Reasons why the ACT is better than NSW - Pint glasses

Um, you might want to look up ‘imperial measurements’ in your Funk and Wagnalls, PP.

While you’re there, have a quick shufty of the meaning of the word ‘retarded’ and why it really shouldn’t be used to describe anything that doesn’t seem quite right.

That sounds very retarded. Surely it to the nearest 5ml?

BTW, according to wonkypedia, a pint is “568.26125 millilitres (exactly)”.

Good point. Could you see this catching on? ‘Giv’us a 425 of Old, thanks guv’nor!’

I’m certain it’s not 600ml. I used to think it was though.

I always thought 600mls worth of liquid gold, so to make sure I checked one of my octoberfest stiens and I can get a bit over 600mls

Damn! I learnt the answer for my RSA exam(s) then promptly forgot as I almost exclusively work at can bars when I’m serving behind a bar. Had to look it up. It’s less than that.

I will play Devil’s Advocate and challenge everyone to state how many ml they think is in a pint. The variety of answers will surprise you.

I think it’s 585ml? Yes??

It is now beer’O’clock. Evening all.

I’m as dry as a dead dingos donger – I Can’t wait till beer time

I like pints. They drink pints in England.

And it’s a throwback to a time when metric was not king.

long live the pint!

Fool, all our beer sizes are based on imperial meassures.

A schooner is 15oz (425ml), a middie 10oz (285ml), a pint 20oz and a jug 40oz.

astrojax said :

per-plexed me, even [though i suspect i may have been plexed ahead of time] 😉

and this is why we succeed in getting you confused by 20 into 16….

we drink pints in SA, just not in the trendy bars. the ark bar has a good system, they even make sure the coopers sediment makes it into your glass…. don’t ask me for the address, i can autopilot there, just don’t know the street names.

who was saying something about coopers being a boutique beer? same as saying XXXX, VB etc are as they aren’t a native of NSW…..

boutique = pricey.

no way.

Julius Constantius said :

jakez said :

If you’re a berra boy, why do you call us Canberrians?

Am I wrong? Aren’t we Canberrans?

Yeah, sorry my mistake – Not sure why I hat the urge to include those I’s.

It’s a self-deprecating/taking the Carney out of ourselves thing. I’ve lived here for most of my life since the mid 60s, and I’ve always heard, and have used, the term ‘Canberrians’ with fung thirmly imf theek (trans: with tongue firmly in cheek).

Huh? I drank pints when I lived in NSW. No worries. I agree, pints are good.

Schmiddies should be banned!

The Pot Belly does have pints if you ask.

per-plexed me, even [though i suspect i may have been plexed ahead of time] 😉

Personally I’d suggest we steal the schooner’s beautiful name, apply it to the more elegant pint glass

strangely, those crazy south australians are wont to do the inverse – how they fit 20 into 16 has always preplexed me…

Nothing better than a nice imperial pint stolen from the local, frosty from the fridge with a freshly poured homebrew out on the back deck.

The only problem is keeping them away from the rest of the family who likes to fill them with orange juice, cordial, soda pop – whatever f*&ks up the widget thing in the bottom of the glass.

jakez said :

Julius Constantius said :

Why ACT is better than NSW?

Don’t we sound like a bunch of whingeing Canberrians! NSW has Sydney as it major city, fantastic national parks, vibrant arts and music scene and no Canberrians. So don’t tell me Canberra is better than NSW, don’t delude yourselves.

Just joking about the Canberrians remark lol I’m a berra boy.

Pint is a rad name, I say keep it. Schooner sounds sleek and sensual, drinking beer just ain’t that classy lol

If you’re a berra boy, why do you call us Canberrians?

Am I wrong? Aren’t we Canberrans?

Yeah, sorry my mistake – Not sure why I hat the urge to include those I’s.

seconded.

Crap, I must be really tired, honest I can spell good! And I love youse all. :o)

When I lived in Ireland I drank a lot of pints, married someone I shouldn’t have and came back a diabetic…but I still love pints.

I’d support a stubby holder.
Resting my beers on a pre-chilled midget only works in the privacy of my own home.

Jugs….

(waits for anit-sexist rant from Sepi…)

Che is organising the stubby holders with his military efficiency so I doubt it will be a long wait.

Where are the RiotACT stubbie holders?

I would join up for a stubbie holder. Pins aren’t my thing…

Julius Constantius said :

Why ACT is better than NSW?

Don’t we sound like a bunch of whingeing Canberrians! NSW has Sydney as it major city, fantastic national parks, vibrant arts and music scene and no Canberrians. So don’t tell me Canberra is better than NSW, don’t delude yourselves.

Just joking about the Canberrians remark lol I’m a berra boy.

Pint is a rad name, I say keep it. Schooner sounds sleek and sensual, drinking beer just ain’t that classy lol

If you’re a berra boy, why do you call us Canberrians?

Am I wrong? Aren’t we Canberrans?

my clock says 11:51 – is it really 11:58? no wonder i’m always late to everything!

pints are the bomb, anyone drinking anything smaller just doesn’t cut the mustard in my eyes. yes you ARE drinking too slow.

i will be drinking many pints starting in 39 minutes.

Julius Constantius said :

And nothing like too much Jagermeister to make you pubic hair fall out.(I not suggesting it is a alternative to shaving the ol scrot)

There I was thinking Jagermeister drinkers were just women and ball-shavers.

jakez said :

Nothing like a pint of guinness to put hair on your chest.

