Why does beer from northern Germany come in 0.33L bottles?

[Anonymous No.16509286]

[Anonymous No.16509295]

>>16509286
Because it's 1/3 of a liter.

[Anonymous No.16509298]

>>16509286
Probably has to do with brewers preferring the pint as a familiar and traditional serving size for beer, but needing to stay within agreement of EU metric standards.
Metric measurements are fucking retarded because they're cold, inhuman.

[Anonymous No.16509340]

>>16509295
>>16509298
Elsewhere in Germany beers are sold in 0.5L bottles and I believe that to be the standard serving size for beer at home. Also, there's Kölsch, which is served in 0.2L glasses (at i.e. restaurants) and yet, they're sold in 0.5L bottles at the supermarket.

[Anonymous No.16509406]

>>16509340
Belgian beer is served in 0.33L bottles. So I would say it's geographical proximity.

[Anonymous No.16509415]

33 cl bottles are the norm in Denmark and Switzerland and The Netherlands too, from personal experience. 50 cl are outliers.

[Anonymous No.16509424]

>>16509298
>Metric measurements are fucking retarded because they're cold, inhuman.
For bottles maybe, but the vast majority of calculations made at any given moment have little regard to human aesthetics.
And at the end of the day the mass of the bottle alone isn't that big of a creative strain, ignoring other standards.

[Anonymous No.16509436]

>>16509340
>>16509286
I am northern German and I never even thought of that. I mean you can get every bier in 0,3 even weißbier, but it's not that common. I think the underlying reason is that northern Germans in contrast to our southern counterparts are NOT FUCKING SUBHUMANS WHO ENDLESSLY NEED TO COMSUME LARGE QUANTITIES OF ALKOHOL. we know how to enjoy ourselves in an honorable way instead of puking all over ourselves at the Wisn Kotzhügl (pic rel)

[Anonymous No.16509456]

>>16509298
It would make more sense to be half a litre then as a pint is 568ml.

[Anonymous No.16509469]

>>16509298
nobody cares about your retarded imperial standards you turbo autistic retard angloid piece of filth. everybody looks at you with a mixture of contempt and confusion as to why you use such substandard measurments for liquids. everybody else is normal, you are the freakish outlier. die.

[Anonymous No.16509485]

>>16509469
Nobody has even heard of your country, retard.

[Anonymous No.16509521]

>>16509286
It's closer to a standard bottle of beer (40ish mL shy of 12 oz), whereas 5dL is basically a metric pint. There's probably an economic reason, local law, or sales mimicry in there somewhere. >tl;dr: I have no idea why.

>>16509456
Or is it 473mL? A pint's a pound the world around, except for all the times it's not.

[Anonymous No.16509544]

Southerners will never get into chad Maurerbier.

[Anonymous No.16509620]

>>16509456
>>16509521
a pint is always 1/8th of a gallon, the trouble is there are two gallons: Imperial and US Customary, 4.55L and 3.79L respectively.

[Anonymous No.16509671]

>>16509286
it's a satanist dogwhistle

[Anonymous No.16509708]

>>16509485
no just you. you haven't heard of any country in fact, except for the retard containment facility you call usa you subhuman sperg

[Anonymous No.16509715]

enjoying a stubbie rn. cheers to my germany brothers

[Anonymous No.16510509]

>>16509298
0.5l is way closer to a pint than 0.33 dummy
0.33l is roughly equivalent to the standard 12oz bottle you see in America

[Anonymous No.16510826]

>>16509620
In either case, a pint would very rarely be a pound - especially in this economy!

[Anonymous No.16511852]

>>16509406
>>16509415
probably the reason
>>16509436
>we know how to enjoy ourselves in an honorable way
Reeperbahn exists.
>>16509544
Don't you feel stupid carrying the extra weight of 3 x 0.33l bottles than 2 half litre ones?
>>16509715
Enjoy brother!

[Anonymous No.16511859]

>>16511852
You can sip 3x.33L 50% longer compared to 2x.5L.

[Anonymous No.16511867]

>>16509485
A few people know about Bulgaria

[Anonymous No.16511873]

>>16511852
>Don't you feel stupid carrying the extra weight of 3 x 0.33l bottles than 2 half litre ones?
You beer is more carbonated if you drink small bottles, which i prefer. Also by that logic you could buy those czech 1.5l plastic bottles.

[Anonymous No.16511948]

>>16511859
>>16511873
How long do you guys need to finish a 0.5L Pilsner style beer? Doesn't really matter if you drink 0.3L or 0.5L beer out of a glass. They lose carbonation at the same rate. Maybe, you'd need to drink the 0.5L beer a little faster so that the 0.2L difference does not get stale but so far I've never had that issue.

I've only bought those 1.5L plastic bottles for occasions that prohibit glass bottles, lol.

[Anonymous No.16511959]

>>16509286
plenty of beer in the UK is sold in that size as well. Is it that weird?

[Anonymous No.16512037]

>>16511959
Might be the standard bottle size around the globe. Everything larger than that is considered a large beer, I think. In Germany 0.5L is currently the most common bottle size. I was a little bit thrown off by the 'small' beers when I visited Hamburg the other week.

[Anonymous No.16512077]

>>16512037
>In Germany 0.5L is currently the most common bottle size
I wouldn't say that. Outside of Bavaria/the south 0.5l is mostly just a choice of price and not really preference. A crate of 24*0.33l costs the same as a 20*0.5l one so you get 2l more with the latter one. Then there's also the 30*0.33l crates, but those are often cheaper beers associated with working class, students or parties.

[Anonymous No.16512115]

330ml is standard size in New Zealand too.

[Anonymous No.16512193]

>>16512077
I've lived in the east of Germany (ex-GdR) and here 0.5l are the standard beer bottle size. Maybe, the north is just different. Not sure about the most western states of Germany. (Rheinland Pfalz, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Saarland)

[Anonymous No.16512201]

>>16509286
So you can shove the whole bottle up your anus

[Anonymous No.16512939]

>>16509286
citation needed

[Anonymous No.16513229]

>>16512939
>>16512077
I don't know how credible this source is. They say that the NRW bottle (0.5l) is the most sold beer bottle type; hence, most sold beers are 0.5l. (https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/getraenke-die-verschiedenen-bierflaschen-im-ueberblick-1.3181913))