500ml to 440ml?

Edit: the 440 on the right, is the last of a can that I bought in a four pack. The 500 on the left, is one of three I bought as singles.

Packaged Guinness comes in 440 milliliters. Single cans of Guinness come in 500 mL.

Apparently, that’s how Guinness does it here in Canada.

And apparently, I lazily avoided any attempt to research or apply any level of critical thinking before posting.

  • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Any famous beer that is associated with a country is usually shit… Like molson canadian, fosters, or bud light

    It took me a while to realize guinness falls firmly into this category as well

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      7 months ago

      When you have built a brand reputation, you don’t have to care about actual quality.

      I think it was good beer 100 years ago.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t think Fosters is associated with a country. Maybe Japan or England.

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        7 months ago

        it was marketed here (north america) as an australian beer… i think their slogan was “australian for beer” at some point. also parodied heavily in the simpsons episode in australia…

        never heard of any associations with japan or england

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          Yeah in the US the slogan was “its Australian for beer, mate.”

          And the joke was “it’s Australian for piss, mate.”

          For just an average macro brew lager, I don’t think it’s that bad.

          I also associate Sapporo with Japan, which again is not bad for that type of beer.

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            Sapporo is my go too plain beer. It’s not that it’s a great beer, but it’s one of the few mainstream brands that doesn’t taste like mostly sugar. If you can find the imported stuff in the funky can that’s shaped like a glass it’s way better than the North American made stuff.

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        7 months ago

        The tagline in the U.S. was “Foster’s, Australian for beer” for like 2 decades at least.

        It had an Australian flag on the can.