ot - but important. are beer bottles shrinking?
Mistara
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i dunno if it's cuz i bought an imported brand.
the bottle seemed skinny to my beer holding hand.
11.2 oz. ... 11.2? what happened to 12oz?
hobbits wouldn't be happy with shrinking beer oz.
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Sounds like the brand you have uses stubbies. You don't see American beers using those these days - I guess it's since it's an imported brand. Just a guess.
It's due to the expansion of the universe. 11.2 is now what 12 used to be. 8-o
It's the same reason dinosaur bones are so big. They've been around longer so they've expanded more.
Have I ever told you about why red electrons don't like flowing in blue wires?
Or why batteries weigh less when they're dead because all the electrons are gone?
By the way. I have I bridge I'd like to sell...
Are beer bottles shrinking??
Beer bottle George: " I was in the pool!!... I was in the pool!!
Everything is shrinking now days :P I heard about a lawsuit or something going on against Subway for their "Foot longs" which somebody has been measuring and they are actually only 11" LoL
They do it with ice creams too. Dad likes that Bryers one and to begin with they started putting a little less in the overall container, and then suddenly the container was "upgraded" with a new look and actually is several oz less than what the package claims. It's the same with chip bags and I have seen it with something else but I forget what it was. Companies try to be sneaky about doing it so people won't notice to begin with, by taking so much out and then changing the look of their containers and shrinking them at the same time -_- LoL
how can you call something footlong if it is 11"?
and yes, all sizes get smaller and smaller, family sized chocolate blocks, canned foods, you name it!
they say it is to keep the price the same or making servings healthier sized portions.
premixed booze ready to drink alcopops were 5% but many now 4% or 3.5% alcohol, so called lite and supposed to help stop binge drinking but really just cheaper to make!
Wine bottles get bigger punts at the bottom, some are now riddiculous you could hide a dish of peanuts under one!
around here they sell 10 oz Beer bottles, they call them pony bottles, they figure with 10 oz the beer doesn't have time to get warm.
It used to be that companies hired marketing people to figure out how to attract customers. Now they hire them to figure out how to screw them and get them to enjoy it.
Maybe the beer just passed some gas? :lol:
I do quality control for a chemical manufacturing company.
Recently had to get a "fill height" for new 1 Gallon containers.
They didn't hold a Gallon!
I told the boss he had to send the whole lot back, and he said we couldn't do that - just get a fill height!
I told him they'd have to be overflowing and he didn't believe me. Told me to weigh the water in as a test, in case my volumetric measurements were off. It was still over 8 ounces short. He came down to the lab and watched me weigh water into the container. Then told me to get out of the way and weighed it himself.
Then told me to to "just get a fill height and give it to production." I said I can't do that. These things do not hold a gallon.
He stormed out saying to just do the best I can.
I told the production department to fill them as high as they think is safe and let it go at that.
But ... Sheesh! Nobody wanted to even discuss the fact that the containers were too small. They were more concerned that I was holding up the schedule.
I hates my job.
Anybody wanna hire a Crazy Hippy Chemist?
I have my own stuffed Cows!
As for the Subway thing:
1 ) Only about 1 in 3 were less than a foot long, and usually were 11.5 "
2 ) They were measured AFTER having been put lengthwise in a bag and carried to the table - meaning the weight of the sandwich was entirely on one end, squishing it.
I like buying bags of Air that come with free potato chips inside..
I find the solution is to make my own booze. I know how much there is, and what's in it. I don't do beer, but the principal is still the same. And I can make stuff I can't buy locally.
I hope no one thought I wouldn't reply to this thread...
Everything is shrinking... by a few points of an ounce at a time. The great thing about this is its for your health! You get 2 ounces less, but still get to pay for them... Which I hear is good for the global economy and keeps us safe from billionaire CEOs going cannibal on us all. Its everywhere... but at least toilet paper rolls are fluffier now because of it... Problem is there are only six squares on a roll, but the roll is softer... so should you decide to wipe your bottom with the whole roll at once, it would be very soft... individually the sheets are the same, just rolled less tightly...
Leave out one cookie or a few slices of ham, who'll notice. Look at any of the products you grew up with... the sizes you expect them to be- pint, quart, pound, whatever are now in ounces... your "Pint" can of soup is now 13.7 oz.... 2.3 ounces short of a real pint, but since most people don't look or even know many ounces are in a pint (or how many toes are on their foot), nobody says anything... or for that matter even cares.
