Use of beer jugs defended

Press, 22 September 1980, Page 22

Use of beer jugs defended

PA AucKiana If people want to drink large quantities of beer they will — whether it is served in bottles, pint glasses, jugs, or. flagons. This is the opinion of two industry spokesmen yesterday after suggestions by a Christchurch pathologist, Dr W. J. Gwynne, that selling beer in jugs leads to the drinking of more liquor. The impact of jug sales of beer will also be studied by the Alcoholic Liquor Advisory Council.

The chief executive of the Hotel Association, Mr J. J. Williams, said serving beer in jugs did not encourage patrons to drink more.

Most people bought their own jugs and set their own pace at drinking them, using small glasses, Mr Williams said.

In most bars, people drinking, from jugs tended to drink out of much smaller glasses than did other patrons.

The public relations manager of Lion Breweries, Mr D. J. Fitzgerald, said people had the choice of whether to use jugs.

“If they stop people buying jugs will the next move be to stop buying pints? What is the logical container? Is it a pint, a half-pint? Mr Fitzgerald said he did not see jugs as the reason