I have my favorite places to grab a beer in the area--Schatzi's, Newburgh Brewing Company, Keegan Ales, Mill House--and all of them offer delicious beer and often times hard-to-get beer for reasonable prices. Sometimes, though, when I travel to other cities, I'm amazed at how affordable the beer is.

Last week, for instance, I was in Montreal. Granted, a lot of this can be attributed to the fact that the American dollar is equivalent to roughly $1.30 Canadian right now, but man can you get a great deal on beer up there. For the sake of simplicity, I'll just say that the average beer I had while in the country--which, by the way, places a great emphasis on locally brewed beer, much like many places here in the Hudson Valley (and which is even cooler since you can't get many of them in the States)--was $5. Right off the bat, that's $3.75 American. Now consider that they generally use the Imperial Pint (20oz) compared to our 16oz pour and you're getting delicious, hard-to-find, local beer for really cheap compared to a lot of places. Similarly, in Portland, Oregon a couple of summers ago, I got to have some of the best beers in the country and it seemed like I was getting them for pennies.

Maybe it's because I live close enough to New York City that going there and meeting with friends for beers has normalized the absolutely astronomical and irrational amounts of money they're able to charge for them. Based on what you're charged at some places in the City, you'd think that every beer pulled from the tap involved sending someone into a field to harvest the freshest hops and then perform some kind of alchemy tap dance upon them right in the bar to turn it into a magic elixir.

I wanted to know how much money it would cost for a beer elsewhere and there are some seriously, seriously cheap beers around the world.

According to this article by Credit.com, the place where you can get the cheapest beer in the world is in Bratislavia, Slovakia. There, you can expect on average to pay .51 USD for a beer at the market. After that comes Kiev in the Ukraine, and Cape Town, South Africa, with very similar prices.

Well, since I don't foresee myself going to any of those cities--not anytime soon anyway--I had to find where I could get the cheapest beer in these here United States. Well, it takes a fair amount of scrolling to even get to a U.S. city on the list of the cheapest beer in America; you've gotta get down into the 30s where you'll find Los Angeles at an average price of $3.24 for a beer (this is the average of a beer you'd have at a bar and the price of a beer to bring home from a store).

First of all, when Los Angeles is the most affordable anything in the United States, we're in trouble. But that just made me need to know where New York landed.

Turns out, it would have been quicker and easier for me to just jump over to the "Most" instead of "Least Expensive" lists; New York is, apparently, the 5th most expensive place to grab a brew at an average of $5.20 (!). The only cities higher than New York? Geneva, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv, and Oslo.

Seriously... Los Angeles is less expensive than New York? We've gotta start protesting. Dumping beer into the Hudson like the Boston Tea Party or something. Wait... no, don't do that.

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