This is something that really gets my goat.
Why can't the various states agree on a set of measures for something as fundamental as drinking beer?
Last Friday I go into a pub and order a schooner, not really sure if he knew what I was talking about... he hands me this tiny little pitiful excuse for a beer! So then I asked him to turn it into a pint. But a pint feels bigger than a normal beer.
So off to the internet I go, and get this page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PintSelect to expand quote
The pint glass in pubs in Australia (which is so called) remains closer to the standard Imperial pint, at 570 ml. A pint of beer in Australia or New Zealand is 570 ml, except in South Australia where a pint is 425 ml and 570 ml is called an imperial pint.
Now compare it to this:Select to expand quote
New South Wales: Glass 200 ml; Middie 285 ml; Schooner 425 ml.
Victoria: Glass 200 ml; Pot 285 ml.
Tasmania: Seven - 200 ml; Ten - 285 ml; Pint 425 ml.
Queensland: Glass 200 ml; Pot 285 ml; Schooner 425ml.
South Australia: Pony 142 ml; Butcher 200 ml; Schooner 285 ml; Pint - 425 ml.
Western Australia: Bobby - 200 ml; Glass - 285 ml; Pot - 425 ml.
Northern Territory: Six - 200 ml; Seven 285 ml; Handle 425 ml.
WTF? I just want a schooner dammit! 425 ml. The way god intended beer to be drunk. You cockroaches don't know how lucky you've got it.
Yep, first time in a Vic pub, conversation with barman goes:
- "I'll have a 10 thanks"
- "sorry, 10 what"
- "no, just 1"
- "1 what?"
- "1 10"
- "what?"
- "I'd like 1 10 ounce please"
-"what? a 10 ounce what?"
- "a 10 ounce beer" (pointing to wanted item in glass rack"
- "oh, you'd like a pot"
- (thinking a pot must be a jug) "nah, just a 10 ounce thanks"
- "that's a pot" (holding one up)
- "just fill the bloody thing with beer and give it to me"
I went into a pub interstate, Canberra I think, and asked for a pint and he said "a pint of what, Milk?"
I usualy don't have a problem, just ask for a schooner and they all know what your talking about, with the big exception of victoria where they know what your asking but refuse to aknowledge it
and what about the trendy bars that have 9 0z pots !!!! I thought they had made that kind of deception illegal ?
People still drink out of middies and schooners? Seems to be pints all the way in WA.
Yep - I reckon Schooners are the go. Unfortunately here in the West a Schoony will get woarm too quick (or encourage hasty drinking) so a middy is the go.
Oh - HTFU buddy - the glass is half (hic) full!
Was it Rosy O'Gradies that started pints in WA? Can anybody remember the year?
It seemed to go from either a "glass" or a "middy" to the new defacto pint but can't remember when?
Don't know, but if it was that would be quite a coincidence. Was there on Saturday playing pub golf and the scorecard had a schooner of Guinness on it for that pub, par 3. Not being able to purchase a schooner the course was altered to a pint, par 4, and the East-coaster responsible for drawing up the scorecard chastised for lack of local course knowledge.
