"64 and 128 U.S. fluid ounces, approximately 2-4 litres. In New Zealand and Australia a pitcher sometimes can refer to a much larger measure of beer). In Britain in those parts of the county where there is a choice between a pint (20 fluid ounces) tankard and a straight glass of beer, a tankard may be called a tankard or a ""jug"". A jug of beer may also refer to a jug containing larger amounts (usually sized in pints), but if a large jug is sold it will be advertised as such in the pub and this helps to reduce"
"pints. These pints are divided into two cups (though the imperial cup is rarely used now), which in turn are divided into two gills (gills are also rarely used). Thus a gallon is equal to four quarts, eight pints, sixteen cups or thirty-two gills. The imperial gill is further divided into five fluid ounces, whereas the US gill is divided into four fluid ounces. Thus an imperial fluid ounce is of an imperial pint or of an imperial gallon, while a US fluid ounce is of a US pint or of a US gallon. The imperial gallon, quart, pint, cup"
"and 12 imperial fluid ounces (625 and 341 mL), respectively, whereas a true imperial quart was 40 fluid ounces. Over the years, some provinces banned the sale of beer in the larger bottle. For example, in Ontario in the 1950s only the pint could be sold, but in Quebec both sizes were about equally common. In 1961, both sizes were replaced, nationwide, by the standardized bottle, equal in volume to the ""small"" and affectionately known as the ""stubby"". Some years later however, Ontario (like some other provinces) began to allow the sale of ""tall boy"" cans containing 740ml of beer."
"imperial fluid ounces to the gallon making the mass of a fluid ounce of water approximately one avoirdupois ounce (28.4 g). This relationship is still approximately valid even though the imperial gallon's definition was later revised to be 4.54609 litres, making the imperial fluid ounce exactly 28.4130625 ml. The US fluid ounce is based on the US gallon, which is based on the wine gallon of 231 cubic inches that was used in England prior to 1824. With the adoption of the international inch, the US fluid ounce became 29.5735295625 ml exactly, or about 4% larger than the imperial unit."
"Fluid ounce A fluid ounce (abbreviated fl oz, fl. oz. or oz. fl., old forms ℥, fl ℥, f℥, ƒ ℥) is a unit of volume (also called capacity) typically used for measuring liquids. Various definitions have been used throughout history, but only two are still in common use: the British Imperial and the United States customary fluid ounce. An imperial fluid ounce is of an imperial pint, of an imperial gallon or approximately 28.41 ml. A US fluid ounce is of a US fluid pint and of a US liquid gallon or approximately 29.57 ml, making it about 4%"
"Fluid ounce A fluid ounce (abbreviated fl oz, fl. oz. or oz. fl., old forms ℥, fl ℥, f℥, ƒ ℥) is a unit of volume (also called capacity) typically used for measuring liquids. Various definitions have been used throughout history, but only two are still in common use: the British Imperial and the United States customary fluid ounce. An imperial fluid ounce is of an imperial pint, of an imperial gallon or approximately 28.41 ml. A US fluid ounce is of a US fluid pint and of a US liquid gallon or approximately 29.57 ml, making it about 4%"
"in diameter at the lid, and 2.60 inches in diameter at the widest point of the body. Also available are 16oz cans known as pounders, and 24oz cans or larger are referred to as tall boys. In Canada, the standard size was previously 10 Imperial fluid ounces (284 ml), later redefined and labeled as 280 ml in around 1980. This size was commonly used with steel drink cans in the 1970s and early 1980s. However, the US standard 355 ml can size was standardized in the 1980s and 1990s, upon the conversion from steel to aluminium. Some drinks such as"
"16 ounce American traditional pint. Under the Canada Weights and Measures Act, if asked for a ""pint of beer"", businesses should serve customers 0.568 litres of beer with an accuracy of 0.5%, and if asked for a ""pinte de bière"" they should serve them 1.136 litres. The Imperial system of measurement is no longer taught in Canadian schools, which leads to confusion when customers ask how big a drinking establishment's pints are. Servers and even managers may not know. To avoid legal issues, many drinking establishments are moving away from using the term ""pint"" and are selling ""glasses"" or ""sleeves"""
"(approximately 82 liters/144 imperial pints) and 22 imperial gallon (approximately 100 liters/172 imperial pints) kegs, however owing to their size they are not so popular as manual handling is seen by some to be difficult, and as a result they tend to be used only for large-scale events and bars with high throughput. For bars that sell an excessive volume of beer there is the 36 imperial gallon (150 liter/260 imperial pint) keg, however due to its very large size few people can move them making it an impractical choice. In the U.S. as of 2005, there are 21 states"
