The PayStream banner add

[milanbenes]

Morning All,

you see the PayStream banner add at the top of the screen,

it says:

'You wouldn't accept a lizza like this...

(photograph of pizza with piece missing)


or a pint, served like this...

(photograph of a pint with a good head)'


well I have to contend, anybody who has worked in Germany, Belgium, Central Europe, Austria, would _expect_ a pint to be served like that, and if it wasn't they would worry that the beer is off.

Milan.

[PRC1964]

Morning All,

you see the PayStream banner add at the top of the screen,

it says:

'You wouldn't accept a lizza like this...

(photograph of pizza with piece missing)


or a pint, served like this...

(photograph of a pint with a good head)'


well I have to contend, anybody who has worked in Germany, Belgium, Central Europe, Austria, would _expect_ a pint to be served like that, and if it wasn't they would worry that the beer is off.

Milan.

A lizza? Is that some kind of faulty lezza?

[milanbenes]

sorry typo should be pizza

Milan.

[NickFitz]

well I have to contend, anybody who has worked in Germany, Belgium, Central Europe, Austria, would _expect_ a pint to be served like that, and if it wasn't they would worry that the beer is off.

Milan.

But in those places it wouldn't be a pint - it would be half-a-litre, but in a pint-sized glass to make room for the large head. Serving a pint with a head that large on it in the UK would be illegal under the Weights and Measures Act.

[shaunbhoy]

But in those places it wouldn't be a pint - it would be half-a-litre, but in a pint-sized glass to make room for the large head. Serving a pint with a head that large on it in the UK would be illegal under the Weights and Measures Act.

I am sure there are parts of Yorkshire where they still provide slightly larger than normal glasses to accommodate a frothy head on a pint? Perhaps someone can confirm...........assuming that by now the internet has reached Yorkshire?

[Spacecadet]

I am sure there are parts of Yorkshire where they still provide slightly larger than normal glasses to accommodate a frothy head on a pint? Perhaps someone can confirm...........assuming that by now the internet has reached Yorkshire?

One of my first under age pints was in a Samuel Smith pub in York obtained one afternoon on a school trip when myself, a friend and a couple of girls from the year below managed to avoid the supervision.

The pint glass was indeed oversize, with a line about half an inch from the brim indicating where the pint measure was up to

[Pondlife]

The pint glass was indeed oversize, with a line about half an inch from the brim indicating where the pint measure was up to

I think that's the norm now.

[ratewhore]

well I have to contend, anybody who has worked in Germany, Belgium, Central Europe, Austria, would _expect_ a pint to be served like that, and if it wasn't they would worry that the beer is off.

Milan.

anybody who has ordered a beer

unless they're checking your right to work before serving you these days...

[gingerjedi]

Everybody knows that the correct British response to being served a pint like that is:

“kin’ell mate… do I get spoon with that”.

Home or abroad.

[NickFitz]

I am sure there are parts of Yorkshire where they still provide slightly larger than normal glasses to accommodate a frothy head on a pint? Perhaps someone can confirm...........assuming that by now the internet has reached Yorkshire?

Oversized (or "Pint to Line") glasses are a voluntary thing, due to pressure from the big brewing conglomerates - it must be nearly twenty years since the last private member's bill seeking to require them by law was booted out by the government of the day to avoid upsetting their big business cronies.

They do seem to be more common up North. I think this is probably because, traditionally, Northern ales (such as Tetley) have been served with a large creamy head, whereas Southern ales tended to be brewed to have very little head (for example, Suffolk ales such as Adnams and Greene King always used to be served, in their own pubs, with virtually no head to speak of).

Serving beer with a large head is a big moneyspinner for the large brewers. They are allowed to get away with a head of up to 10% of the volume, meaning that every eleventh pint costs them nothing. This is why they object so strongly to the mandatory use of lined glasses.

They also foster the notion that a large head is somehow normal by only ever showing beer with a large head in their advertising. However, this ignores the variety of regional variations surrounding this matter.