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    Had a discussion many years ago with a group of people while we were on a bus trip to a sporting event.

    How many firkin's to a hogshead ? I still do not now the answer, can somebody help?.

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    Quote Originally Posted by STAR View Post
    Had a discussion many years ago with a group of people while we were on a bus trip to a sporting event.

    How many firkin's to a hogshead ? I still do not now the answer, can somebody help?.

    Just to confuse the issue,

    "the number of gallons of wine in a hogshead varying by
    type of wine: claret 46 gallons, port 57, sherry 54;
    and Madeira 46. The American Heritage
    Dictionary claims that a hogshead can consist of anything
    from 62.5 to 140 (presumably U.S.) gallons.

    Eventually, a hogshead of wine came to be
    63 gallons, while a hogshead of beer or ale is 54 gallons"

    AND

    "For beer and ale a
    firkin is equal to 9 Imperial gallons
    (about 40.915 L) or a quarter of a barrel. Casks in this size (themselves
    called firkins) are the most common container for cask ale.

    For wine the firkin had a larger size,
    namely a third of a tun. A tun
    being 210 gallons in the UK and 252 fluid gallons in the US, thus a
    wine firkin is about 318 L (318.226 or 317.975).

    Denn

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