In Spain you could get a litre of wine for under 1 euro…. not exactly great wine but mixed with juice it wasn’t apparently that bad! Never tried it myself though.

Beer etc is pretty reasonable if you buy in the stores…. bars are about the same as here in North America.

On the continent you can usually pick up beer and wine in supermarkets for next to nothing. In bars beer tends to be a bit pricy however. Especially in Paris. You are looking at 5€ for a proper sized beer at least in Paris (my experience anyhow). If you goto Britain the price in pubs is about £2-£2.50 for a pint of decent lager. You can usually get bitter/crap lager cheaper.

If you goto Eastern Europe beer in bars is virtually nothing from what I’ve been told and you will get hammered. Stag nights go further and further east each time the EU is widened to get the cheapest beer.

Almost everywhere you go in europe they will have a local beer, lager ale, or some type of wine. I would recomend trying these, it is a good way to try a variety and they are usualy cheaper. Hard liquor (i.e. vodka, rum, whiskey) is usualy more expensive and comes in tiny servings.

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On the continent you can usually pick up beer and wine in supermarkets for next to nothing. In bars beer tends to be a bit pricy however. Especially in Paris. You are looking at 5€ for a proper sized beer at least in Paris (my experience anyhow). If you goto Britain the price in pubs is about £2-£2.50 for a pint of decent lager. You can usually get bitter/crap lager cheaper.

If you goto Eastern Europe beer in bars is virtually nothing from what I’ve been told and you will get hammered. Stag nights go further and further east each time the EU is widened to get the cheapest beer.

Prague is definitely the place to drink beer! Eastern Europe has about everything for cheap. The beer in Prague was AWESOME, and the price made it even better. About 2 months ago when I was there, it was 250 crowns per dollar, and you could get a .5L glass for like 20 or 25 crowns at a reasonably priced restraunt.
Fancy restraunts and clubs have far higher prices.

About everywhere else beer was about 2.5 or 3 Euros per half liter, but if you look out for happy hours and drink specials that can help you out enourmously.

In Italy and several other places, the wine was cheaper than water. At grocery stores you could get a very good bottle of red wine for 1 or 2 Euros. Whatever you do, dont buy boxed wine! That’s pathetic. They have some of the best wine there, and it’s really dirt cheap even in a bottle.
I started this trip hating red wine, but have grown to love it. What else is that cheap, good with every meal, and can be drank warm (who carries a fridge with them? And ice is practically non existant in Europe)

Drinks in Belgium: depends on places you visit. Although I know some stores where popular drinks are pretty cheap! If you would be in Germany, the region of Trier-Koblenz: there the wine is excellent (great white wine also!) and really cheap!

cheers,
Bart

I just got back from the Czech Republic and the drinks (especially beer) were very cheap. I had beer everyday. They serve it in (usually)larger than pint glasses, cold and fresh and I never paid more than $1! It was great!
I had lots of cheap good wine in Spain and Portugal but other than that it all seemed about the same as at home (USA, MN). England was the most expensive of all.

Scandinavia has the highest beer, wine, and liquor prices. Denmark is cheapest, though, with supermarket bottles of Tuborg Gronn or Carlsberg Classic often for 3 DKK (about 50 US cents). At a bar or pub in Copenhagen, 25-30DKK. Sweden recently rolled back alcohol taxes 40% but is still slightly more expensive than Denmark when it comes to beer, wine or liquor. Norway is outrageously expensive—supermarket beer is 9kr (Tuborg Gronn), about $1.30 USD for one 33cl bottle. Wine and liquor are only sold at govt.-run "Vinmonopolet" stores. Cheapest bottles of wine are 69kr, about $10 USD. A bottle of wine at a restaurant in Norway will set you back at least 250kr, about $35 USD.