How Much Water In A Pint Glass

Glassware made to hold a pint of beer or cider

A pint glass is a grade of drinkware made to hold either a British majestic pint of 20 regal fluid ounces (568 ml) or an American pint of sixteen US fluid ounces (473 ml). Other definitions also exist, see below. These spectacles are typically used to serve beer, and also oft for cider.

Current shapes [edit]

The mutual shapes of pint drinking glass are:

Conical (or sleevers) glasses are shaped, every bit the name suggests, as an inverted truncated cone around six inches (15 cm) tall and tapering past well-nigh ane inch (25 mm) in diameter over its height. Also chosen a "shaker pint" in the United states, as the drinking glass can be used as one half of a Boston shaker. The most mutual size found in the U.s.a. holds 16 oz to the rim.
Nonik pint glasses: full and half pint

The nonik (or nonic , pronounced "no-nick") is a variation on the conical pattern, where the glass bulges out a couple of inches from the top; this is partly for improved grip, partly to forestall the spectacles from sticking together when stacked, and partly to give force and cease the rim from becoming chipped or "nicked".^[1] This design was invented past Hugo Selection, of Albert Pick & Co., who was awarded two US patents: design patent 44,616 (2 September 1913) and patent i,107,700 (18 August 1914), although the pattern patent was invalidated, and which was commercialized as Nonik (for "no-nick").^[2] ^[3] The design was preceded by many other bulged glass designs, dating to the mid-19th century, which differed in having a severe bulge and different purposes (a end for a jar cover, or placement in a soda drinking glass holder), rather than the shallow bulge of this design.^[2] The original motivation for the glass was to reduce breakage when stacking (xl% greater crushing forcefulness and curved surface where rim touches), reduce breakage when tipped over (due to the burl protecting the rim from impact), improve grip, and facilitate cleaning (due to shallow curves, compared to more severe curves). In the U.k., this style was popularized later World War 2, with Ravenhead Glass introducing a Nonik drinking glass in 1948.^[4]
Jug spectacles (or "dimple mugs") are shaped more like a large mug with a handle. They are moulded with a grid pattern of thickened glass on the outside, somewhat resembling the segmentation of a Mills bomb. The dimples prevent the glass slipping out of the fingers in a washing-up basin, and the design of the glass emphasises force, helping to withstand frequent manual washing. These blueprint features became less important when manual washing was superseded by machine washing from the 1960s onwards. Dimpled glasses are now rarer than the other types and are regarded as more traditional.^[5] This sort of drinking glass is also known equally a "handle" or "jug" due to the handle on the glass.
Tulip glasses are more than mod, having a taller shape, and usually flaring out towards the superlative; these designs are more than unremarkably associated with continental lagers or promotional campaigns by breweries, and are frequently etched or marked with the beer'south characterization.
Tin-shaped spectacles are shaped like a standard beer or beverage tin can, with directly cylindrical sides and an inverted lip. They are less prone to tipping over than a conical glass, and without the demand for a heavy base of operations for stability, they are around 40% lighter.

History [edit]

Pint glasses became popular in the United kingdom in the early/mid-20th century, replacing tankards (pewter, ceramic and glass). This change is notably lamented by George Orwell in his 1946 essay "The Moon Nether H2o".

Older styles [edit]

Older styles include:

Decorative Toby jugs, although these would not have been for everyday utilise. Mid 1700s onwards.
Pewter tankards. 1500s to 1900s
Ceramic tankards with strap handles. Belatedly 1800s to early 1900s.
x-sided glass tankards. 1920s and 1930s.^[six]

United Kingdom law [edit]

A dimpled glass pint jug with "Pint to Line" and Crown certification marking

Tulip-shaped glass with the Crown stamp

In the Britain, draught beer must be sold in Purple measure (see Pint § Effects of metrication). English, Scottish and Northern Irish gaelic police all require certain steps exist taken to ensure that a pint of beer is indeed a pint. Though this can exist accomplished using "metered dispense" (calibrated pumps), the more mutual solution is to utilise certified 1-pint glasses.^{[ citation needed ]} Until 2007 these had a crown stamp indicating that the certification had been done by an bureau of the Crown. The number etched upon the glasses stands for the manufacturing company or site.^{[ citation needed ]} Nigh pint glasses used in the United Kingdom today have actually been produced in French republic.^[vii]

