Pint of wine anyone? UK looks to bring back ‘silly measure’ (www.theguardian.com)

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The poet Robert Burns imagined a man toasting his lover with a “pint o’ wine”, and Winston Churchill was perhaps the most famous proponent of the pint bottle for champagne. Now, Rishi Sunak’s government has spied a “Brexit opportunity” to legalise the sale of wine by the pint once more – if it can persuade anyone to make the bottles.

Still and sparkling wine will be sold in 200ml, 500ml and 568ml (pint) sizes in 2024, alongside existing measures, under new rules, the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) announced on Wednesday. It said the change was made possible by Brexit.

However, the pint-sized move appeared to be the extent of a push towards imperial measures, after a government consultation into allowing more businesses to buy and sell using them resulted in no new action.

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[-] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

There are plenty of variable thickness bottles for other kinds of alcohol. It still has to hold 750ml of liquid if that is the volume of the spirit. It would be easier to water things than pass off an incorrect volume.

[-] hellothere@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

Yeah, exactly, so volume stays the same and designs can vary. That makes it easier for people to compare because it's 750ml vs 750ml, instead of both design and volume changing by small amounts.

You can't tell the internal volume of something based on its external dimensions, other than maximum potential size.

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