pints

[jam79]

in britan we ask for a pint of lager/bitter, what do they ask for in America?

[maxi29]

Chilled flavoured water i believe :-)

[n00dles]

A bottle of Bud !!!

[Ethel]

They drink pints too.

The USA has not gone metric.

[SaxyJag]

Bud, my hard-drinking cousin tells me, is 'a little thick' for his tastes. The 'socially acceptable' beers tend to be light beers - Coors, Busch etc. Yes, Maxi, about as toxic as Perrier!

I once took up a restaurant there on the offer of 'British Beers'. They had Guinness, Newcastle Brown and something I'd never heard of. Knowing how Guinness can be really dodgy if it's 'bad' (and we all know the yanks have no respect for draft beer anyway), I opted for the NB. A safe enough choice, under the circumstances, you'd think. Yeuggh! All gas and no taste - and ice cold!!!

[jam79]

cheers everyone, i just wondered if they specifically asked for a pint. shame they haven't got the privilage of bitter over there.

[maxi29]

I've had bitter in America, in a strange bar in NYC. I can't say it was great bitter but it was definitely bitter. There are one or two microbreweries who produce the stuff but it's a small drop compared to the floods of Bud, Coors, Millers etc that they poison themselves with over there.

[happy_face]

In Denmark they don't use pints so you'll ask for either a large or a small beer

[Narolines]

The only drinkable US brew I've ever come across is Anchor Steam Beer from San Francisco - not exactly bitter, but quite like an IPA and usually served at a sensible temperature (at least in SF). As for the rest, it doesn't matter what measure you ask for - it's gnat's pee anyway, and so cold that any flavour it might have accidentally acquired is annihilated, while simultaneously anaesthetising your tastebuds as an insurance against your tasting anything. And their pints are smaller than ours......(ducks to avoid the brickbats flying across the Pond!)