Nether the EU Measuring Instruments Directive (Directive 2004/22/EC), the certification of measuring instruments and devices used in trade (including beer mugs, weighbridges, petrol pumps and the like) can exist done by 3rd parties anywhere inside the European union with governments taking "only the legislative and enforcement (market place surveillance) functions" and "ensuring that the organization of tertiary party cess ... has sufficient technical competence and independence"^[eight] (or, in simple language, calibration services were privatised). Glasses that have been certified by authorised firms anywhere within the European union have the letters CE etched on with the certifying bureau'south identification number.^[ix] ^[10] Conservatives campaigning to take dual markings of crown and CE were informed past European union Commissioner Günter Verheugen that "a Crown stamp look-akin could naturally exist affixed to the glass, as long equally it is washed in such a fashion that it is not confused with the CE marking".^[11] Following the withdrawal of the Britain from the EU ("Brexit") the CE marking is existence replaced by the UKCA marking for goods placed on the market in Great Britain, and in September 2021, it was appear that the Crown would return to pint glasses in the Uk.^[12]

Selling beer in unmeasured spectacles without using another form of calibrated measure is illegal. Half-pint, one-3rd pint and 2-thirds pint (schooners) glasses are also available and are subject to the same laws. Two-thirds of a pint is not equal to the Canadian, U.s.a. or Australian schooners, which are respectively of different measures. Instead, the term "schooner" is sometimes informally used inside the UK to depict two-thirds of a pint (379 ml).

Although the glass must exist accurately-calibrated, industry guidelines only require a pint to be at to the lowest degree 95% liquid, assuasive 5% of the pint to consist of the foamy "head".^[xiii] ^[14] The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has described this practice as selling a short measure, and says that it costs drinkers £1m a solar day in beer they accept paid for merely not received. The British Beer and Pub Association has issued guidelines for bar staff to requite a "top up" to any drinker who is unsatisfied with the measure they receive.^[fifteen]

CAMRA recommends the use of "lined" or "oversized" glasses in pubs. These accept a line almost the top (usually labelled " PINT TO LINE ") to which the beer should be poured, with the caput forming higher up it. In the past a number of breweries supplied these glasses to their pubs; this is now rarely the case, and lined spectacles are found by and large at enthusiasts' events such as beer festivals, serious cask ale pubs, and breweries' own confined.^{[ citation needed ]}

Other countries [edit]

Pint glass with PINT/CE logo postage stamp (European standard)

Different versions of the pint
Type	Definition	Equals	Annotate
Flemish pintje		250 ml
German language Pintchen	3rd of a litre	≈ 330 ml
State of israel		360–440 ml	Varies, no fixed definition.
South Australian pint	425 ml	425 ml
Usa liquid pint	16 US fl oz	≈ 473 ml	Used in the United States.
US dry pint	eighteen.half dozen U.s. fl oz	≈ 551 ml	Less common.
Imperial pint	20 imp fl oz	≈ 568 ml	Used in the Great britain, Ireland, and Canada.
Australian pint	570 ml	570 ml	Based on the purple pint rounded to a metric value.
Majestic pint or pinte du roi	48 French cubic inches	≈ 952 ml	Varied by region from 0.95 to over 2 liters.
Canadian pinte	Imperial quart	≈ 1136 ml	In French only.
Scottish pint or joug (obsolete)	2 pints and 19.69 imp fl oz	≈ 1696 ml

Beer in Australia is formally measured in metric units, but draught beer is unremarkably ordered and sold in glasses approximating royal measures, including a 570 ml pint. (In the state of Southward Australia, "pint" refers to a 425 ml ( 3⁄4 pint) glass, known as a schooner in the rest of Australia.) As in the UK, certified glassware must be used; the capacity of the beer drinking glass is defined past either the brim or, where nowadays, the make full line.^[xvi] There are no legally prescribed sizes for beer volumes, but the stated capacities, which are a legal requirement, must be formally tested by the hoteliers and breweries.

