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English translation: 200ml bottle of beer

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Spanish term or phrase:	quintillo
English translation:	200ml bottle of beer
Entered by:	Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes

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10:09 Oct 22, 2009

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Tourism & Travel / Beer

Spanish term or phrase: quintillo

I presume it's like the 'quinto' bottle, but how to translate it?

Lo que mas me gusta de las islas Canarias sin duda alguna, son los ***quintillos**, creo que mi estancia en la Isla de Fuerteventura no hubiera sido la misma sin ellos. Gracias hasta pequeña gran cerveza de la marca Tropical, he aumentado mis ralaciones personales y mi barriga cervecera, es tanto mi admiracion por ella que cuando tenga un niño lo pondre ‘quintillo’ y si es niña la pondre ‘resaka’. Yo no se si saldra en las guias o no, lo unico que se, es que en mi frigorifico no puede faltar un ***quintillo***, creo que es el segundo mejor invento del hombre, despues del mando a distancia jejejeje (bueno la beca erasmus tambien es un gran invento). Yo estoy preparado para ser embajador de nuestro archipilelago, llebando el nombre de Tropical a lo mas alto al resto de europa.

Lisa McCarthy KudoZ activity Questions: 1903 (9 open) (158 closed without grading) Answers: 2312 Spain
Local time: 21:14

small beer

Explanation:
"Quintillo" es un diminutivo de "quinto" = 200 cc. Aquí en Jaén los llamamos "botellín".
Claro que "small beer" también puede ser un "tercio".

Ejemplo:
FORO DE BUCEO DEPORTIVO :: Ver tema - Os presento mi futura buceadora. - [ Translate this page ]
No me resisto pongo unas fotos del otro día viendo la F1. Para las mentes sensibles no se bebió un quinto de cerveza........ se bebió dos. Diablillo ...
www.forobuceo.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=453085... - Cached - Similar -

Salvajemente amateur 2006 | bruto - [ Translate this page ]
Bueno, lo dicho, un saludo a todos, sé que alguno se comió una chuletita, se bebió un quinto (o tercio) y se hizo unos riffs por mí. Salud. You Meikmisic ...
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Trip to Spain 2006
We nipped into a place selling tapas but they seemed to be a bit expensive and confusing so we had a small beer and left. We then found a bar where we ... In Barcelona they speak Catalan rather then Spanish, but do understand Spanish. ...
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Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes
Spain
Local time: 21:14

Grading comment

Thanks, Alejandro. Went with a description of the bottle instead. 'Stubbie' is a term I've haven´t heard used much so I didn´t feel comfortable using it.
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4 +4

stubbie

David Ronder

3 +1

small beer

Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes

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9 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

small beer

Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes
Spain
Local time: 21:14
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 45

Grading comment

Thanks, Alejandro. Went with a description of the bottle instead. 'Stubbie' is a term I've haven´t heard used much so I didn´t feel comfortable using it.

6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

stubbie

Explanation:
Short, 250 cl bottle?

Stubby also possible.

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Some images for stubbie here:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&sa=1&...

I think it was possibly originally an Aussie word. Pretty common in UK English now.

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Wikipedia says 'Stubby' and has them "shorter and flatter than standard bottles" but says they start from 330 ml. In London at least we call the 250 ml bottles stubbies. I think it's a good equivalent for the 'quinto', anyway. Cheers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_bottle

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Ocado have a category for stubbies ranging from 207 ml to 250 ml:

http://www.ocado.com/webshop/getCategories.do?tags=|20001|21064|21144|21148

Here's a trade magazine piece referring to them as "the smaller, foreign style bottles":

http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/home/heineken-tries-stubby-bo...

And a similar industry ref. here:

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-14962613.html

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Ocado should be right here: http://www.ocado.com/webshop/getCategories.dotags=|20001|21064|21144|21148

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Don't know what's wrong with that Ocado link, but if you put 'stubbies' in the Ocado search field, you get the page.

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One last try:

http://www.ocado.com/webshop/getCategories.do?tags=|20001|21064|21144|21148

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Good pic here - note the 207 ml Bud:

http://www.familyhampers.co.uk/AgencyOnlineWeb/catalogue/C17...

David Ronder
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:14
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English
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

ElGuiri: beat me to it!!! Hehe yeah comes from Australia originally. Only thing is that a quinto is 200ml, however I think this is the best way to translate it

4 mins

-> Cheers, ElGuiri. 200 ml is just too small for us!

agree

hjs45: think this is a much more idiomatic option than anything else. Perhaps in the States they might say a quart? I had a friend who used to talk about "quart beer".

15 mins

-> Don't know about quart, sounds big to me. But thanks/cheers, hjs45

neutral

Rick Larg: See: http://www.beerexpert.co.uk/BottledBeer.html

2 hrs

-> Thanks, Rick, good reference. They can be 330 ml, but are often smaller - and, crucially, other bottles hold more. An exact translation of 'quinto'? No. A handy equivalent? I think so.

agree

Natalia Pedrosa

3 hrs

-> Thanks, Natalia

agree

Jenny Westwell

4 hrs

-> Thanks, Jenny

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Changes made by editors

Oct 28, 2009 - Changes made by Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes:
Edited KOG entry	Lisa McCarthy's old entry - "quintillo" => "(200ml bottle of beer)"

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