Matthew's Journal

I don't get political very frequently, so forgive me this once! CAMRA is calling on people to get their MP to support Early Day Motion 331. Essentially, the DTI is proposing to define a pint as "not less than 95%" liquid; given that pints would regularly have to be 2 or 3 % shorter than that for anyone to actually get prosecuted, this would allow pubs to serve you 7% froth as a matter of course. That means that ~15p you spend on every pint is being wasted. It also means that breweries get screwed over (a pub doing this can serve 76 or more pints from a 72-pint barrel), and the treasurery sees less duty than it ought to.

Early Day Motion 331 calls for 1 pint to be officially declare to be 1 pint. Doesn't sound too difficult, does it? The motion has gathered a fair backing, but needs more. Please contact your MP and get them to support it. The relevant bit of the CAMRA website has more details.