Depends on where you are, I guess. 50-60 cent for 1 liter of beer in Germany seems really cheap. Somehow I doubt it was cheaper in the past, maybe more people

Depends on where you are, I guess. 50-60 cent for 1 liter of beer in Germany seems really cheap. Somehow I doubt it was cheaper in the past, maybe more people made it themselves. Like, you can still get 1.5L of ~9% homemade wine or 0.5L of ~40% spirit for ~1 Euro in Romania/Moldova.