What does beer cost at your stadium?

Bud/Bud Light draft $5.25 from the stand
Bud/Bud Light can to cup $5.50

I'm not sure about 'quality' beers, and I feel raped even paying that much.

 

At Cardinal Stadium in Naperville (the Fire) beer is free.



















Well, you can't buy any at all

 

While were not a MLS stadium, Blackbaud (home of the Charleston Battery) has some great beer prices

Happy Hour (before the game)
$1 dollar Rolling Rock

From the Beer Guy
$4.00 for 20 oz Boddingtons, Bud, Bud Light, and Corona with your own plastic cup!

Beer is cheaper at the concessions stand ($3.00?) for domestic draft.
Guiness cost around $3.00 for a British pint (20 oz) in the Three Lion's pub in the stadium. I'm not sure what the prices on the rest of the beer, cider and spirts they sell in the 3 Lions on match days are.

I really like our little stadium here!!!

mikey

 

I don't know what it costs inside the stadium exactly. Beer is not always available anyway. It's been banned for good, came back, banned for good again, banned until further notice, came back again and is banned for all risk matches.

So I usually get pissed up in the supportershome before and after the match. And on fridays, sometimes saturdays.

This year all even all saturdaynight until sundayafternoon before Ajax-feyenoord

Beer is 1.80 euros or something there. They can't go lower with the prices because this would alledgedly be unfair competition for pubs in the vicinity of the stadium. Makes no sense at all, but that's okay.

Bringing your own is the cheapest.

 

I may be in the Raliegh area the 4th of July weekend. How close is that?

 

It's $6.50 at Gillette for Bud & Bud Light. $6.75 for Bass & Guines. It's also that price for Hard Lemonade/Cider and that ilk of drink. I've seen signs for Corona, and Becks I think, but not sure which of the two prices they are.

 

there are pubs around the ajax arena? It looked like a large industrial estate round there when I went (and the arena looks like a giant armadillo terrorising the area).

At Reading, beer is £2.50 a pint (Fosters or John Smiths) and Guinness is £2.80 (we have special Guinness machines which pour 25 pints at a time, to speed things up a bit). The Fosters brewery is a few hundred yards behind the south stand. rumour has it that the Reading FC front office planned to have a piss-up in there one evening, but were unable to organise it.

£2.50 is about $3.75.

 

In the pubs, or on the grounds? I thought beer wasn't sold in most English stadiums? Either way that is dirt cheap.

Are you serious about the Guinness machine? Christ, we need one of those at RFK. At the premium beer stand you often have just one guy who pours one at a time, makes change, repeat until keg is tapped, then wait forever for keg to be changed, by which time beer sales are cut off or you have missed half the match.....

 

Oh my God! That could revolutionize beer drinking the way that milking machines revolutionized the dairy industry

 

i went to a millwall game this past october and they sold beer....don't remember for how much though....but i don't remember the prices being excessive....

 

Raleigh and Charleston are no where near each other. Without checking, I would bet a six hour drive.

 

Farts. There goes that idea.

 

Having grown up on a dairy farm, I burst out laughing at that one!

 

I went to the US v. Wales game at San Jose and their 30-beer premium-beer stand was (I think) $5 a bottle/can poured into a cup, the list was phenomenal. I didn't pay attention to the domestic megabrew stands (beersnob).

 

When were you there? They've been working hard around the area.

There have always been pubs. Our hangout used to be a small walk-through at Bijlmer station (to south of the arena) with two pubs facing each other.
There was also the Sunrise cafe (northside Arena) when Bijlmer station was redecorated and those pubs demolished. And there's also a pub next to and one across the big movie theatre and Heineken Music Hall (on the big square with all the shops).

But since little short of a year we have a supportershome again.

And there's also FC Amstelland (close to the supportershome) who serve 1.10 euro beer in their cantina.


And yes, it's a terrible stadium. But I'm getting used to it, slowly...

 

I can't remember the station name, but it was the one just to the north where the two railway lines cross.

I thought the stadium itself was fine, it was just the strange accoustics that were bad. Good game too, 5-2 v NEC 3 years ago.

Beer can be served at English grounds, you just aren't allowed to drink it off the concourse. Personally I go in the club bar before the game and drink in there, as it's just nicer than drinking in the concrete cave that exists under the seats.
I think the law was relexed when someone realised that due to the legendary slow service at football grounds, if fans were allowed to drink at the ground then they'd drink less than if they were in pubs where they tend to employ staff whose brains haven't yet been donated to medical science. Honestly, in one stand we have three food bars, one on which sells beer and nothing else. I once was in a queue for ages as the person at the till had to check the price list for every item they sold. Hello!!! You only sell three things, and two of them are the same price.

Another time I asked for a hotdog, only for the girl to return with a sausage roll. Even when I told her she was wrong she was confused and had to ask what a hotdog was. Really, she didn't know what a hotdog was.
Another time I was daring and asked for a pie. She returned with a beer.
"no, a pie" I said.
"yes, here you are"
"no, a pie"
"yes. here is pint"
"no, not a pint, a pie"
"oh"
She turns and looks at the board. At the time we only did one kind of pie - chicken & mushroom.
"do you want beef or veggie?" she asks.

Another time, when our pie selection improved slightly, I asked for a cheese & onion pie and the girl returned with a steak & kidney pie - an easy mistake to make, if you stopped paying attention in school beyond "See Spot the dog. Spot has a ball".
Upon being told that she'd got me a steak & kidney pie instead of a cheese & onion pie she replied "oh, aren't they the same thing then?"

Sometimes I think the minimum wage is too high.


Beer is usually 20-30p cheaper per pint in pubs. And you don't have to tip the barman/barmaid either. If fact if you were to tip the barman he'd probably worry that you were trying to pull him.

 

So unless a real shocker comes in, it looks as though the Revs have the highest beer prices in MLS. Gee, what a surprise.

In my couple of trips to Maine Road, I didn't bother buying during the game (after all, I wanted to see the 2nd half too), but I think I remember most of the area pubs having Joseph Holt or something similar for around £1.60 a pint, or about $3.25 at the rate of exchange at the time. Of course, I could be mistaken, considering that I am certain that I got a lot of beer for not a lot of money.

RichardL, thanks for a two really funny ones.