On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:00:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph B. Reid) wrote: >My impression from my visits to UK up to 10 years ago was that a British >pint beer glass held a pint when filled to the brim. When the glass was >filled to the brim some beer, and the froth, overflowed, messing up the >bar. Has Britain revised this barbarous practice and does it now use the >German style of beer glass with a line on the glass to mark the pint, and >with enough glass above that to hold the foam? Glasses are still a mixture of brim fill and oversize (with a line). New legislation has just been proposed which would require oversize glasses. -- Chris KEENAN UK Metrication: http://www.metric.org.uk/ UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
