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A glass stopper is often called a "ground glass joint" (or "joint taper"), and a cork stopper is called simply a "cork". Stoppers used for wine bottles are referred to as "corks", even when made from another material. [citation needed] A common every-day example of a stopper is the cork of a wine bottle.
A stopper used to seal a bottle or barrel. Commonly used term for corks. Burnt wine Another name for Brandy, a liquor made from distilled wine. It is often the source of additional alcohol in fortified wines. Butt An old English unit of wine casks, equivalent to about 477 liters (126 US gallons/105 imperial gallons). In Sherry production, a ...
A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide. [1] [2] They are traditionally made of wooden staves and bound by wooden or metal hoops. The word vat is often used for large containers for liquids, usually alcoholic beverages; [3] a small barrel or cask is known as a keg. [4]
Various beer barrels with wooden spiles (round knobs on cask) in addition to beer taps. A spile (sometimes called a "cask peg") is a wooden or metal peg used to control the flow of air into, and carbon dioxide out of, a cask of ale or wine. [1] [2] Spiles can also be used to broach liquids (like maple syrup) from a tree. [3]
A wine stopper is an essential wine accessory to close leftover wine bottles before refrigerating them. Wine stoppers are used because it is hard to put the original cork back into the bottleneck. Wine stoppers vary in shapes, sizes, and materials. The three typical types are the cork wine stopper, rubber wine stopper, and plastic wine stopper.
When beer is served directly from the cask ("by gravity"), as at beer festivals and some pubs, it simply flows out of the tap and into the glass. When the cask is stored in the cellar and served from the bar, as in most pubs, the beer line is screwed onto the tap and the beer is pulled through it by a beer engine. The taps used are the same ...
The hole is capped with a cork or cork-like stopper called a bung. Acceptable usage includes other access points that may be capped with alternate materials providing an air- or water-tight access to other vessels. For example, a bunghole on a combustion chamber can be used to remove slag or add coal. [1]
Middle English, from Old French fausset, cask stopper, from fausser, to break in, from Late Latin falsāre, to falsify, from Latin falsus, false; see false-Wafulz 14:30, 4 July 2008 (UTC) Not so US-specific as you might think.