"fluid pint of water weighs about a pound (16 ounces), resulting in the popular saying, ""A pint's a pound, the world around."" However, a US pint of water weighs 1.04375 pounds and the statement does not hold the world around because the imperial (UK) pint, which was also the standard measure in Australia, India, Malaya, New Zealand, South Africa, etc., weighs 1.25 pounds. A different saying for the imperial pint is ""a pint of water's a pound and a quarter"". The pint is traditionally one-eighth of a gallon. In the Latin of the apothecaries' system, ""octavius"" or ""octarius"" (plural ""octavii"""
"all the various gallons with a new imperial gallon based on ten pounds of distilled water at (277.42 cubic inches), from which the current UK pint is derived. The various Canadian provinces continued to use the Queen Anne Winchester wine gallon as a basis for their pint until 1873, well after Britain adopted the imperial system in 1824. This made the Canadian pint compatible with the American pint, but after 1824 it was incompatible with the British pint. The traditional French ""pinte"" used in Lower Canada (Quebec) was twice the size of the traditional English ""pint"" used in Upper Canada"
"(Ontario), about 1 litre versus 0.5 litres. After four of the British provinces united in the Canadian Confederation in 1867, Canada legally adopted the British imperial system of measure in 1873, making Canadian liquid units incompatible with American ones from that year forward. In 1873, the French Canadian ""pinte"" was defined as being one imperial quart or two imperial pints, while the imperial pint was legally called a ""chopine"" in French Canada. Canadian imperial units of liquid measure remain incompatible with American traditional units to this day, and although the Canadian pint, quart, and gallon are still legal units of"
"smaller than the US fluid ounce. All of the other former British colonies, such as Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, converted to the metric system in the 1960s and 1970s; so, while the term ""pint"" may still be in common use in these countries, it may no longer refer to the British imperial pint once used throughout the British Empire. In the United Kingdom, the imperial pint is still the primary unit for draught beer and cider, as it is for milk sold in returnable bottles and some cartons. In the UK, legislation mandates that draught beer and"
"in two sizes, colloquially known as ""quarts"" and ""pints"". They were 22 and 12 imperial ounces (625 and 341 ml), respectively, which were much smaller than the British units. Some provinces banned the sale of beer in the larger bottle. For example, in Ontario in the 1950s only the smaller size could be sold, but in Quebec both sizes were about equally common. The numerous incompatibilities between traditional Canadian, British, French, and American unit systems was one of the driving forces behind metrication in Canada. Draft beer in Canada, when advertised as a ""pint"", is legally required to be 568"
"at 62 °F (16.67 °C). This convenient fluid-ounce-to-avoirdupois-ounce relation does not exist in the US system. One noticeable comparison between the imperial system and the US system is between some Canadian and American beer bottles. Many Canadian brewers package beer in a 12-imperial-fluid-ounce bottles, which are 341 mL each. American brewers package their beer in 12-US-fluid-ounce bottles, which are 355 mL each. This results in the Canadian bottles being labelled as 11.5 fl oz in US units when imported into the United States. Because Canadian beer bottles predate the adoption of the Metric System in that country, they are still"
"the imperial gallon. In other words, a pint of ale and a pint of wine were not the same size. On the other hand, some measures such as the fluid ounce were not defined as a fraction of a gallon. For that reason, it is not always possible to give accurate definitions of units such as pints or quarts, in terms of ounces, prior to the establishment of the imperial gallon. Liquid measures as binary submultiples of their respective gallons (ale or wine): Wine is traditionally measured based on the ""wine gallon"" and its related units. Other liquids such as"
"medium-high. Fruity, floral and herbal character from hops of all origins may contribute to the overall experience. This beer is often called a black IPA or Cascadian dark ale. Vital Statistics:<br> Style: Black IPA<br> Original Gravity: 1.056<br> Final Gravity: 1.013<br> International Bitterness Units: 50<br> Alcohol By Volume: 6% Imperial IPA Based on an American Imperial India Pale Ale, this is an exceptionally hop forward beer with a strong flavour and higher alcohol. Craftbeer.com describes Imperial IPA's as ""High hop bitterness, flavor and aroma. Hop character is fresh and evident from utilization of any variety of hops. Alcohol content is medium-high"
