To ask if you drink in pints or halves?

[parentingperson]

If you drink beer / cider / lager etc, do you drink in pints or by the half pint?

I know that historically 'ladies' were frowned upon for drinking a pint.

Now times are moving on is it more acceptable to drink a pint, do you and what are your views generally?

Mine is that if I want a pint I will have one. Saves going to the bar twice. But at the same time I don't want to be judged by others for it.

Pints. I've never drunk a half.

Actually that's not true. At beer festivals I'll sometimes have a half or a third if I'm not sure I'll like it.

@JunoMcDuff

Actually that's not true. At beer festivals I'll sometimes have a half or a third if I'm not sure I'll like it.

At a beer festival a pint glass marks you out as a bit of a novice 😂

A half (or third if available) means that you can try more of the available beers. You don't want to be stuck with a whole pint, especially not of something a bit "interesting".

@parentingperson

If you drink beer / cider / lager etc, do you drink in pints or by the half pint?

I know that historically 'ladies' were frowned upon for drinking a pint.

Now times are moving on is it more acceptable to drink a pint, do you and what are your views generally?

Mine is that if I want a pint I will have one. Saves going to the bar twice. But at the same time I don't want to be judged by others for it.

Half pint purely because it would start getting warm by the time I had managed to drink it all

Like many previous posters I have been drinking pints since the early 90s.
Where do you live where there is judgment on women for the size of their drink?

im a half drinker, DH drinks fast than me so i have half to his every one.

i also dont want a pint because its big and sits for up to 1/2 hr before its gone so tends to go warm and a bit flat - hate warm lager

I don’t give a shit about being judged by idiots.

Pints since I was 18 in 1990. Pref in a handled glass. At a beer festival I get a pint glass (as thats the preferred glass at home) but they are always lined to half pint as well and often a third as well, and I'll get a half.

Deoends how thirsty I am. And how much time we have.

I've never heard of this. If I want a pint I drink a pint. Sometimes DH fancies a half!

Pints! Who the fuck judges this?

I also like real ale. Plenty of times the bar staff have handed me the gin that DH has ordered and him the pint. And I’ve made a point of swapping them round.

My grandad told me. “Never trust a man that drinks halves.”
Didn’t mention women though.

Pints, and think nothing of it, but remember going to bars in the 80s and even 90s where they wouldn't serve pints to women.

I drink pints. I would like to drink half but they are too small. Schooner is perfect

Halves otherwise I look like that scene from Lord of the Rings when the hobbits drink massive drinks. I have really small hands

But I don't know anyone who judges people on what they drink, or what size they order it in.

Pints.

When we moved to England one of my cousins told my husband to get me in line because I drank pints. Also, his wife wouldn’t be embarrassing him like that in public. Never occurred to me there was anything wrong with it - it’s all we drank in Canada.

Pints unless I have finished my pint and everyone is lagging behind. I'll get myself half before we leave.

Pints, but I do switch to halves early to slow down my drinking and tip them into a my pint glass. Beer is a small glass feels all wrong in my hand.

I've done this for at least 25 years. It's really not unusual to see women drinking pints.

Pint, burping at the end is optional.

I have literally never ordered a half in a pub, either for myself or anyone else. My mum drinks pints!

I drink whatever I fancy. Quite often halves these days as I don't drink much. But I am most certainly not ladylike, and if anyone suggested I was I would be extremely offended.

Not been out drinking it years but it always used to be a half, I got a pint once and was horribly sick so I think its put me off! I'm only small with a little pea-sized bladder, I don't drink pints of non-alcoholic drinks either as I'd never be off the toilet! I also worry about looking like a hobbit with a pint in my stumpy little hands!

I have rarely bought a half (unless I'm driving) been drinking pints since the 1990's

But we have a tap room that serves 2/3 pints, I do order them sometimes if it's strong (6%+) fancy ale

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