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I'm becoming a little obsessed. Why is there a "quarter cask" but no... cask??
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@futurebird @u0421793 @ninawillburger how would we firkin know?
@futurebird @u0421793 @ninawillburger Cask sizes make me think of The Music Man
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Because the inventors didn't pay enough firkin attention.
@futurebird @u0421793 @ninawillburger Huhn. A tun holds 252 gallons, and 252 gallons of water weighs about 2098 pounds. I'll be darn.
@futurebird @u0421793 @ninawillburger I love how multicultural the names of barrel sizes are.
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@futurebird @u0421793 @ninawillburger I’m obsessed with this question too. I found this whiskyadvocate.com/Know-Your-C…
So I guess that they’re all casks but a barrel is full size cask or […]
@futurebird @u0421793 @ninawillburger I think because the base unit is actually the hogshead, and a quarter cask is a quarter of a hogshead. The tierce and the British barrel are undersized […]
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If it exists, I'm voting for "half cask" just because it would be so fun to say.
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I am triggered (in a gibbering Lovecraftian sense) by that "Tun" off to the right. Not another ton! There are already short tons, long tons, and metric tons aka tonnes and […]
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