I'm a real bastard about this sort of thing and have actually been keeping track of these sort of cheesy little gimmicks... "NEW LOOK- SAME GREAT TASTE!"(but six ounces less for a dollar more). Despite the above rambling, I must say I never really paid attention to beer, but now that you brought it up,I went and looked at my collection of empties (I'm lazy and it takes me forever to recycle them)-(by the way, they are in a storage bin in my garage, not in a huge pile around my work desk... well, mostly)... almost all of the small brewery brands have no mention of how much you are getting... and most of the better known brands are between 12 and 11.2 ounces (mostly 12 ounces).
I'm going to look into how much is actually in the unmarked ones tonight.
I plan to weigh myself, and then weigh a 12 0z glass of water (taking into account the tare weight of the glass) after which I will consume several bottles of Dragon's Milk, Samuel Adams- Chocolate Brock, Joe Mama's Milk, and my last bottle of Innis & Gunn - Rum Cask (actually it says 11.2 ounces... but its real small so I want to be sure) I will then take a quick barometric reading after my short nap on the back porch and then match all specific gravities of the various beers to the monthly Geogravitation index for my region. After a few quick computations and a long pee I should have my answer... hopefully.. this is super science, so I may have to repeat the experiment several times.
I'm doing this for all you folks out there... I don't want anyone taking advantage of my buddies anymore!!
Oh yeah... and for science, cuz science is important... and learning and stuff.
I'll let you know how this goes...
It's a guy thing. ;-)
Coldrake
I have to say thank you ColdDrake for printing what I was thinking while reading this thread!!ROTFLMAO !!
I had the shot. There was no danger, so I took it.
Coldrake
Everything is shrinking. Product sizes have been scaled down for some time now while the prices remained the same -- like they thought no one would notice.
Update:
Monday Febowary 57, 20013 ... 10 something with numbers o'clock
Having completed phases G thru 7 I have discovered something very important... I did not write it down though... so instead I will dance a short Hula type interpretation of the signing the Magna Carta... its very relaxing, but I always mess up the part with Robert Fitzwalter...
10... something later than it was before o'clock...
I have discovered that I can not hula like I used to...
and these coconuts are chaffing...
I just noticed that someone left a little note for me at the top of the screen... it says "share the LOVE"... thats sweet!
I'm happy I chose the measure the beer experiment and not the toilet paper one...
wait... was that an offer to share love? OR are they telling me to share my love... what if I just want to horde it like old toenail clippings in a tupperware bowl... its my toenails, I can keep them if I want...
I have noticed an unintended side effect of this experiment... I seem to have damaged gravity somehow...
Excuse me while I proceed to phase P of this experiment....
VIA LA REVOLUCION!
Important Update...
I'm a little teapot... short and stout... here is my handle and here is my spout... just tip me over and
OW.... bad Idea....
beer bottles never shrink. Especially the Darwin Stubby.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Darwin_stubby.jpg
...actually there is one that does, Session (brewed by Full Sail in Hood River Oregon) is bottled in 11 oz stubbies.
pints aren't what they used to be. I like the long neck bottles, too.
lol, that's where the peanuts dish is hiding
I had the shot. There was no danger, so I took it.
Coldrake
rimshot, buhrumpbump tee hee
gravity testing beer has a few side effects? :)
...actually there is one that does, Session (brewed by Full Sail in Hood River Oregon) is bottled in 11 oz stubbies.
thaz a thirstifying render :)
Actually Subway gave some folderol nonsense that their use of the word Footlong is not meant in the literal sense that the sub is 12 inches. They see it as an advertising slogan.
They also claim that the bread dough is 12 inches before baking. It's no different than the McDonald's Quarter Pounder. It's 4 ounces before it's cooked (not to mention it's still frozen as well). It's not 4 ounces when they actually hand it to you.
Is anybody old enough to remember when that when you fried a pound of hamburg (ground beef) that you rendered out only an ounce or two of grease and not a half-cup of water too? Talk about shrinkage!
Been going on for a while ;)
All this talk of ounces for beer is Greek to us in the UK as we've never, to my knowledge, used fluid ounces to measure booze (not to mention the fact that US and Imperial fl.oz. are different, of course). Until metrication bottles were fractions of a pint (pint, half, third). Draught beer is still served in pints or half pints in pubs, etc., but in bottles it's metric. 330ml (11 US oz) being the common standard size, and 500ml the larger size (17 US oz). So we lost out with bottles due to metrication, as an Imperial pint is 19.2 US oz.
However, I am at this moment drinking a bottle of beer which is 710ml, which seems and odd amount but that's the metric conversion of 24 US oz.
So has anybody heard from Lordvicore since his "experiment" ,I wonder if gravity has returned to normal for him .......course I wonder how much sympathy he got from the spouse ........."little teapot'?????