Schooner or Pot or Middy

[Gibbsy]

They actually market them as king browns. Will always be longknecks for me.

Is the silent 'k' an Adelaide thing?

 

[Tulip]

Gibbsy is the voice of the people here, nailed it.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Never heard of those number terms in Tassie. Although I pretty much exclusively buy jugs, steins and pints (proper half jug-sized pints).

The eight and ten ounce were pretty common when I lived down there, but that's a while back now.
The simple answer is just buy pints. But it turns out even then, you get ripped off because the US "pint" is the measure of choice.

 

[Caesar]

A middy is half an Imperial pint. Two middies to a pint, two pints to a jug. Simples.

Schooner is the odd one out. Bares no relationship to the others.

A pony is 5 fluid ounces, a middy is 10, a schooner is 15, and a pint is 20.

A schooner is the size that beer is meant to be drunk in Australia. Big enough that you're not constantly going for refills, small enough that it's still cold when you finish it.

 

[Doss]

I worked in hospitality a few years ago, and the classification used there was always:

285ml- pot
425ml- schooner
570ml- pint
1140ml- jug

 

[J_Moore]

You're right. And a WA pint is exactly the same as one in Victoria. I don't know if people still get middys in WA, but that's what a pot is.

Schooner is the best size though and I say that as someone who has no state bias in the matter. Just the perfect size between the pot (honestly you should pretty much just give up if you order a pot) and pint.

I've been getting right into pots for summer drinking. When it's warm, I will empty a glass in a set amount of time, regardless of its size. Reducing the size of the container is a good way to moderate my intake.

 

[Doss]

You know what's fantastic?

Sinking pints in an American city that has a wide variety available- like New York or Boston.

I had innumerable pints of American IPA style or smoked porters from various microbreweries while there, usually 8% ABV. And usually only $5.

No taxing according to alcohol content there. The same beers would be $15 a pint here.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

WA used to have a "Pony" which I think would be the 200mL one.

A bloke I worked with in the late 80s in WA drank Ponies, can't remember if they were 5 or 6 oz. definitely not the 7oz / 200ml.

What happened to a pint being 600ml? When I was a kid, a bottle of milk was a pint and it was 600ml. They're shit to drink anyway, too big. Schooners are the go.

 

[davefromjerra]

I was at a pub in Maroochydore around 18 months ago and they had schmiddys of Stella. A cross between a schooner and a middy, I think they were 350ml.

 

[Doss]

There was a pub I found in Hobart a couple of years ago that did $10 steins of Cascade Pale. Yep, the full one litre steins too.

 

[MrKK]

I was at a pub in Maroochydore around 18 months ago and they had schmiddys of Stella. A cross between a schooner and a middy, I think they were 350ml.

The Wheatsheaf in Thebarton has something similar between a (SA) schnooner and pint. Not sure of the exact size but I think they call it a 'fancy'.

 

[Slax]

Following on from the Parmi / Parma thread. What about beer sizes around Australia?!

Whoever came up with this is clearly is still living in the mid 80s. I haven't seen anyone drink a 7oz beer in a pub in nearly 20 years. Most recent time I saw 7oz glasses anywhere they were next to a complementary water jug.

Walk into a bar around Australia and ask for a beer and this is what you'll get:
Pot/Middy (10oz) in Victoria, SA, Tasmania, NT
Schooner (15oz) in NSW, ACT
In WA & Qld I've found it varies from region to region and even pub to pub between a Middy & Schooner

A pint everywhere I've ever drunk in Australia (and that is all states & territories) is a proper 20 oz (568ml) pint.

 

[Slax]

There was a pub I found in Hobart a couple of years ago that did $10 steins of Cascade Pale. Yep, the full one litre steins too.

Know of a few places around Melbourne where you can buy steins, most of them though have a cut off time when they stop serving them.

 

[Doss]

My thoughts exactly, Slax.

I've been going to pubs regularly for eight years and I have never known a pint in a pub to be less than 568ml.

