Responsible service of Alcohol in the Czech Republic??????

So the other day a mate of mine was heading home to Oz after 6-7 months here, he is the same bloke we spent NYE2009 with. As a fair well a few of us went to a place called 'The Pub' which has beer taps on every table and every person is allocated a number on the touch screen monitor. When you pour yourself a beer you simply hit your number then start pouring and it measures how many litres are poured. IT'S GREAT.


So where is the problem, I hear you all saying!!!


Well the problem is that not only do you get to compare how much each person on the table has drunk compared to each other, but there is a big screen that compares the beer consumed by your table against every other table in the place, and this screen then compares the tables throughout all the other locations in the Czech Republic against one another. The point is that eventually you find yourself in a position where your table of 5 mates has only had 50 beers compared to the leading table which has had 65 beers and therefore you all need to drink faster :D
I am very glad i got there late and had to leave early and therefore could only contribute 4 beers to the tally but the boys were certainly putting up a valiant effort.
As an aside, the beer taps have gas knobs that you can adjust depending how gasy you want your beer. So we had a table challenge where you had to get as much as beer as possible into the glass. As some of you may not know the beer glasses over here have a line that marks 500mls and this is about 1.5 inches from the top of the glass, the rest of the glass is filled with froth. I am pleased to annouce i WON and managed to get 650mls into my 1/2 litre glass.
Anyway this place certainly does not practise responsible service of alcohol like you find in Australia, BUT it sure is fun