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[caller]

Pete,

They don't really, in the UK we have pints and half pints, although the euro metric police are trying to have their say on that.

The Aussies have different sizes, hence schooner, but you can go into many places and ask for a pint - at least you can in the places I have been to that serve draught beer.

But normally its a schooner and often a tinnie or stubby, meaning a can or bottle, but those terms seem to be dying out, or so it seems to me.
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[prcscct]

Ah ha..I've just spent some hours of golden nectar enjoyment with an Australian citizen, and he also does not know why a "schooner" is called such in Oz. He did say (in his day) there was something called a "lady's skirt" that is 5 oz and usually used as a chaser after a shot of hard stuff. Then there was a 1/2 pint and a schooner. He says in his time there were no pints served in Oz. He's 69. From the lips of a veteran I can assure. One of the first divisions into VN from Australia in 1965-66. Pete

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Are all you guys dead ? Is life so boring in Hua Hin you talk about this ?..Does retirement in Thailand mean you are brain dead...????

And I thought HH was paradise.....

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Hoist by your own petard my friend....I rest my case

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[Edd Case]

Pete - like yourself not coming up with much on "sherry schooner" but have a look at this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_beer I note mention also of "pony" as I recalled earlier.
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[Jaime]

Pete,

look this link up:

http://www.madaboutsherry.com/serving.html

Someone else mentioned that in the UK, sherry is a drink mainly for old ladies and vicars. This is true of cream sherries, which are served in tiny little glasses. These are the schooners. they are sometimes concave in the middle. It is the sort of poncy glass you would have a flaming sambucca served to you in.

However, the Spanish like their sherry dry (they export all the crap cream sherry to the phillistine British blue rinse brigade) and drink it in proper wine glasses. It is a wine, not a liqueur, after all.


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[lomuamart]

No flaming, please.
Keep it on topic, which was those sailing ships, or glasses, or something as far as I remember.
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[Jaime]

As a further note, I was discussing this thread with a work colleague and they postulated that schooner glasses are so shaped (having a concave 'waist') so that in days gone by they could be stored efficiently and safely in between the convex brandy glasses aboard navy ships. Possibly even allowing them to be tied together with string. That would tie in with the nautical name too.
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[STEVE G]

I could find no definite answer to the schooner question either. My personal theory is that the flared shape of the sherry glass is similar to the hull form of a 19th century American schooner which also tended to flare from the waterline upwards, but jaime’s theory is just as plausible.

[prcscct]

I don't think we've heard from anyone in Oz as what shape their beer schooners are down there, same as the UK sherry? Pete