Pint glasses are filled and put on a matrix board as there is usually
spillage.
Some glasses are bigger with a 1 pint line
From: "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:33257] Re: What is a pint?
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 06:02:17 -0400
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 -----
From: Pat Naughtin
To: U.S. Metric Association
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.
