lads and gals, how many mls is in your home glass of Whiskey,

P_Cash

assuming you measure out that 12 yr old bottle.

The Hill Billy

How ever many mls I feel like drinking at the time.
I never use a measure.

Heroditas

A splash and a glug!

coylemj

Some hosts offer to measure spirits so that their guests will know how much they are drinking. Others feel that it might be perceived as mean and off-putting to guests. The most sensible option as far as I'd be concerned would be to leave a bar measure beside the bottle and invite the guest to pour his own at which point they have the option of using the measure or not. That said, I don't see spirits on offer in private houses these days, except maybe at Christmas.

Originally the bar measure of a 'half glass' of spirits was a quarter gill, a gill (also known as a 'naggin') being one quarter of a pint. Nowadays it's the exact metric equivalent which is 35.5 ml. A quarter pint (142 ml) bottle of spirits used to be called a 'naggin', nowadays the term refers to a 200 ml bottle.

Markcheese

2 caps of a powers/paddy bottle- and 1 cap of water , repeat as necessary --

cullenswood

Mine is usually a double, or 70 ml.