Thread: What Has Happened to the Schooner of Beer

Originally Posted by 101RRS

According to this website the size of a Schooner of beer in Australia (except SA) is 425ml.

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I was at two local pubs recently and bought a schooner of full strength beer and also wanted a schooner of light as I was driving. No light on tap so had to buy a stubby which I wanted in a glass. The full strength schooner filled the glass and the stubby also filled the same sized glass to the same level.

So my supposed 425ml schooner of full strength was actually 375ml - have I been short changed 50ml for my schooner.

Have you noticed that the actual size of beers have slowly decreased with no fanfare.

Garry

A Schooner is still meant to be 425, there's some slippery operators around.

I'm sure there will be a perfectly well rehearsed explanation.

Originally Posted by shack

A Schooner is still meant to be 425, there's some slippery operators around.

I'm sure there will be a perfectly well rehearsed explanation.

It's called Downsizing. It's so you don't get done for DD.

For the old timers amongst us,, remember how all schooner glasses had AHA on the glass....
Somebody actually cared about the customer back then...

anyway, schooners are for girls.
Real Men drink PINTS!

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

anyway, schooners are for girls.
Real Men drink PINTS!

I drink middies. I struggle to finish a stubby. If I start drinking one about 3:30pm I still haven’t finished it when it’s time to go home at 5pm.

I bought a 6-pack a couple of months ago - I still have 4 left. (Not that foul tasting Coopers with the green label - although the one with the purple can isn’t any better.)

Don’t ask me about shiraz! 😀

I used to drink beer until I moved to Ceduna in 1969 and found South Australian beer was undrinkable but their wines weren’t.

Originally Posted by p38arover

I drink middies. I struggle to finish a stubby. If I start drinking one about 3:30pm I still haven’t finished it when it’s time to go home at 5pm.

I bought a 6-pack a couple of months ago - I still have 4 left. (Not that foul tasting Coopers with the green label - although the one with the purple can isn’t any better.)

Don’t ask me about shiraz! 😀

I used to drink beer until I moved to Ceduna in 1969 and found South Australian beer was undrinkable but their wines weren’t.

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

For the old timers amongst us,, remember how all schooner glasses had AHA on the glass....
Somebody actually cared about the customer back then...

anyway, schooners are for girls.
Real Men drink PINTS!

It's a hard life, isn't it Pedro?
I suppose you'll have to do it, until some considerate volunteer comes to relieve you.

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

For the old timers amongst us,, remember how all schooner glasses had AHA on the glass....
Somebody actually cared about the customer back then...

anyway, schooners are for girls.
Real Men drink PINTS!

All glasses at any of our locals still have the minimum level marking - just not the AHA logo.

Single Malt is much easier to measure

OT, just something that came to mind when I read this topic.
A long time ago, when Alan Bond owned the Castlemaine Perkins brewery we had a gig on his boat for about two weeks. It was tied up just opposite Christopher Scase's
luxury yacht at Fisherman's Wharf Southport, if I remember correctly. As you can see I've still got part of the 'uniform'.
.W.