What are your hangovers like?

[Traianvs]

Btw how much beer is poured into your glasses? Here the regular is 25cl, a large version is 33cl

I know in Germany a beer is usually half a litre, so it might be different in other countries..?

[Dinner]

In the US you usually get a pint though it is very popular to order 32 oz beers.

[Nivek]

In the UK and Ireland it's a pint or half-pint.

The UK is pretty strict on the measures - the glasses are often marked as a certified measure, and a pub serving "short" can be prosecuted.

Good for the consumer!

[Dinner]

Half-pints? Why would anyone but a halfling wast time with a half-pint?

[Nivek]

I certainly wouldn't waste time on a half pint - it disappears too quickly!

Out of interest, a US pint is 473 ml, a UK pint is 568 ml.

Bigger is better!

[Traianvs]

nah bigger ain't better, because if you go out with a few friends, and everybody is paying a round... well if you have too many friends along, things get: 1) expensive
2)you get drunk really quickly

unless of course it's that watery English beer of only 3-4%

no really 568 ml? that's even more than the German pints... I didn't know that was the standard in GB!!!

[Nivek]

Yeah, it's a strange thing - a US pint is 16 fluid ounces, a UK/Irish pint is 20 fluid ounces - possibly in Australia an NZ as well?

It means the gallons are different also!

[Dinner]

The British standardized the Imperial system in the 1790s and since the American revolution had just occured the U.S. changed the American definition of a pint just to piss off London. Now, it's 225 years later and we still have this stupid discapancy hanging around.

[Nivek]

Oh well, we still get more, and it doesn't matter if it's pissy 3-4 percent stuff, or the wonderful Starapramen I was drinking today!

[MRT144]

my hangovers are funny. i usually wake up with a raging hunger that can only be filled by a deli sandwich, and then later in the day i give it the hair of the dog treatment.

[Nivek]

Oh, sorry, to answer Trajanus, 568 ml is the standard measure in the UK. (i.e. an Imperial pint)

It seems a very reasonable size to enjoy a beer from!