What do familiar tap beers cost?
Same serving label, different taps. These are the median regular pint prices for familiar named beers, with the contributing venue count beside each figure.
named beers with at least 30 contributing venues
Median regular pint price, by named beer
Named-beer regular pints · AUD · n = contributing venues
- Carlton Draught$14.00486 venues
- Carlton Dry$13.00177 venues
- Great Northern Super Crisp$13.00282 venues
- Tooheys New$11.90273 venues
- Furphy Refreshing Ale$15.0055 venues
- Coopers Pale Ale$10.50144 venues
- Stone & Wood Pacific Ale$16.00342 venues
- Balter XPA$17.6079 venues
- Guinness Draught$15.00794 venues
- Heineken$17.3048 venues
Rows with fewer than 30 venues are omitted. Beer comparisons use identified products labelled “pint” on the recorded menu. Unspecified tap/house beer listings are excluded. The label does not guarantee the same volume everywhere, particularly in South Australia; these figures are not a like-for-like volume ranking.
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If you normally order Carlton Draught, its row is more useful than an average that mixes it with Guinness and craft taps. The product names stay fixed in each sample.
Different beers can come from different pubs
A dearer product row does not prove a price premium at the same venue. Product availability and the mix of locations can differ. Use the same-pub comparison reports when you want to hold the venue steady.
Named-beer regular pint benchmarks
| Beer | Venues | Median | Mean |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlton Draught | 486 | $14.00 | $14.06 |
| Carlton Dry | 177 | $13.00 | $12.75 |
| Great Northern Super Crisp | 282 | $13.00 | $12.54 |
| Tooheys New | 273 | $11.90 | $11.69 |
| Furphy Refreshing Ale | 55 | $15.00 | $15.08 |
| Coopers Pale Ale | 144 | $10.50 | $10.45 |
| Stone & Wood Pacific Ale | 342 | $16.00 | $15.40 |
| Balter XPA | 79 | $17.60 | $17.25 |
| Guinness Draught | 794 | $15.00 | $14.98 |
| Heineken | 48 | $17.30 | $16.86 |
The data behind the report
Summary tables, contributing venue figures and a chart you can use. No sign-in or email required.
Frozen edition 2026-11-07-501081af9ed8. These download URLs remain attached to this snapshot.
What the fields mean
- venues / n
- Distinct contributing venues in that place and table; not all pubs in the area.
- value
- Regular pint price for the canonical beer identified by group, in AUD.
- checked
- Recorded source-check date. Blank means a complete date is unavailable. For a venue average or bill, every part needs a date; the earliest date is retained.
- snapshot_date
- When the public PINTR catalogue snapshot was retrieved, not when every venue’s menu was checked.
How we counted
1,456 distinct venues contribute 2,712 venue-level figures to this report. 1,243 of those figures have a complete recorded source-check date.
- PINTR includes pubs, bars, clubs and other licensed venues. Every headline count refers to the matching PINTR sample, not every pub in an area.
- A beer price must match a visible venue in the retrieved full catalogue. Unmatched venue records are excluded.
- This is a snapshot of reported prices in PINTR, not a representative survey of every Australian pub. A venue without a matching price is outside the denominator, rather than counted as expensive.
- Regular prices only. Happy hours, daily specials, members’ prices, alcohol-free products and drinks without an explicit serving label are excluded. Known venue aliases are counted once.
- A table row needs at least 30 contributing venues. City areas use PINTR’s published state-boundary and radius definitions; neighbouring city catchments can overlap.
- A snapshot date records when PINTR’s public catalogue was retrieved. It does not mean each menu was checked that day. Individual source-check dates, including blanks, are retained in the downloads.
- Use the listed canonical beer products. Each venue contributes one regular pint price per product. A venue can appear in several product samples; adding their counts does not give distinct pubs.
- Beer comparisons use identified products labelled “pint” on the recorded menu. Unspecified tap/house beer listings are excluded. The label does not guarantee the same volume everywhere, particularly in South Australia; these figures are not a like-for-like volume ranking.
Prices come from PINTR’s published venue and price catalogue, retrieved . The public directory and downloads show the supporting figures. This report does not measure inflation, national market share or changes over time.
PINTR price methodologyCite this finding
PINTR’s named-beer pint benchmark compares 10 products with at least 30 venues each. Every product has its own regular-price sample.
PINTR. “What do familiar tap beers cost?” The PINTR Times. Catalogue snapshot 7 November 2026. https://www.pintr.com.au/articles/data/familiar-tap-beer-prices
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