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  2. Hogshead - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, a hogshead of wine came to be 52.5 imperial gallons (238.669725 L) (or 63 US gallons), while a hogshead of beer or ale came to be 54 gallons (249.54221 L with the pre-1824 beer and ale gallon, or 245.48886 L with the imperial gallon). A hogshead was also used as unit of measurement for sugar in Louisiana for most of the 19th century.

  3. Barrel - Wikipedia

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    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. English brewery cask units - Wikipedia

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    The kilderkin (from the Dutch for "small cask") is equal to half a barrel or two firkins. [citation needed] kilderkin (Ale) The ale kilderkin likewise underwent various redefinitions. Initially 16 ale or beer gallons (73.94 L), it was redefined in 1688 as 17 ale or beer gallons (78.56 L) and again in 1803 as 18 ale or beer gallons (83.18 L).

  5. Barrel (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Ale casks at a brewery in the UK. These are firkins, each holding 9 imperial gallons (41 L) or a quarter of a UK beer barrel.. A barrel is one of several units of volume applied in various contexts; there are dry barrels, fluid barrels (such as the U.K. beer barrel and U.S. beer barrel), oil barrels, and so forth.

  6. Beer tap - Wikipedia

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    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, and in beer-line setups the first pint is often poured from the cask as for "gravity", for tasting, before the line is connected. Cask beer taps can ...

  7. Big Beer vs. Canned Cocktails in the Grocery Aisle - AOL

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    The beer industry, which predominantly focuses on malt-based RTDs, has actively lobbied to maintain this status quo of high tax rates and low market access for canned cocktails made with real ...

  8. Firkin (unit) - Wikipedia

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    A firkin was also a British unit for the sale of beer. It is one quarter of a barrel and its value depends on the current size of a barrel, but at present: [7] 1 firkin = 0.25 barrel = 9 imperial gallons = 10.8 U.S. gallons = 41 litres. A wine firkin was much larger: 1 wine firkin = 70 imperial gallons. [8]

  9. The Best Way to Play Big Beer - AOL

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    Depending on whom you ask, the beer industry in the U.S. is either going through tough times or has never been better. Overall, beer sales were down 1.3% by volume in 2011 and 1.2% in 2010. Craft ...