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How Many Ounces of Beer in that Pint?
There’s nothing more annoying than the short pour, right? Bartenders and servers who don’t fill your beer up to the point where the head arches over the top of the glass tend to piss off customers. But how about ones who do fill up the glass, except that the pint glass they’re using is actually a couple ounces short of a pint? The Wall Street Journal reports on the (unfortunately growing) phenomenon, which was first documented by a Pacific Northwest jack-of-all-trades.
Jeff Alworth, a Portland, Ore., beer blogger, university researcher and a founder of the Honest Pint Project, has been testing suspected short-pouring bars, in some cases measuring his beer-glass capacity by the men’s room sink. His group collected more than 400 names in two weeks for an online petition urging state regulators to enforce a 16-ounce rule. And at one point, he was posting the names of bars that didn’t measure up on his Web site. But in response to complaints, he now has taken to listing the names of establishments serving full pints in bigger glasses.
More on the Honest Pint Project from its originator, Beervana blogger Jeff Alworth, here. Honest Pint Project on WSJ coverage of said Project here.
I’m happy to see that BridgePort, my favorite Portland brewhouse, pours an honest pint, according to Beervana.
One final point… The legislator noted in the piece who wants to spend tax dollars to enforce the pint, when the Honest Pint Project seems to be bringing things into line nicely–and without taxpayer money–wouldn’t get my vote.
