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Community => The Lounge => Topic started by: ronski on Thursday, March 17, 2016, 05:37:24 AM
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Haha you should be. A beer of 0,5L is between 4 and 5 pounds. But im sure you will have an excellent time. :)
Hehe I was wondering how you found their prices so high, I didn't notice the same but now I see. In Finland 0,5l basic lager is usually around 5€ ( 4£ ), can easily be over 6€ as well. I always wonder how this country can be so damn alcoholic with these prices :D
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Hehe I was wondering how you found their prices so high, I didn't notice the same but now I see. In Finland 0,5l basic lager is usually around 5€ ( 4£ ), can easily be over 6€ as well. I always wonder how this country can be so damn alcoholic with these prices :D
A few years ago I visited Budapest. A 0,5L beer was only 0,80 to 0,90 euro in a pub. :)
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A few years ago I visited Budapest. A 0,5L beer was only 0,80 to 0,90 euro in a pub. :)
* booking flights *
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Hehe I was wondering how you found their prices so high, I didn't notice the same but now I see. In Finland 0,5l basic lager is usually around 5€ ( 4£ ), can easily be over 6€ as well. I always wonder how this country can be so damn alcoholic with these prices :D
That's in a pub then?
In Estonian pubs beer is around 3-3.5€. In the shop it can be around 1.2€/liter with some good deals. That's the one I usually go for.
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That's in a pub then?
In Estonian pubs beer is around 3-3.5€. In the shop it can be around 1.2€/liter with some good deals. That's the one I usually go for.
Yea in a pub, In shop it's from 2,5 to 3 euros, well the cheapest is around 2 euros but way more expensive than there at the other side of the gulf :) That's why we craft so much beer and booze to Finland from there :D
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Beer isn't terribly cheap here either, at least at the pub, I think you pay an average of 3 euros for the smallest one which comes around 0.33 to 0.4, half a liter must be around 4,5 euros in most places...I don't know why they sell some useless small sized portions around here, they started selling some ridiculous 15ml Heineken bottle in the shops o.O .
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Beer isn't terribly cheap here either, at least at the pub, I think you pay an average of 3 euros for the smallest one which comes around 0.33 to 0.4, half a liter must be around 4,5 euros in most places...I don't know why they sell some useless small sized portions around here, they started selling some ridiculous 15ml Heineken bottle in the shops o.O .
lol, we have something in 0.275 cans, then basic 0.33, 0.5, 0.56. The largest one we have is 1 litre can :)
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We used to have a 1 liter can, but it was discontinued. Personally I didn't like it either.
I think 0.33l cans can be good if you're slow drinker (I don't have this problem) - you drink your beer before it goes stale. However, smaller than that I don't really get...
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We used to have a 1 liter can, but it was discontinued. Personally I didn't like it either.
I think 0.33l cans can be good if you're slow drinker (I don't have this problem) - you drink your beer before it goes stale. However, smaller than that I don't really get...
I prefer 0.33's a s well, especially in sauna larger cans than that becomes warm and stale too quickly
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I only buy 0.33 bottles or cans of particular beers that don't come in bigger bottles (or the ones that are expensive). Like Orval, Blanche de Namur (does come in 0.5 cans but they're not so common in shops) and other brewes from Belgium.
P.s. man this has become a huuge off-topic.
P.s. 2 now sorted. Hopefully Teddy doesnt mind? We were going wildly off topic ^^'
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I only buy 0.33 bottles or cans of particular beers that don't come in bigger bottles (or the ones that are expensive). Like Orval, Blanche de Namur (does come in 0.5 cans but they're not so common in shops) and other brewes from Belgium.
P.s. man this has become a huuge off-topic.
P.s. 2 now sorted. Hopefully Teddy doesnt mind? We were going wildly off topic ^^'
:up: Now we have some serious topic over here! I'd like to visit Czech somedays :beer:
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:up: Now we have some serious topic over here! I'd like to visit Czech somedays :beer:
I've been told Prague is pretty nice indeed. Plus, the chance to have the local Urquell, seems nice and probably affordable.
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Off all the places i've been in Europe, Switzerland is by far the most expensive one. I payed for five beers in a pub 50 CHF, it's like 46 or 47 €'s. It's insanely pricey there, however i 've never been to nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) i've been told that's also quite costly.
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I only buy 0.33 bottles or cans of particular beers that don't come in bigger bottles (or the ones that are expensive). Like Orval, Blanche de Namur (does come in 0.5 cans but they're not so common in shops) and other brewes from Belgium.
P.s. man this has become a huuge off-topic.
P.s. 2 now sorted. Hopefully Teddy doesnt mind? We were going wildly off topic ^^'
I was thinking this myself as well, but I guess I'm more of a thinker than a doer (?). It's great you separated this :)
Off all the places i've been in Europe, Switzerland is by far the most expensive one. I payed for five beers in a pub 50 CHF, it's like 46 or 47 €'s. It's insanely pricey there, however i 've never been to nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) i've been told that's also quite costly.
I've been to Iceland (like 7 years ago I think) and it was expensive, but I'm pretty sure it has gone about as expensive here now. It's hard to compare prices from different time periods... the money tends to lose value.
