You’re at a bar, already sufficiently drunk off extensive pregaming, but you just need one more drink. So you stumble to the bar and order your favorite alcoholic beverage. The bartender stares back at you, thinks for a few beats and then blurts out a price. Sound familiar? After a few too many similar occurrences, we became suspicious about the drink prices at the local establishments. Naturally we did some immersion reporting to find what bar (and mixed drink) is most economical. Our findings after the jump.
To streamline our oh-so scientific study, we picked five popular mixed drinks: rum and coke, long island, cranberry and vodka, jägerbomb, and a tequila shot. (Note: Frat stars may complain, but we left beer out of our research because each brand often carries a different price and would therefore be hard to standardize.) Unsurprisingly, our favorite dive bars—the Keg and the Deuce—came in with the lowest mean drink price, $5.40 and $5.60, respectively. The more classy establishments came in with slightly higher mean drink prices: $6.10 at Tommy Nevins Pub and $7.20 at McFadden’s Bar and Saloon. As for specific drinks, tequila shots came in cheapest with a mean price of $4.88 across the four establishments, while long islands had the highest mean price at $8.13. But the copious amounts of alcohol guaranteed in any long island might outweigh the sometimes-excessive costs. We’d have to be more than buzzed, however, to even consider purchasing a $12 drink at McFadden’s.
