Corey wrote on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:49:22 +0100:

>> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:39:06 -0400, "James Silverton"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Corey wrote on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:30:32 +0100:
>>>
>>>>> Hello All!
>>>>>
>>>>> I just read an article in a popular science magazine from
>>>>> Britain, "Chemistry World", where it was stated "Little
>>>>> beats a cool, crisp pint of beer on a hot summer's day". I
>>>>> thoroughly agree with that sentiment but the article was
>>>>> illustrated by a picture of beer in the usual 12oz bottle.
>>>>> Is "pint" just a name for a glass of beer in Britain or
>>>>> does it commonly come in 20oz (British pint) bottles? I
>>>>> suspect that the use of "pint" for a glassful is common in
>>>>> Ireland too and I'm aware that the British and American fl
>>>>> ozs are very slightly different.
>>>
>>>> A pint bottle of beer is now 568 ml in the UK. I don't
>>>> think I've ever seen it in ounces.
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>> OK, to rephrase my question some, are 568ml (or near that
>>> value) *bottles* of beer common in Britain? It does not
>>> change my question really since 568ml is 19.99 floz
>>> (British).
>>
>> Yes, 568ml (AKA 1 pint) bottles of beer are very common in
>> Britain.

> Sorry for the follow-up. I should have said that although you
> do get true 1 pint bottles of beer,500ml bottles are increasingly
> common, although not regarded as a pint.
..
Interesting, you don't actually call 500ml a pint then? I must look
closely next time I buy something like Samuel Smith's etc.

I suppose it would have been too much to hope for that bottles could
have been rounded *up* but I've seen 300ml and 330ml bottles from
continental Europe when 341ml would have closer to 12 floz (US).

To complicate the picture, Guinness, Bass., McEwan's etc. come in 12 fl
oz (US) bottles but European brews bottled in Canada came in 11.5 fl
oz(US) bottles which is pretty close to 12 fl oz (British). I could
enthusiastically go metric but, at least, the old US Fifth is only
slightly larger than the standard 750ml wine bottle.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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