In New York, I went to a brewery pub (Heartland- right next to the Empire State- the beer is very good) and got a tasting paddle of all their tap beers, and they came in 142ml glasses- a half pot.

They called them simply a 'glass'.

 

[Doss]

Know of a few places around Melbourne where you can buy steins, most of them though have a cut off time when they stop serving them.

Hofbrahaus being one. Got myself a couple when I went there for Oktoberfest in 2012.

They cost $20 though.

 

[Gough]

Before all of the new stands went up at Adelaide Oval, in the Chappell Bar they used to serve beer in glass half pint mugs, to this day their are thousands of these glasses sitting in the back of cupboards in houses all over Adelaide.

 

[Slax]

In New York, I went to a brewery pub (Heartland- right next to the Empire State- the beer is very good) and got a tasting paddle of all their tap beers, and they came in 142ml glasses- a half pot.

I knew I had seen some Pony's around and couldn't remember where, but tasting paddles is where I've seen them used now.

 

[TassieSaint]

There was a pub I found in Hobart a couple of years ago that did $10 steins of Cascade Pale. Yep, the full one litre steins too.

Mate there are a couple places in Hobart that do full 1 litre steins round the clock starting at $4 at 4 o'clock.

Also a bar that does $10 steins of a big range of craft beers, your moo brews and white rabbits etc.

All on a Wednesday though so ideal for uni students but a bit rough on the working folk

 

[Doss]

Mate there are a couple places in Hobart that do full 1 litre steins round the clock starting at $4 at 4 o'clock.

Also a bar that does $10 steins of a big range of craft beers, your moo brews and white rabbits etc.

All on a Wednesday though so ideal for uni students but a bit rough on the working folk

$4 steins! Oh, don't break my heart.

In fact, now that I think about it, the steins I had were $8 not $10. But still, $4- that is absurd.

 

[Silent Alarm]

The best thing about a stein is you can smash it over someone's head and maximise the damage while also minimising the chance of getting a shard in your wrist. They should be exclusively be the only measurement in Northbridge.

 

[Happy_Neale]

Hofbrahaus being one. Got myself a couple when I went there for Oktoberfest in 2012.

They cost $20 though.

The Mess Hall in Brunswick does them too, both 500mL or 1L steins.

 

[The Passenger]

Mate there are a couple places in Hobart that do full 1 litre steins round the clock starting at $4 at 4 o'clock.

thats intense. probably good thing i dont live there

 

[Plugger35]

I used to drink middies years ago, mainly when you'd get rounds of jugs but now I only drink pints. I got used to drinking pints when I lived in the UK and couldn't go back to drinking middies when I got back home as they seemed too small, never heard of a bobby in WA either and wouldn't be seen dead drinking one.

The best thing about a stein is you can smash it over someone's head and maximise the damage while also minimising the chance of getting a shard in your wrist. They should be exclusively be the only measurement in Northbridge.

I still managed to cut my wrist drinking steins at Oktoberfest, I was blind drunk after drinking steins all day as well as jagermeister shots so I''m not sure exactly what happened but I think either me or someone else smashed a stein and I put my wrist down on some of the broken glass. I woke up hungover as hell in the campground the next morning with my wrist throbbing and a paper serviette tied around it like a bandage. Still didn't stop me from getting back on the steins again at Oktoberfest later that day #hardcore

 

[The Passenger]

I used to drink middies years ago

if i'm having beers in a quiet pub where there is no queue (and there is no cost benefit to drinking schooners or pints) i prefer to drink middies/pots. you can smash through them very quickly and always have cold frothy beer. with pints the first few are sweet but as you slow down they start to get warm and flat towards the end.

 

[Plugger35]

if i'm having beers in a quiet pub where there is no queue (and there is no cost benefit to drinking schooners or pints) i prefer to drink middies/pots. you can smash through them very quickly and always have cold frothy beer. with pints the first few are sweet but as you slow down they start to get warm and flat towards the end.

Yeah that's one of the downsides of drinking pints, especially here in summer, not as much of a problem in the UK where it's cooler and the beer is warm anyway.