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beer gal ≡ 282 cu in = 4.621 152 048 × 10 −3 m 3: gallon (imperial) gal (imp) ≡ 4.546 09 L: ≡ 4.546 09 × 10 −3 m 3: gallon (US dry) gal (US) ≡ 1 ⁄ 8 bu (US lvl) = 4.404 883 770 86 × 10 −3 m 3: gallon (US fluid; Wine) gal (US) ≡ 231 cu in ≡ 3.785 411 784 × 10 −3 m 3: gill (imperial); Noggin: gi (imp); nog ≡ 5 fl oz ...
The corn gallon, or Winchester gallon, of about 268.8 cubic inches (≈ 4.405 L), The wine gallon, or Queen Anne's gallon, which was 231 cubic inches [54] (≈ 3.785 L), and; The ale gallon of 282 cubic inches (≈ 4.622 L). The corn or dry gallon is used
When James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne in 1603, England and Scotland had different systems of measure. Superficially the English and the Scots units of measure were similar – many had the same names – but there were differences in their sizes: in particular the Scots pint and gallon were more than twice the size of their English counterparts. [3]
Wine was measured with units based on the wine gallon of 231 cubic inches (3.785 L), beer was measured with units based on an ale gallon of 282 cubic inches (4.621 L) and grain was measured with the Winchester measure with a gallon of approximately 268.8 cubic inches (one eighth of a Winchester bushel or 4.405 L). In 1824, these units were ...
[nb 3] The Queen Anne wine gallon of 231 cubic inches was adopted in 1707, and still serves as the definition of the US gallon. A US tun is thus the volume of a rectangular cuboid with dimensions 36 by 38.5 by 42 inches. When the imperial system was introduced the tun was redefined in the UK and colonies as 210 imperial gallons.
Typically a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes (e.g. 256, 240 and 208 gallons) were also used. [2] The modern tun is about 954 litres. The word tun is etymologically related to the word ton for the unit of mass, the mass of a tun of wine being approximately one long ton , which is 2 240 pounds ...
A wine gallon is a unit of capacity that was used routinely in England as far back as the 14th century, and by statute under Queen Anne since 1707. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Britain abandoned the wine gallon in 1826 when it adopted imperial units for measurement: the 1707 wine gallon is the basis of the United States ' gallon , as well as other measures.
The reputed quart was a measure equal to two-thirds of an imperial quart (or one-sixth of an imperial gallon), at about 0.7577 liters, which is very close to one US fifth (0.757 liters). The reputed quart was previously recognized as a standard size of wine bottle in the United Kingdom, and is only about 1% larger than the current standard wine ...