[centralparker]

A typical Scottish "pint" only contains between 90% and 95% actual beer, the rest being taken up by the head. With prices now nudging the £3 mark, it means that for each drink we are paying up to 30p for useless foam.

What other branch of the food & drink industry would get away with selling short measures every time a customer approaches? I know that most people think a pint looks more appetising with a white head but why can't we have a glass with a line depicting the pint measure so we get our full quota of beer whilst leaving ample room for the froth?

If you buy a can of coke, you know that you're getting pretty much exactly 330ml of liquid. Why do publicans get to make up their own rules?

[Mrs M]

Haha. Head. FNARR!

[RCR]

isnt a pint slightly below the top of the glass to allow for this?

[Toma_BullyWee]

Immigrant barstaff.

Areseholes.

[ZCARS]

RCR, on Mar 30 2008, 19:52, said:

isnt a pint slightly below the top of the glass to allow for this?

yes and there is nothing worse
than a flat pint yeeuch

[MiniCooler]

I thought there was legislation already in place about this?!

[StewartyMac]

RCR, on Mar 30 2008, 18:52, said:

isnt a pint slightly below the top of the glass to allow for this?

Correct.

[kiddy]

RCR, on Mar 30 2008, 19:52, said:

isnt a pint slightly below the top of the glass to allow for this?

That's the case in England and the glasses are marked as such. up here a pint's up at the rim (Ooer missus!)

[djn]

Under the current rules (AFAIK) you can get away with serving a 95% pint, meaning over a weekend you can end up paying for half a pint (or even a full pint ).

Pretty poor, but we let the breweries treat us like crap over and over again

[Reynard]

I remeber going on the ferries down south and the pint glasses were marked about an inch from the top of the glass. Probably so you didnt spill your pint when the boat was heaving around.

[Neiljb]

Ceiling Cat, on Mar 30 2008, 20:36, said:

Pretty poor, but we let the breweries treat us like crap over and over again

Everyone in the country should boycott pints!

[DJP]

I drink Strongbow, Therefore no head = Full pint

[minijc]

DJP, on Mar 30 2008, 21:21, said:

I drink Strongbow, Therefore no head = Full pint

Was going to say that, i have fosters usually if the bar has it mainly because the head on that and stella are usually low but the foam is still beer so no big deal.

[centralparker]

Ceiling Cat, on Mar 30 2008, 20:36, said:

Under the current rules (AFAIK) you can get away with serving a 95% pint,

But why? If you buy bottled beer the exact volume is specified on the label. If you buy a "pound" of suasages from the butcher, you are highly unlikely to receive exactly a pound of produce but the price will be calculated proportionally to the nearest penny.

Why should a drinker not receive the pint of beer he has paid for?

Regarding pint glasses, I've always been under the impression that the variety used in Scotland hold exactly one pint of liquid.

This post has been edited by centralparker: 30 March 2008 - 20:37

[thejailender]

I'm not a pint drinker, normally bottled beer. But I have quite often seen bars in Scotland serving pints in glasses that are marked half and inch or so from the top, leaving enough room for the froth.

[PIK]

Neiljb, on Mar 30 2008, 21:17, said:

Everyone in the country should boycott pints!

erm em ... let's think this one thru' ... a boycott!

Its ok for u Larger drinkas, you can scoff out of a bottle if u have too I suppose but, for us Heavy&Bitter fans, a bottle is not much of an option, we would be well screwed by a boycott

Cant we come up with some other course of action. Brewers hate bad media coverage for instance, bad for sales etc.

[Reynard]

What a bunch of miserable c**ts. Just drink your pish water beer and shut it.


Or switch to whisky or something without a fucking head on it.

[H_B]

If you drink guinness the barmen usually offer to top it up once you have drunk off the top in my experience.

[StewartyMac]

centralparker, on Mar 30 2008, 20:36, said:

Regarding pint glasses, I've always been under the impression that the variety used in Scotland hold exactly one pint of liquid.

Nope, just over a pint to make room for the head.

In England, some of them are slightly bigger (particularly in the north of England). That's why you often see your pint not even reach the top even with the froth.

In fact, I've just tested it. Filled up a marked watering jug thingy to exactly one pint, and poured that into a pint glass I have. Just enough room at the top for an average sized head.

[ICTChris]

I was out in Edinburgh on Friday night and asked how much a pint of Peroni was - £4.25

I had Fosters.

[gav-ffc]

Bottles are the way to go!

[StewartyMac]

Ron Burgundy, on Mar 30 2008, 21:24, said:

I imagine we will start seeing them here soon.

Absolutely no chance. Imagine the carnage when some of this country's most equisite brand of muppet get their hands on those things. Doesn't bear thinking about.

[Swampy]

I'm a wheat beer drinker and a head is integral to the proper serving of wheat beer. However, wheat beer glasses are generally designed with this in mind, and since it's so seldom available on draught here it's out of bottles half the time anyway... so... not really sure what my point is, except that you can't beat a nice wheat beer.