On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:25:05 -0400, you wrote: >If customers brought in their own litre glasses, could the pubs legally fill >them? This would be one way of subverting the law.
It wouldn't be legal. They could, however, pour the beer into a pint-based legal mug and then pour it into the stein. >And finally, this: > >Trading standards officials - who normally order shops and stores to serve >goods in metric measures - say beer must be sold in Imperial pint and >half-pint glasses. > >Does this mean that even imperial quarts are banned too? Yep. The quart hasn't been is use here (for any purpose) for many years. It's certainly illegal now, but I'm not sure since when (certainly since 1991). Chris -- UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
