Friday Night bartender at “Typical WI Supper Club”.
The joints I haunt go everywhere from $3 drafts/bottles up to $6.50 and the cocktails range from $7 on up to $100 (high end cognacs not withstanding) and the wines from $3 a glass to $5,700 a bottle. Margaritas are $6 to $8, rocks not frozen. All downtown Chicago/neighborhoods. I do prefer the dives, but even those have jacked the prices severely.
The pints in the local range from £2.10 to £2.50, the halves from £1 for the house whisky and vodka to about £2.80 for one of the older malts.
Beer is really cheap in Prague, about $1 each. It might be worth flying in from Reykjavik just for that. 
$15 for a shot? What bar do you hang out it in? Up in Ballard $2 PBR, $2.50 Bud and domestic, Micros $3-$4, mixed drinks $3.50 and up depending on the liquor you use.
ETA: Now that I think about it People’s Pub has some pricey scotch and I’m sure the newer yuppier places have some high end liquor too.
The Zig Zag Cafe. And yeah, this would be for pricey scotch or the equivalent. You’d see the same price range at other bars at the same tier.
Between two and four bucks for a beer in town, depending on the bar.
I haven’t been to a bar in ages, but a glass of wine in a restaurant goes for $6-$8 for a “chain restaurant” kinda joint and upwards of that for a nicer place.
Between $5 and $6 for a draft beer (sized at 16 to 20 oz), and I’d guess it’s about the same for a bar shot. A premium shot would be higher, of course. A glass of wine would be about $6; again, it could be more depending on the wine.
These would be typical sports bar or “family restaurant” prices. There are places where drinks are cheaper (though most people probably wouldn’t want to go to those); and of course, many places, such as bars in fine-dining establishments, where drinks would be much more expensive. And naturally, given my location, prices here are in Canadian dollars.
Yeah, but how much do you pay for coffee?! Alcohol might be prohibitively expensive in Iceland, but when I was there you could buy a pot of coffee for $1 (hyperbole, yes, but coffee is damn cheap in Iceland).
Around here my cheapest bar/club drink is $2.25. It is a student dive, but definitely the best bar in town because of its atmosphere and crowd (though it has been waning in recent years). Otherwise, at any typical place you’re playing upwards of $5 for a drink. At a few more select places, places I rarely visit, with tip a patron is paying $7 or so for a single drink.
This is Southern Ontario.
Well sure, coffee is pretty cheap and readily available. Especially with the free wifi most cafes offer.
That just doesn’t do it for me on a friday or saturday night though 
A mixed drink with one mixer & one booze costs a minimum of $5.00 on Long Island & usually a bit more in Manhattan or hipster Brooklyn - $7.00 or $8.00 minimum. Costs increase, of course, as quality of liquors/volume of drinks increase.
A specific example: A fancy 12 oz. tequila martini with Patron, Kahlua, and perhaps one other variety of liqueur (sp?) served by a local place costs $15.00.
$5 - $6 in Hoboken and NYC is typical. You can go to a lot of places in the East Village that run $2 beer specials.
I did a ski house in Hunter Mountain, NY about ten years ago. The Hunter Village Inn used to run a drink special of 10 beers (in those 6 oz cups) for $7.
I’m not a beer drinker, so I have no idea about that, but around here (Boston and surrounding) I usually pay $8-12 for either a top shelf vodka or whiskey, or a glass of wine.
At the “World Famous Tattle Tales” the only bar I go to any more.
$5.00 Domestic Beer
$5.50 Well Drinks
$7.00 shots of Maker’s Mark the only thing I drink
$10.00 Table Dances
$150.00 for 30 min. in VIP but I don’t go to VIP 'cause I’m cheep.
A 1.75 l bottle of Maker’s Mark at my local liquor store goes for $38.00 cash
Just out or curiosity, how do locals get drunk in Iceland enough to make the club scene worthwhile? There aren’t that many people to begin with and lots would have to save up for weeks to get a decent buzz the way I am reading this. Lots of Americans would have to spend $300 a night to drink just 12 drinks and that does not make sense.
There must be something else going on. I want to go to Iceland but how do people afford going out at all?
For the types of places I tend to go (pub-type places in seattle; not “clubs”), you can usually expect a pint to be $4 or maybe $5. Specialty beer will be more, like rare belgians that go up to $15 at certain places I go (but they still have normal-priced stuff on tap).
$8 for a beer, $9-10 for a whiskey in Manhattan. This is not typical of Manhattan as a whole, just typical of the places my med-school feels entitled to celebrate. I don’t hang out with them much.