I know I've probably paid $5 for a beer or 2 while in JA. I've also paid very little or nothing for a beer, many times. (The free beers usually come after paying for some other service - like a taxi.) Eh, it all evens out in the end. One time, I paid upwards of $4 for warm Red Stripes at one of the nicest restaurants in one of the nicest (non-AI) hotels on the beach road. I watched the bartender pull them out of the fridge, so I knew that was all they had and there was no point in asking for a "cold" Red Stripe. After that, we simply headed over to C&D for some ice-cold $200 J beers, in order to offset the warm, expensive beers we just had.