Why are pint glasses in Ireland designed to hold exactly one pint filled to the brim?

Son of a bitch

Why are they designed like this? When carrying a pint (or pints) back to the table, a alight twitch results in some spilt drink. It's also just sloppy looking in my opinion and sometimes when the bar person slaps it on the counter in a busy pub, it results in some splashing down the side.

Why can't the glasses have a slightly larger volume that 1 pint with a mark on the glass which indicates where the meniscus of the drink should be to give a pint.

Obviously in most of mainland Europe the use 500 ml and 250 ml glasses but there, the glasses are as I described. They have a slightly higher overall volume than 500 cm³ with a line to indicate where the meniscus should be to make 0.5 L.

If the pint glasses were bigger with the drink filled to the "pint line" here would people give out? That's not a fuking pint ... blah blah blah... (See attached picture of the pint glass I nicked from Copenhagen with water filled to the meniscus line).

Sorry if this is a ramble

furiousox

Why the feck would you put a piece of knee cartilage in a pint glass?

Ipso

So would the head of a pint start or stop at the line?

jamesbere

Because you touch yourself at night, now pint glasses are exactly a pint. You sinful boy

Son of a bitch

Ipso wrote: »

So would the head of a pint start or stop at the line?

The head would go above the meniscus I'd imagine, either way you'd only be talking 20 ml (maximum).

Wheety

You a cider drinker?

You know the glasses have a line on them, where it should be filled up to, a few millimetres below the rim?

hairyslug

Long time since I heard the word meniscus

furiousox

The head is above the meniscus, definitely.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Every pint glass I have has the line marking the pint measure, with room then for the head.

Adyx

Because Irish people would complain they weren't getting a full pint if glasses were like that here.

Cherry Blossom

500cm cubed is an area bigger than the room I'm currently in.

Dr Turk Turkelton

Cherry Blossom wrote: »

500cm cubed is an area bigger than the room I'm currently in.

Is that including the meniscus?

pleas advice

Ansley Puny Coffeepot wrote: »

Every pint glass I have has the line marking the pint measure, with room then for the head.

throw up a pic there, ive never seen one like that

Are Am Eye

You're probably too young to remember when pint glasses were slightly
less than a pint. Thankfully we've moved on. That was very messy.

Cherry Blossom

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

Is that including the meniscus?

Of course.

carltonleon

‘Cause the bigger glass wouldn’t fit on the upper tray of our dishwashers, the answer is so obvious LOL

Son of a bitch

Cherry Blossom wrote: »

500cm cubed is an area bigger than the room I'm currently in.

1cm³ = 1ml =1 gram (for pure water at STP)

1000cm³ = 1000 ml = 1L =1kg (for pure water at STP)

Therefore, 500cm³ = 500 ml

Jennehy

Spilled a pint in conservatory earlier made a fine mess.

s7ryf3925pivug

Son of a bitch wrote: »

1cm³ = 1ml =1 gram (for pure water at STP)

1000cm³ = 1000 ml = 1L =1kg (for pure water at STP)

Therefore, 500cm³ = 500 ml

Small room so

o1s1n

Jennehy wrote: »

Spilled a pint in conservatory earlier made a fine mess.

Conservatory? La-de-dah

aristotle25

Son of a bitch wrote: »

The head would go above the meniscus I'd imagine, either way you'd only be talking 20 ml (maximum).

Only 20ml to you an me, but to the fat cats and their beanie counters that’s up to a 4% loss in revenue.

Dj Stiggie

Son of a bitch wrote: »

The head would go above the meniscus I'd imagine, either way you'd only be talking 20 ml (maximum).

The head does go above the meniscus (usually), but those glasses aren't nucleated so there's no head retention in them. The head goes flat almost instantly.

xabi

Son of a bitch wrote: »

1cm³ = 1ml =1 gram (for pure water at STP)

1000cm³ = 1000 ml = 1L =1kg (for pure water at STP)

Therefore, 500cm³ = 500 ml

500*500*500 = 125000000 cubic centimeters

Or 125 cubic meters

Not what he said, but I think that’s was his implication

ConnyMcDavid

Because the Irish would be complaining about waste of space at top of glass.

YFlyer

Son of a bitch wrote: »

Why are they designed like this? When carrying a pint (or pints) back to the table, a alight twitch results in some spilt drink. It's also just sloppy looking in my opinion and sometimes when the bar person slaps it on the counter in a busy pub, it results in some splashing down the side.

Why can't the glasses have a slightly larger volume that 1 pint with a mark on the glass which indicates where the meniscus of the drink should be to give a pint.

Obviously in most of mainland Europe the use 500 ml and 250 ml glasses but there, the glasses are as I described. They have a slightly higher overall volume than 500 cm³ with a line to indicate where the meniscus should be to make 0.5 L.

If the pint glasses were bigger with the drink filled to the "pint line" here would people give out? That's not a fuking pint ... blah blah blah... (See attached picture of the pint glass I nicked from Copenhagen with water filled to the meniscus line).

Sorry if this is a ramble

Perhaps in mainland Europe they use pint glasses.

Are Am Eye

Sure what's the problem if occasionally a little tiny bit might be spilled here or
there?



George Crabbe

Cherry Blossom

Son of a bitch wrote: »

1cm³ = 1ml =1 gram (for pure water at STP)

1000cm³ = 1000 ml = 1L =1kg (for pure water at STP)

Therefore, 500cm³ = 500 ml

No, 500cm cubed is 5 meters long X 5 meters wide x 5 meters high. There are 100cm in a meter

s7ryf3925pivug

Cherry Blossom wrote: »

No, 500cm cubed is 5 meters long X 5 meters wide x 5 meters high. There are 100cm in a meter

No it’s 5cm X 10cm X 10cm.

Or 5 X 5 X 20, to describe something a bit more pint-glass shaped.

pleas advice

or 6.2 cm diameter, 16.56 cm height (17 cm taking into account the top and bottom bevels...) for something more 'can' shaped

xabi

Cherry Blossom wrote: »

No, 500cm cubed is 5 meters long X 5 meters wide x 5 meters high. There are 100cm in a meter

You’re mixing up 500m3 with 500^3

seamus

It's phrasing and depends on whether you write it down or say it.

(500cm)³ is 500 x 500 x 500. Not 500cm³. Even though if you were saying either out loud you'd say "500 centimetres cubed"

So for the sake of clarity it's more correct to say "500 cubic centimeters" when you mean the latter.

I blame Cherry Blossom though because nobody even said "cubed" until he started this nerd fight.

Ciaran_B

The aesthetic beauty of a perfectly pulled pint of Guinness filling a pint glass right to the top, with the head curving slightly above it is a truly wonderful sight. Yes, a few amateur drinkers can't carry their pints without slopping them everywhere but that's a price worth paying.

kuntboy

Because Irish people have low IQs and are ugly

s7ryf3925pivug

The posts with incorrect maths have more thanks than the posts with correct maths. This is the sort of thing that got Donald Trump elected.

tigerboon

YFlyer wrote: »

Perhaps in mainland Europe they use pint glasses.

They mostly use 500ml glasses. Perhaps it's 500ml here as well....why don't you try putting the contents of a pint bottle (565ml or so) into a "pint" glass

seamus

It's not 500ml here. I have some Guinness glasses that were given out during the 150 years celebrations. They're noticeably smaller than your standard pint glass and hold exactly one 500ml can.