I've hear the Czechs are generally told to be the most beer-drinking country :)
I remember my brother went there around 15 years ago and the beer cost 3 CZK (around 0.11€), but I'd be willing to bet the prices have gone up since then.
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The thing is, when you compare the prices over Europe you must have in account the cost of life in that country, here in Lisbon if you pay 5 euros for a beer is pretty expensive since our medium salary it's something like 700/800 euros/month but for a swiss or a nordic guy 5 euros must be cheap since they make 4000/5000 euros/month. I went to Czech Republic 2 years ago in the summer and is really cool, not only culturally but also the booze, the girls are great and the prices are really fair. But i would advise Hungary/Budapest i can't even put it in words... it's simply amazing.
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In Czech it's not only about the price of the shit, it's also about the large scale of breweries and brands known worldwide. I have been planning on making a trip some day to some big electronic music festival in Prague, at least they used to have Sensation event over there as well
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The thing is, when you compare the prices over Europe you must have in account the cost of life in that country, here in Lisbon if you pay 5 euros for a beer is pretty expensive since our medium salary it's something like 700/800 euros/month but for a swiss or a nordic guy 5 euros must be cheap since they make 4000/5000 euros/month. I went to Czech Republic 2 years ago in the summer and is really cool, not only culturally but also the booze, the girls are great and the prices are really fair. But i would advise Hungary/Budapest i can't even put it in words... it's simply amazing.
You're totally correct. Plus, if you went somewhere more than 10 years ago, you would need to take into account inflation as well...
That's why it's easier to talk in relative terms. So if I live here in Estonia and I go somewhere where (for me) beer is cheap, I'll call it cheap. If someone comes to the same place from somewhere where everything is even cheaper, they might call it expensive. It's just comparing it to your own country/wages.
I've been to Budapest, it truly was a very nice place! :) It was around 6 years ago, but looking down at the river from the castle was magical!
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Has any of you ever happened to try some particular beer...like one made with sea water? Ive tried one myself a while ago, i think it was a spanish one (bottle). A bit odd but totally not unpleasant.
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Haven't tried that specifically, but I have tried quite a lot of different beers. Mostly local, though. We've got a surprising amount of small breweries for such a small country :)
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My next big trip will be the Route 66 by motorcycle, have been saving for quite a while but since i love travelling it's hard to make that amount of money and not be able to travel, that's why it is taking more time than it should.
Koden you are probably talking about Er Boqueron.
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My next big trip will be the Route 66 by motorcycle, have been saving for quite a while but since i love travelling it's hard to make that amount of money and not be able to travel, that's why it is taking more time than it should.
Koden you are probably talking about Er Boqueron.
Are you from US or from Europe? And yap, that was Er Boqueron indeed.
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If i lived in USA i would have done it already.
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If i lived in USA i would have done it already.
Its really nowhere as close for those who live up in the northern part of the states.
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A case of premium beer, weekly in discount at the local shop, is about 10 euro here. A case is 24 bottles a 0,30L
In pubs it varies. Mostly it depends on the location and Brand. 0.5L is between 3.80 to 5,- euro.
Luckily no clubs who ask 10 euro or more for a single beer, like in spain. :)
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Its really nowhere as close for those who live up in the northern part of the states.
It's still cheaper and closer from Portugal... lol
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A case of premium beer, weekly in discount at the local shop, is about 10 euro here. A case is 24 bottles a 0,30L
In pubs it varies. Mostly it depends on the location and Brand. 0.5L is between 3.80 to 5,- euro.
Luckily no clubs who ask 10 euro or more for a single beer, like in spain. :)
here in Finland similar 24pack costs depending on the label from about 22€ to almost 30€ :verymad:
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Our country's alcohol politics is maybe one of the most fucked up ones in world wide lol. The state owns a monopoly what comes to selling stronger stuff than 4,7%, so basically you can buy real beers, wines and booze only from one company's shops, wines and stronger beers can't be released to be sold in grocery stores or microbreweries are not allowed to sell their own products because it would be too easy for citizens to buy the stuff and they would become alcoholics. Yet those stores from where you can buy stronger stuff are always next to basic grocery store. So the key to avoid alcohol problems here is to keep a wall between groceries and booze and of course they need to have different cashiers. If the wall would be removed and those cashiers would be merged, would the whole country become alcoholic......
In here you can't buy alcohol from stores before 9am or after 9pm. Now I saw a article which said that this store owned by the state of Finland will release online store from whic is open 24/7 and from where you can buy booze easier, another company owned by the state will deliver the product to your door. The whole alcohol law is made to protect the fucked up monopoly the state has. And besides the monopoly, we also have high taxes in alcohol and also high VAT. Shops are not allowed to set sale prices for beers, they are forced to sell the product by it's single piece price, so when one 0,33l can of beer costs 0,99€ will 24case cost 24x0,99€ = 23,76€. It's so fucked up that our government believes ( read: claims to protect the monopoly ) that alcoholism in Finland is a result of availability of alcohol. Some of the congressmen has spoke about taking beers out from grocery stores to be sold in this monopoly shop. Could it be that alcoholism in here is a result of outcasting, loneliness, despair, depression and the high level of unemployment...
