>>It is interesting that the breweries supply beer in a 500�millilitre bottle � when they know that if this carefully poured into a 'pint' glass it >>will go very close to filling it. It is also interesting that you are provided with 500�mL of beer in your bottle. This is the amount that I >>estimate you actually get whenever you order a 'pint' in a pub.
Sorry for repeating myself ...but... When you get a pint of cider in the UK - you get a pint. In my pub I sometimes have to ask for magners, and Irish cider. It comes in a bottle marked 568ml/1 pint. When I pour it into the pint glass provided it fills it all the wasy to the top. When I buy Blackthorn in 568ml cans it fills one of my many pint glasses (one from ireland) right to the brim. If you attempted to serve a 500ml drink in a pint glass in your pub then your pub would not last long. I have poured a 500ml can into a pint glass. It renders the drink looking 'short'. It would not be acceptable in a UK pub. You have the right to a top up in the UK should you feel that any head (on stouts and ales, for example) is to big in the pint glass. You can also by draft cola, lemonade etc in pint glasses in pubs. These too really are pints. A pint is a pint - if you get a short one then its your fault for not complaining. Some pubs have oversized pint glasses with the pint marked on them, this avoids any argument. It would be better if you pretended that these were 600ml pint glasses than try to to hoodwink folk into thinking brits get 500ml in a normal pint glass. Both are inaccurate distortions however the "overpint" could at least be "overfilled" to above the mark and possible contain close to a metric rounded figure. This argment is as daft as finding that the 500g pack of cheese I got was actually a bit below when I weighed it out at home so "obviously they put a pound of cheese in the packs instead". However I would never propose such a daft argument.
