Converting Price Per Litre To Price Per Pint

[jadyn]

I don't know if it's me but I'm having problems converting between the above. I've only seen one online converter and it doesn't explain how it calculates it. Surely there must be a simple formula out there I can use. The units are pounds sterling and UK pints. It's a few years since I was in school!

Thank you.

[fiction-factory]

l litre =1.76 pints (to 2 decimal places)

[fiction-factory]

so multiply by 1.76.
That's pretty close to 1.75 which is 7/4- so divide by 4 and multiply by 7

[bhg481]

In other words, you divide the price per litre by 1.76 to get the price per pint.

[fiction-factory]

^That's to convert litres to pints
You may want the inverse

[fiction-factory]

Sorry bhg- I was referring to mine not yours. Yours is correct

[bhg481]

Just to clarify for jadyn - pints are smaller than litres, so the price per pint will be less than the price per litre. Price per pint is (price per litre)/1.76 or, roughly 4/7.

[mikey4444]

Be careful about "pints" if you are intending to use this in any American sense. The British pint is about 20% larger than the American pint since the two systems are not compatible.

I found that out many years ago when I discovered that getting drunk in America took much longer than it did back home !

Of course, another factor at that time, 1978, was that American beer was then a ghastly, yellowish, fizzy concoction.

Old CAMRA joke ::::::What is the difference between Bud Light, ordinary Bud ?.....Bud Light has even more water in it !

Sorry for hijacking your thread jadyn !

[bhg481]

The British system is based on defining a gallon of water to weigh 10lb, hence, with 8 pints in a gallon, a pint of water weighs 20oz.
The American system defines a pint of water to weigh 1lb so, with 8 pints in a gallon, the American gallon is smaller than the British one.

[jadyn]

Thank you all for your help. I just need to divide by 1.76 - easy when you know how!

No harm done Mikey. Loved the joke and funnily enough it was beer I was thinking about. I've just picked up an Aldi flyer that shows their own brand version of canned Stella Artois as equivalent to £1.51 per litre. Wish I could buy that stuff in the pub for 86p per pint!

[mikey4444]

How to confuse an American ?....ask for a litre of something !....a liter even !

[bhg481]

Mikey - How to confuse a Brit?....ask for a litre of something !

[gingejbee]

^^^and, mikey, tell them you come from Wales....
"Is that near Scotland?"......

[mikey4444]

Jadyn....I am not lagers greatest fan, but I occasionally buy this from Lidl ::::

https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/Non-Food-Offers.htm?articleId=835&;ar=5

Very good value for money and 4.8 % !

To further disgust my CAMRA friends, I sometimes add a small dash of lime cordial !

[bhg481]

Just to expand on my tongue-in-cheek response to Mikey - We all buy petrol/diesel by the litre but how many people know the fuel consumption of their car in miles/litre?

[zebo]

Or tell the you're from the North of England, Oh you mean Scartland.

[Baldric]

^^^^ Are you really a Bloke Mikey? ;o)

[mikey4444]

Ginge..........very few of our Colonial friends seem to make it over Offas Dyke, which is a great pity, as all their lovely Dollars would go down very nicely indeed !

In 2008, 2 American friends came to stay with me for a few days. They had been in Ireland, and I picked them up at Bristol Airport. As we were approaching the Severn Bridge, I asked them to get their passports out, ready for inspection.

When we stopped at the Bridge to pay the (hated) Toll, they started to stick these passports out the window at the poor bloke in the Toll Booth !

Laugh ?...I nearly died !

[jadyn]

oeerr Mikey you need to get down to Aldi. The Aldi Saint Etienne Premium lager is £7.99 for a case of 12 from 12 November!

[mikey4444]

Thanks jadyn !

Touché bhg !

[mikey4444]

Sorry jadyn...confusing my German cut price supermarkets !