Why this bottle pourer earns its place
A portion-control pourer does the measuring itself. It fills an internal chamber and stops, so the bartender inverts the bottle, waits, and rights it — every serve leaves the bottle at 35 ml, which is one of the two standard UK spirit serves. That is what makes a stocktake reconcile: a bottle yields a predictable number of drinks, the variance between a practised hand and a new starter falls out of the numbers, and nobody has to count seconds under pressure. It is not CE stamped, so treat it as a consistency and stock-control tool rather than a legal measure — where a specified quantity of spirit is being sold, that stays with stamped measuring equipment.
The body is plastic with no collar, so it seats straight into the bottle neck with no separate ring to lose or perish, and it comes apart for cleaning. Cleaning matters more here than on a plain spout: syrups, creams and anything sugary will foul a measuring chamber, and a fouled chamber pours short without announcing it, so a daily strip and soak is the habit to build. It is supplied in blue, though the colour may vary — plenty of bars use pourer colour as a signal anyway, telling one bottle from another at arm's length mid-service.
