 Poster: A snowHead
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Not quite a resort but en route - London City airport 6.30 a pint !
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I paid 9 euros for a pint of very poor Kronenbourg in Flaine recently - about 7 euros was average for this or Grolsch - both watery and gassy.
Incidentally I paid £1.99 for a very creditable and well served pint of real ale: Ruddles County ; in my local Wetherspoons last weekend - but it had no scenery, no snow and no skis and was full of pissed postmen
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Just paid €3.50 for 500ml in snack bar el clos in El Tarter Andorra for SAN Miguel. Result
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Just paid €3.50 for 500ml in snack bar el clos in El Tarter Andorra for SAN Miguel. Result
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Kempinski Hotel in GVA: Desperado 25 CHF a bottle G&T 35 Chuffs - that's 50 sheets for 2 drinks FFS.
Incidentally the "expensive" beer in Morgins is probably from the local micro brewery 7peaks:
http://www.7peaksbrasserie.ch/new/index.php/en/about/
T-Bar (Bazot) is reasonable for draught (Cardinal).
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Just paid £74 for 36 pints of real ale from my local specialist off licence in a poly pack thing. 8 quid of that was for the packaging. Hopefully all be gone by Tuesday.
Most I've ever paid was equivalent of a tenner in a hotel in Mumbai, having been paying less than 2 quid out in the sticks in India for the previous 2 days. Never paid more that Folie Douce prices when skiing, and only had 2 bottles there, ( beer)
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Some of these prices are pretty funny! But to a large extent it seems to me that the issue is not so much the ski resort (OK, Courchevel excepted) but simply the fact that alcohol prices vary a lot from country to country. France has always been very expensive for beer; neighbouring Spain has always been cheap. Doesn't matter whether you're skiing or watching the football in the local bar. It would be more interesting (albeit more geeky) to know the percentage mark-up in the ski resort versus the bar in the village 50km away. Is it any different from going to the theme park, or the cinema, or the beach bar, or...?
For all that we tend to bitch about UK prices, beer strikes me as being exceptionally cheap there. Albeit that I only say that now after having lived abroad for a fair while; and I still moan endlessly when they charge me almost £4 a pint when I go back and visit, despite a pint costing way more where I live. Merely because I remember it as costing £2-something and probably forever will. There's a lot of psychology in pricing. Well in everything, actually. The smart sellers know how to tap into that, unfortunately.
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My experience of Norway was actually not too bad. About £4.50 per pint at the apres bar at Hafjell. Think it was called Woody's IIRC.
Riksgransen ran in at 90 Sw Kr/Pint - about £9 but they have a captive audience and the place is topped up with revellers from Narvik each Weekend as it is apparent;y cheaper to take the 40km taxi there and back than stay on the lash in Narvik  so not all Norway is Woody's.
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I got hit for £13 for a pint in Dubai airport. Only had the one 
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We each had espresso martinis in Sweden that were about £15 each. They were excellent though. A large beer was between £6 and £8, depending what you drank. Not sure how much it was during happy hour in Broken bar, normally the cheapest beer in Åre.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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At the other end of the scale - 0.5 litre bottle is only €2.30 in Vogel, Slovenia.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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€3.8 for a pint in Schladming on race night this year - so funnily enough probably looking to go back 
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| Don't ignore the dunkel in Austria - it is not real ale but it is a sort of mild and marginally less fizzy usually than the lager - usually bottled rather than keg. There are a lot of different makes - not so keen on the King Ludwig, if I remember right, it is rather sweet. |
dunkel is dark coloured beer
blonde is light coloured beer
weizen is wheat beer
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You know it makes sense.
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AIUI in Austria beer is bier and appears to be what most Brits would call Lager but tastes more like a Pils and Lager as a type of beer doesn't really exist there. It is nearly always Märzen which is stronger than the Helles. Dunkel is a dark, sweeter malty version of the Helles or the Märzen. Wheat beer, Weizen or white beer, Weißbier is technically an ale as it is produced using a top fermenting yeast and is lightly hopped and uses predominantly wheat malt. The yeast makes it cloudy and you can taste the wheat malt. A dunkel version of Weizen is also available. Radler, cyclist's beer, is shandy often lemon occasionally raspberry or another flavour and fruitier than British lemonade. Weizen shandy can be made with Cola, but it's not called Radler. Non-alcoholic bier is 0.5% ABV, the Weißbier type has been marketed as an isotonic sports drink.
I'll leave it to the locals to fill in the gaps and make any corrections.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@HutToHut, "London Pride" in Selva.. Where did you see that?
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Poster: A snowHead
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@FrequentFaller,Goalies has Guinness and Golden Pride as well. None of us summoned up the courage to try any though.
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