The excise duty percentilitreof pure alcohol would be about 10·2p for a typical beer or table wine, arid 17·35p for spirits.
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Would it not be far more sensible to use existing carafes of whatever size and mark them in whatever number of centilitres is desired?
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Certainly poor fellows like me would have greater understanding if it was, shall we say, rounded to a figure of 50 centilitres.
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If my calculations are correct—and they may not be—those are approximate to just over 28 centilitres and just over 56 centilitres respectively.
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One then goes into another pub which is also abiding by the code but there the measure is in centilitres.
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I believe that it is now bought by measures of 30 or 60 centilitres.
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The existing provisions allow for the indefinite marking of gallons, pints, quarts or gills and fluid ounces as a supplementary indication to litres and centilitres.
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If it was a minimum quantity of 25 centilitres the chap could put in a little more and be safe.
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He would in practice be infinitely more likely to use "20 centilitres"or"2 decilitres".
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Why, therefore, have thecentilitreand the decilitre not been included?
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That is equivalent to one-third of the contents of a standard 75centilitrebottle of wine.
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The effect of acentilitreof alcohol is the same in whichever form one takes it.
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Not only is there the example of 75centilitrewine and spirit bottles but also beers and soft drinks sold in 440, 330 and 275 millilitre cans.
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Wine may be sold in 25 centilitres, 50 centilitres—that is his half litre—75 centilitres, one litre, or two imperial measures of 10 or 20 fluid ounces.
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A bottle is 70 centilitres.
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