Goofy idea: Anybody brewing in metric...??

[rohanski]

Yeah, I think you had to double it and add 30, so a metric six-pack was like...42! That's a lot of beer, eh?

Kolukuku..kolukukooo! ya it is eh?

 

[rohanski]

cheesfood,
What happened to your avatar?

 

[Fingers]

Unless you're worried about a single drop of beer, your mug holds 1 pint. That's a lot less syllables than five hundred milliliters.

Plus, you sound weird if you ask for 500 milliliters of beer at a bar. Order by the pint, it's manly...like fractional math. Stupid multiples of 10. I scoff them!

Yeah, I guess I'm busted. Truth be told I've been calling it a pint all my life when in fact a regular commercial bottle or can is far less than that. Homebrewing (and Yuri) has finally made an honest man of me.

In defense of the metric system, here in Canada we tend to order wine in a restaurant by the litre. You'd never ask for 500 millilitres, but you would ask for half a litre or a litre.

 

[homebrewer_99]

I lived in Germany for 9 years so I can pretty much get along in metric...especially at the gasthauses and fests...0,5l and 1,0l...then there's shopping...500 grams, etc.

I actually prefer the metric system.

Too bad a pint in the US is not the same as a pint in Europe.

 

[pjj2ba]

Maybe that explains the weird taste in my beers lately. I've been weighing out my hops in grams and my grains in pounds. My scale weighs out in units of 1/8th of an ounce so I get just 8 divisions per ounce. If I set my scale to grams however I get 28 division for the same ounce so I can get a more accurate and precise weight. I think though maybe the hops and the grains are constantly arguing about who is better, leading to unbalanced flavors.

 

[HomerT]

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Too bad a pint in the US is not the same as a pint in Europe.

That statement is true on more than one level......

 

[boo boo]

Kolukuku..kolukukooo! ya it is eh?

It's supposed to be " koo koo koo koo koo koo koo koo, koo koo koo koo koo koo koo koooo Eh!

 

[menschmaschine]

C'mon America... It's time to give it up and switch to metric. It really makes the most sense. E.g., water- one of the most abundant resources on earth is a liquid in a temperate environment. It has a point at which it turns to a solid and a point at which it turns to a gas. Should we call it 32 and 212 degrees?... or 0 and 100? If Britain can get rid of shillings and ha'pennies, we can get rid of the old system of measurement! (But they're really holding on to that pound though!... no Euro for them!)

 

[rohanski]

It's supposed to be " koo koo koo koo koo koo koo koo, koo koo koo koo koo koo koo koooo Eh!

I stand corrected. This needs to go into that spelling thread that Yuri started yesterday. Now I am paranoid about spelling and grammar.

 

[Undead8]

In Canada we use metric, but we mix everything up most of the time.

The LHBS is using grams for hops, but pounds for grain. I use both celsius and farenheit for mashing/sparging.

In Quebec, the outside temperature is always in celsius, but the pool temperature always in farenheit. My height is in feet/inch and my weight in pounds, but I calculate distance in kilometers or meters.

A beer is 330 ml, but a pint is still 20 oz...

 

[Brew Runner]

C'mon America... It's time to give it up and switch to metric. It really makes the most sense.

Almost as much sense as automakers doing a halfassed switch and using both metric and standard fasters. Thats a GREAT idea.

Damnit, where's my Pocket Ref......