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> but, it's mandatory to sell beer and cider by the pint. Is it? Is it not 568ml of beer? I.e. not sold as an imperial pint measure, but as 568ml? Of course
by mattlondon 3y ago
> but, it's mandatory to sell beer and cider by the pint.
Is it? Is it not 568ml of beer? I.e. not sold as an imperial pint measure, but as 568ml?
Of course everyone calls it a pint of this or the other, but I think on all the glasses etc the measures are in ml not imperial pints? It's been a while since I've been to a pub (before COVID) so I guess this might have been rolled back after Brexit?
- throwaway290 3y agoIt's possible to satisfy both "sell beer by the pint" and "use ml to measure", because those are convertible.
- tialaramex 3y agoNo, a pint. A pint isn't 586ml it's 568.26125ml. Nobody does non-SI metrication, metrication is very expensive, the world pays for it collectively, and so it's done for the SI unit system because nobody wants to subsidise anybody else's weird local units. As a result if you have weird units (as the Americans do and we do) you have to define them in terms of SI unless you either don't care what they mean (not going to be much use for a weights and measures law are they?) or you've got several billion dollars to pay to duplicate that work. The only place a pint is legal is draught beer and cider, which are poured into glasses and the glasses are marked either with a line or "to the brim", with either a crown mark or a CE label signifying the maker claims these glasses comply with regulations. The people making a "beer glass" and putting the crown mark on it need to ensure it conforms, if they've got gear that can tell them it's 568.26125ml that'd work, because that's what a pint is, but the law says "Pint", not "568.26125ml".