Coogee Pavilion responds to customers shock over pint price

The price for two pints at a popular venue has stunned customers, with one calling it an act of “daylight robbery”.

The price for two pints at a popular venue has stunned customers, with one calling it an act of “daylight robbery” — and the venue has responded.

A listener wrote into the Kick it Foward podcast after spending the weekend at Coogee Pavilion, in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, and claiming to have paid $41.25 for two pints. One drink was a Balter XPA and the other was a Stone and Wood Pacific Ale.

“Yeah, OK, they’re pricey pints, they’re generally pricey pints, but $21,” host Josh Garlepp said.

“But suck my d***.”

A customer claims to have paid $41.25 for two pints at Coogee Pavilion. Picture: Instagram

He said it wasn’t as if the venue was ever quiet, saying it was “heaving” at all times.

Social media users were stunned by the price point, with one simply declaring it the “Hemmes tax”

“$15 for a schooner on Rotto … the world is going mad,” one social media user said.

Another added: “I’d legit call the cops and report daylight robbery.”

“I literally had a happy hour pint of stone and wood for $11, then the normal price was $18.30 for a pint. Probably paid for the tip on the QR ordering, just zero that out …. Literally 6pm yesterday at Coogee Pavilion,” one said.

Another added: “Simply don’t buy them.”

“That’s the price of a cocktail,” one person commented.

Another commented: “Expensive but those XPAs are bloody expensive.”

“You deserve to be charged $20 a beer if you are hanging out at the Coogee Pav,” another social media user added.

A spokesperson from Merivale told news.com.au: “Coogee Pavilion offers ‘Happy Hour’ Monday to Friday from 5 to 7pm with $7 schooners of tap beers, house spirits, and house wine, $9 schooners of premium and craft beers and $11 pints of Guinness.

“The venue also has Carlton Draught schooners for $7 all day, every day.”

Coogee Pavilion responded to the outrage, Picture: Instagram/Coogee Pavilion

The online menu for the hospitality business does notlist beer prices.

The shock from customers comes less than a week after Anthony Albanese promised a two-year freeze on the much-hated alcohol tax for draught beer.

From August 2025, the biannual alcohol excise, which is charged to brewers and distillers will be paused on draught beer, beer served from a keg or cask, meaning it only has the potential to bring down the cost of a schooner or pint poured in a pub, bar or restaurant, with distillers and brewers who want to sell bottled or tinned beer missing out.

The excise was increased for the for the 84th time on February 4 this year, where it was hiked by a factor of 1.004.

While the excise on beer depends on the alcohol concentration and the volume of the finished product, the excise of spirits increased from $103.89 per pure litre of alcohol to $104.31.

Originally published as Coogee Pavilion responds to customers shock over pint price