I'm a cheap introverted batard so I have a problem paying for beer at a club. Here in the US there is normally a 400 or 500% markup on drinking a beer out. For the price of a beer and a half out you could have a 6 pack at home.
Yeah that's a crazy mark up isn't it? Australia is also extremely expensive. I've only been to the US once to visits some friends we had met at uni who were exchange students in Wisconsin, Eau Claire. We went to a few bars and the mark up wasn't bad then and the beer was okay. This was back in 2009. We were drinking Leinenkugal's. Where do you reside?
Wisconsin has a nice chain pub "Great Dane" brew their own beer... The porters not bad. I'm in South Carolina. A few thousand miles away from Wisconsin (although I've been to Madison 5 or 6 times). A beer at home would cost me $1.50 for something nice (not "case" beers). Same beer would cost $5 out. (maybe a little less in a few places)... Then on top of that $5 there would be a hospitality tax (extra tax on restaurants and bars) and we're socially obligated to leave a 15-20% tip. The $5 beer out would probably end up being $7.50 once you add tax and tip. For one beer. Now granted... Budweiser or Miller or one of the nasty beers would probably be a little less but I can't drink them.
Fair enough. Yeah that is pricey. I never went to Madison but I do know someone who lives there - although that's of no interest to you whatsoever haha. Need to explore a bit more in the states. You an expat or American? Or something else.
I consider myself English (an ex pat) although I'm actually slightly less than half English and half European (mix of nations... My ancestors never stayed put for a generation). Grew up in mid-Cheshire but spent most of my teens and my adult life in the US. I have American citizenship but certainly don't consider myself American.
4 pints of piss mixed with liquidised **** for a tenner. You could just lap it up out of the bogs, that's free.
Depends on where going out how much and what I'll drink. If it's some ridic overpriced place then I'll have one or not even drink sometimes and drive instead ... more enjoyable driving there in my own car than wasting money on overpriced swill and you avoid late night public transport and exorbitant taxi fares The exception to that would be if it's a really nice bar that does great cocktails or other drinks and it's a deliberate trip there mixed in with a few other venues If people are going to some of the places in town where you can get a decent pint or drink for not too much then I'd have a few
Genetically, I'm actually half and quarter and eighth and sixteenth and sixteenth. Although my half isn't pure English either. Supposedly my English half has German and Roma in it at some point.
