Apartment Finder: Liquid Measurement Chart

Monday 3 December 2012

Liquid Measurement Chart

This article is about the unit of measure. For the fictional pub in Harry Potter, see Hog's Head.A hogshead is a large cask of liquid (or, less often, of a food commodity). More specifically, it refers to a specified volume, measured in either imperial or US customary, primarily applied to alcoholic beverages such as wine, ale, or cider.A tobacco hogshead was used in American colonial times to transport and store tobacco. It was a very large wooden barrel. A standardized hogshead measured 48 inches (1,219 mm) long and 30 inches (762 mm) in diameter at the head (at least 550 L or 121 imp gal; 145 US gal, depending on the width in the middle). Fully packed with tobacco, it weighed about 1,000 pounds (500 kg)A winehogshead contains about 300 L. [1]The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) notes that the hogshead wasfirststandardized by an act of Parliament in 1423, though the standards continued to vary by locality and content. Fexample,the OED cites an 1897 edition of Whitaker's Almanack, which specified the number of gallons of wine in