American "Pint" vs European PINT! - Page 14

GearJammer · 12-11-2009, 03:01 PM

I've been PO'd about this since I moved to the states, after growing up in Canada (where the metric system still gives us bigger beers). One of my first times at a bar in Boston I ordered a "pint" and it came back to me in a 16oz glass with no head. So of course I asked what was up with my small beer; wasn't a pint 20oz? "Not in this country" I'm told. Okay, lesson learned.

I had a renewed interest when I went to a Boulder bar and discovered that they were serving me "pints" in those 14oz glasses. So I looked into buying one of those 'beer gauges' but that won't do anything to help you if they use those glasses.

DRdUSTYmUSTARD · 09-15-2010, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Cart

The key is getting businesses to do it voluntarily, and think it's their clever idea or marketing ploy. If a few market leaders pick up honest pint glasses,eventually everybody will, or they'll lose market share.

Good point here...Maybe someone could start a group that would encourage big chains like buffalo wild wings, applebees and chilis to start pouring true pints. they could even use it as a ad campaign to draw in those fellers that like to pay $3.50 for a "pint" of big 3 lite. this would make the smaller guys follow the trend and over time it would hopefully trickle down to all the little bars and pubs across the country...theoretically...

**petey_c** · 09-16-2010, 02:27 AM

I think lunarpancake almost got it. "Lets say your local bar pours an American pint where 15% of the beer is missing due to headspace. Every 6.66 beers you drink you 'll have been missing 1 entire beer". 6.66 beers!. I wonder who's really responsible for the missing beers... I don't know, maybe Satan??!

metaltim · 03-07-2011, 08:15 PM

for all of you that agree with the 'if the bar advertises 16 oz they should pour 16 oz.'

2 things:
1, if the menu says fat tire, pint, $5, well that's ambiguous. That isn't necessarily 16 oz. of actual beer. It could very well mean, a pint glass full of fat tire, in which case they aren't lying.

2nd. how many times have you been to a bar and outside on the sign it says $3 domestics, $4 imports.
you go inside, get a fat tire, and it's $4.

OH NO. they are lying to me. fat tire isn't an import. This place should be shut down!

As long as it it isn't regulated, they can say whatever they want with no repercussions. Same with liquor. They have wells, calls, premium, top shelf, house, etc.. and there is no cut and dry line that places what liquor in what category. Just like 'imports' and 'domestics' with beer.

Just this weekend, i was at a bar, there were 3 categories (prices) of beers on a typed out list. Domestics, imports, and specialty. most BMC was in domestic, but fat tire and heineken were in specialty, while dogfish head, corona and blue moon were in import

Inodoro_Pereyra · 03-07-2011, 08:22 PM

I don't know if this has been posted before (I didn't read the whole thread), but if it hasn't, here it is:

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The pint is an English unit of volume or capacity in both the imperial system and in United States customary units. The imperial version is 20 imperial fluid ounces and is equivalent to about 568 ml, while the U.S. version is 16 U.S. fluid ounces and is equivalent to about 473 ml. Thus the traditional British pint of beer is approximately 20% larger than the American pint. One imperial pint is equal to 19.2152 US fluid ounces. Pints are commonly abbreviated as either “p” or “pt”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pint