Beer and wine being under poured, warns Trading Standards

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1. 5% of a pint is roughly 28ml, or just over a single measure’s worth. It’s barely anything but when I worked in the pubs while at University some of the landlords were complete cunts about wastage which might explain underpouring.

2. As if it’s not bad enough that a pint now costs seventeen grand…

3. Reminds me when I was younger and drank in a dive bar.
   Every Tuesday was BOGOF where every pint was 60% head 🤣 so you’d end up paying the same money for less beer. 😭

4. Depends if your using a glass that’s a pint to the top or a pint to a line with space to the head.

   The Campaign for Real Ale is arguing that return of the Crown mark on pint glasses should be matched with a change in the law to make sure drinkers always get a full pint of beer at the bar

   https://camra.org.uk/press_release/make-mine-a-pint-camra-tells-government-as-they-look-to-change-weights-and-measures-laws/#:~:text=The%20Campaign%20for%20Real%20Ale%20is%20arguing%20that%20return%20of,of%20beer%20at%20the%20bar.

5. Trading Standards once again showing they have absolutely no clue. They’re just a random council assigned pen pusher with no life experience or understanding of the world past their desk.

   Head on a beer is made up of what? Beer. It’s an important part of every pint and makes the beer taste better. It’s how beer has been served for HUNDREDS of years until tight ass London bankers started demanding all pints be brimmed. Beer should have 1-2 cm of head on it. TS should go to Czechia or Germany and try this nonsense there.

   “Oh but pints with a line exist” yes which result in over pours as foam is roughly 1/3 liquid.

   Edit: The LAW stipulates 5% of the pint can be head. Sorry to be the voice of logic, experience, historical understanding and reason. If you want pints of flaccid brown beer drink your Da’s homebrew and don’t ruin everyone else’s perfect pints with your penny clutching.

6. Probably depends on which part of the country you’re in. I know its a stereotype but Yorkshire men complain about too much head whilst in the south, particularly on hand pulled Ale, because they don’t use a sprinkler it comes out flat and with no head. I much prefer sprinklers and am happy for some head – thats how beer is supposed to be.

   Wheatbeers like Erdinger are supposed to have massive heads on them.

7. Just ask them to top it up. Especially with pints of ale.

8. > More than two thirds of pints of beer and glasses of wine being poured in pubs and bars in the UK contain less drink than they should, new research suggests.
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   > A report published on Friday by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) found 70% of the beer and wine it sampled across the country was being short measured.

   At least they don’t do iced beer?

9. Go to Europe and ask for a pint if you want to be really upset

10. > Duncan Stephenson, a spokesman for CTSI, told the BBC it would not identify individual locations or chains it had found were under-pouring drinks “because we don’t want to do that”.

    Oh come on now I think we have a right to know, and publish the full results like food standards/hygiene do.

11. In the United Kingdom? Who is doing that, that’s literally the ONE thing we are not polite about!

12. More people need to learn the phrase “could you top that off mate?”

13. Try getting a Pint of san miguel without a head. Seriously, seems impossible for the bar staff…

14. We’re at £1 a gram for tobacco soon to out price other fixes