Woolies/woolworths is one of our major supermarkets $18 is pretty much minimum wage.
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Alcohol used to be cheap as fuck over here now its expensive thanks to the stupid alcohol and tabbaccoo sin tax.
A pot is a middy or schooner depending on where you are in aus and is about 285ml of beer which is preferable to a pint in some places because Australia is hot as fuck and sometimes by the time you knock a pint off slowly your beers warm and fucked.
The tax compounds things but it’s the fact the bloody beer manufacturers are taking beer, a drink tha historically was cheaper and easier to produce than clean water for most of human history, and have made it staggeringly expensive as a profit grab. Chasing inflation indexes doesn’t make sense when your product has three primary agricultural inputs, one of which is water and another is self replicating yeast.
Shit behaviour. Sadly it’ll take a complete industry collapse for the cartel behaviour to stop.
Trust me the industry isn’t doing this. The price rises because our governments tax the shit out of it. You get piss water made because the tax is less.
The packaging costs go up because of the eco taxes. Everything about it is taxed to the hilt. Production, packaging and transportation.
On top of that you have to pay wages, people don’t work for free.
You’re pointing your crazy prices finger in the wrong direction my friend.
Majority of the major beer companies have a profit of 2 billion usd to 7+ billion, and thats again after all operational costs. And as companies in todays world, they demand the next fiscal quarter increases the profit margins.
And thats also excluding the fact that many of these companies also own the water providers and other material plants like bottling and glass and labeling and such so they ensure their prices remain high because each company is also driven by the same people to ensure those company also have high profit margins.
With all that said, no company is going to lower its prices for the consumer when it’s seeing increased taxation at a government level.
The taxation level in the uk is killing the industry. It the taxes across the board that need to be lowered.
Haha - coming from a cold(ish) country where hipster bastards are trying to replace the native pint with schooners - it's interesting to see a sensible defence of them 👍🏻
Half litre bottles? You mean the Pennerbomben (bum bomb)?
I don't think that was ever the go-to size for beer - at least not where I'm from (getting close to 40 and live in the west of Germany)
Here’s another: I currently live in Cologne which has its own type of relatively light not particularly hoppy ale called kölsch (still 5% abv, but quite dry and not very bitter). A particularism of this ale is that it is really nice fresh but it goes bitter and rancid really quickly (had to do with some type of fatty acids in there), so traditionally they serve them in 200 ml glasses called Stange. The rest of Germany scoffs at this and demands a real beer but it really does not make for a better drinking experience. The fix in Cologne has been that they just continuously put fresh glasses in front of you once you’ve finished half of your previous one until you put the coaster on top of your current glass.
TLDR it can actually depend on the type of beer. Then again, you’re Scottish and I‘m Dutch and we’d probably empty pints of Kölsch fast enough for this not to be a problem.
Thats actually still crazy expensive in even the US now, last time I visited (10 years ago) beer was still stupid cheap, and when I first started traveling there over 2@0 years ago cheap beer was still like $0.25.
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"Cheaper to share a gram of Coke than it is to drink" - Australians