# The price of beer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-price-of-beer/305256>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 24, 2005, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-price-of-beer/305256 "2005-05-24T13:56:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-price-of-beer/305256/21 "2005-05-25T17:35:32Z")

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> [@seosamh](#):
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> You can pay woeful amounts for Belgian bottles here, too (hey, **romansperson** , well done on that Rodenbach Grand Cru; an excellent beer!).

Yes, I think the Rodenbach is one of the best beers in the world, so I had no problem with the price. Sadly, now that I live in North Carolina I can’t get it at any price; it is simply not distributed here. I need to save my pennies and do a pub crawl in Brussels someday; I may not ever come back ;).

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**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-price-of-beer/305256/22 "2005-05-25T19:30:37Z")

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I once paid $10 for an ordinary 12 oz. bottle of Amstel Light at a Champagne Bar in Tribeca, Manhattan.

I was there for a Parkinson’s Foundation benefit party, but missed the free champagne happy hour at the start of the event (actually, I was there, but couldn’t get within 15 feet of the free champagne in that packed bar before the nectar stopped flowing).

I was quite poor at the time, and the bottled beer was the cheapest thing in the place. Yikes.

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