In Canada, Federal law mandates a standard imperial pint.^[17] However, this law is rarely enforced in some provinces, such every bit British Columbia, and establishments sometimes sell US pints or other measures every bit "pints."^[eighteen]

The Democracy of Ireland uses the imperial twenty fl oz pint measure out (≈568 ml),^[19] where legal metrology marks are used to show that a glass has passed inspection by the National Standards Authority of Ireland, a state-run torso which enforces a number of standard rulings. Starting in 2006, the NSAI "pint" mark, a circle featuring 2 wavy lines, between which "PINT" is written, with a year mark (terminal ii digits), and a three digit batch code either side; has begun to be phased out with a European standard "PINT"/CE logo stamp^{[ commendation needed ]}. Smaller Pint glasses have been used in pubs and nightclubs though.^{[ citation needed ]}

In Israel, although officially divers every bit 568ml,^[20] pubs use the term rather arbitrarily and the "pints" served constitute a broad range of volumes (360ml–440ml). In the past, the custom was to serve beer in 330ml or 500ml in the original beer manufacture's glass. After the reform in the alcohol taxes in July 2012 the tax rate doubled.^[21] Each liter of beer is charged with 4.2nis tax. In order to avert raising prices at the pubs, and every bit a consequence, the loss of customers, a new "magic" appeared, called "pint".^[22] The customers don't really know the vague term of a pint,^[23] and it varies from place to place. Some of the places didn't even change the bill of fare, and it's served every bit 500 ml.

In the Us, a pint is sixteen Usa fluid ounces (473 ml). However, the typical conical "pint" drinking glass holds 16 ounces only when filled to its rim with liquid. With a one-half-inch of cream, the actual liquid fill is roughly 14 ounces, missing one eighth of its book.^[24] In recent years, some restaurants replaced 16-U.s.-fluid-ounce (473 ml) pint glasses with 14-US-fluid-ounce (414 ml) glasses, to which customers objected.^[25] In response to this, legislation in the state of Michigan (known for its craft brewing culture) requires bars to serve 16-ounce pints.^[26]

Nucleated pint glasses [edit]

Nucleated base of a pint glass

It is increasingly mutual to observe pint glasses which contain markings on the base of operations; very oft these spectacles are branded to ane particular beer. The markings themselves are formed from small pits, which help in nucleation, allowing the gas within information technology to be released more easily, thus preserving the head. Without the assist of these pits a regular pint drinking glass will go on a head for just iii or 4 minutes before actualization "flat".^[27] The markings come up in a variety of styles ranging from a simple circular or square hatched pattern to more complicated branding messages.

Collecting [edit]

Pint drinking glass collecting is an increasingly popular way for individuals to commemorate their visits to popular tourist destinations, most notably to microbreweries or sports arenas. These destinations often sell pint spectacles adorned with their logos, which are either screen-printed or engraved on the side of the drinking glass. Brewery enthusiasts may travel thousands of miles to see where their favorite beer is fabricated or to sample new local and fresh beers, and collectors often display their collections (which sometimes full in the hundreds) in display cases or on shelves.

Beer festivals ofttimes have commemorative pint glasses made specially for the effect.

Utilize as weapon [edit]

As with other glass objects such as glass bottles, pint glasses tin exist used as a weapon, either great an intact drinking glass in a victim's face or smashing the glass and so slashing with the shards. Such attacks, called "glassing", are a significant problem in the United Kingdom, with over 5,000 injuries per year in 2002.^[28] This has led to less-unsafe alternatives existence used, either plastic glasses and bottles at large events or violence-decumbent venues, or treated glass, primarily tempered glass, which has been used in Australia.^[29]

See likewise [edit]

Beer garden
Shot glass
List of glassware

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