Highway robbery at the Castle Hotel, North Melbourne

[Oliver]

A mate and I did a bit of an impromptu pub crawl through West and North Melbourne last night.

One of the venues we visited was the Castle Hotel, on the corner of Courtney and Arden Streets, in North Melbourne.

We were robbed blind. How's $4.70 for a pot of Coopers Pale Ale! I was gobsmacked and checked with the barman (and double-checked with the other one) that there hadn't been a terrible mistake or that it was some kind of sick joke.

Is that the most expensive pot of Pale ever?

Oliver

[Kevnlis]

I miss happy hour at my old local in SA. $2 schooners of CPA every Wed night

$4.70 for a pot is just plain wrong, I would write a letter to both the hotel manager and Coopers about the matter.

[rwh]

That is my local. Haven't been there a lot lately, it's tough to go there when I've got beer on tap for free at home about 100m away!

BTW, I think the scam is that their food is cheap and the beer is where they make their money... like a razor/blade business model I guess.

[KEG]

or printers and ink cartridges heh...

[gregb]

Can easily be hit >$6 for a schooner of CPA in Sydney.

Cheers,
Greg

[Oliver]

Can easily be hit >$6 for a schooner of CPA in Sydney.

That's an absolute bargain compared with the Castle Hotel.

$6 a schooner (425ml?) is $14.11/litre

$4.70 a pot (285ml) is $16.49/litre

Cheers,

Oliver

[Boonie]

We call that a Middy in NSW.

I was thinking that was not too bad as I thought a pot was a Schooner.

Did he have a stocking on over his head when he served you?

I paid 4.20 for a JSGA schooner (425ml - 50ml for the head) at the local and I thought that was dear.

Highest I paid was in gregb's area of Sydney where at a pub near the Harbour Bridge it was 6.50 for James Squire Anything...

Cheers

Boonie

[gregb]

Confused the glass sizes. There is a thread on here somewhere.

Cheers,
Greg

[rwh]

I paid $8.10 for pints of JS at the JS Brewhouse on Russell St. Melbourne. It's painful when I used to get $2 pints at Club UK just up the road when I was a student.

[gregb]

Here's the threads I didn't look up.
http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1054
http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2064

Accept your errors, learn from your mistakes, yadda, yadda, yadda.....

Cheers,
Greg

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

The castle [edinburgh even though they have dropped that part from their name] is indeed a pricey establishment these days - not sure how far your crawl took you but if you are looking for a much more old school price there is the Limerick Castle about 400 metres down Arden st [maybe not even that much] it changed owners the weekend before last - but i can promise you that you won't find expensive Coopers there...

[timmy]

You wanna try the Waterside in Melbourne if you want to be ripped off blind.

First round was a bourbon & coke, a breezer and a Coopers Sparkling stubby. And it was $21!!! I only suggested going there because they had Beez Neez on tap... now they don't even have that. Bring back the wharfies I say.

Mind you it was cheaper than Crown where you're paying nearly $9 for a Redback....

[gremlin]

Fark that! i would have asked for my money back!
I can get a pint of CPA in a rural pub (amazing they even have it on tap!) way up here in sunny QLD for $5 even...

[KEG]

You wanna try the Waterside in Melbourne if you want to be ripped off blind.

First round was a bourbon & coke, a breezer and a Coopers Sparkling stubby. And it was $21!!! I only suggested going there because they had Beez Neez on tap... now they don't even have that. Bring back the wharfies I say.

Mind you it was cheaper than Crown where you're paying nearly $9 for a Redback....

Try Ahern's irish bar. they're inside Highways, corner Corrigan Rd/Princes Hwy, Sandown (next to the racecourse). I think it was DarkFaerytale that got me onto them - having finally been there, can vouch for them. Nice place. Beez Neez, Kilkenny, Guinness, Bulmers Irish Cider and the usual crap on tap. Great food in the bistro too

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

As a bloke who works behind the bar at a bowls club [voluntarily of course] i advocate finding a bowls club and drinking there. Admittedly we don't have Coopers - but $3.90 for a non-happy hour stubby of James boag isn't too bad i think

[James L]

I agree.... My mate's a member of the club down the road. They have cheap drinks, cheap pool and social bowls. Sure the range of beer isnt crash hot mainly because they need to cater for the oldies, but for a good afternoon out, you cant go wrong.

Occasionally they even have bingo and quiz nights....

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

Yeah - my club is flemington/kensington which is probably a bit further down the road - but is at least on the 57 tram route which takes people back into north melb

[Oliver]

$3.90 for a non-happy hour stubby of James boag isn't too bad i think

Of course, the problem with that is the fact that it's still James Boags ...

Oliver

[Pyssedas Heavy Industrial]

Last night we commenced serving stubbies of Coopers - it was quite a ground-breaking moment in the long history of the establishment

[Timmsy]

Some pubs here in Adelaide we are paying $5 for imperial pints of Pale and i have mates that rather buy VB! Gobsmacked for sure.