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

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)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg 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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