Ive got bad news south australians!! really bad news

[Fev]

Sucks to you!

Beer prices up in SA
The recommended price of draught and packaged beer has gone up in South Australia from today.

The increase comes from adjustments made to Federal Government excise because of a rise in the Consumer Price Index.

The cost of a schooner of beer on tap is likely to go up by about 9 cents, a pint by 13 cents, while a butcher will be 6 cents more.

ok well its not really that bad.. WTF is a butcher? a pint?

[Poetic Justice]

Second that... I usually buy meat from a butcher, not drink him..!

[cuz]

That happens when you live in a backwater....

[irlewy86]

Originally Posted by Fev

Sucks to you!



ok well its not really that bad.. WTF is a butcher? a pint?

Actually it will be nation wide, sucks to be us. I dare say a butcher is a 200ml glass also called a "beer" or a "seven" or if you are missing all your teeth and married to your cousin a "glass".

[|||]

good thing i brew my own.

those greedy fat cats in canberra wont get 9 cents from me lol

[T3ts50]

Originally Posted by irlewy86

Actually it will be nation wide, sucks to be us. I dare say a butcher is a 200ml glass also called a "beer" or a "seven" or if you are missing all your teeth and married to your cousin a "glass".

I heard the same. Beer and smokes will go up from Saturday

[MRJUCY]

Originally Posted by irlewy86

Actually it will be nation wide, sucks to be us. I dare say a butcher is a 200ml glass also called a "beer" or a "seven" or if you are missing all your teeth and married to your cousin a "glass".

Never seen any of them in Sydney we have schooners (425ml) or a middy (285ml) for old men in RSLs, pints are normally only in Irish pubs & places trying to be trendy have those annoying Schmiddies that cost more then a schooner but hold less.

[MITCHAY]

Originally Posted by T3ts50

I heard the same. Beer and smokes will go up from Saturday

Argh that sucks! :(

[prydey]

Originally Posted by cuz351

That happens when you live in a backwater....

no argument here. he was only telling it like it is!!

[EA2BA]

In Victoria you have a Pint, a Schooner and a Pot (order of largest to smallest)

[sleekism]

In Northern NSW we have a middie, schooner, pint or jug

[Geez Louise]

I am going to the pub tonight then....before it becomes to expensive for me to drink and have a ciggy!!

Hey....any excuse does me!!!

[Walkinshaw]

Originally Posted by Fev

Sucks to you!



ok well its not really that bad.. WTF is a butcher? a pint?

Agreed, next to no one uses the term Butcher in SA for a beer

Schooner = 285mL
Pint = 425/560mL
Sourbastard Margarita shot = 1100mL

[Grum]

butcher = a glass of beer holding 200 milliliters

[Walkinshaw]

Originally Posted by Grum

butcher = a glass of beer holding 200 milliliters

ah, one of THOSE kind of beers....... py:

[troppo]

Or 7 fl oz

[Fev]

the hell with your small beers, give me a stein!!

[Grum]

butcher
In some regions of Australia butcher is a name for a measure of beer or the glass holding it.

The first use of butcher recorded in The Australian National Dictionary is in the 1889 W.R. Thomas publication, Early Days: Over a good fat `butcher' of beer he told me how he was getting on.

Almost a century later, in 1984, butcher is still in use, as in B. Driscoll's, Great Aussie Beer Book: The South Australian six ounce... has Australia's oddest glass name, a butcher.

Despite this long currency there has been some disagreement about just how big a butcher is. Some writers suggest it is a large measure, for example M. Vivienne in, Sunny South Australia (1908): He gives away a good few of what they call `butchers of beer', which is a long, wide glass holding more than a pint. Other, more recent, commentators say it is a small one, so J. O'Grady in It's Your Shout Mate! (1972): A... six-ounce glass became the butcher. In fact, since metric standardisation was applied to Australian beer measures, a butcher is the South Australian name for a 170 ml. glass.

There are a few competing theories concerning the origin of butcher. One of the more popular contenders is described by S. Hope in, Digger's Paradise (1956): And what is called a 'lady's waist' in some parts of the country is generally known as a 'butcher'. This originated in bygone days when workers from the abattoirs came unwashed to the pubs after their day's toil. A proportion of drinking mugs was kept separate for them, and a mob of slaughtermen would announce themselves as 'butchers' and be given those mugs.

More plausible, however, is the theory that butcher came into Australian English from the German word Becher, a glass or tumbler.

