----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 11:02
AM
Subject: [USMA:33257] Re: What is a
pint?
Do I interpret you correctly by understanding that a
pint glass is a pint to the rim and not to a marked location a centimetre or
so below the rim?
If a glass is designed to hold a pint of 568 mL (our
US pint is only 473 mL) right up to the rim, then it really isn't a pint
glass. If you fill it to the rim with liquid, not including the froth,
then don't you risk spillage? Are the glasses you mention below, both
the 500 mL and the 11 ounce (312.5 mL) measured to the rim too? If so, then
how is it possible to get what you think you are getting?
The famous Hofbrau beer steins hold a litre. I
have one that my sister brought back some years ago. The 1 L (the L
looks more like a backwards J) mark is 2 cm (20 mm) from the top, but above
the 1 L mark, the stein curves inward slightly. The opening at the top
is 80 mm and the height is 185 mm. I can't seem to measure the inner
diameter before the inward curve. The stein also has a handle on
it.
Would anyone in the UK really disapprove going to a 1
L glass for beer, since they would be getting over 400 mL more? More
to enjoy before needing a refill.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, 2005-06-18
22:42
Subject: [USMA:33254] What is a
pint?
on 2005-06-18 22.15, Daniel at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Why would there be a need to ban
the pint? What is wrong with allowing a
> pub to sell other
sizes? Is someone afraid they may start selling litres
> and
if one does others may follow? Would you buy a litre of beer if a
pub
> started offering it?
Dear Daniel, Bill, and
All,
As you know I am intrigued by this issue. I simply don't
understand how people in England tolerate a method of selling beer where
they order a 'pint' (of 568.3 millilitres) but only receive about 500
millilitres of actual beer in their glass after you allow for the froth.
They then insist that this 500 mL of beer should be called a pint.
Odd!
In my collection of measuring devices I have a very old
half-pint glass labelled '11' meaning 11 Imperial ounces (312.5
millilitres). This glass allowed an extra ounce for the froth. However
this was gradually downsized to 10 fluid ounces (284 mL) that actually
provides you with about 250 mL of beer.
As the pint loses its
position as a government supported unit it will gradually be used just as
a descriptive word meaning a container that holds about 500 mL. There is
already moves being made to do this in Australia. Here is a poster from
our local beer and wine shop together with, in the foreground, a four-pack
of Guinness beer and a Guinness promotional glass. If you buy two of the
four-packs you get a free 500 mL glass. See second pic for details of the
free glass.
