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1.5 L: 2: Marie Jeanne: 76: 2.25 L: 3: Bordeaux region. Usually used for a Claret wine bottle. Tregnum: 76: 2.25 L: 3: Port wine bottle. Also called "Tappit hen", [33] from a Scottish breed of chicken from the Shetland Isles with a tuft of feathers on the top of its head. The red sealing wax over the cork stopper resembles a red tuft of ...
This second variation is commonly seen in a double-thimble or "hourglass" form, with two metal cups of different volumes (often in a 3:2 or 2:1 ratio, like a U.S. standard 1.5 fl oz "jigger" and 1 fl oz "pony", or UK standard 25/50mL or 35/70mL combos) spot-welded to each other at their relative bottom surfaces, possibly with a handle between ...
Alcohol proof (usually termed simply "proof" in relation to a beverage) is a measure of the content of ethanol (alcohol) in an alcoholic beverage. The term was originally used in England and from 1816 was equal to about 1.75 times the percentage of alcohol by volume (ABV).
The Jim Beam distillery produces many different brands, including its eponymous white label bottle, one of the best-selling cheap bourbons in the world. The distillery also has a Small Batch ...
Moonshine can be made both more palatable and perhaps less dangerous by discarding the "foreshot" – the first 50–150 millilitres (1.8–5.3 imp fl oz; 1.7–5.1 US fl oz) of alcohol that drip from the condenser. Because methanol vaporizes at a lower temperature than ethanol, it is commonly believed that the foreshot contains most of the ...
An alcopop (or cooler) is any of certain mixed alcoholic beverages with relatively low alcohol content (e.g., 3–7% alcohol by volume), including: Malt beverages to which various fruit juices or other flavorings have been added; Wine coolers: beverages containing wine to which ingredients such as fruit juice or other flavorings have been added
The advisory also cited a study showing the correlation between alcohol-related cancer risk and increased alcohol intake: Less than one drink per week: 16.5% absolute risk of cancer among women ...
Assuming the angel's share and other losses amount to about 40%, this number of bottles equates to about 15 typical bourbon barrels per batch, each 53 US gallons (200 L) in size. Maker's Mark bourbon ( Suntory Global Spirits ) says the traditional definition is a whiskey produced using "approximately 1,000 gallons or less (19 barrels) from a ...