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A hogshead of brandy was approximately equal to 56–61 gallons (0.255–0.277 m 3). [ citation needed ] Eventually, a hogshead of wine came to be 52.5 imperial gallons (238.669725 L ) (63 US gallons), while a hogshead of beer or ale came to be 54 gallons (249.5421 L with the pre-1824 beer and ale gallon, or 245.48886 L with the imperial gallon).
The hogshead of beer and ale was equal to a quarter of a tun, half a butt, or three kilderkins. This unit is about 3% larger than the wine hogshead. hogshead (Ale) In the mid-15th century the ale hogshead was defined as 48 ale or beer gallons (221.8153 L). In 1688 the ale hogshead was redefined to be 51 ale or beer gallons (235.67875 L).
The tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Middle Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, oil or honey.It is 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 pins, 9 gallons (ale, beer or goods) or 1 ⁄ 4 beer barrel Kilderkin 2 firkins, 18 gallons or 1 ⁄ 2 beer barrel Beer barrel 2 kilderkins, 36 gallons or 2 ⁄ 3 beer hogshead Beer hogshead 3 kilderkins, 54 gallons or 1.5 beer barrels Beer pipe or butt 2 beer hogsheads, 3 beer barrels or 108 gallons Beer tun 2 beer pipes or 216 gallons
Yet when calculated based on the definition of the 63-gallon hogshead, Mr. Adams calculates the wine gallon to be 219.43 cubic inches. It then defined that there are eight bushels in a quarter (by weight, not volume). So a bushel, filled with wheat, would exactly balance a keg containing eight gallons of wine, deducting the tare of both vessels.
A sixth (1 ⁄ 6, or 0.166) of a US Gallon, rounded up from its actual volume of 21.33 US fl oz. Formerly used for cheap liquor like gin and vodka. It was supposed to be replaced by the 500 mL "half-liter", which was dropped in 1989, but is sometimes used for craft beer and malt liquor.
gallon rundlet barrel tierce hogshead puncheon, tertian pipe, butt tun 1 ... gallons 3.785 68.14 119.24 158.99 238.48 317.97 476.96 953.92 litres 1 15
Dry measures are units of volume to measure bulk commodities that are not fluids and that were typically shipped and sold in standardized containers such as barrels.They have largely been replaced by the units used for measuring volumes in the metric system and liquid volumes in the imperial system but are still used for some commodities in the US customary system.