"Christian McArdle" wrote in message
. net...
500ml - half a litre I can understand, 568 ml - a pint I can understand,
but
440 ml doesn't convert to anything!

It's not far off an Aussie schooner. Did Australians invent tinned beer?

Christian.



Off the top of my head i'd say...

The "official" birthday of the beer can is January 24, 1935. That's the
day cans of Krueger's Finest Beer and Krueger's Cream Ale first went on sale
in Richmond, VA.
But the beer can really made its debut some 14 months earlier - just before
the repeal of Prohibition. American Can Company had engineered a workable
beer can. All that was needed was a brewer willing to take the pioneering
plunge. The Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company of Newark, NJ signed on the
dotted line in November 1933.