EOSM 2006 hijack

I hope you're not inferring that "80 proof" is massively strong. It
equates to 45.6%abv in modern parlance (see:
http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/trol/scol/ccalcoh4.htm )
and current cooking Laphroiag is 43%abv.

Further, and ISTBC here, I can find no reference to a quarter gill
measure - the fifth was adopted across Scotland in 1824.

Yeah. It makes you better, innit.

 

Hadawayandshite, man. You could get Full Beam on a decent downhill,
and Fuel Guage if you had a decent run:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/6e20bd768c838851?hl=en&

 

Quite a few pubs in Scotland serve quarters.

 

It was later dropped to 70° proof - note the "°" - not "%"

You should look a bit harder, then. In the hotel where I was a barman,
we had fifth and quarter gill measures - a 5th of cooking whisky was 2s
and a quarter, 2/6d. This was in 1963. The fifth was the official
measure and the quarter was optional. A licensee could, I think, refuse
to serve in quarters, but could not refuse to serve fifths.

I think the quarter was knocked on the head while I was on the Isle of
Lewis in the '70s or '80s

In fact I have such a measure if I reach out and take it down -
unfortunately my el cheapo digital camera isn't up to detailed pics, but
I've scanned it.

Result here: http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/measure.jpg

Better at taking risks mayhap.

 

That's almost a decent measure.

Must be \/ that much bigger than a fifth.
/\

 

Rusty Hinge 2 wrote

I recall that when the legislation was introduced requiring drug
peddlers like publicans to sell spirits in either 1/4, 1/5 or 1/6 gill.
many put in 1/6 optics but priced it at 1/4.

 

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All the optics I've used have had the measure printed prominently on them.

Turning them round would (partially) hide that, but arouse suspicion.

Where i worked, if a quarter gill were requested, a brass measure was
used - the optics were all a fifth.

I don't think it was legal to sell spirits in sixths in Scotland.