I don’t often agree with Tim Martin, but he’s right about this. Leave pub culture alone. It isn’t broken, don’t fix it.
If pints were made smaller, the prices would probably stay the same. The next four generations will continue calling them pints anyway. Just… Fuck off.
Y-Bob on
There keep being these headlines when some clever person says here is how we think we should make the world infinitely more boring, blaring headline and first few paragraphs, then the government saying they aren’t considering it.
It’s not only duplicitous journalism it’s tedious.
_Rookwood_ on
You can already buy a bottle of beer, a shandy or a half if you don’t want a pint.
OutNotUp79 on
It may be daft for wetherspoons tbh. I mean it’s for a different type of drinking than at spoons.
It works well in a craft beer setting.
Ill_Mistake5925 on
Shouldn’t it be “slightly draft”?
But he’s right: the volume of the glass has no bearing on how much someone will drink, it just means they’ll get rounds in faster.
thespiceismight on
They have taken the worst approach here.
A reasonable solution would be to reduce the alcohol %.
I love 3-3.5% ales but they’re rare as hens teeth. I was in a pub last night where lowest beer was 5.5%. Hard to have an evening of it if that’s what I’m drinking. Your mileage may vary.
selfassemblykit on
Loads of craft type pubs have been selling 2/3 pints for years. It’s great if you want to try a load of different beers but can’t face drinking halfs
wkavinsky on
I mean, they are.
Huge costs for pubs and punters so what, people can order 2 schooners (4/3 pints) when they would have ordered 1 pint?
DazzlingClassic185 on
Oh bloody hell, I agree with the MacCroskey on glue lookalike, but he’s as right: it’s a bellendrical as spaffer Johnson demanding champagne be sold here in pint bottles because “blah waffle Churchill blah blah something”.
anudeglory on
It’s all to just stir shit up. It is daft, but it’s also not not-daft.
Beer in 1/3 pint, 1/2 pint, 2/3 pint and 1 pint are all common servings and have been for years. Then there’s 330ml and 500ml (68ml short of a pint) bottles, along with 330ml, 440ml and rarer 500ml, 568ml and 660ml cans. There are some pubs that will have German mass/steins available at 1 litre too.
What a pub offers is up to them, but all of those (bar the 660ml and 1 litre) can be served in either half or 1 full pint glasses with level markings, and maybe have an extra 2/3 pint glass if you want it to look nicer. It’s not really hard or strange.
Marxandmarzipan on
We already have smaller beer glasses. They’re called half pints.
Matt6453 on
My counterproposal is pubs serving steins, it would save unnecessary queues at the bar.
KoalaSiege on
Don’t give pubs this idea. They will happily serve 2/3 pint measures and charge us 6 quid for them.
Thaiaaron on
Just drink most of your pint, go to the bar, get a half pint in a pint class, pour the remnants of the old pint in and then put it on the weighing scales and save John Mclain.
aaarry on
Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a good point.
Wild-Wolverine-860 on
Im welsh I always bought pints in the UK, halfs are for girls lol but going to Europe, Im more than happy drinking smaller sizes the beer actually goes down better! Id rather a 33cl bier than a larger one, they just “make sense” I dont know? oh and sod those bierkeller 1ltr ( I dont know if they 2 pints or 1litre, my German was rubbish and my French girlfriend always said it was a litre?)ones they take forever and cost 15 euros lol. I can drink and would enjoy
bobblebob100 on
The Government have denied both ideas are going to be introduced. Whats the problem?
I know the Tories denied stuff and then introduced it, but least give Labour a chance
Human_Shop_2428 on
The problem with the NHS is that we have an aging population and we are happy to extend it’s freeness to non-citizens. It’s not drinking.
KasamUK on
Did people forget that the half pint glass already exists
EustaceBicycleKick on
“E could ‘a drawed me off a pint,’ grumbled the old man as he settled down behind a glass. ‘A ‘alf litre ain’t enough. It don’t satisfy. And a ‘ole litre’s too much. It starts my bladder running. Let alone the price'”
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I don’t often agree with Tim Martin, but he’s right about this. Leave pub culture alone. It isn’t broken, don’t fix it.
If pints were made smaller, the prices would probably stay the same. The next four generations will continue calling them pints anyway. Just… Fuck off.
There keep being these headlines when some clever person says here is how we think we should make the world infinitely more boring, blaring headline and first few paragraphs, then the government saying they aren’t considering it.
It’s not only duplicitous journalism it’s tedious.
You can already buy a bottle of beer, a shandy or a half if you don’t want a pint.
It may be daft for wetherspoons tbh. I mean it’s for a different type of drinking than at spoons.
It works well in a craft beer setting.
Shouldn’t it be “slightly draft”?
But he’s right: the volume of the glass has no bearing on how much someone will drink, it just means they’ll get rounds in faster.
They have taken the worst approach here.
A reasonable solution would be to reduce the alcohol %.
I love 3-3.5% ales but they’re rare as hens teeth. I was in a pub last night where lowest beer was 5.5%. Hard to have an evening of it if that’s what I’m drinking. Your mileage may vary.
Loads of craft type pubs have been selling 2/3 pints for years. It’s great if you want to try a load of different beers but can’t face drinking halfs
I mean, they are.
Huge costs for pubs and punters so what, people can order 2 schooners (4/3 pints) when they would have ordered 1 pint?
Oh bloody hell, I agree with the MacCroskey on glue lookalike, but he’s as right: it’s a bellendrical as spaffer Johnson demanding champagne be sold here in pint bottles because “blah waffle Churchill blah blah something”.
It’s all to just stir shit up. It is daft, but it’s also not not-daft.
Beer in 1/3 pint, 1/2 pint, 2/3 pint and 1 pint are all common servings and have been for years. Then there’s 330ml and 500ml (68ml short of a pint) bottles, along with 330ml, 440ml and rarer 500ml, 568ml and 660ml cans. There are some pubs that will have German mass/steins available at 1 litre too.
What a pub offers is up to them, but all of those (bar the 660ml and 1 litre) can be served in either half or 1 full pint glasses with level markings, and maybe have an extra 2/3 pint glass if you want it to look nicer. It’s not really hard or strange.
We already have smaller beer glasses. They’re called half pints.
My counterproposal is pubs serving steins, it would save unnecessary queues at the bar.
Don’t give pubs this idea. They will happily serve 2/3 pint measures and charge us 6 quid for them.
Just drink most of your pint, go to the bar, get a half pint in a pint class, pour the remnants of the old pint in and then put it on the weighing scales and save John Mclain.
Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a good point.
Im welsh I always bought pints in the UK, halfs are for girls lol but going to Europe, Im more than happy drinking smaller sizes the beer actually goes down better! Id rather a 33cl bier than a larger one, they just “make sense” I dont know? oh and sod those bierkeller 1ltr ( I dont know if they 2 pints or 1litre, my German was rubbish and my French girlfriend always said it was a litre?)ones they take forever and cost 15 euros lol. I can drink and would enjoy
The Government have denied both ideas are going to be introduced. Whats the problem?
I know the Tories denied stuff and then introduced it, but least give Labour a chance
The problem with the NHS is that we have an aging population and we are happy to extend it’s freeness to non-citizens. It’s not drinking.
Did people forget that the half pint glass already exists
“E could ‘a drawed me off a pint,’ grumbled the old man as he settled down behind a glass. ‘A ‘alf litre ain’t enough. It don’t satisfy. And a ‘ole litre’s too much. It starts my bladder running. Let alone the price'”