OT:Pub spirit measures

Paul

Are the Scottish measures not larger than the English ones?

Customarily, but the only measures now permitted are either 25ml or 35ml

- the pub must not mix them.

Owain

Not any more I believe, ?

This dates back to the days when English spirits were served in one sixth of a gill measures while in Scotland they used quarter gill measures (hence the Scottish 'half and half', a double whisky and a half pint beer chaser). Today pubs throughout the UK must serve in 25ml or 35ml measures (25ml is slightly more than a sixth of a gill).

Paul

Thanks for that, my education is now complete, I think not. ;-)

I often wondered where that came from - but I'm not sure why a double whisky is called a "half"?

Two quarter gill shots of whisky = half a gill :-)

Paul

In article , Paul Sherwin writes

Ah but that's a British gill not a Yorkshire gill which at least when I was a lad was half a pint not a quarter, now that would be a measure of Scotch :-)

Mike

Got it now (not too thick really!!!)- cheers, Paul!

How about Gaping Gill? You'd get a lot of pints in there :-)