Wath's a pint?

Question

draft or just half a liter of beer even from bottle

Answer 1

A pint is a measure of volume or capacity. In the case of a pint of beer, 1 pint = 16 U.S. fluid ounces.

Answer 2

It is a Liquid measure that is used as slang for little young people in nice kidding reminiscing way.

I do not know exact start of the usage, Lora Ingles' father used to call her "half pint", the reason was, as a child she always use to drink half a pint of milk at a time in one breath.

But people who missed this explanation in the one of the episodes of the show called "A little house on the/a perry" picked up on it, from other episodes and the usage stucked.

You are right it is half a quart approximately half a litter.

It would be an insult to call little people(draft) pint or by any other name. In the show only Lora's family members and few Friends called her half pint.

There were quite a few episodes made. TV Land Channel shows them from time to time, in a different time slots.

The show gives idea of a life on small perry farm in a small one telephone town WI/ME USA area near Manketo. Time frame was Horse and buggy, telegraphs, and one hand cranked phone in general store.

Lora was the main character, she was the writer, who wrote TV episodes from her diary. You can still find furniture made by Mr. Ingles in some antique stores and even purchase it.

Lora died only very recently.

Answer 3

16 ounces or 2 cups or 1/2 quart.

Or slightly more than half a litre.

"A Pint's a Pound the world around" - a pint is the volume of distilled water that weighs one pound.

Answer 4

In India a Pint is 375 ml of Liquor or 330 ml of Beer

Answer 5

A pint is 2 cups or 16 fluid ounces.

Answer 6

The pint is a unit of volume or capacity. It is used mainly in the U.S., New Brunswick, the UK and the Republic of Ireland. The value differs between countries, and the U.S. has two types of pint:

1 Imperial pint (UK) = 20 UK fluid ounces ≈ 568 mL (0.56826125 litres more exactly)
1 Imperial pint (UK) = 4 UK gills (this was the legal definition although in some areas a gill of milk or beer referred to 1/2 pint; elsewhere a gill was the 1/3 pint of milk given free to school children)
1 pint (U.S., wet) = 16 U.S. fluid ounces = 2 U.S. cups ≈ 473 mL (0.473176473 litres exactly)
1 pint (U.S., dry) ≈ 551 mL (0.5506104713575 litres exactly)
A 375ml bottle of liquor in the U.S. and New Brunswick is referred to as a "pint," hearkening back to the days when liquor came in actual U.S. pints, quarts, and half-gallons.

As part of the metrication process, the pint in the UK and in Kenya is now only used as a measure for beer (see pint glass) and cider when sold by the glass (in public houses for instance) and milk (although milk is also sold in metric quantities). Many recipes published in the UK still provide ingredient quantities in imperial and metric, where the pint is often used as a unit for larger liquid quantities. Most new recipes are now published in metric only with the pint being rounded to 500 or 600 ml. Ireland has completed its metrication process and the pint is only used for serving beer, stout and cider.

[edit] History

The pint is defined as 1/8 of a gallon. Other versions of the gallon were defined for different commodities, and there were equally many versions of the pint.

America adopted the British wine gallon (defined in 1707 as 231 cubic inches) as its basic liquid measure, from which the U.S. wet pint is derived, and the British corn gallon (1/8 of a standard "Winchester" bushel of corn, or 268.8 cubic inches) as its dry measure, from which the U.S. dry pint is derived.

In 1824 the British parliament replaced all its variant gallons with a new "imperial" gallon based on ten pounds of distilled water at 62 °F (277.42 cubic inches), from which the UK pint is derived.

The UK pint is officially defined as 0.56826125 litres precisely in The Units of Measurement Regulations 1995.

In Australia and New Zealand, a subtle change was made in 1-pint milk bottles during the conversion from Imperial to metric in the 1970s. The height and diameter of the milk bottle remained unchanged, so that existing equipment for handling and storing such bottles was unaffected, but the shape was subtly adjusted to increase the capacity from 568 ml to 600 ml - a nice, round, metric measure. Such milk bottles are no longer officially referred to as pints. The pint glass in pubs in Australia (which is so called) remains closer to the standard Imperial pint, at 570 ml.

Answer 7

If you ask for a 'Pint' in a Dublin, Ireland pub, you will get a large glass full of black stuff with a white top on it, called Guinness. It is still the most common measure in UK and Ireland. Eight pints make one gallon - and a gallon of Guinness will make you blind drunk...............

Answer 8

A pint is 16oz, which would be a large mug or schooner of beer

Answer 9

1.A United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces; two pints equal one quart
2.A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters
3.A United States dry unit equal to 0.5 quart or 33.6 cubic inches

Answer 10

two cups in a pint, two pints in a quart, four quarts in a gallon.