440ml Guinness can! WTF

robertxxx

Just back from the off licence with 4 cans of the black stuff.
So out I pour it and its about an inch and a quarter from the top of the pint glass!! I'm thinking has this glass got bigger in the wash as Guinness don't do small rip off cans or bottles, but low and behold they do, they rip people off with their stealth changes in size, I want a 500ml can and not an odd ball 440ml can!!

Home brew is calling.

NoelJ

robertxxx wrote: »

Just back from the off licence with 4 cans of the black stuff.
So out I pour it and its about an inch and a quarter from the top of the pint glass!! I'm thinking has this glass got bigger in the wash as Guinness don't do small rip off cans or bottles, but low and behold they do, they rip people off with their stealth changes in size, I want a 500ml can and not an odd ball 440ml can!!

Home brew is calling.

It's probably an English can. They're usually 440ml

catallus

Contact the revenue commissioners OP!

burstbuckle

You feel violated when that happens.

The_Valeyard

A dark, dark day

The_Valeyard

A dark, dark day

Lawrence1895

Nobody mentioned a guy called 'Joe' yet?

robertxxx

Lars1916 wrote: »

Nobody mentioned a guy called 'Joe' yet?

Have you got his number?

kneemos

The_Valeyard wrote: »

A dark, dark day

Fix your phone man.

The_Valeyard

kneemos wrote: »

Fix your phone man.

any idea whats causing that double post?

rockbeast

robertxxx wrote: »

Just back from the off licence with 4 cans of the black stuff.
So out I pour it and its about an inch and a quarter from the top of the pint glass!! I'm thinking has this glass got bigger in the wash as Guinness don't do small rip off cans or bottles, but low and behold they do, they rip people off with their stealth changes in size, I want a 500ml can and not an odd ball 440ml can!!

Home brew is calling.

I worked a Summer in an Irish pub in Germany and overnight we changed from pints to 0,4 (400ml) "pints".

Next afternoon a Dublin builder walked in for his usual.

Served him up a "pint" of Guinness.

""What's this?" he roared. "I asked for a pint not a bleedin' sample!":D

Absoluvely

The_Valeyard wrote: »

any idea whats causing that double post?

I heard it happens if you use the unofficial boards app.

The_Valeyard

Absoluvely wrote: »

I heard it happens if you use the unofficial boards app.

Hmmm


Just using the normal webpage on the phone. No apps? Didnt even know there was an app!

Moffett

I think you may have calculated the volume of the widget!...go for Guinness Extra Stout and get the full 500ml!

Absoluvely

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Hmmm


Just using the normal webpage on the phone. No apps? Didnt even know there was an app!

I've never had it happen when posting from a phone web browser. Although I have noticed that I have to press the "submit" or "preview" button twice before it works. Kind of the opposite of double-posting I guess.

holystungun9

A dark, dark day.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Your sheriffs badge will thank you in the morning OP.

Duckworth_Luas

I blame the metric system!

kneemos

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

I blame the metric system!

You can't make a pint smaller in fairness.

fleet_admiral

the 440 is weaker too iirc

Joe Duffy..

Leave it to me, call the live line....

anncoates

Get a bottled stout.

Geuze

For many years I have wondered why UK cans were 440ml?

I can understand 284ml bottles = half pint.

I understand 330ml = 1/3 litre, fair enough.

When I see 660ml bottles, I see some sense in it.


But I simply can't understand the significance of 440???

rockbeast

Geuze wrote: »

For many years I have wondered why UK cans were 440ml?

I can understand 284ml bottles = half pint.

I understand 330ml = 1/3 litre, fair enough.

When I see 660ml bottles, I see some sense in it.


But I simply can't understand the significance of 440???

Automation error (Error 440):)

anncoates

The Guinness Extra bottles are actually nice and seem to be stocked in most places.

Or try a bottle like O'Haras, Leann Folláin or Young s Chocolate Stout.

frisbeeface

Geuze wrote: »

For many years I have wondered why UK cans were 440ml?

I can understand 284ml bottles = half pint.

I understand 330ml = 1/3 litre, fair enough.

When I see 660ml bottles, I see some sense in it.


But I simply can't understand the significance of 440???

Seriously this is wrecking my head now.
Google tells me nothing apart from that lots of other people don't know why.
Someone help.

catallus

Yeah! What the hell was the Op doing drinking stout from a can? It's best out of a glass bottle.

Anyways: http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-2807,00.html

kowloon

I'd prefer 500ml over a pint.

rockbeast

kowloon wrote: »

I'd prefer 500ml over a pint.

But that 68ml's the collar!!!

crockholm

The shaggers do it with the tins of Kilkenny also over in Sveeeeden,that 60 ml would be a gulp the scabby bastards are depriving you of.

Waitsian

Lars1916 wrote: »

Nobody mentioned a guy called 'Joe' yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMxGVfk09lU

rockbeast

mod9maple wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMxGVfk09lU

Nice.:)

First one to record an Irish version of the video goes viral.

"My name is Paddy...and I drink PINTS!":pac:

suicide_circus

750ml bottle of 11% belgian gay beer and away you go

Crooked Jack

cant get a 500ml or pint can of the black stuff in vancouver here for love nor money

rockbeast

Crooked Jack wrote: »

cant get a 500ml or pint can of the black stuff in vancouver here for love nor money

3 lads, 3 pint glasses and 5 330ml cans. QED!

and a sup for the baby left over!

Snake

It's a disgrace, Joe.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gwan gwan.

Sir Arthur Daley

Does the volume of the can really matter once you get enough quantity.

rockbeast

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Does the volume of the can really matter once you get enough quantity.

Is it the girth or length that really matters:eek:

Sir Arthur Daley

rockbeast wrote: »

Is it the girth or length that really matters:eek:

The girth, you could be beaver tailing till the cows come home with all the length in the world and be no good.

rockbeast

So I propose that in Ireland we ban:

1) 440ml cans and;

2) 250ml bottles.

I've bought both thinking I was getting the larger versions (500/330ml) so I feel the OP's pain. The off-licences all do it from time to time...

Cookie_Monster

How can you fail to notice the size of the can you are buying

rockbeast

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

How can you fail to notice the size of the can you are buying

Maybe he thought his hands grew?!:cool:

rockbeast

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

How can you fail to notice the size of the can you are buying

Or maybe he'd already been drinking, which is much more likely!:pac:

Annasopra

The_Valeyard wrote: »

any idea whats causing that double post?

The unofficial android app. Its faulty.

diomed

440 yards innit, a quarter of a mile.

Baneblade

an american pint is 473ml so that a bit closer to 440