The price of a Guinness pint, pub by pub
Guinness gives us a familiar tap to follow. Across 794 venues with a regular Guinness Draught pint listed, the middle price is $15.00. Here’s how the state and city samples compare.
median regular Guinness Draught pint
Median regular Guinness pint, by city
Regular prices · AUD · n = contributing venues
- Melbourne$16.00254 venues
- Sydney$14.5088 venues
- Perth$14.50137 venues
- Adelaide$15.0062 venues
Rows with fewer than 30 venues are omitted. Menu-labelled pints; serving volumes and the beer mix can differ between places.
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One beer makes the comparison clearer
Melbourne’s 254-venue sample has a median of $16.00; Sydney’s 88-venue sample sits at $14.50. Unlike the all-beer report, each pub’s result here follows Guinness Draught alone.
A special is a different purchase
A Tuesday price or a short happy hour may beat the regular menu, but only if you can make that window. Those offers stay in the directory’s separate Offer list and do not lower the figures here.
Regular Guinness Draught pint prices
| Place | Venues | Median | Below $10 | Share below $10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 794 | $15.00 | 4 | 0.5% |
| Victoria | 314 | $16.00 | 3 | 1.0% |
| New South Wales | 154 | $14.00 | 1 | 0.6% |
| Queensland | 70 | $14.35 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Western Australia | 169 | $14.50 | 0 | 0.0% |
| South Australia | 68 | $14.50 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Melbourne | 254 | $16.00 | 3 | 1.2% |
| Sydney | 88 | $14.50 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Perth | 137 | $14.50 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Adelaide | 62 | $15.00 | 0 | 0.0% |
The data behind the report
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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
- The venue price used in this report: lowest regular pint, venue-average pint, Guinness price, lowest matching dish or combined bill, as explained below.
- 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
794 distinct venues contribute 794 venue-level figures to this report. 439 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 only the canonical Guinness Draught product and recorded pint serving. A venue contributes one regular price. Where unresolved duplicate regular cells exist, the existing directory rule retains the higher price.
- 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
The median listed regular Guinness Draught pint was $15.00 across 794 venues in PINTR’s Australian sample. Happy hours and members’ prices were excluded.
PINTR. “The price of a Guinness pint, pub by pub” The PINTR Times. Catalogue snapshot 7 November 2026. https://www.pintr.com.au/articles/data/guinness-pint-prices
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