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From February 1, the price of an average schooner could be $12, with the excise increasing by 3.7 per cent.
That includes beer sold on tap at the pub and in cartons at the bottle shop.
The current taxes mean Australians pay more in beer tax than every other nation, save for Japan, Finland and Norway.
February’s rise comes six months after an even bigger jump in the tax.
In August last year, the price of beer jumped by four per cent because of the excise alone.
The Brewers Association is now lobbying Treasurer Jim Chalmers to put a two-year freeze on tax increases.
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In a statement to 9News, a spokesperson for Chalmers said the government would listen to the proposal, but indicated no freeze would be forthcoming.
“This is the usual, automatic indexation change that happens twice a year under governments of both persuasions and it’s not a new decision of this government,” the spokesperson said.
“We listen respectfully to ideas put to us but these have to be weighed up against other priorities and fiscal challenges – with a budget that’s heaving with a trillion dollars of debt.”
According to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australians drank 74.6 million litres of beer each year.
This puts it less than a million litres ahead of wine, the second most popular alcoholic beverage.
