The use is simple. After you get served a beer if there’s any room at the top of your glass hold the beer gauge up to your glass, it has a chin on it so you can’t measure wrong, and then match the level of your beer with the lines on the side. There are marks along the side of the beer gauge that will match up with the level of beer in your glass. They’ll tell you how many ounces are in your “pint” (a pint is supposed to be 16 oz, but if a bar gives you a short pour you’re not getting a pint) as well as what percent of your beer is missing. Because of the shape of the conical pint glass a small amount missing at the top is actually quite a bit of beer. In the picture below you can see that I was given a short pour, it doesn’t look like much at first glance, but the beer gauge shows that my “pint” is actually only 14oz and 13% of my beer is missing.

The Beer Gauge in Use

The bartender was a guy I know, so I took my freshly poured beer up to him with the beer gauge just to give him a (friendly) bad time. He jokingly blamed the waitress that brought the beer over to me, but I did notice my next two beers were perfectly full.

It’s true there are some reasons why your beer could be short. If it sits around after being poured before getting to you the head could dissipate quickly. Or the waitress or bartender could spill a bit after pouring. I wouldn’t seriously use the beer gauge unless a bartender were consistently pouring short and not attempting to fix it. But it is fun to see how much beer is missing from your glass as the shape creates a bit of an optical illusion.

Apparently the FTC wants to make sure I’m not biased because of free stuff, so I should say that I ordered and payed for a couple Beer Gauges, and the seller threw in a couple more for free for me to give to friends.

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The Beer Gauge