"Design aside, you've got to question the capacity. The pint is too much. These colossal containers made sense back when Britain was a manufacturing power and when sweaty browed folk could quaff large quantities of liquid (often around 3-4% ABV) after a hard day hitting stuff, building things and generally working up a mighty thirst. But they're outdated in a nation where more people work in marketing and PR than manufacturing, where the majority of construction lies in building the hopes of deluded reality TV contestants or mountains of debt. Why don't we drink smaller measures? The pint really is an absurd amount of liquid when you think about it. That the only other drink sold in pints is milk says it all. Lovingly crafted beer shouldn't be classified as a commodity like semi-skimmed – it's a quality artisan product deserving of reverence equal to wine and spirits."
—Man, they are gonna carve this guy up and throw the little bits left of him into the pond. [Via]
Monday, January 30, 2012
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Any pub/bar around here will use 8 oz glasses for the heavy stuff (Victory at Sea Imperial Porter for example), but about a pint is the perfect amount for something like an ESB or Nut Brown or normal porter. PER-FECT. Less and you'd be through it in no time at all, more and you couldn't safely sample as many others.
Seriously, if they cut the size in half they'd cut the price... maybe 20%.
@oldtaku Exactly, sounds like some lame marketing. "We shrunk the glass to make it more convenient for you! Really! We even kept the price the same as before as not to confuse you!"
Also, is there an epidemic of people ordering only one beer, and only drinking half, or two-thirds of it? Is there a demand for smaller portions? (If so, maybe order a 12oz bottle instead of a 16oz draft?)
Not to mention the fact that a broken pint glass provides larger shards for an appropriate glassing of other pub patrons.
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Wait until he hears about growlers.
Lovingly crafted beer is a quality artisan product deserving of being quaffed one Imperial pint after another.
Well, he has a point. I mean, I know they used to throw down pint after pint in the old days, but I get through about one and a half and I'm like "ugh, that's a lot of gin."
Beer is not something to be savoured. I don't care what someone might say nobody has ever tasted the hops in a beer( nor does anyone actually know what hops even taste like). Beer is a tool.
Well, in continental Europe I can buy beer in quantities of a litre and that is 1.75 pints, so why should one pint be considered "an absurd amount of liquid"?
I'm a little surprised that nobody has mentioned the outrage that is a 12 oz. "pint" glass. Many bars here in freedom land purport to sell pints though the actual volume is only 3/4 that much. You might be able to win some free beers from a bartender (while pissing him off) with this bit of information.