Sorry I am not sure what I am suppossed to look at???

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The cross-post. We posted the exact same thing at the exact same time.

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Thanks for high lighting me. I did not realise. I was to much focused on the topic.

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One of the many reasons I left Ontario.
Actually I'd say everything is cheaper over here, even when counting the exchange rate, except gasoline. Southern Ontario is the gouging capital of the universe.

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American Budweiser as the "king" of beers? What an excellent argument for democracy!That would go a long way toward explaining why you like American Budweiser.

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Should I take comfort in the fact that some countries have more sillily expensive beer than Sweden?

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If the Swedish beer is as good as the Norwegian ones(I tried Hansa and ***, especially the latter one is very good to my opinion), you could at least take comfort in the fact that Sweden has sillily expensive GOOD beer.

ETA: This is funny, the *** stand for a Norwegian beer spelled A / s / s/. (As far as I know the name of the nordic gods)

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I tried some Finnish vodka once. Never again.

Icelandic Vodka is just as bad.

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WHAAAAAAT ?!

Finlandia is my favourite vodka. As good as the Polish Belvedere or French Grey Goose. And much cheaper than those.
What Finnish vodka & how much of it did you drink & what else did you drink besides that on that occasion?

I am with Toejam here. In Finnland they produce some of the best Vodkas in the world. Maybe next time you shouldn't open the second bottle....

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It was most definitely a compliment. Where did you take that pic because I am going to use that lighting in every single picture from now on

Best vodka pre World War I & even right up to WW II was Wolfschmidt, distilled on the estates of a Count von dem Alasch near Riga, Latvia. So much so that Alasch became, in popular speech in Tsarist Russia & then in Eastern Europe between the wars, the word for first quality vodka of any kind.

You could still buy Wolfschmidt in England after WW II, it still bore the Alasch name on the label, and according to a couple of experts I knew who had been drinking it, & any other vodka going, since about 1910, it was as good as ever. I certainly liked it.
Finlandia is very much an "Alasch".

When I was in Santa Moncia/Westwood in 2001, it was $0.99 for a 24oz. Then, I moved to OC before 9/11 and it was $1.49 and the other day I bought a 24oz Bud, from Ralphs, and it was $1.89.

It the price of beer going up or it's priced in a demographic?


And how much for beer in your area?

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right here in my small town it is 1.50 € for 0,33 Liter in a pub.
At the next supermarket you will get it for -,60 € if it is a brand.
For "No Name" beers (brewed by big breweries and sold in big super market chains) it will be less.

Going to one of the bigger cities it will be more.

Be careful if you convert these numbers using currency exchange rate. This gives a wrong picture. To have an idea what an Euro buys you should refer to the "Big Mac Index" which shows what a currency is worth locally.
For the "Euro Area" a big Mac is around 3,- € currently. So this means, 2 beers (0,33l)in the pub equal 1 Big Mac.

ETA: Find the Big Mac Index here:http://www.oanda.com/products/bigmac/bigmac.shtml

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I'm no economist, but that doesn't make complete sense. If I travel to Europe and convert my dollars to Euros, I'm in the same position as local residents. At that point, if the price of a Big Mac is higher or lower, it's due to local market influences, not exchange rate.

I think the BigMac index is meant to give travellers an idea of local food costs?

If that's true, then the currency exchange rate is all that's required to compare beer prices between regions.

It is true that if you would visit Europe to calculate the cost for yourself, you have to convert using the exchange rate.

But if you want to know, what the cost for the local people mean (or in other words how much the local people can buy for their money) you need to have a common standard. In this case it is the price of a Big Mac.

Another standard could be the average monthly income for example. But if we compare modern Western countries the price of a Big Mac gives you an idea of what prices for other things mean to the people locally.

Or look at it this way: For me the price of a beer in the pub has changed by 0,10 € during the last 5 years. For me this is a rise of about 7,5 %
If you convert into dollars, than this price would have risen dramatically (and of course for US citiziens travelling to Europe it HAS risen dramatically 30% - 40% I guess, but I haven't checked). ETA So the exchange rate suggest that the price has risen dramatically (what is true for you if you visit Europe), whereas locally it has only chnged slightly because of inflation.

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Good point, but I think it is more like one of those imbedded psychological things. I come from a long line of beer drinkers. I guess they were the ghetto beer snobs. Going back many generations, Budweiser is the only "real" beer. Even when my mother re-married, she married a Bud-man. I married a Bud man, his family are all Bud-people. Heavy drinkers at that, on both sides. We actually opted not to have a formal wedding, mainly because we wouldn't have been able to afford the bar bill. We call family parties, where both sides are present "the clash of the titans."

When we did our grocery shopping this week I picked up a 6-pack of Newcastle, 'caus it's been a while. Also got a 6'er of Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat per the g/f's request--she tried it draft at Applebee's and loved it. I think I like it better than Blue Moon, and it has a very citrusy taste even if you don't add an orange. Which makes it the only one of the many Leinenkugels brews that I have tried that I can stand.

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