"to high and notably evident with a medium-high to full body. The intention of this style is to exhibit the fresh and evident character of hops."" Style guide for Imperial IPA's according to craftbeer.com<br> ""High hop bitterness, flavor and aroma. Hop character is fresh and evident from utilization of any variety of hops. Alcohol content is medium-high to high and notably evident with a medium-high to full body. The intention of this style is to exhibit the fresh and evident character of hops."" Vital Statistics:<br> Style: Imperial IPA<br> Original Gravity: 1.067<br> Final Gravity: 1.013<br> International Bitterness Units: 93<br> Alcohol By"
"dessert-spoon was an unofficial but widely used unit of fluid measure equal to two fluid drams, or fluid ounce. In the United States and pre-1824 England, the fluid ounce was of a Queen Anne wine gallon (which was defined as exactly 231 cubic inches) thus making the dessert-spoon approximately . The post-1824 (British) imperial Apothecaries' dessert-spoon was also fluid ounce, but the ounce in question was of an imperial gallon, which was originally defined as 277.274 cubic inches, but later adjusted to approximately 277.419433 cubic inches, in either case yielding a dessert-spoon of approximately . In both the British and"
"ounce, and various ounces used in international trade, such as Paris troy. The situation is further complicated by the medieval practice of ""allowances"", whereby a unit of measure was not necessarily equal to the sum of its parts. For example, the had a for the weight of the sack and other packaging materials. In 1824, the British Parliament defined the imperial gallon as the volume of ten pounds of water at standard temperature. The gallon was divided into four quarts, the quart into two pints, the pint into four gills, and the gill into five ounces. Thus, there were 160"
"Act (R.S. 1985), which has the laws in English and French printed side-by-side, defines a pint in English as 1/8 of a gallon, but defines a pinte in French as 1/4 of a gallon. Thus, if you speak English and order ""a pint of beer"", servers are legally required to serve you 568 ml of beer, but if you speak French and order """"une pinte de bière"""", they are legally required to serve an Imperial quart (""une pinte""), which is 1136 ml—twice as much. To order an Imperial pint when speaking French in Canada, one must instead order ""une chopine"
"based on the apothecaries' system. A volume of liquid that was approximately that of an apothecaries' ounce of water was called a fluid ounce, and was divided into fluid drachms and sometimes also fluid scruples. The analogue of the grain was called a minim. The imperial and US systems differ in the size of the basic unit (the gallon or the pint, one gallon being equal to eight pints), and in the number of fluid ounces per pint. Apothecaries' systems for volumes were internationally much less common than those for weights. Before introduction of the imperial units in the UK,"
"oz, 4.546 litres) whereas the US gallon is eight US pints (128 US fl oz, 3.785 litres). The metric system was officially adopted in the UK, for most purposes, in the 20th century and both imperial and metric are taught in schools and used in books. It is now mandatory for the sale of food to also show metric. However, it is not uncommon to purchase goods which are measured and labeled in metric, but the actual measure is rounded to the equivalent imperial measure (i.e., milk labeled as 568 mL / 1 pint). In September 2007, the EU with"
"In the book ""Civilization One"", Butler and Knight contend that the basic units of volume and mass of the imperial system, the Imperial pint and the avoirdupois pound, are also derived from their Megalithic Yard. Just like the litre is the tenth part of the metre to the cubic power, the tenth part of the Megalithic Yard to the cubic power produces a volume of (82.96 cm∕10) = 570.96 mL, a very close approximation of the modern pint of 568.26 mL. Similarly, they argue that this theoretical Megalithic pint, if filled with barley dry seeds, weighs on average a number"
"of any direction by Congress, the United States Treasury chose the second smallest gallon, the ""Queen Anne gallon"" of 231 cubic inches (3.785 litres) to be the official gallon in the United States for fiscal purposes. Sixteen US fluid ounces make a US pint (8 pints equals 1 gallon in both customary and imperial systems). During the reform of Weights and measures legislation in the United Kingdom in 1824, old gallons were replaced by the new imperial gallon which was defined to be the volume to 10 pounds of water at 62 °F (17 °C) and determined experimentally to be"
