What does a regular pint cost across Australia?
The middle venue’s regular pint average is $13.30 in this 1,732-venue sample. We averaged each pub’s identified regular pints first, so a long tap list doesn’t give one venue extra weight.
median venue-average regular pint price
The middle venue-average pint, by city
Regular prices · AUD · n = contributing venues
- Melbourne$14.92491 venues
- Sydney$12.95181 venues
- Brisbane$11.9384 venues
- Gold Coast$12.2039 venues
- Perth$13.75197 venues
- Adelaide$11.50125 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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What the middle pub tells you
The median splits the venue prices in half: half sit at or below it, and half at or above it. The mean is shown alongside it, so an unusually high or low menu doesn’t have to tell the whole story.
A city comparison, with the beer mix attached
These are the beers each pub lists, from everyday lagers to dearer craft taps. A higher number does not prove that the same beer costs more there. For a closer product comparison, the Guinness report holds the beer name steady.
Median and mean regular pint prices
| Place | Venues | Median | Mean |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1,732 | $13.30 | $13.22 |
| Victoria | 650 | $14.72 | $14.52 |
| New South Wales | 352 | $12.25 | $12.51 |
| Queensland | 260 | $11.50 | $11.85 |
| Western Australia | 249 | $13.67 | $13.57 |
| South Australia | 155 | $11.00 | $11.34 |
| Melbourne | 491 | $14.92 | $14.70 |
| Sydney | 181 | $12.95 | $12.86 |
| Brisbane | 84 | $11.93 | $12.07 |
| Gold Coast | 39 | $12.20 | $12.57 |
| Perth | 197 | $13.75 | $13.58 |
| Adelaide | 125 | $11.50 | $11.56 |
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
1,732 distinct venues contribute 1,732 venue-level figures to this report. 893 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.
- Deduplicate venue, identified beer product and serving. Average regular pint prices within each venue, rounded to cents. Take the median and arithmetic mean of those venue averages; every venue has equal weight.
- 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 venue-average regular pint price across 1,732 venues in PINTR’s Australian sample was $13.30. Each venue contributed once after its listed regular pint prices were averaged.
PINTR. “What does a regular pint cost across Australia?” The PINTR Times. Catalogue snapshot 7 November 2026. https://www.pintr.com.au/articles/data/pint-prices-australian-cities
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