The Friday File: Dividing the cost of a beer by the minimum wage tells you how much work it takes to buy suds. Amazingly, it takes 12 minutes to afford a beer in Puerto Rico and 18 minutes to buy one in Australia and Luxembourg. Here it takes 24 minutes. Across Europe it averages 45 minutes and in Tbilisi, Georgia, two days! “Honey, what about a vacation in San Juan?”