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The Beer Index: The Only Gauge That Counts

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Early last Thursday morning, right around the time I had poured myself a third beer – not enough can ever be said about the nutritional value of barley malt and hops — an idea struck: Someone should create a site that compares the price of a pint of beer in the all the countries of the world – sort of like The Economist’s Big Mac Index, only in this case it would concern an item that really matters.

As ideas go, it was brilliant, if I do say so myself. If only there were some way of overlooking the fact, as I later discovered, that someone had beaten me to it.

Pintprice is an indispensable Internet location for peripatetic and cost-conscious beer lovers. The site contains information from 206 countries on the price of the universe’s favorite beverage.

If anything, the site serves as a warning not to work up a thirst in Greenland ($12.05 per pint on average) and provides the best reason yet to plan a tour of Tajikistan and North Korea ($0.48 and $0.62, respectively, per pint of liquid wonderfulness).