Irritating Twaddle - Calling time on the pint glas
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What a patronising article. Try drinking a proper real ale (yes, perhaps between 3 and 4% ABV), in a real pub for a start (you could even order a half-pint).
My local does indeed use standard pint glasses. They take the strange attitude that it's what's inside that counts. If you ask they will store a glass or handle behind the bar.
My local does indeed use standard pint glasses. They take the strange attitude that it's what's inside that counts. If you ask they will store a glass or handle behind the bar.
Guardian said:
Fancy a pint? No, not really. Just look at it, it's not very fancy-able is it? Not in its most common form at least. With its bulbous podgy neck and swollen fairground fighter lips, it has all the allure of a derelict lift shaft.
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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 But they're outdated in a nation where more people work in marketing and PR than manufacturing, where the majority of construction lies in building the hopes of deluded reality TV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.
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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 But they're outdated in a nation where more people work in marketing and PR than manufacturing, where the majority of construction lies in building the hopes of deluded reality TV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.
Edited by 0a on Friday 27th January 14:24
Vadim's nightclub in Swindon (sadly no more, I hear), only served beer in pint tankards. A very practical glass it was too! Good for the club as they were quite hard to break, keeping a the price of entry and Fosters at an acceptably low level, and great for the drunken punter, as they were easier to hold onto when dancing than a slippery handle-less one.
The handled jar also used to suit the majority of the women who went to Vadim's too, as they mostly drank pints and looked like Irish Navvies in makeup and heels.
The handled jar also used to suit the majority of the women who went to Vadim's too, as they mostly drank pints and looked like Irish Navvies in makeup and heels.
Mobile Chicane said:
I hate the glasses Aspall's cyder is served in. A sort of 'goblet', it holds a pint to the brim.
Impossible to manoeuvre from bar to table without spilling it everywhere.
Yes, and those round Stella glasses, the Peroni ones are easy to knock over. Impossible to manoeuvre from bar to table without spilling it everywhere.
For some reason I don't trust the Aspall's ones to hold a full pint, well they won't by the time you get it your table!
oh FFS, what is this b
ks.
and from the artical, where the hell can you get a third of a pint, its either half or whole.
germans drink from great big steins, and even from a big glass that looks like a boot, thats more than a pint.
now Im not normally a beer drinker, more of a spirit lover, but I do enjoy the occasional pint, and why of why, would you want a beer in a god damned wine glass.
the bloke who wrote the artical must either be
a) a fag who cant handle a pint
b)a pussy who cant handle a pint
c)a liberalisty lental eating fag
d)all of the above
ks.and from the artical, where the hell can you get a third of a pint, its either half or whole.
germans drink from great big steins, and even from a big glass that looks like a boot, thats more than a pint.
now Im not normally a beer drinker, more of a spirit lover, but I do enjoy the occasional pint, and why of why, would you want a beer in a god damned wine glass.
the bloke who wrote the artical must either be
a) a fag who cant handle a pint
b)a pussy who cant handle a pint
c)a liberalisty lental eating fag
d)all of the above
I appreciate the smaller serving bottles, that are more often than not stronger - example Duvel. I think it's delicious and I probably wouldn't enjoy a pint of the stuff!
But when you're talking about lagers, is there anything more pathetic than those 275ml bottles they try and sell in the shops now? When you open it more evaporates than you actually end up drinking and all you're left with is a tonne of glass!
Funny...a Guardian/Lefty snob...whatever next, a tramp hugging tory?
But when you're talking about lagers, is there anything more pathetic than those 275ml bottles they try and sell in the shops now? When you open it more evaporates than you actually end up drinking and all you're left with is a tonne of glass!
Funny...a Guardian/Lefty snob...whatever next, a tramp hugging tory?
Article said:
...beer is a lot stronger than it used to be...
Excepting my regular, every pub I visit never seems to serve anything on draught more than 4.5 volts. Most draught Stella seems to be Stella "4", Amstel is less voltage than the European version, Becks Vier is the rule not the exception, Hobgoblin has been castrated to 4.5.
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