Numbers on the side of my Guinness Pint?

[antonio107]

So I was at lunch with gramps the other day, and I ordered us a round of Guinness. The glasses they were served in were proper “Guinness” glasses, with the logo and the like.

On the flip side there were these strange insignia. It was a nickel-sized circle, with two numbers separated by this tilde sort of divider (~). My glass had 4 over 4, his had 7 over 1 (or what is 1 over 7?).

What do these numbers mean? If I my description isn’t good enough, I have a blurry, overexposed blackberry photo I can put up here to supplement my OP!

Thanks in advance!

[williambaskerville]

@antonio107

So I was at lunch with gramps the other day, and I ordered us a round of Guinness. The glasses they were served in were proper “Guinness” glasses, with the logo and the like.

On the flip side there were these strange insignia. It was a nickel-sized circle, with two numbers separated by this tilde sort of divider (~). My glass had 4 over 4, his had 7 over 1 (or what is 1 over 7?).

What do these numbers mean? If I my description isn’t good enough, I have a blurry, overexposed blackberry photo I can put up here to supplement my OP!

Thanks in advance!

Where are you ? They’re probably a mark certifying that that batch of glasses have been tested and established to contain exactly 1 pint, or whatever quantity you were buying.

[antonio107]

@williambaskerville

@antonio107

So I was at lunch with gramps the other day, and I ordered us a round of Guinness. The glasses they were served in were proper “Guinness” glasses, with the logo and the like.

On the flip side there were these strange insignia. It was a nickel-sized circle, with two numbers separated by this tilde sort of divider (~). My glass had 4 over 4, his had 7 over 1 (or what is 1 over 7?).

What do these numbers mean? If I my description isn’t good enough, I have a blurry, overexposed blackberry photo I can put up here to supplement my OP!

Thanks in advance!

Where are you ? They’re probably a mark certifying that that batch of glasses have been tested and established to contain exactly 1 pint, or whatever quantity you were buying.

I’m in Canada (Ottawa, to be specific). The two glasses were of the exact same size and yet the two pairs of numbers were different; I thought the same thing you did, but then surely they should have the same number!

[An_Gadai]

Those wee numbers are urban legend generators.

[antonio107]

@An_Gadai

Those wee numbers are urban legend generators.

But they’re not illegal numbers, are they?

[silenus]

Better write the folks at Rolling Rock and ask them.

[Gus_Gusterson]

Pint glass

The Republic of Ireland also uses 570 mL 1 pint glasses, where legal metrology marks are used to show that a glass has passed inspection by the National Standards Authority of Ireland, a state-run body who enforce a number of standard rulings. Starting in 2006, the NSAI “pint” mark, a circle featuring two wavy lines, between which “PINT” is written, with a year mark (last two digits), and a three digit batch code either side; has begun to be phased out with a European standard “PINT”/CE logo stamp. Smaller Pint glasses have been used in pubs and nightclubs though.

[antonio107]

@Gus_Gusterson

Pint glass - Wikipedia

The Republic of Ireland also uses 570 mL 1 pint glasses, where legal metrology marks are used to show that a glass has passed inspection by the National Standards Authority of Ireland, a state-run body who enforce a number of standard rulings. Starting in 2006, the NSAI “pint” mark, a circle featuring two wavy lines, between which “PINT” is written, with a year mark (last two digits), and a three digit batch code either side; has begun to be phased out with a European standard “PINT”/CE logo stamp. Smaller Pint glasses have been used in pubs and nightclubs though.

Cool! Thank you!