1/3 and 2/3rd pints a ‘thing’?

[geeman237]

I’m in England on holiday and have now been to a restaurant serving 1/3, & 2/3rd pints and a pub with pint glasses marked with 2/3rds too. Is this a new thing?

[Doofus]

Micro brweries and craft beer pubs offer 1/3 pints, so you can taste several different beers.

[smn159]

It's apparently rare but perfectly legal.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

We boycott pubs that do this

2/3 is normally the same price as a pint elsewhere!

Big con

[fat80b]

In terms of weights and measures, it has always been "a thing".

I used to see 1/3 pint glasses / schooners fairly regularly, but can't say that I've seen them much in recent times.

[Motorman74]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

We boycott pubs that do this

2/3 is normally the same price as a pint elsewhere!

Big con

Not in my experience - normally on craft beer establishments it's done because 2/3rds keeps the price looking reasonable, whereas a full pint is enough to make you think twice about buying... It uses to be pretty good at keeping the price under 4 quid compared to a fiver plus for a pint...

[ecsrobin]

Motorman74 said:

Not in my experience - normally on craft beer establishments it's done because 2/3rds keeps the price looking reasonable, whereas a full pint is enough to make you think twice about buying... It uses to be pretty good at keeping the price under 4 quid compared to a fiver plus for a pint...

It’s not to do with the price looking reasonable. Craft beers can be quite high in alcohol. It’s quite common for anything over 8% to be served as a schooner (2/3’s).

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Motorman74 said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

We boycott pubs that do this

2/3 is normally the same price as a pint elsewhere!

Big con

Not in my experience - normally on craft beer establishments it's done because 2/3rds keeps the price looking reasonable, whereas a full pint is enough to make you think twice about buying... It uses to be pretty good at keeping the price under 4 quid compared to a fiver plus for a pint...

Not here in Nottisham. I think they're gambling not many can divide by two then multiply by three

[Terminator X]

geeman237 said:

I’m in England on holiday and have now been to a restaurant serving 1/3, & 2/3rd pints and a pub with pint glasses marked with 2/3rds too. Is this a new thing?

Fuego sell 2/3 pints and have done for a few years now. They are located in Fenwicks Dept stores.

TX.

[Jamescrs]

Never heard of it but it would never enter my head to ask for anything other than a pint I suppose

[twing]

I'm off to a beer festival tomorrow and hoping for 1/3's so I'm not completely trollied going through the menu

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

twing said:

I'm off to a beer festival tomorrow and hoping for 1/3's so I'm not completely trollied going through the menu

Lightweight

[twing]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Lightweight

[FamousPheasant]

ecsrobin said:

It’s not to do with the price looking reasonable. Craft beers can be quite high in alcohol. It’s quite common for anything over 8% to be served as a schooner (2/3’s).

Exactly, sack drinking a pint of 12% imperial stout! 1/3 is plenty.

[Lotobear]

I've noticed the 1/3 thing in many craft bars and, yes, it normally applies to stronger beers but I would agree with my cynics hat on it's all about making some of the outrageous prices charged for hipster type beers more palatable fiscally than anything else.

[General Price]

I remember my Dad talking about a gill of beer.I think that was a quarter pint.

[ecsrobin]

Lotobear said:

I've noticed the 1/3 thing in many craft bars and, yes, it normally applies to stronger beers but I would agree with my cynics hat on it's all about making some of the outrageous prices charged for hipster type beers more palatable fiscally than anything else.

There really isn’t much profit in craft beer. You make far more off spirits in a bar. If it’s expensive it’s because it’s taken a lot of time and ingredients.

[InformationSuperHighway]

ecsrobin said:

Lotobear said:

I've noticed the 1/3 thing in many craft bars and, yes, it normally applies to stronger beers but I would agree with my cynics hat on it's all about making some of the outrageous prices charged for hipster type beers more palatable fiscally than anything else.

There really isn’t much profit in craft beer. You make far more off spirits in a bar. If it’s expensive it’s because it’s taken a lot of time and ingredients.

Another reason that traditional pubs are closing, yet gastro ones are thriving. The margin is elsewhere these days.

[ATG]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Not here in Nottisham. I think they're gambling not many can divide by two then multiply by three

[untakenname]

I don't mind halves of high percentage beer as long as they are half the price of a full pint.

Found this place quite odd as they had halves of even low percentage beers, prices were very decent so no issues just buying a full pint imo.