Beer barrel (unit)

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The beer barrel was a measure of volume in Denmark and Germany . Here the measure of goods, as were beer , suet , blubber , oil , flour , butter , meat and soap used. A division into halves, quarters and eighths was possible.

Denmark

  • 1 barrel of beer = 136 Pot (t) = 6623.8052 Parisian cubic inches = 131.3923 liters
  • 1 load = 12 beer tons (beer, tallow, oil, flour, butter, meat and soap)

Germany

  • Altona, Holstein : 1 beer barrel = ½ beer barrel (Hamburg.)
  • 1 beer barrel ( Oldenburger ) = 4 Henkemann = 112 beer cans (up to 116 beer cans) (1 BK. = 1.368 liters) = 155.323 liters (calculated) = 159.61 liters
  • Lower Rhine province : 1 beer barrel = 104 beer cans = 5940.688 Parisian cubic inches = 117.8417 liters
  • Dresden : 1 barrel of beer = 4995 Parisian cubic inches
  • Hamburg : 1 beer ton = 5096 Parisian cubic inches
  • Hanover : 1 barrel of beer = 5096 Parisian cubic inches
  • Leipzig : 1 barrel of beer = 4552 Parisian cubic inches

New dimension - old dimension:

  • 1 ton of beer = 1.145 hectoliters | 1 hectolitre = 0.87334 tons of beer

literature

  • Anton Wach: Non-profit building adviser for all work and material calculations in the building sector: with the addition of the most frequently used formulas. F. Tempinsky, Prague 1855, pp. 306, 307, 375.
  • Johann HC Bock: General pocket book of coin, measure and weight for bankers and merchants. Sander'sche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1832, pp. 18, 44, 362.
  • Jakob G. Boetticher: Statistical overview tables of all European states: together with their coins, measurements. Hartung'schen Hof bookshop, Königsberg / Leipzig 1790.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Noback : General Stock Exchange and Comptoirbuch. Contains stocks, funds, money, measures, weights, customs. Appendix: Telegraph, post and insurance. Verlag Adolf Gumprecht, Leipzig 1862, Volume 3, p. 120.
  2. ↑ Anton Wach: Non-profit building adviser for all work and material calculations in the building sector: with the addition of the most frequently used formulas. F. Tempinsky, Prague 1855, p. 375.