"metric measure. Such milk bottles are no longer officially referred to as pints. However, the ""pint glass"" in pubs in Australia remains closer to the standard imperial pint, at 570 ml. It holds about 500 ml of beer and about 70 ml of froth, except in South Australia, where a pint is served in a 425 ml glass and a 570 ml glass is called an ""imperial pint"". In New Zealand, there is no longer any legal requirement for beer to be served in standard measures: in pubs, the largest size of glass, which is referred to as a pint,"
"imperial tun remained evenly divisible by small integers. There was also little change in the actual value of the tun. Standard tuns of wine came to serve as a measure of a ship's weight capacity. In the US customary system, the tun (symbol: US tu) is defined as 252 US fluid gallons. In the imperial system, the tun is defined as 210 imperial gallons. Both the imperial and US tuns were subdivided into smaller units as follows. Tun (unit) The tun (, , Middle Latin: """") is an English unit of ""liquid volume"" (not weight), used for measuring wine, oil"
"volume. The US liquid quart equals 57.75 cubic inches, which is exactly equal to 0.946352946 litres. In the United States, the dry quart is equal to 1/4 of a US dry gallon, exactly 1.101220942715 litres. The imperial quart, used for both liquid or dry capacity, is equal to one quarter of an imperial gallon, or exactly 1.1365225 litres. In French Canada, by federal law, the imperial quart is called pinte. The Winchester quart is an archaic measure, roughly equal to 2 Imperial quarts or 2.25 litres. The 2.5L bottles in which laboratory chemicals are supplied are sometimes referred to as"
"be exactly (277.4 cu in), the imperial gallon is close in size to the old ale gallon. The Winchester measure was made obsolete in the British Empire but remained in use in the US. The Winchester bushel was replaced with an imperial bushel of 8 imperial gallons. The subdivisions of the bushel were maintained. As with US dry measures the imperial system divides the bushel into 4 pecks, 8 gallons, 32 quarts or 64 pints. Thus all of these imperial measures are about 3% larger than their US dry measure counterparts. Fluid measure is not as straightforward. The American colonists"
"the ""schooner"" of 285 ml, (an ""imperial half pint""), and the ""pint"" of 425 ml. ""Imperial pints"" are also increasingly popular. Also increasingly popular inside pubs and restaurants is the sale of ""premium"" and non-locally brewed beer in bottles in the size range 300 ml to 375 ml. Headmasters is one of the most common glass manufacturers, at least for the schooner size. Many pubs in Sydney and Melbourne particularly, offer Guinness style and/or conical pint glasses along with tankard glass and British dimpled glass pint mugs. Larger serving measurements have become increasingly popular. Jugs, 1 fluid litre Maß in"
"or ""Little Eagle"" in reference to its logo, which is the Imperial Eagle used in European heraldry. Advertisement has been managed by GarnierBBDO. Calories-150 <br> Carbohydrates-13.845 grams <br> Protein-3.59 grams <br> Style-Dortmunder Lager <br> Alcohol Content-4.5% by volume <br> IBU-16.5 Imperial (beer) Imperial (Cerveza Imperial) is a Costa Rican brand of beer, manufactured by the Florida Ice & Farm Company (FIFCO). Imperial, a lager, was first produced by the Ortega brewery in 1924 and is the most popular beer in Costa Rica. It has spun off ""Imperial Light"" and ""Imperial Silver"". FIFCO produces other beers including its ""Pilsen"", ""Bavaria"", and"
"in 2012. Carlsberg brew the Tetley's Mild (3.2% ABV) in both light and dark forms. Imperial - Originally created for the Teesside market, and at one point was advertised as ""Teesside's favourite pint"". It was launched nationally as a premium 4.3% cask ale in 2002. It used three separate yeasts and had eight months of development, but the variant has since been withdrawn. It continues as a pasteurised ale in kegs. About 24,000 hectolitres of Tetley's Milds and Imperial were sold in 2010. Tetley's advertising suffered during the 1980s when its television advertisements focussed too heavily on a folksy, old"
"and gill are approximately 20% larger than their US counterparts and are therefore not interchangeable. The imperial fluid ounce, on the other hand, is only 4% smaller than the US fluid ounce and therefore they are often used interchangeably. In the US, liquor is often sold in ""fifths"", which are approximately one-fifth of a US gallon. The term derives most immediately from ""galun, galon"" in Old Northern French, but the usage was common in several languages, for example in Old French and (bowl) in Old English. This suggests a common origin in Romance Latin, but the ultimate source of the"