Added weight is given to this theory when it is realised that butcher is well known in South Australia but is little used outside that State. South Australia of course has a strong German component in its heritage, with many German immigrants - religious dissenters and agricultural workers - settling around Hahndorf and Kapunda from the late 1830s. The editor of The Australian National Dictionary, W.S. Ramson, thought that the German word was the most likely origin for butcher.

http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/res/aus_w...aewords_ab.php

[Fev]

"good fat butcher" my ***!! must have been a punce its smaller then a popper!

[bingoTE50]

Never been able to hold one , slips straight through the hand ......

Only a schooner sticks !!!

[sgt_doofey]

Originally Posted by Grum

Added weight is given to this theory when it is realised that butcher is well known in South Australia but is little used outside that State.

Pigs rectum. I've never, ever ordered a butcher of beer in a pub in my whole 30 years of life. Not to mention, ever hear anyone else ordering a butcher of beer in a pub. As far as I am aware, it's either a schooner (285mL) or a pint (425 or 600mL)
Steins can be found in some pubs.

[BAFalconXT]

Originally Posted by sgt_doofey

schooner (285mL) or a pint (425 or 600mL)

That is what it should be, here in the only non-convict settlement. We still have the best beer, Coopers Pale Ale, and it is still cheaper than in any other state. :

[NC1183]

Thats a crap naming system for beer. You order your usual largest and end up with the smallest poxy one in the pud.

[Nathan&Amanda]

bloody south austrialans

cant get glass sizes right

a schooner is bigger then a pot.

queensland you have 5 beers; tally, schooner, can, bottle and pot in order of size.

no copied stuff from the interweb

New South Wales
Glass (200ml) ..... Middy (285ml) ..... Schooner (425ml)
Norther Territory
Six (200ml) ..... Seven (285ml) ..... Handle (425ml)
Queensland
Glass (200ml) ..... Pot (285ml) ..... Schooner (425ml)
South Australia
Butcher (200ml) ..... Schooner (285ml) ..... Pint (425ml)
Tasmania
Seven (200ml) ..... Ten (285ml) ..... Pint (425ml)
Victoria
Glass (200ml) ..... Pot (285ml)
Western Australia
Bobby (200ml) ..... Glass (285ml) ..... Pot (425ml)

and for the wimps

a pony at 140ml and a shetland poney at 115ml

Beer knowledge done fopr the day

[DayTE]

Gee there are some funny sizes around the country. And I've never heard of a butcher either.

During my trips around the place I've found the following sizes.
7oz 175 or 200mm Tassie
Pot/10oz 285mm Vic/Tas/Qld/NT
Schooner was always 425mm NSW and some places in Tassie now.
Pint 5??mm NSW/Tas/Vic/WA/NT
There is also a 12oz but I don't know what size that is, maybe that's 285 and a pot is 250mm.

Oh and a jug usually a good couple of litres!

Just hand me a stubby and save the confusion!!!

[NC1183]

Originally Posted by T6Ute

Gee there are some funny sizes around the country. And I've never heard of a butcher either.

During my trips around the place I've found the following sizes.
7oz 175 or 200mm Tassie
Pot/10oz 285mm Vic/Tas/Qld/NT
Schooner was always 425mm NSW and some places in Tassie now.
Pint 5??mm NSW/Tas/Vic/WA/NT
There is also a 12oz but I don't know what size that is, maybe that's 285 and a pot is 250mm.

Oh and a jug usually a good couple of litres!

Just hand me a stubby and save the confusion!!!

I think you mean mL not mm for those sizes.

[awsome4.0]

Oh well.
Been of the grog since new years and havnt had a ciggy for near on two weeks now.

[Riksta]

Originally Posted by BAFalconXT

That is what it should be, here in the only non-convict settlement. We still have the best beer, Coopers Pale Ale, and it is still cheaper than in any other state. :

AMEN!!!

I'll drink to that

Man I could go a carton of paley's right now, damn having to work tomorrow!

[sleekism]

Originally Posted by Riksta

AMEN!!!

I'll drink to that

Man I could go a carton of paley's right now, damn having to work tomorrow!

Pfffff Coppers tastes like goat pi$$

Tooheys all the way!!

[sgt_doofey]

Originally Posted by sleekism

Pfffff Coppers tastes like goat pi$$

Tooheys all the way!!

Uncultured swine! :

Coopers Pale is the only drink that is a drink and a meal, all packaged neatly in one bottle!

Oh, and you can still buy Pale in a long neck as well! How many other brews still come in a 750mL bottle?