Talk:Yard of ale

Movies Featured In

The Yard of Ale was featured in the movie, "Oxford Blues" (1984), starring Rob Lowe.

Scoobots2012 (talk) 19:26, 10 November 2012 (UTC) scoobots2012

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Edit request on 28 October 2013

According to description, and math, this yard should hold 6.4 liters of "ale" not 1.4. 161.28.104.72 (talk) 17:49, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

How do you get that number? 2.5 imperial pints convert to 1.4 liters (1 pint = 0.568 liters). Zidanie5 (talk) 18:44, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Not done: It's as Zidanie5 said. --Stfg (talk) 19:51, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

First sentence is wrong!

"A yard of ale ... is a very tall beer glass". It's not. The "yard glass" is the glass; a "yard of ale" is the amount of ale that fills it. 86.136.110.44 (talk) 19:07, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Volume?

When I was at college - admittedly a very long time ago - there were two yards held behind the union bar. Although both were the same length (a yard, natch) as far as I recall one held around 2.5 pints but the other was, iirc, 3 1/3 pints. This article only mentions the smaller of the two. --AlisonW (talk) 23:05, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

if 2.5 imperial pints in 5 seconds sounds hard to believe, here is video of an Australian called Tony downing a jug (2 pints) in 3 seconds. The background racket is a traditional drinking challenge—it may have been his birthday:

Here’s to [FIRST NAME], he’s true blue.

He’s a pisspot through and through.

He's a bastard, so they say.

He tried to go to Heaven but he went the other way.

He went down! Down! Down! Down! Down! Down! Sippp! Sippp! Sippp!

And repeat until the victim can manage no more. Wikiain (talk) 03:24, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

A yard, of course, does not equal 90 cm, but 91.44 cm, or 'approximately 91 cm' if you will.

By the way I looked up this page having read the reference by Tory MPs Brendan Clarke-Smith and Jacob Rees Mogg in Parliament on 25 June 2020 to resuming this traditional practice. Probably deserves a mention somewhere on the page.[BC, 27 June 2020]

Peter Dowdeswell

He holds the record for drinking a yard of ale, 4.9 seconds—see the Wilipedia entry on Dowdeswell. I don't know whether that's a Guinness-sanctioned record. But it should be mentioned when you list the 5-second record. And who holds that record? KC 19:49, 23 April 2016 (UTC) KC 19:49, 23 April 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boydstra (talk • contribs)

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