18 Oct
2025
18 Oct
'25
12:11 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2025, Martin Bishop wrote:
On my first trip to the UK, in 1985, a (proper Imperial) pint of
standard ale was 85p and a pint of lager was 95p.
It's been 20 years since I've been to London, but even then, beer was
up to over 5 GBP per pint.
I shall shift into BeerMode, everyone else seems
to be there
[BeerMode raambling]
British beer is excellent, and always has been. (and, It doesn't need to
be cooled down to the edge of freezing)
My father used to say, "A pint is a pound, the wrold around"; if that ever
was true of British beer, it wouldn't be now and even as a unit of measure, a pint is ambiguous.
With a proper pint glass, there's a mark. Fill to the mark with beer
(not foam) - totally unambiguous.
-ethan