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Re: Is it a pint?

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Post by [deleted] »

mcbain wrote: post #76
BashiBazouk wrote: post #28

Reminds me of backpacking up and down the east coast of Australia. I learned that Fosters is only northern New South Wales for beer. Every place had their own preferred beer, but maddeningly they all had their own glass. A tenner, a schooner. Each a slightly different size. I made friends with a guy in Hobart that was staying in the hostel as he was doing research there, I think he was a biologist. He took me to his…

You might enjoy the matrix of regional sizes and names on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Australia#Beer_glasses No, us locals don't know them all either!

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Re: Is it a pint?

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Post by ascorbic »

dghf wrote: post #128
ascorbic wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Beer and cider are the only drinks that are legally not sold by metric volume in the UK. They have to be served by the pint, 2/3, 1/2 or 1/3. Every other drink has to use metric.

But that just means the quantity has to be expressed in metric units, possibly in addition to imperial, correct? E.g. I currently have a carton of milk in my fridge that’s labelled “2272ml 4 pints”.

Not for alcohol measures. Beer and cider have to be sold in pints, and there is a list of allowed sizes used for other drinks. Also the size of the standard measure used for spirits needs to be displayed on a sign at the bar.

Re: Is it a pint?

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Post by dghf »

ascorbic wrote: post #162
dghf wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But that just means the quantity has to be expressed in metric units, possibly in addition to imperial, correct? E.g. I currently have a carton of milk in my fridge that’s labelled “2272ml 4 pints”.

Not for alcohol measures. Beer and cider have to be sold in pints, and there is a list of allowed sizes used for other drinks. Also the size of the standard measure used for spirits needs to be displayed on a sign at the bar.

Apologies, I was specifically replying to your last sentence, "Every other drink has to use in metric."

Re: Is it a pint?

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Post by ljsprague »

justonceokay wrote: post #142
joombaga wrote: post #140

I'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%

Sounds like a typo you are overanalyzing. I bet the second number was supposed to be 80%.

I don't think it's overanalyzing to point out a typo.

Re: Is it a pint?

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Post by ljsprague »

amonon wrote: post #47

Look, I get it. Beer is expensive, these days. Always has been. But I feel like these movements miss the forest for trees. If we mandate beer volume then places that are “shorting” you will just raise the prices. Not to mention the tax on beer that would be required to pay for the inspection service. No one likes feeling like they got less than they paid for, but there’s solution is to take your business elsewhere. A…

Indeed, regular drinkers know what to expect as far as pour and price from any given bar. If I drop into a new bar and I feel ripped off then I don't go back. I do the same with burritos.

Re: Is it a pint?

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Post by GJim »

mrwh wrote: post #125
rafram wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. The UK uses imperial units for most of the things you use units for in daily life (roads, cooking, drink sizes, body weight, utilities, land area...), even though they theoretically converted to metric. Canada is similar.

_Human_ body weight. I grew up measuring everything in kilos apart from people, which has I guess what amounts to its own wholly idiosyncratic scale, the stone, that no one I've since met outside of the UK has heard of.

> _Human_ body weight.

Fraid not.

No medical professional in Blighty weighs people using imperial measurements. The only people who really use them are the elderly and (bizarrely) the type of crappy slimming magazine seen at supermarket chekouts...... The kind satirised by Viz as titled "Less Cake, More Exercise".

Re: Is it a pint?

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Post by port11 »

lucideer wrote: post #19

I'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…

My experience in Belgium is that people also have very different expectations for foam and aroma. Also: our beers are quite strong and often double or triple fermented (or more), so there’s plenty of space in a glass to account for foam. Just a few guesses.

Re: Is it a pint?

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Post by pintpatrol »

I think you'll all love this. I just made a study of this in the US, which you can read at isitapint.com This is very new and I'm between jobs having some fun.

I also made a free app that maps measurements of pints (or any pour) that users make, meaning you can share where short pints are poured and more importantly where honest pints are being poured. It should work in the UK, but I set this up in the US. I intend for it to work internationally. Eventually the app will have a large enough database of poured pints that have been measured by scale that a simple photo will give a very accurate measurement if the glass is recognized.

I hope it helps humanity.

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