imperial pint

You might get served an imperial pint, which holds about 19 ounces.

An imperial pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter.

In Canada, Federal law mandates a standard imperial pint .

The imperial pint is equal to one eighth of an imperial gallon.

This makes an Imperial pint equivalent to 19.2 US fluid ounces.

The imperial cup, unofficially defined as half an imperial pint, is rarely found today.

And when the two pints were mere foam in the bottom of the imperial pint glass, I rapped on the panel for our man's attention.

"Imperial pints" are also increasingly popular.

A different, but equally useful, saying for the imperial pint is "A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter."

Six U.S. wet pints are about five imperial pints.

A pint or joug is equivalent to 1696 ml in metric measurements or roughly three Imperial pints.

There are also smaller 30 liter (54 imperial pints approx) kegs usually reserved for more specialist and/or premium European beers.

A mnemonic for its volume relative to the imperial pint is "a litre of water is a pint and three quarters".

A now-obsolete unit of measurement in Scotland known as the Scottish pint or joug equals three imperial pints.

The pint glass in pubs in Australia (which is so called) remains closer to the standard imperial pint, at 570 mL.

The imperial pint is still used to measure amounts of beer in the countries of the old British Empire, and milk for the United Kingdom.

The perfectly poured Imperial pints of Guinness are divine and there's live Irish (or Irish-inspired) music nightly (no cover charge).

The imperial pint (568 mL) is used in the United Kingdom and Ireland and to some extent in other Commonwealth nations.

"Must have been those two imperial pints of Hog City Porter you had with your baby-back ribs at Divane's Lakeview Grill."

Also the Imperial pint (expressed in metric units) is a permitted unit for milk in returnable bottles and for draught beer and cider in British pubs.

Churchill, who preferred older vintages bottled in imperial pints, named a race horse Odette Pol-Roger after one of the most glamorous of the Pol-Roger women.

The standard keg size is 11 imperial gallons (50 liter/88 imperial pints approx) and the vast majority of keg beers are supplied in this keg size.

In the United Kingdom, milk sold to the door is mainly measured in Imperial pints (but labelled 568ml), because the glass bottles are 'returnable', which means they were excluded from metrication.

It was not uncommon for workers (including sailors) who engaged in heavy physical labour to drink more than 10 Imperial pints (5.7 litres) of small beer during a workday to maintain their hydration level.

This difference dates back to the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which standardised the various pints in use at the time to a single imperial pint throughout the British Empire.