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Dear Editor,

I have recently returned home from the UK. As someone who enjoys the occasional pint of beer or ale with my meal, I was surprised to discover that for the amount of SGD 5.00-7.00 anyone could have a pint of draught beer in an English pub. There’s a great variety to choose from – Stella to Peroni, Heineken to Fosters and Budweiser to Carlsberg. Served fresh from the tap.

The British pint (568 ml) is larger than the American pint (500 ml). A large bottle of beer here is around 630 ml. So for less money than a large bottle of Tiger, Carlsberg or Heineken (SGD 6.50-8.50) here in our kopitiam, one can enjoy from the tap a pint of draught beer in any English pub. If one goes to a pub or restaurant here, the smaller American pint would be in the region of SGD15.00 onwards after tax.

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The excise and duties here make our beer much more expensive than in the UK. I wanted to highlight this to the authorities because I think it is ludicrous. The quality of a draught beer beats bottled ones easily. The product itself is cheap, but the government makes good money for nothing. This applies to a host of other products as well. These are artificially inflated prices, hence inflation.

Cheers,
Lawrence Seow


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