Talk:Pint

message: A "pint" in Flanders isn't necessarily a 25 cl glass. A "pint" would translate in English to a "lager". It's just that the most common size for lagers in Flanders is 25 cl... 80.201.183.198 12:56, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flanders annotation 

message: Can anyone add any information about why so many bars and restaurants in the United States serve beer in 12 oz "pints," with glasses that look almost exactly like a real 16 Oz US pint? Mrendo 16:56, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If the menu lists "pints" and you are served 12oz, you are being defrauded, and you should report the bar or restaurant to the appropriate regulatory body (Alcoholic Beverage Commission, Restaurant Licensing Board, or whatever). If, on the other hand, you're simply observing that 12oz is the normal serving size in many places (it is also the most common beer bottle size in the US), there's not much to say, is there? --Macrakis 22:50, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  pint =12 oz? 

message: I changed ⅛ to 1/8 simply because the 8 is indiscernable from 6, or 9, or 3 at that size. 211.30.75.123 03:48, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd changed it back but you've got a point. Let's use "".Jɪmp 03:21, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: ⅛

message: ...weighs a pound and a quarter — an imperial pint does, anyway. 568g of water = 1.25lb. I've changed the page to show this, as it said 1.125lb before.ƕ (talk) 11:44, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: A pint of water

message: Under "Effects of metrication". Which is it? "Many recipes published in the UK still provide ingredient quantities in imperial," or "Most new recipes are now published in metric only"? The first statement would appear, at second glance, to apply to existing recipes, i.e. published recipes; but then the word "still" interrupts that train of thought. Which is it then? Are many recipes still being published with imperial measures, or are most new recipes being published with metric measures? I know that many ≠ most, but the point being made is not clear, and I'm loth to change the wording for fear of changing the meaning.--Rfsmit (talk) 21:15, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recipe confusion 

message: Here in the US, if you go to the liquor store and ask for a pint, you get 375 ml. If you ask for a half pint, you get 200 ml. At one time you could ask for a quart and get 1000 ml, but these days people mostly ask for a liter instead. If you just ask for "a bottle" you get 750 ml, which is also called a "fifth." An "airline bottle" is 50 ml.
These terms are holdovers from the pre-metric days. The "half pint" usually comes in a flattened, curved bottle designed to fit smoothly in a hip pocket. It's the same shape as the pre-metric half pint, which really was a half of a US pint.
27 CFR Part 5, which regulates liquor bottle sizes, is all metric, and does not mention the above common names. I have been unable to find a good reference that describes these terms. Rees11 (talk) 22:22, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That's very interesting. 27 CFR Part 5 does not define any units other than the gallon and liter for anything bottled since January 1, 1980. So, if you go to a U.S. liquor store and ask for a "pint", you get an undefined amount of liquor that is whatever is in the bottle they hand you. The U.S. pint is  473 mL, but the nearest size of bottle is 375 mL, so that's what you get. However, if you ask for a "liter", that's a defined term, so they have to give you 1000 mL. Very interesting. However, in the U.K. a pint is a defined term, so if you go into a British pub and ask for a "pint" of beer, they are forced to give you 568 mL, which is the size of the British Imperial pint. Not only that, the alcohol content of British beer is higher, so be prepared to get absolutely smashed if you go pub crawling in Britain. RockyMtnGuy (talk) 23:47, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pint of liquor 

message: The article describes a "metric pint" as 500ml.  This is not universally true.  In New Zealand pint milk bottles were 600ml.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.72.242.206 (talk) 16:02, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metric pint? 

message: The derivation of the imperial gallon from the ale gallon is defined fully in the gallon article. I suggest revising the History paragraph something like this:
In 1824 the British parliament replaced all its variant gallons with the imperial gallon based on the traditional ale gallon. In brief, this was defined as the volume of ten pounds of distilled water at 62 °F (equalling 277.42 cubic inches), from which the imperial pint is derived. 
What do you think? GilesW (talk) 10:43, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: Gentlemen - the British pint is 20 imperial fluid ounces, while the American pint is 16 American fluid ounces. However, the American fluid ounce is somewhat larger than the British fluid ounce, so you can't compare them directly. The easiest way is to convert them into metric. The British pint is 568.26125  cm3 while the American pint is 473.176473 cm3, so the British pint is approximately 1.200950 American pints, or about 20% larger.
Remember, no measure of fluid volume is the same between the British imperial and American conventional system, so you are always involved in an apples versus oranges type of conversion. That is why those of us in the rest of the Commonwealth converted all our liquid measures to metric - so we didn't have to deal with this kind of thing.RockyMtnGuy (talk) 01:48, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  British pint versus American pint 

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message: Shouldn't this page link to Pint glass ? Robef (talk) 23:44, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pint Glass 

message: --GeoTrinity (talk) 22:40, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: and if you mean the cologne pintgen that is not the same as a pint (1 Pintchen = 0,33246 Liter)178.210.114.106 (talk) 22:26, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The term is at least in the Duden as das Pint, confer http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Pint_Hohlmasz --GeoTrinity (talk) 22:40, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  pint in germany? any source for that? 

