The return of the Imperial Pint: the world has moved on.
Perhaps it’s the. 24 hour news culture that causes the lack of media attention to history. On. May 28th to mark the Jubilee Johnson announced a return to imperial weights and measures. Culture Wars are ever green it seems. He already announced this in September 2021 when the below dates from
As part of their continuing Culture Wars the Government has announced a return to pre-metric weights and measures including the return of the imperial pint.
Of course the pint glass and a mark of its measure never went away. In recent times it has had an EU standard symbol. Now it will return to the Crown.
So what? Those who drink pints will be mostly be more concerned that they get full measure rather than how its symbolised.
Of course the world has moved on from the world of warm beer (54F) in pints.
In fact imperial measures have made a significant return in the era of craft beer. With IPAs and double IPAs and imperial stouts now to be found on many bars, a (legal) measure of two-thirds and one-third of a pint is often preferred. Occasionally these might be described in metric measures but mostly it’s the imperial measure that is used.
The battle was already won, if it needed to be, before the Government did a thing
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