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United States standard drinks of beer, malt liquor, wine, and spirits compared. Each contains about 14 grams or 17.7 ml of ethanol. A standard drink or (in the UK) unit of alcohol is a measure of alcohol consumption representing a fixed amount of pure alcohol.
As an imperial fluid ounce is 96.076% of an US fluid ounce, this means that one imperial gallon, quart, pint, cup and gill are all equal to 1.20095 of their US counterparts. Historically, a common bottle size for liquor in the US was the "fifth", i.e. one-fifth of a US gallon (or 0.08% more than a "reputed quart", one-sixth of an imperial ...
The reputed quart was a measure equal to two-thirds of an imperial quart (one-sixth of an imperial gallon), or exactly 0.757681 6 liters, which is only 0.08% larger than one US fifth (exactly 0.7570823568 liters). The reputed quart was previously recognized as a standard size of wine bottle in the United Kingdom, and is only about 1% larger ...
The teaspoon, tablespoon, and cup are defined in terms of a fluid ounce as 1 ⁄ 6, 1 ⁄ 2, and 8 fluid ounces respectively. The fluid ounce derives its name originally from being the volume of one ounce avoirdupois of water, [21] but in the US it is defined as 1 ⁄ 128 of a US gallon. Consequently, a fluid ounce of water weighs about 1.041 ...
6.2.3.2 Wine tasting. 6.2.4 Tourism ... is measured in liters of pure alcohol ... or herbs inserted into the bottle at the time of bottling. Wine is important in ...
Water bottles for personal use can have their capacity measured in fluid ounces or liters. For ounces, the measurements are typically in multiples of 8, for example 32 fl oz and 40 fl oz, which correspond closely to common metric variants including 1 liter and 1.2 liters. Rainfall is usually measured based on the height from the ground in ...
1713 12 Ann. c. 17 — The legal coal bushel to be round with a plain and even bottom, 19 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches from outside to outside and to hold 1 Winchester bushel and 1 quart of water. 1718 5 Geo. 1. c. 18 — Decreed Scots Pint to be exactly 103 in 3. 1803 43 Geo. 3. c. 151 — Referred to wine bottles making about 5 to the wine gallon (i.e ...
On 1 January 1980, Britain adopted the ABV system of measurement prescribed by the European Union, of which it was then a member. The OIML recommendation for ABV used by the EU states the alcohol by volume in a mixture containing alcohol as a percentage of the total volume of the mixture at a temperature of 293.15 K [20.00 °C; 68.00 °F].