Where Perth still has pints under $10

As of 3 June 2026, there are 117 verified pints under $10 in the database, led by eight at $7 or less. Perth's checked-price average sits a little over $9, so a $7 pint runs about two dollars under what most of the city charges for the same 570ml.

The live rows below show the cheapest current slice, pulled from the database with each pub's last-checked date attached. The prose here is the context around them: which pubs, in which suburbs, and why their prices hold. Most were last confirmed in February 2026, so treat the rows as the source of truth, not the paragraphs.

One honest caveat first: this is the cheapest we have confirmed, not the cheapest that exists. We track 857 pubs and plenty still sit at TBC. If a pub you rate isn't on the list, it usually means we haven't checked its price cleanly enough to publish — not that it has gone dear.

The cheapest verified pint in Perth is $6, for a house lager at the Fremantle Buffalo Club on High Street — last verified in our data on 2 March 2026, and well under Fremantle's all-priced suburb average of $9.11.

It holds that price because it isn't really a pub. The Buffalo Club's roots are in the Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, it moved into 54 High Street in 1938, and it was written into its own act of state parliament — the Fremantle Buffalo Club (Incorporated) Act 1964. It runs as a not-for-profit with open membership, so member pricing is the point of the place.

Our database currently lists the house lager at $6. External deal listings frame the same number as a 5pm-to-6pm weekday offer, which is exactly why the checked date matters. Cheap is useful; cheap with context is better.

Four pubs on or near William Street were pouring $7 pints when we last checked, in February: The Court Hotel on Beaufort Street, The Moon Cafe and Bar (open since 1991), Joe's Juice Joint, and The Bird. The Bird is the one to plan around — its window runs Wednesday to Sunday, not daily like the others.

Northbridge averages $8.95 across 80 tracked pubs, one of the densest suburb samples in the database, and that density is what holds the floor down. The next rung up is Rosie O'Grady's at $7.50 for a Guinness, then a band of $8 rooms: The Rechabite, Alabama Song, Mechanics Institute. You can walk between the $7 options without a taxi, which is more than most cheap-pint hunts can say.

The same suburb also runs a $16 pint at Bar 399. An $8.95 average is the middle of a wide spread, not a typical price — which is the argument for checking a specific pub rather than a suburb headline.

Part of every pint price is fixed before the pub has any say in it. Draught beer is taxed at $43.39 per litre of alcohol above 1.15% — about 83 cents of federal excise on a standard 570ml pint at 4.5%, before rent, wages or margin goes on top. That figure normally climbs with inflation twice a year, though draught is frozen from August 2025 to August 2027. The freeze is a pause, not a cut: Asahi held its August 2025 draught pricing, then raised wholesale draught prices from January 2026, and trade press reported Lion lifting wholesale draught prices too.

So the cheap pubs aren't beating the tax — they're carrying less of everything stacked above it. The pattern is consistent: members' clubs like the Buffalo Club, suburban hotels with no strip rent to cover (The Deen in North Perth at $7, 7th Ave in Midland, the Stirling Arms in Guildford and the Bentley Hotel both at $7.50), and high-volume Northbridge rooms that make it back on turnover. Midland's only checked price is $7, which is useful as a floor, not a suburb average.

Some of those $7s are happy-hour prices wearing an all-day face. 7th Ave in Midland is listed at $7 only in a Monday-to-Friday, 5pm-to-6pm window. Oceans 6019 in Scarborough is $7 on selected beers, 5pm to 6pm. Read the window, not just the number, or you'll arrive at seven to a different price.

Freshness is the other variable. A price sitting two dollars under the city average is exactly the kind that moves, and most of this list was last confirmed in February. The live rows carry the current figure and the date it was checked; if one looks too good, the pub page will tell you how old it is.

If you just want the best odds, go to Northbridge — eighty pubs, several at $7 to $8, most with a late-afternoon window. For a low single checked price, start with Midland, Bentley or Morley. For the single cheapest pint in Perth, it's the Buffalo Club at $6, with the catch that it's a club with a public welcome rather than a pub you'll wander into.

Before 6pm, the William Street windows are live; after, the standing $7 rooms keep going. And if you've paid less than what we have listed, the report button is how the next person finds it. Beer inflation does not send a courtesy email.