Long walk for a short beer
Long walk off a short pier

Two expressions for a disappointment, a less-than-satisfactory result.

Does anyone know if one might be a mis-hearing of the other?

(There is a third one, unrelated to the first two, in regard of Napoleon's funeral -- "Long walk for a short bier...")

I haven't heard the former, but I've only heard the latter used as a synonym to 'piss off'; 'get stuffed', etc: "Go (and) take a long walk off a short pier" (i.e f**k off and drown).

Might they trace back to Procrustes, perhaps?

I've only heard the latter, and that as a rhetorical question: "Why don't you go for a long walk off a short pier?" It was a favourite saying of my father's when he was exasperated with someone.

The former might be a garbling of the latter. That sort of thing happens often with English idioms.