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A metric fifth of Dewar's Scotch whisky. A fifth is a unit of volume formerly used for wine and distilled beverages in the United States, equal to one fifth of a US liquid gallon, or 25 + 3 ⁄ 5 U.S. fluid ounces (757 milliliters); it has been superseded by the metric bottle size of 750 mL, [1] sometimes called a metric fifth, which is the standard capacity of wine bottles worldwide and is ...
A EU Standard Spirits Bottle used by T2L member nations to deter non-payment of duties and tariffs. [note 3] Considered a European metric "quart". Common worldwide outside of the Americas and Cuba. Fifth: 25.4 US fl oz: 1 imp pt & 6.4 imp fl oz: 750 mL: A non-EU Standard Liquor Bottle, considered a US metric "quart". Called a "two-six" or ...
Glass is a relatively heavy packing material and wine bottles use quite thick glass, so the tare weight of a full wine bottle is a relatively high proportion of its gross weight. The average weight of an empty 750 mL wine bottle is 500 g (and can range from 300 to 900 g), which makes the glass 40% of the total weight of the full bottle. [ 27 ]
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In the United States, the alcohol industry switched to metric bottle sizes on October 1, 1976, abandoning the existing 38 sizes of bottles and instead adopting the following 6 sizes: [2] 50 mL (miniature) 200 mL (replaced the half-pint) (≈237 mL is a U.S. half-pint) 500 mL (replaced the pint) (≈473 mL is a U.S. pint)
Historically, a common bottle size for liquor in the US was the "fifth", i.e. one-fifth of a US gallon (or one-sixth of an imperial gallon). While spirit sales in the US were switched to metric measures in 1976, a 750 mL bottle is still sometimes known as a "fifth". [50] [51]
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Common in France, where it is called a bouchon doseur boule, this device consists of a transparent T-shaped glass tube arrangement, [4] with a ball on one end of the horizontal section, a cap or cork on the other end, and a cork or plastic bottle stopper on the bottom of the T, allowing the measure to replace the cap of a liquor bottle. In use ...