Posts Tagged ‘beer’

Tory spokesman supports centilitres of alcohol

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

In a commendable outbreak of common sense, Conservative health spokesman, Andrew Lansley has proposed that, in order to clarify the amount of alcohol being consumed, bottles and cans should be labelled with the quantity of pure alcohol in centilitres rather than in so called “units”.  But will this lead to a wider realisation that draught beer should also be measured in litres?

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BIS sticks with pints of beer (but only on draught)

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

As expected the Business Department has refused to permit sales of draught beer and cider in convenient metric measures – but its reasoning is bizarre.

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