And nothing like too much Jagermeister to make you pubic hair fall out.(I not suggesting it is a alternative to shaving the ol scrot)

Why ACT is better than NSW?

Don’t we sound like a bunch of whingeing Canberrians! NSW has Sydney as it major city, fantastic national parks, vibrant arts and music scene and no Canberrians. So don’t tell me Canberra is better than NSW, don’t delude yourselves.

Just joking about the Canberrians remark lol I’m a berra boy.

Pint is a rad name, I say keep it. Schooner sounds sleek and sensual, drinking beer just ain’t that classy lol

Nothing like a pint of guinness to put hair on your chest.

I do agree that a pint is not always the best option though. On a warm sunny day, they are too big and I am not one for a warm beer.

Amen to the Pint… I’ll be visiting a few this evening!

Stung said :

Schooners are boss sorry – try drinking pints when you’re out in the hot sun, they get warm too quick. And no, I’m not drinking them too slow.

Tru dat

Still, pints are OK. It is beer, after all. I was once told that the best way to drink pints was to buy a full pint, drink half, and then keep topping it up with additional half pints. I tried this and got spifflicated.

ponies, pots and schooners are the only way to go… pints are an abomination

The only time I’ve regretted the ample proportions of the pint was while doing the ‘Kilkenny Spud Challenge’ at Beechworth some years ago. The challenge: woof down a kilo of mashed spud then wash it down with a pint of Guinness. I burst out of the blocks but proved to be a sprinter not a stayer and the local favourite won the heat. That pint felt like a gallon.

Maybe your band should perform masked, like TISM.

Hooray for pints! And sorry, but if your pints get warm too fast then you are indeed drinking them too slowly. It’s scientific fact.

You need to cut your fingernails…

Pints are for Irish or English Beers. A pint of Newcastle Brown is just right.

Good Aussie tap beers such as Carlton Draught and those other boutique types such as Coopers/Cascade are meant for schooners – and plenty of them.

Middies make no sense anywhere.

The presence of a RiotACT pin and beer in the same photo brings to mind an obvious question: Where are the RiotACT stubbie holders?

maybe there needs to be a glass size inbetween the schooner and pint, callled the pooner?

They’re most often seen at happy hours where you still buy a schooner but get a pint’s worth of beer.

I think I can say without breaching any confidence that the hand in question is Thumper’s

*schmiddy*

Pints aren’t quite as prevalent in NSW, especially in regional areas.

There was a trend for the scmiddy some time ago (between a schooner and middy) but I’ve hardly seen one lately.

They dont have pints in NSW? I assumed everywhere had them.

I overheard my dad last weekend telling someone about the history of the NSW vs Vic difference in beer glass sizes. I think it went something like beer in Vic being higher alcohol content than beer in NSW, and you couldn’t get Vic beers north of the border, so NSW drinkers just started using larger glasses.

Personally, I like pots. Mini mugs are cute, and walking to the beer more often is good exercise. Plus you can drink half a dozen different beers in one night without getting ridiculously drunk. Being too drunk to walk home is seriously uncool.

By the way, the really tiny glass is called a Pony. And if you read the wikipedia definition, you’ll find yet another reason why some people prefer frequent small drinks over one big drink.

Mmmmmm Friday, mmmmm PIIIIINNNNTS!

Perverts and prudes you say – or perhaps people who can’t justify spending around 9 bucks for a single beer.

If the hand modelling the pint in the shot is going to be a ‘spokeshand’ for pints I have some concerns – It looks like it hasn’t done a lot of hard work.

Just an observation.

– You can get it typing a reply…

– Matter of fact I’ve got it now…

While getting warm at the bottom of the glass is a slight drawback, that’s what “put’s hair on your chest”

Schooners are boss sorry – try drinking pints when you’re out in the hot sun, they get warm too quick. And no, I’m not drinking them too slow.

I love the pint; but it’s only a viable vessel in a cool climate. You’ll notice that the further north you move, the smaller the measures get. Pints for Canberra, Schooners for Sydney, Pots for Brisbane and those funny little 6 ounce things in Cairns.

Pints are brilliant. I could never understand how anyone could routinely go somewhere where ‘pots’ were the norm. How can you hold a decent conversation when you’re back to the bar every ten minutes?!

And what a difference a couple of letters make. ‘Pint’sounds right, whereas ordering a ‘pot’ of beer just sounds ridiculous.

I once asked for a pint of Guinness… actually, I’ve ordered about 27,000 of them… but on this occasion the barman came back and asked if that was in a tall glass and what else did I want in it. WTF? He’d heard ‘pineapple and [muffled]’.

Here , here peterh. A very good arguement, to which I have had mixed reviews. More often than not negative. It worked like a charm for the first few, but then I think Mrs Matto caught on. She’s a hell of alot smarter than I gave her credit for. After many a night being woken up by the dog’s bad breath, one would think that I would learned my lesson, but I just can’t enough of one of the greatest inventions, the PINT. I am quite partial to the Stien too, but it gets messy before I usually see the bottom of that one.

Long live the almighty pint.
A beer tastes better from a pint glass. The only down side is when you open a beer at home and pour it into a pint glass it is only 3/4 full. So what do you do? Open another to fill it up.

Pints seem to be the best way to describe to the wife that even though you can’t stand up, you only had a few pints. She is on to me if I say I had a few schooners, but a pint is always ambiguous, she can never guess how many i have had.