Where can you still find a pint under $10?
Below $10 is the exception in this sample: 160 of 1,732 venues list a regular pint under that mark. That’s 9.2% of PINTR venues with a named-beer regular pint price.
of sampled venues list a regular pint below $10
Regular pints below $10, by state
Regular prices · share of the matching sample · bar scale 0–100% · n = contributing venues
- Victoria2.3%650 venues
- New South Wales13.6%352 venues
- Queensland15.0%260 venues
- Western Australia4.4%249 venues
- South Australia25.8%155 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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This is a share of PINTR’s priced sample, not a percentage of every pub in Australia.
Under ten means under ten
Another 113 venues start at exactly $10. Add them to the 160 below that line and 273 of the 1,732 sampled venues have a regular pint for $10 or less. None of those counts includes a timed deal.
Read the count beside the percentage
A state with more low-priced listings is worth exploring, but the percentage describes the pubs PINTR has prices for. It cannot tell us what every pub in that state charges. The downloads include the venue-level starting prices behind each count.
The $10 line: Australia, states and cities
| Place | Venues | Below $10 | Share below $10 | Exactly $10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1,732 | 160 | 9.2% | 113 |
| Victoria | 650 | 15 | 2.3% | 26 |
| New South Wales | 352 | 48 | 13.6% | 17 |
| Queensland | 260 | 39 | 15.0% | 26 |
| Western Australia | 249 | 11 | 4.4% | 6 |
| South Australia | 155 | 40 | 25.8% | 36 |
| Melbourne | 491 | 8 | 1.6% | 21 |
| Sydney | 181 | 22 | 12.2% | 9 |
| Brisbane | 84 | 13 | 15.5% | 12 |
| Gold Coast | 39 | 2 | 5.1% | 5 |
| Perth | 197 | 9 | 4.6% | 5 |
| Adelaide | 125 | 30 | 24.0% | 28 |
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. 906 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.
- Take the cheapest reported regular identified-beer pint at each venue. Count venues where that price is strictly less than $10; divide by venues with at least one matching regular pint price. Exactly $10 is not below $10.
- 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 found a regular pint below $10 at 160 of 1,732 venues (9.2%) with a named-beer regular pint price in its Australian catalogue.
PINTR. “Where can you still find a pint under $10?” The PINTR Times. Catalogue snapshot 7 November 2026. https://www.pintr.com.au/articles/data/pints-under-10-dollars
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