What does each beer serving cost?
A pot, a schooner and a jug are different orders. This gives each menu label its own regular-price benchmark, with no conversion between them.
serving labels with at least 30 contributing venues
Median venue-average regular price, by serving label
Separate regular-serving samples · AUD · n = contributing venues
- Pot$8.0095 venues
- Schooner$11.00181 venues
- Pint$13.301,732 venues
- Jug$28.5056 venues
Rows with fewer than 30 venues are omitted. Serving labels, volumes and beer selections differ. Do not compare these as equal quantities of beer.
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The numbers compare the menu label you ask for. They are not a price-per-volume ranking, and a jug is not treated as a fixed number of pints.
A longer tap list gets one vote
Within each serving sample, a pub’s named regular beer prices are averaged first. That venue contributes once, regardless of how many taps it lists.
Regular prices by menu serving label
| Serving | Venues | Median | Mean |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pot | 95 | $8.00 | $8.10 |
| Schooner | 181 | $11.00 | $10.83 |
| Pint | 1,732 | $13.30 | $13.22 |
| Jug | 56 | $28.50 | $28.08 |
The data behind the report
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What the fields mean
- venues / n
- Distinct contributing venues in that place and table; not all pubs in the area.
- value
- Venue-average named regular beer price for the serving in 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
1,814 distinct venues contribute 2,064 venue-level figures to this report. 998 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.
- Within each serving label, average the venue’s reported named regular beer prices, then take the median of those venue averages. Serving samples can overlap.
- No standard volume or conversion between labels is assumed. This is a menu-price benchmark, not a price-per-litre comparison.
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 publishes separate pot, schooner, pint and jug regular-price samples, averaging listed products within each venue before comparing venues.
PINTR. “What does each beer serving cost?” The PINTR Times. Catalogue snapshot 7 November 2026. https://www.pintr.com.au/articles/data/regular-beer-prices-by-serving
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