Cheers to Cape Town for being one of the cheapest places in which to share a beer. The Mother City, where the average price of a can of beer is about R25.68 (or $2.14) has been ranked 12th on the GoEuro Beer Price Index.The travel search website compared the average price of a can of beer bought at a supermarket, and at a bar, in 75 cities around the world.Also listed in the index is the average annual consumption per head and the average annual spending on the beverage.GoEuro spokesman Ricky Sutton said the cities surveyed were "some of the most popular tourist destinations worldwide", hence Cape Town's inclusion. Capetonians each consume about 98litres of beer annually.But the happiest happy hour is in Krakow, Poland, where the average price of a beer is $1.66 (about R19.92), the cheapest in the world.The most expensive is Geneva, Switzerland, where the average price is $6.32 (about R75.84).The Egyptian capital, Cairo, is the city with the lowest expenditure on beer and the lowest consumption- only four litres a head a year.SA Breweries spokesman Robyn Chalmers said Cape Town was home to the oldest commercial brewery in South Africa.Carling Black Label is the best-sellingr beer in this country."Black Label, or 'Zamalek' as it's known to many, is so much a part of our South African heritage and culture partly because of the quality of the brew and its pleasing flavour profile," said Chalmers.But Kevin Phelan, the owner of the Fireman's Arms, one of the oldest pubs in Cape Town, said Castle Lite had knocked other brands off the wall to become the most popular brand at his establishment in recent years.Murray Slater, "beer whisperer" at the Beerhouse gastro pub, said many breweries had opened in South Africa in recent years."People's taste buds have noticeably changed. Many more people are choosing ales for complexity of flavour rather than the hot-country lagers we grew up with," said Slater...