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Americans definitely love their larger 1/4 lb’ers over the smaller European 1/3 lb patties
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My mom bought me one of these from Estonia, 900ml.
Funnily enough, that would be pretty hard to find in Estonia these days, only a few alcohol stores carry Russian stuff anymore
Very multi-cultural though, you got a "czech style" beer made in Russia from Estonia
Of course the truly big beers come in 2 liter bottles and are consumed by... well let's say not the favourite customers of store clerks working in small grocery stores in small towns.
12 volts, 900ml. It would be a 2 days hangover for me.
Apparently that is actually the measurement of gravity in the Plato scale. The beer has 4.9% abv, and 12 degrees of gravity (??)
Here's what I found from wikipedia
"By considering the original gravity, the brewer or vintner obtains an indication as to the probable ultimate alcoholic content of their product. The OE (original extract) is often referred to as the "size" of the beer and is, in Europe, often printed on the label as Stammwürze or sometimes just as a percent. In the Czech Republic, for example, common descriptions are "10 degree beers", "12 degree beers" which refer to the gravity in Plato of the wort before the fermentation."
I didn't even see the "4.9%“. I thought it was one of those horrible beers. Plato scale. OK, I learnt something.
Reminds me of this one I found in Germany, 1l & 10%
Ah Faxe, classic Pennerbier!
What is 12% and what is 4.9%?
4.9% is the alcohol percentage, 12% is the sugar percentage that was present at the start of the brewing.
Didn't find a better source that this wiki page. There's another similar sugar related unit which is degree...
All inferior as it is an indirect measure of the amount of alcohol in the can.
Faxe ~~Kondi~~ Danechad 1lt cans mog that
Is that centiliters? I wasn't aware that was a commonly used unit. I've only ever seen ml. But how does the 50+6.5 thing work? Is there like a second reservoir, or is it just a different way of saying 56.5cl?
Yes, Switzerland is weirdly obsessed with centilitres, not sure why. But it's metric so it's not a big deal.
Yes.
We have cl on a lot of stuff here too, in northern Europe. And many recipes use deciliters! Love deciliters! Metric is fun! And as a small side rant, honestly cups can go to hell, worst way to measure for a recipe! Liquids, sure if you must, but flour and sugar needs to be by weight goddammit!
Because deciliters is proper metric notation. We don't count large distances in millimeters.
Common enough in a drinks context. But really, that doesn't matter because it's metric: you're not going to end up with 4269 fartbuckets to the whateverthefuck. Instead it says centi so it's a 100th of the thing, which is barely even mental arithmetic at all.
It's slightly larger than the standard 500ml can, the + is because they'd like to emphasize the "bonus"
US or British Fartbuckets ?
Yeah, I know the prefixes, I just hadn't seen it used with liquid like that
Prefixes aren't specific to individual units, the beauty is it still means 1/100 no matter if you're talking about length, weight, mass, volume, voltage, magnetic flux... go nuts.
(This being said, tens and hundreds are rarer for most units. Centiliter for drinks and centimeters for e.g. someone's height are common)
right, I'm fairly metric-fluent. Advocate for the switch and whatnot. I just had not personally seen centiliter used on a commercial product like that. I'm guessing each country (or perhaps it's more language specific?) chooses different common units. In my experience, I have only seen milliliter and liter used for beverages, and gram and milligram used for foods. I know the others exist, and I'm sure someone somewhere measures distance or size in decimeters, it's just not something I've seen someone doing.
It's basically just saying "hey, it's more than 50cl!" (Which is a common can size). It's a pretty stupidly small amount to have different cans and advertise for IMO, at least make it 10cl more.
Imma grip n’ sip.