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Beer joints in Paris
The usual café in Paris will have a small number of standard bottled beers and several drafts (called "pression"). The really large collection of beers are at specialty places around town which are Belge in character. For example, "La Gueuze" on the rue Soufflot (19) in the 5th, near the Jardin Luxembourg, is Belge in character and has a dozen or so draft beers, plus maybe 200 bottled international beers, even "Bud" for the Americans. For those interested, there is an internet place near by o the same rue but the quartier Latin have a number. As beer drinkers know les Belges have some crazy beers (one is named "Mort Subite" or "sudden death") although my taste is for Leffe on draft. Draft beers are served in .25, .50 and 1 iiter quantities at about 4, 8 and 16 euros. Since I drink slowly and like my beer cool I never order over a 1/2 liter, sometimes just sequential 0.25 liters, known for some reason as a "demi". Two usually suffices and three will set me back. These Belge places also serve food, moules-frites is the favorite. Usually this is much better than pub type food in England but that is a matter of choice. Another Belge place, La Marine, is up on the avenue de Montparnasse near the corner with rue de Rennes next to the Pizza Pino! The Marine had a fine Czech Pilsner on draft but I have not checked lately. Earl |
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:40:23 +0200, Earl Evleth
wrote: I never order over a 1/2 liter, sometimes just sequential 0.25 liters, known for some reason as a "demi". Yes, that's because it's half a pint of beer. |
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zinzan wrote in
: On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:40:23 +0200, Earl Evleth wrote: I never order over a 1/2 liter, sometimes just sequential 0.25 liters, known for some reason as a "demi". Yes, that's because it's half a pint of beer. so why and since when, do the French use British units to determine the nicknames for their glasses? It is more likely that it is a demi becasue it is half of a "standard" .5L glass, but . . . |
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:22:48 -0600, jcoulter wrote:
zinzan wrote in : On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:40:23 +0200, Earl Evleth wrote: I never order over a 1/2 liter, sometimes just sequential 0.25 liters, known for some reason as a "demi". Yes, that's because it's half a pint of beer. so why and since when, do the French use British units to determine the nicknames for their glasses? It is more likely that it is a demi becasue it is half of a "standard" .5L glass, but . . . From: A Dictionary of Units of Measurement http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictD.html Demi [2] an informal French unit of volume for beer, generally equal to 250 milliliters (1/4 liter). The unit was originally a half pint (demipinte). -- Tim C. |
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:22:48 -0600, jcoulter wrote:
zinzan wrote in : On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:40:23 +0200, Earl Evleth wrote: I never order over a 1/2 liter, sometimes just sequential 0.25 liters, known for some reason as a "demi". Yes, that's because it's half a pint of beer. so why and since when, do the French use British Who says they were British? The original measurements were often based on Roman and older measurements, so they shared a common orign. units to determine the nicknames for their glasses? It is more likely that it is a demi becasue it is half of a "standard" .5L glass, but . . . What do you think they used before decimalisation? The Germans, for example still use Zoll (inch) and pfund (pound although it is now decimalised to 500g). The Schuh was an old measurement. And you occasionally hear mention of "Fuss" (foot ~30cm). I don't see why the French had it any differently. -- Tim C. |
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"jcoulter" wrote in message ... zinzan wrote in so why and since when, do the French use British units to determine the nicknames for their glasses? Of even more imortance is - why do French trains drive on the left? |
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Some more useless historical stuff:
from Sizes http://www.sizes.com/units/index.htm pinta - The name given to the liter in Milan when it adopted the metric system in 1803. pinte 2 - I n France, 931 milliliters (about 0.984 U.S. liquid pints). -- Tim C. |
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:16:08 +0000 (UTC), "Mike O'sullivan"
wrote: Of even more imortance is - why do French trains drive on the left? Even more important question : Why french beer joints don't sell draft Caffrey's ? |
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On 30/03/04 16:19, in article
, "Tim Challenger" "timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at" wrote: Some more useless historical stuff: from Sizes http://www.sizes.com/units/index.htm pinta - The name given to the liter in Milan when it adopted the metric system in 1803. pinte 2 - I n France, 931 milliliters (about 0.984 U.S. liquid pints). Hopefully we can get back to the beer itself! What do you prefer in beers?? Earl |
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