![]() Conical glasses are shaped, as the name suggests, as an inverted truncated cone around 6 inches (15 cm) tall and tapering by about 1 inch (25 mm) in diameter over its height.Glasses of 500 ml are usually called pints in American parlance. In the US, a pint is 16 US fl oz (473 ml), but the volume is not strictly regulated and glasses may vary somewhat. These may simply be smaller pint glasses, or may be a special pony glass. Quarter-pint glasses of 5 imp fl oz (142 ml) also exist, and are popular in Australia (now 140 ml from metrication), where they are known as a "pony". Half-pint glasses of 10 imp fl oz (284 ml) are generally smaller versions of pint glasses. ![]() ![]() In the UK, law stipulates that a serving of beer be fixed at the imperial pint (568 ml ≈ 1.2 US pints). The definition of a pint differs by country, thus a pint glass will reflect the regular measure of beer in that country.
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