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It took us (the Irish) a long time to get used to drinking anything other than 500ml beers in Germany, but once I had lived there for a few years it would have been unthinkable to go over a "null dreier" 0.3l beer when out on a nights drinking.
Main plus points were you always had a fresh beer to hand and being a stemmed glass the beer didn't get warm as you got to the bottom of it.
The 0.1l was considered by all Germans to be a granny beer, and they'd drink that with their dinner( grannies that is.)
I'd not be bothered by a change in size personallly, but at home I do drink from pint glasses mostly.

"EoinMag":2wv3yi4n wrote: I'd not be bothered by a change in size personallly, but at home I do drink from pint glasses mostly.[/quote:2wv3yi4n]

In Ireland everything is set up for drinking pints. If you drink smaller quantities, like halves or 33cl bottles, you end up paying more per volume for your beer.

Why isn't a half pint half the price of a pint?

[quote:13crhgic]Why isn't a half pint half the price of a pint?[/quote:13crhgic]
Say a pint it 4:50. AFAIK roughly that is
1.50 to brewery
1.50 to government
1.50 to bar

Now on that half pint that would be
.75 to brewery
.75 to government
1:50 to bar

or 3 euro not 2.25. They still have to clean and collect the glass, light the place etc so there is not much difference in cost to for a pub between someone who drinks 4 pints or 4 glasses.

I do not think people will drink less if the serving glass is smaller (except possibly for strong beers) Unlike coke and chocolate I think people drink for a period of time at a set rate until their brain is mildly fuzzy.

Reasons why people would drink less
1) alcohol is more expensive per ml
2) more time queuing at the bar = less time drinking beer
...

Reasons why people would drink more
1) beer is fresher and tastes nicer
...

"EoinMag":2izeb8o3 wrote: The 0.1l was considered by all Germans to be a granny beer, and they'd drink that with their dinner( grannies that is.)
[/quote:2izeb8o3]Unless you're drinking in Köln (although normally 0.2) or something.

I was drinking beers from 0.1L Stößchen in Dortmund[/url:2izeb8o3] (see pic of wooden rack with the glasses) last week though. Apparently the miners and steel workers used to have a nip of Export for breakfast in these, so I wouldn't have argued the granny aspect with those brutes <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

&amp;quot;Adeptus&amp;quot;:13xapbqq wrote:

&amp;quot;EoinMag&amp;quot;:13xapbqq wrote: The 0.1l was considered by all Germans to be a granny beer, and they'd drink that with their dinner( grannies that is.)
[/quote:13xapbqq]Unless you're drinking in Köln (although normally 0.2) or something.

I was drinking beers from 0.1L Stößchen in Dortmund[/url:13xapbqq] (see pic of wooden rack with the glasses) last week though. Apparently the miners and steel workers used to have a nip of Export for breakfast in these, so I wouldn't have argued the granny aspect with those brutes <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->[/quote:13xapbqq]

Of course I forgot about the meter of alt.

mmmm I remember Hoevels to be a fantastic beer, years now since I had it, but it was a nice one.