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Offline Lloyd Smale

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ok this isnt cool
« on: September 27, 2023, 05:52:56 AM »
Neighbor just gave me a 24 pack of labatts long neck bottles of beer for some work i did for him with the tractor. i took one out of the box and thought it looked small. looked at the case and theyre 11.5 oz bottles!
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Re: ok this isnt cool
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2023, 06:22:37 AM »
There are beers brewed in Italy that are 11.5 oz. The most popular of those is Peroni. I don't think there are any American brews that are 11.5 oz.
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Re: ok this isnt cool
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2023, 10:46:46 PM »
i was told its because the canadians use the imperial measurement. still odd that bottles are 11.5 and cans are 12oz. oh well even at 11.5 this case will last me a year
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Re: ok this isnt cool
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2023, 03:42:33 AM »
I attempted to correlate ounces (US) to its metric equivalent in milliliters (UK).  No conformance was achieved to a "standard" metric fluid measurement.

Fluid Ounce. A fluid ounce is approximately 30ml of liquid in both the US and UK. However, the exact value in the UK is 28.4ml and 29.6ml in the US.
11.5 oz (US)  ==>  340.1 ml (US)

The metric value, as seen etched on glass throughout Europe, has decimal equivalents of the liter as:
0.33 l
0.50 l
1.0 Liter
etc.

So, an 11.5-ounce (US) beer is about 0.33 liter (326.6 ml) in the UK, which is the Beer Maker's "close approximation" to the metric system.

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