Just to clear something up, and this is on rumors.

Some drugs use both. You may ask for an ounce, but you can bet it was weighed out in grams.

Just goes to show we can all get along.

 

And I don't care which system you use, 10mm sockets disappear more than any other.

 

That's odd. 16.9 ounces is 1/2 liter, even if it doesn't say it on the bottle. I don't know how many ounces are in a case of that beer and would need a calculator to figure it out. But without giving it any thought I could tell you how many liters it was if I knew how many bottles are in the case. 20 bottles is 10 liters. 24 is 12 liters. Simple. No calculator needed, and if everything in the U.S. was metric, then everything else would be simple too. I never saw German beer that wasn't marked in L or ml, but I didn't drink any that was imported to the U.S. My brand was only available in and around the city of Bad Windsheim in Bavaria. I don't think it could legally be sold here anyway since it's still alive and not pasteurized.

What part of Germany is the bock beer from, and what brand? I want to see if it's available anywhere near me. Since I couldn't get any beer I liked when I got back to the U.S., I drank watery American and Canadian beer, and it was marked in ounces and ml on the cans and bottles. Even the 12 ounce glass bottles of pop I used to buy here were marked in ml too and not just ounces. I usually buy my oil by the quart instead of by the liter, but the quarts are marked in ml too. I can't recall seeing any liquid lately come out of an American factory that wasn't, but I don't spend all day reading labels either. The dry food products I buy are marked in metric too. Like the 226.5 g of fish in my belly. And it's not my favorite food, just one with the label nearby. Since nearly everything is already being marked in metric too, they could quit using our standard measurements.

 

Maybe that's why my toolkit came with 2 of them. Or maybe because one is 1/4" drive and the other is 3/8". I haven't lost one yet, but I always need 1/8" drill bits. I know if I bought them in bulk I'd either quit using them, or quit breaking them when I do, so it's just 1 or 2 at a time. And I have lost some of those.

 

Weltenburger Kloster Asam Bock, One of the ones you buy as single bottle. Nothing metric on it. I do agree most things have each. But I don't know anyone who orders or buys based on metric, unless liter or 1/2 liter. Again pop comes in 12, 16, 20, 24 ounces bottles and cans.

Yes many people use 750 1.75 for booze, but I still call 1/5 and half gallon. Yes it is off a little. But since I am buying by the bottle, I am not getting ripped off.

I spent a great deal of time when I was younger working in metric, when I got out in the real world, nobody uses it. Pounds, yards, inches. Even commie countries don't completely use it.

Also most people use acres still.


What is more annoying is mixing the too. Why do I need 10 mm for a battery on an american machine, that is using standard for most everything else?

 

I haven't had a doppelbock in a long time. I found a site that says there's one place near me that has it. 250 miles away. Nope. Too far to drive for a beer. Too bad I never heard of it when I was less than 70 miles from where it's made. I got off the train at Nuremburg when I could have stayed on it and gone there. But then I wouldn't get to bar hop in the red light district at the wall with my friends. It's nowhere near as dark as the beer I used to guzzle, and being a doppelbock it would have to be sweeter too. It doesn't sound too bad, but all of the pictures of the bottle I see online show the front of the label and I don't see the size there. Everyone selling it was calling them 1/2 liter bottles and the case says 20 x 0.5 liter right on it. The beer I drank was so dark that when I held it up to the light, it like a black hole in space. No light came through it. You'd get a similar effect with a glassful of black paint but it wouldn't have a brown head on it. I tried to find it online but the search engine I tried doesn't understand. I may have set it to only accept results outside of the U.S. if I try again.

As far as I know, not every single part of any ATV, car, motorcycle, etc. is made in America, and since the rest of the world is metric you need an extra wrench, or a whole set of tools. It would be easier for 1 country to change than the other 194, and can't force them to do it the American way. They can all buy things from any other country except the U.S. and not have to buy 2 sets of tools. Why should we?

 

I got mine at Woodmans grocery, which is known for bigger liqour selection, about 20 miles away.

I don't go to the city much, so I went big either 1.5 or 2.5 years ago I went for my birthday, can't remember which. So I don't know what this was supposed to taste like new. Higher alcohol, stored in fridge entire time. I liked it.

 

Cause they are specing it and paying their suppliers.

My Harleys have US made batteries, but metric threads. Why? Same with Polaris.

 

About the bock.

Originally brewed in the northern town of Einbeck during the fourteenth century, the style gradually moved south to the city of Munich by the seventeenth century. Due to subtle language differences between the north and south of Germany, the pronunciation of the beer from Einbeck was misconstrued by the Bavarians to sounds like “ein bock,” which means “billy goat” in German. The name stuck, as did the image of a billy goat, which still adorns bock labels to this day.

Not an import, but been made in Texas at the same brewery for over 100 years. Rare not to have any in my fridge.

 

Why are so many Harley parts and accessories made in China? Because it's cheaper. Every company wants their parts made cheap and most non-U.S. made parts are going to be metric.

I have to say, I like your taste in beer. 2 bottles or a one liter mug of German beer has about the same amount of alcohol as a six-pack of American beer. I got staggering drunk a lot when I was over there. After work I'd walk out the door and walk in the next door to the rod & gun club and have a couple of beers. Then I'd go back through the same two doors, change out of my uniform, and go to the bar and get hammered.

Sometimes me and one or more of my friends would drink something called a schwarze mass. A Masskrug is a beer mug that measures 1 liter at the mark about 2 inches down from the top, and schwarze means black. Sometimes we'd just call it a black mass because it was easier to say, and most of our bartenders spoke English. They'd put 1/2 liter of a very dark dark beer in a mass, add several shots of Asbach brandy, which is like cognac except German, and top it off with Coke or Spezi. Spezi is a cola and orange soft drink. Some people think cola and orange sounds strange, but cola already has citrus flavor in it, so it's not that strange. Germans have other beer and soft drink mixes like shandies, but AFAIK the black mass is the only one with brandy added to give it a lot more alcohol. I can't even describe the taste, but I can tell you it will mess you up. Sometimes we smacked the mugs together and said cheers in German. Like this picture only it was dark brown instead of looking like regular beer. Prost!