Standard Spirit Measure in bars, etc.

**Timbuk2**

Silly, quick, question but

In a bar club, if you order a spirit (e.g. Vodka + Mixer, Rum + Mixer, etc.) what is the standard serving size?

I always thought it was 35ml but somebody told me today that it's actually 25ml.

Mongarra

Friend with pub had a Revenue audit recently and all agreed the measure of an optic was 35.5ml

BeerNut

They can serve any size they like as long as they tell you the price of 35.5ml and charge on a pro-rata basis.

25ml is the normal measure in the UK but there's no low preventing Irish bars selling 25ml measures.

Discussed recently here.

Asphyxia

Different places serve different measures it's usually 25ml - 35ml though.

Degag

The standerd volume is 35.5ml.

rubadub

The 35.5 figure comes about since it is a 1/4 gill, I used to have an optic with 1/4gill written on it, a gill is 1/4 of a pint, so a measure is 1/16th of a pint.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gill_%28unit%29

In Great Britain, the standard single measure of spirits in a pub was 1⁄6 gill (23.7 ml) in England, and 1⁄5 gill (28.4 ml) in Scotland; though this has now been replaced by either 25 ml (0.176 gill) or 35 ml (0.246 gill) measures (Landlords can choose which one to serve). The 1⁄4 gill was previously the most common measure in Scotland, indeed there are pubs in Edinburgh and Glasgow called The Quarter Gill, which insists on serving whisky by the 1⁄4 gill (35.5 ml).[citation needed] In southern England, it is also called a noggin. In northern England, however, the large noggin is used, which is two gills. In some areas, a gill came to mean half a pint for both beer and milk.[6]

In Ireland, the standard spirit measure was historically 1⁄4 gill. In the Republic of Ireland, it still retains this value, though it is now legally specified in metric units as 35.5 ml.

A baileys standard measure is 50ml here.