Thursday is a reminder that the weekend is just around the corner. Time to compare beer prices in Europe!
Who would you like to drink your next beer with? And where?
The beer prices shown here refer to local draught 0.5 litre beer in a restaurant.
Source: Numbeo - as of August 2024
I wonder how this compares to how much time a beer costs vs the minimum / median wage for a country
In Nordics it is mainly taxation that brings the price up, and also the state controlled monopoly with alcohol. I don’t think wages are that much higher, except Norway.
The monopoly may contribute to the price in resturants, but for the monopoly store, no. In Sweden you can get a can of 0.5l beer for like 2€ in the store.
Has that changed? I thought that stores only sell light beer and proper beers you need to go to systembolaget?
You’re telling me someone that doesn’t drink can move to Norway and have their healthcare be paid for by alcoholics?
Hmm.
Ruski here.
This is still hella expensive. 150 rubles for half a liter of beer is around double (maybe 1.5x for some brands) what they cost in probably most shops, with some being cheaper in alcohol-centered shops.
Some actually imported stuff goes for that price and tastes considerably better.
There’s also domestic beer and the like for around the same price (some cheaper, some more expensive) that tastes better, too.
And all in all, considering the incomes and purchasing power, that 1.6 EUR average in restaurants and stuff sure doesn’t feel good.
Just to say it, but in most of the EU a beer in a shop will cost about as much as in Russia. Scandinavia is more expensive due to taxes, but 1.6EUR is fairly normal for a liter.
In Germany, you can get a cheap beer a lot cheaper in a store though:
Of course:
- This is a very cheap beer. But the average German mass-market brand is at around 1€/0.5L too (Jever, Krombacher, Becks, Radeberger are the ones I checked).
- Sternburg used to be a lot cheaper, I remember it being sold around the 30ct price point a couple of years back.
- There is a deposit on bottles/cans but of course that will be returned when you return the bottle.
- by drinking Sterni, you show the people surrounding you, that you are a decent fellow, with whom one can discuss the various ways capitalism makes the world worse
Let‘s go to Czechia 🇨🇿! The beer is cheap and is very tasty 😋!
It says this price is in restaurants; I assume Europe is like North America where the price for a single drink in a restaurant is much higher than at a store, especially if I were to buy a 6 pack in a store?
In Russia it’s less than $1 per average 0,5 beer but with a restaurant’s mark-up it’s $1-3 even if they are the same (like they bring the same bottle sometimes), so the graph checks out I guess. Although, these mentioned prices are even more pointless if you consider how they relate to the average income in said countries.
I could buy a single can of Jupiler at a grocery store for about 80cents in Amsterdam 7 years ago. Noy sure what the price is now, but that’s cheaper than an individual soda at an American grocery store
France: expensive and leaves a bad aftertaste 😅
More seriously though, this also needs to take different tax levels specifically on alcohol into account.
Because French beer tastes bad (and the joke is about French people often being perceived as rude).