Milk.
You can get soft drinks in pints too - from the pub
From: "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [USMA:33270] Re: What is a pint?
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:38:14 -0400
What else comes in pints? What about things like soda pop and milk?
Dan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [USMA:33269] Re: What is a pint?
In the UK the pint has a legal definition (568 mL approx) and anyone
selling liquids (beer or milk) advertises or marks a container purporting
to be in pints must conform to that definition. On the continent where it
has no legal definition it's merely colloquial often 500 mL in fact. I
don't know how W&M is enforced throughout the rest of the EU (it's down to
each member state) but I would expect that if a pub offers for sale a
"pint" (in their native language) of lager (say) and is actually 500 mL,
it would have to say so somewhere.
As you and others rightly observer Dan the UK is in the crazy situation
where they can only dispense beer in bottles and cans in metric but *must*
dispense draught beer in pints. I have seen canned beer sold in pints
though but marked as 568 mL with words like "real pint" on them. I've also
noticed that if you buy beer mugs and glasses from a shop use they are
usually 500 mL.
Phil Hall
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 4:43 PM
Subject: [USMA:33268] Re: What is a pint?
If wine and other drinks can be offered in increments of two amounts
(like 25 mL and 35 mL or 125 mL and 250 mL) then why can't beer and
cider?
What would happen if the law offered both a traditional third pint of 190
mL, a half pint of 285 mL, and a full pint of 570 mL, and also included
increments of say 100 mL? Would anyone oppose? Or is someone (the BWMA)
afraid the pubs would eventually choose the metric sizes over the pint
sizes? Can you image the pints being upsized to 200 mL, 300 mL and 600
mL? Or do you think it more possible the pubs would consolidate with
other drink sizes and say use the standard wine glasses for beer, if they
are similar in shape?
Does a pint have to be a fixed size, or can it vary like Pat explained
about Australia? Does it matter what size a pint is?
Dan
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Sent: Sunday, 2005-06-19 10:25
Subject: [USMA:33267] Re: What is a pint?
>Daniel
Now, I know they wouldn't sell someone 500 mL of pure whisky,
but would use a 500 mL as a mixed drink.
Mixed drinks of more than two liquids (i.e. cocktails) are not
regulated.
What about wine?
Wine served by the glass = multiples of either 125 or 175 ml. The glass
must
be stamped (approved) or the bar staff must use a stamped measuring
device.
Wine served by the carafe = multiples of 250 ml. The carafe must be
stamped.
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