Short beer pours.

Yeah, it is quite annoying. Especially places who use the cheater 14 oz pints and try to pass them off as a 16 oz draft with two fingers of head. Sometimes it is hard to tell if the establishment is ignorant or trying to pull a fast one. But at the very least, if the bartender doesn't top it off upon being asked, I usually won't frequent that establishment anymore. Or at the least, order draft beer there.

 

I don't go out of my way to talk poorly of places for shorting pours, but I certainly let friends/family know if they ask how a place was after I have visited. Those sentiments are also reflected in my review here on Beer Advocate. Not to say I promote Yelp shaming, but if service was bad and the pours short - folks need to know.

Otherwise, I wouldn't say I'm tired of short pours, because I don't revisit places that short change me as a consumer.

 

#firstworldproblems

 

It's been a Long time seen a bar selling 14 OZ beers and calling them pints. In fact most of them don't use the term pint at all. Everyone seems to call their beers 8,10'12' or 16 OZ pours.

 

There's a place I go to that has 18 oz glasses and shows a line below the lip that reads "proper pint." They definitely fill those things up.

 

Vote with your feet, I say. Also, I think that it's no coincidence that better bars are pouring their beers into glasses that are either marked for volume or ones that are bigger than the indicated serving size. Since I tend to frequent establishments that give a damn about into what they are pouring their customers' beers, I tend to very rarely have a problem with this short pour issue.

 

We're wasting time "chatting" on a message board that is solely about craft beer.

They're ALL first world problems, brah.

 

I don't want to be a Yelp shamer. That said, I will make it known that "X" place isn't honest and should be avoided whenever possible. One complaint that a place isn't serving the proper amount of beer during a run and every member of my training group won't go there again. We like our beer. And getting the full allotment we paid for

Thankfully, we have plenty of other bars and breweries to get our full pour fix from in the meantime.

 

A mate of mine, when served a short pint, would casually ask the bartender if he could fit a double scotch in there. Bartender would say yes, and Bill would bark, "So do I, top it up!"

 

This. Beers are sold by the ounce size just about everywhere these days not by the pint.

 

That's a classic British response to a short pour. Love that.

 

My local serves all of their draught beers in the stereotypical shaker pints.

BUT - it's full right to the top and the most you'll pay for one is 4.50 and they'll usually buy you a round or two if there most of the night so I don't complain at all.

 

I avoid shaker glasses when I can. The local Old Chicago has unchilled which just happen to be Nonics, which I dig. Still not 16 ounces but what the hey during half price happy hour.

 

Got some proper Brits in this thread, we do.

 

I hate shaker pints, but it's not on the bartender he didn't buy those glasses. As long as you get a proper pour I'm ok, I'm not into measuring. I'd prefer Pils glass for AALs, lagers etc, most any kinda tulip, or any glass resembling a red wine glass for everything else. So many shapes out there.

 

Beer on this side of the pond can only be served in measured thirds,halves and full Imperial pints. All glasses are Government stamped to guarantee the measure.
Because of the head there is a small amount of leeway but any head thicker than a finger width is regarded as excessive. Barstaff are obliged to top up a beer with a large head.It serves no useful purpose over this thickness and in no way is it regarded as a sign of quality.

 

Yes, this is total bullshit. Why can't we adopt the system they use in Europe, where they designate the actual volume on the glass with a line, so the customer knows exactly the volume of liquid they are receiving?

 

Getting overcharged for a product happens globally not just in the first world

Greed knows no geographic boundry