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Such policy is shallow and does certainly not meet the desired goal. But actually, we've got the same policy, although its only for strong liquor. The local supermarkets can sell up to 15% alcohol. Everything above it can only be sold in liquorshops. Ofc, these shops arent state shops, but owned by whoever it may be. These shops are everywhere in town or sometimes inside the supermarket, disjunct by a wall or window.
There is a dutch website which compares beer discountprices in the supermarket on a weekly basis. Have a look :) (disable ad-block)
http://www.biernet.nl/bier/aanbiedingen (http://www.biernet.nl/bier/aanbiedingen)
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Our country's alcohol politics is maybe one of the most fucked up ones in world wide lol. The state owns a monopoly what comes to selling stronger stuff than 4,7%, so basically you can buy real beers, wines and booze only from one company's shops, wines and stronger beers can't be released to be sold in grocery stores or microbreweries are not allowed to sell their own products because it would be too easy for citizens to buy the stuff and they would become alcoholics. Yet those stores from where you can buy stronger stuff are always next to basic grocery store. So the key to avoid alcohol problems here is to keep a wall between groceries and booze and of course they need to have different cashiers. If the wall would be removed and those cashiers would be merged, would the whole country become alcoholic......
In here you can't buy alcohol from stores before 9am or after 9pm. Now I saw a article which said that this store owned by the state of Finland will release online store from whic is open 24/7 and from where you can buy booze easier, another company owned by the state will deliver the product to your door. The whole alcohol law is made to protect the fucked up monopoly the state has. And besides the monopoly, we also have high taxes in alcohol and also high VAT. Shops are not allowed to set sale prices for beers, they are forced to sell the product by it's single piece price, so when one 0,33l can of beer costs 0,99€ will 24case cost 24x0,99€ = 23,76€. It's so fucked up that our government believes ( read: claims to protect the monopoly ) that alcoholism in Finland is a result of availability of alcohol. Some of the congressmen has spoke about taking beers out from grocery stores to be sold in this monopoly shop. Could it be that alcoholism in here is a result of outcasting, loneliness, despair, depression and the high level of unemployment...
Result of "availability of alcohol" sounds a lot like prohibitionism, that didn't help the US back then and probably won't help Finland either. I honestly never thought Finland could be such a gloomy place before you described it as such.
That rule about small breweries seems nonsense, here you can buy local wine from most wineyards and several also have their town shop(s). Wine is certainly a different thing, but we got a huge amount of small brands and independent small vineyards, it does make for a nice variety.
And alcohol is sold nearly everywhere anyway, basically even the small market will have their selection of wine/beer on display (you wouldn't still want to buy the cheap wine they sell in these supermarkets, but you get the point).
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Looks like the dutch prices arent that high, compared to other countries. :style:
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The thing is, when you compare the prices over Europe you must have in account the cost of life in that country, here in Lisbon if you pay 5 euros for a beer is pretty expensive since our medium salary it's something like 700/800 euros/month but for a swiss or a nordic guy 5 euros must be cheap since they make 4000/5000 euros/month. I went to Czech Republic 2 years ago in the summer and is really cool, not only culturally but also the booze, the girls are great and the prices are really fair. But i would advise Hungary/Budapest i can't even put it in words... it's simply amazing.
I've done Buda and Prague while I was on an interrail trip through Europe, and they were the 2 cities I liked the most of the tour !!
Also went 1 day to Lisoa and seemed mike a really great city to party on
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Budapest is in my top3 cities i visited all over the world.
There are only good reasons to visit Lisbon, it's safe, not very pricey, the food but most of all the weather is fantastic. You can drink alcohol where and whenever you like, clubs open till 4 a.m. then you can go to disco's and afterwards you have parties untill 10 or 11 a.m. Used to do that when is was younger, awesome memories lol, If you meet one guy to take you to the right places you would have a great time. You have great beach's near by, 10 minutes by train. Anyway, those who like sun, beer and fun should come to Portugal as soon as possible.
Government should pay me to advertise the country like this.
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There are only good reasons to visit Lisbon, it's safe, not very pricey, the food but most of all the weather is fantastic.
And girls are nice and cool, too! :D
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Buncha drunks in here...
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And girls are nice and cool, too! :D
Not quite, but gladly the paradigm is changing. :D
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I must have drunk like 30 beers, all costing around 5£ ... I'm afraid to look at my bank statement to see what's left.
Anyway, it was definitely a memorable trip :)
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I'm from Canada but I find when I go out for dinner or to a pub I stick to a lot of German and other euro beers, they're stronger with much more taste.
Love me a good unfiltered lager or pale ale if done correctly.
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Buncha drunks in here...
Nah, no one drinked too much vodka and beer last night and puked all over the bed. Certainly not Me.
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Nah, no one drinked too much vodka and beer last night and puked all over the bed. Certainly not Me.
Where I was, nobody drank any vodka, just a couple of beers during the nice weather :)
Friday evening was a different story, though ... :D