message: I liked the old lead image better. It showed an actual quantity of one pint, whereas the new image only shows a container capable of holding one pint. Kendall-K1 (talk) 20:35, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello, Kendall-K1: The previous picture is small in size and just shows a glass with beer, filled up until the edge. There is no reference to a pint. My glass shows the official amount that forms a pint in the UK and even shows the dash for a "half pint". Therefore, I considered it to be better than the old picture. But I can easily add liquid in my glas and upload a newer version soon. Just be patient. Best regards, --GeoTrinity (talk) 22:12, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! I hope that you like my new image better! Cheers, --GeoTrinity (talk) 22:43, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. The old image was actually a pint, although it wasn't labelled on the glass. You may be confused about image sizes, they can be displayed at any size you want. It has nothing to do with the size of the original image. Kendall-K1 (talk) 23:45, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Was the glass made in Warwickshire? NebY (talk) 23:50, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Kendall-K1, I'm sorry, you're wrong: The old image was only available in one size, cf. "Real_Ale_2004-05-09_cropped.jpg ‎(245 × 410 Pixel) No higher solution available" (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Real_Ale_2004-05-09_cropped.jpg). My own pictures have a higher resolution which is an improvement for the users, of course. ~ Hi NebY, It's a bit funny that I as a German have to tell you guys what the numbers stamped on the glasses mean: They stand for the manufacturing glass company or at least the production site. Most glasses used in the UK are produced by Verrerie Cristallerie D'Arques, J G Durand & CIE in Arques, France, by the way. Sometimes, you find "ARCOROC" on the bottom of a glass, it's the aforementioned French company then. The two pint glasses that I got from a pub in northern England many years ago are stamped 1545 which stands for produced in Warwickshire. The glass with the "real ale" above, for example, bears the (hard to read) number 563 which stands for Newport, England. I will add this piece of information soon and share a link to a list of those numbers. Thank you and cheers to the both of you! --GeoTrinity (talk) 00:13, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the information the "pint glass" article; the list of all numbers can be found here: https://math.colorado.edu/~rmg/pint/DTISTAMP.pdf Best regards, again. --GeoTrinity (talk) 00:31, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

text: That just puts an upper limit on the display size. Users with default image settings would have seen the old image at the same size (220 pixels wide) as the new one after you removed the "upright" param. But if you click through, or have larger than default image prefs, the new one is an improvement. Kendall-K1 (talk) 00:33, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead image 

message: Doesn't look too helpful. Corwin.amber (talk) 04:38, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  You have the same box of blueberries twice 

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message: According to Google's Unit Converter, there are 9.09218 imperial pints in an imperial gallon and one imperial pint is exactly half a litre. Should we include these innovations? 92.19.28.231 (talk) 19:35, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Google's values are wrong. I have tried to give them feedback to correct this but it has been this way for a number of months. I think they get most this information from their web crawlers anyway so it probably would not be a reliable source too.-Voello (talk) 07:44, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:   Very interesting. Can you share with us the details of how their unit converter is wrong? PetesGuide, K6WEB (talk) 16:16, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  As 92.19.28.231 said Google's online convertor defines one imperial pint exactly half a litre, see , this is at odds with the true definition of around 568ml, which is cited multiple times in this article. Even Google's non-web based converter in Google Docs - the 'convert function' displays the correct result for this value: =CONVERT(1,"uk_pt", "ml")  → 568.26125. The web value is probably from a crawler that found the inaccurate value on a third party site like much of the information found in the 'knowledge graphs' google displays after some searches, though it could also just be from a mistaken developer. Voello (talk) 16:29, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks as if they have corrected it now. Voello (talk) 11:06, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google values 

message: This book from 2011https://books.google.nl/books?id=OAFnAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT35&hl=nl&pg=PT34#v=onepage&q&f=false suggest that a pint is actually 586 mL.
Should the mL value on this wiki page perhaps be corrected for the imperial pint?
139.63.39.203 (talk) 16:49, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Depends on where you are.  In the commonwealth countries, like Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the old imperial pint is redefined in law as 570 mL exactly.  568 + mL is the definition in England but not everywhere else. Ametrica (talk) 16:43, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Imperial pint actually 586 ml? 

message: I'm German and have been drinking beer for half a century. I never ever heard the word "pintchen". According to German wikipedia, the word was used regionally (Cologne) some 200 yrs ago. Do we need it in the table? Wassermaus (talk) 16:15, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It has no reliable source, so yes delete it (in my opinion). --Red King (talk) 23:50, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  done — Wassermaus (talk) 16:26, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  German pintchen? 

message: How many times do we say that Canada uses Imperial pints? I count 5: Once in the lead, once in "History", and three times in "Effects of metrication". We also explain about the French pint in Canada twice, in "Other pints" and in "History". GA-RT-22 (talk) 19:11, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canada 

message: Why can I not find a simple sentence that says a US pint contains xx ounces? 98.97.33.68 (talk) 01:23, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps because you have not looked very hard? Dondervogel 2 (talk) 08:26, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Resistance to ounces 

message: "The term is still in limited use in parts of France, where une pinte means an imperial quart, which is 2 imperial pints, whereas a pint is une chopine"
I think "une pinte" (a pint) is an imperial quart only in Canada as it is explained somewhere else in the article.
But in France, "une pinte" (a pint) is 0,5 liter. 2A01:CB05:892B:500:50A8:5A31:CBD0:B16E (talk) 20:35, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch. That quart mention was a parenthetical statement about Quebec alone ("The term is still in limited use in parts of France, and in Quebec—where "une pinte" means an imperial quart, which is 2 imperial pints, whereas a pint is "une chopine"—and Central Europe, notably ...") until someone removed "and in Quebec—". The article already covers Quebec in the previous paragraph and the "Other pints" section, so rather than reinstate "and in Quebec—", we can simply lose the inappropriate statement. I'll do that now. NebY (talk) 09:44, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion between Canada and France