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Many traditional wine bottle sizes are named for Biblical kings and historical figures. [5] The chart below [6] lists the sizes of various wine bottles in multiples relating to a standard bottle of wine, which is 0.75 litres (0.20 US gal; 0.16 imp gal) (six 125 mL servings).
Some SI units of volume to scale and approximate corresponding mass of water. A litre is a cubic decimetre, which is the volume of a cube 10 centimetres × 10 centimetres × 10 centimetres (1 L ≡ 1 dm 3 ≡ 1000 cm 3).
Change in volume with increasing alc/vol. Mixing two solutions of alcohol of different strengths usually causes a change in volume. Mixing pure water with a solution less than 24% by mass causes a slight increase in total volume, whereas the mixing of two solutions above 24% causes a decrease in volume.
A peg is a unit of volume, typically used to measure amounts of liquor in the Indian subcontinent.Informally, a peg is an undefined measure of any alcoholic drink poured in a glass.
Alcohol is used as a social lubricant, maybe more so as holiday festivities approach. But drinking carries health and other risks. Here are five tips to make it safer.
Jägermeister (/ ˈ j eɪ ɡ ər m aɪ s t ər / YAY-gər-my-stər, German: [ˈjɛːɡɐˌmaɪstɐ] ⓘ) is a German digestif [1] made with 56 herbs and spices.Developed in 1934 by Wilhelm and Curt Mast, [2] [3] it has an alcohol by volume of 35% (61 degrees proof, or US 70 proof).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - -Alcoholic drinks should carry a label warning consumers about their cancer risks, the U.S. Surgeon General said in an advisory on Friday, noting that their consumption ...