If the article below is true then it is just a matter of time before the pint disappears in the pubs just from the loss of interest in beer. And remember, wine is sold in metric amounts everywhere.Look here: http://www.cyphus.com/cyphus/stp.nsf/beer!OpenViewA vast majority of the beers are in rounded metric sizes. If you look
at the picture, some show the contents of the bottle or can poured into a
glass. There is a marking about in the middle of the glass with the words
"1 pt to this line". There is also a mark near the top which I could not
read.and was wondering if it was a 1 litre glass.
I haven't expressed my views yet, but I think if others go there, they can
hopefully start a campaign to introduce a 600 mL pint in the UK. If people
thought they could get more they wouldn't be so opposed. And the 600 mL
size could still be called a pint.
Pat Naughtin from down under can even explain about all the different pints
in Australia. But mostly about how the 600 mL pint and how successful it
is.
Pubs close as we turn to wine
Twenty pubs are closing each week because a quarter of Britons never pop out for a pint.The Campaign for Real Ale warns some of the country's most unusual pubs will disappear unless more people go to their local. Camra has launched National Pubs Week, starting on Saturday (22/02/2003), to entice people to go out, instead of drinking at home. London has the biggest number of non-drinkers, with 39 per cent never going to the pub, compared with a national average of 27 per cent. And only 15 per cent go to a pub in the capital at least once a week. Research from wine exhibition organiser Vinexpo seems to support the theory that people are staying in to drink. More than 1.3 billion bottles of wine are consumed in Britain each year, with total sales exceeding �5.7 billion - up 27 per cent in five years. Metro, 19/02/2003Euric
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