Third pint glasses in Wetherspoon's

Wetherspoon's are offering beer in thirds of a pint during their current beer festival. Well, to be honest, I think they're offering three beers, each in a 1/3 pint glass, rather than individual thirds of a pint, but anyway....

What caught my eye was that the 1/3 pint glasses appear to be line measures. They are the new-fangled Euro-glasses, i.e. stamped with the CE logo rather than the Crown, but they have a little smudged line just above the stamp.

Are they line measures? If so, why don't they say so? Crown stamps say "HALF PINT TO LINE" or whatever; anything else is an implied brim measure.

And if these glasses are brim measures, what's the line for?

Reply to
Joyce Whitchurch
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They're also doing "tasters" in tiny glasses. Not before time IMHO.

Reply to
Christine

I've been to two spoon's pubs during their beer festival (one at Marble Arch which was awful and one in Leicester Square which was average for wetherspoon's). Neither of them actually had 3 beers on the go when I asked for three thirds. What's the point of getting 3 1/3s if two of them are the same? Might as well get 2 halfs.

Reply to
Philip Potter

I was in the Marble Arch one last Saturday. Around a dozen festival beers on and the ones I tasted scored at least a 3 and some a 4.

Reply to
Brett...

The ones I tried were lucky to get a 1 or a 2 - as at so many 'Spoon's they were too cold, with too much condition still in the beer. Just as well they're only thirds of a pint.

Reply to
Joyce Whitchurch

Well, not really, with a full pint it'll probably get up to a sensible temperature and the condition will have been tuned down a bit by the time you reach the second half...

Surprised the Marble Arch one was lacking for the earlier poster, I've always found that one to be just fine to meet up for a beer.

Reply to
Simon Cooper

I've been there twice in the last month. When I was there the first time, there were only 2 pumped beers, we ordered food which was tasteless, and the bitter was chilled. The second time, while I was at the bar the manager seemed to be having an argument with the barmaid, which didn't do much for the atmosphere.

Reply to
Philip Potter

They are definitely improving IMHO. The one in Bromsgrove was consistently scoring 4 last night. Purity Gold in particular stood out.

Reply to
Brett...

In message , Brett... writes

It won't last, but on Thursday there was someone behind the bar who we'd seen before and I had a decent pint of Robinsons' Old Tom.

Reply to
MadCow

A pint of Old Tom? I'm surprised you can remember it!

:-)))

Reply to
Christine

A half is enough for me (also a sip is enough of the Eccausine(sp?) Fruit beer!)

Reply to
Marcus Red

Not surprised - Ecaussines brew some of the worst beer in Belgium!

Brian

Reply to
Brian Debenham

Philip Potter wrote: [regarding Wetherspoon's beer festival]

It seems that I've just been unlucky - this weekend, I ended up in the West Gate Inn, a Wetherspoon's in Canterbury. It was brilliant - they had maybe 6 beers on, although a half of Old Tom and a pint of Inveralmond Lia Fail was enough for me. Both very nice beers, although I can't quite remember exactly how nice due to the other things I drank that night...

Reply to
Philip Potter

The message from Christine contains these words:

They have always done tasters in our local JDW. One day, shortly after their new Wick branch opened I just asked for a taster and they gave me one without quibble; since then I taste any new brew I'm not familiar with before buying a full pint.

Reply to
Compo

I gather that there is indeed a line and it is the 1/3rd pint mark.

Reply to
Chris F

In article , Joyce Whitchurch writes

Called a "nip" round here (Liverpool).

Reply to
Mike Tomlinson

That would be a quarter of a pint of beer in some parts of the UK.

A "stick" is a third of a pint in Birmingham, the Black Country and possibly other parts of the West Midlands.

We've been here before :-)

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Brett...

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