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

  • MelchiorEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    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.

    • federal reverseMEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      In Germany, you can get a cheap beer a lot cheaper in a store though:

      Sternburg Export 0.5L bottle — 69ct

      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.
      • Random_German_NameEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago
        • 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
          • federal reverseMEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            Originally, I wanted to post a three-way comparison of Sternburg/Oettinger/0,5 but the specific Rewe supermarket I was looking at apparently doesn’t stock either of the other two brands.

            • rhabarbaEnglish
              31·
              1 month ago

              0,5 is pretty good compared to the other two, actually.

      • MelchiorEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        That bottle has 0.5l, so basic maths it is 1.38€ for a liter of beer.

        • federal reverseMEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          I didn’t notice that you used a different unit than the graphic does (0.5L vs. 1L). Sorry. Still cheaper but not by a lot.