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First sip's at the bar; then you can
Here are your beers lads, I didn't spill anything! They taste good too.
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#132Glad to see I'm not the only person that this bothers. I've been to more than 75 countries, to 43 US states, more than 2500 breweries, and I have drank more than 10k unique beers. Many beers styles should be correctly served in different glass shapes than a standard pint glass, but short pours are endemic, especially in the United States and in Canada. I always appreciate when I get a pint at a bar and see that they're using actual imperial nonic glasses with a pour line at 16oz/568ml.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Americans don't claim to use imperial weights and measures; they use customary weights and measures, which were also used in the UK prior to the creation of imperial units with the Weights and Measures Act 1824.
The (incorrect) claim is indeed made in every single metric vs "imperial" comments section I've come across.
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#134We’ve had laws requiring landlords to serve standardised pints the UK since 1698. This is not a new problem.
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#135I'm from Ireland, where filling beers precisely up to the brim is practically a religion, & many barmen will even take the glass back & top it up if they see the head diminishing too quickly in the space of time it takes you to pick the freshly poured pint up. One thing that always struck me as odd is how the culture is seemingly the opposite of this in apparent beer meccas like Belgium - not only are the glasses typ…
In Czech Republic they usually pour 3 fingers of head. But the measure line is also part way down the glass, the foam all above the line...
You could get a pint of nothing but head as well, if you wanted.
In Spain they try to create the head by dumping the beer in the glass, Guinness style, and letting it excessively foam up. So it's half flat and half full.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the Guinness head means you're getting less than a pint of actual beer I hate to be pedantic but pint being volumetric, you're still getting a pint, independent of density. Also - a nitrogen head doesn't dissipate, so you never get a gap. I'm now curious though whether a nitrogen head is less dense than a CO2 head...
It feels much denser, and I think it does dissipate... but slowly.
I'm sure it dissipates eventually but I've worked at weddings collecting pints that were forgotten about untouched - it really is a very very slow dissipation.
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#137In the UK and Ireland, a pint is 20 oz. (equivalent to just over 19 US ounces), so I always feel cheated by 16 oz. "pint" glasses in the US.
It is the same in Canada [1] yet I frequently see beer sold in "US pints" over here. I assume they do it so they can advertise cheaper prices (the amount being smaller). Some places will write the glass size in ounces, but some won't. It is one of my pet peeves for sure. [1]: https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/measurement-canada/en/buyin...
I have a buddy who used to call Weights and Measures on bars that passed off US customary pints as "pints". It is illegal, but enforced largely by complaint.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Czech Republic they usually pour 3 fingers of head. But the measure line is also part way down the glass, the foam all above the line...
You could get a pint of nothing but head as well, if you wanted. In Spain they try to create the head by dumping the beer in the glass, Guinness style, and letting it excessively foam up. So it's half flat and half full.
> You could get a pint of nothing but head as well, if you wanted.
True but a mlíko pour is a special request and usually cheaper.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least in the UK it's a legal requirement to use marked glassware when serving beer, cider and wine. (Or to use a marked measuring cylinder and pour that into the drinkware, which is sometimes done for wine.) It's also the law in at least some EU countries, although I haven't checked beyond Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fill_line
In true British fashion the requirements for draught beer and cider are in pints, while wine is sold in millilitres.
Of course. You're not going to buy a pint of wine.
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#140I'm having trouble understanding these 2 claims from the summary:
> 1 in 2 pints delivered less than 14.4 oz (below 90%)
> 37.9% were significantly short (under 90% of claimed volume)
Aren't those the same claim with different percentages? 1 in 2 is 50%, and 50% is less than 37.9%