Hogshead (unit)

Hogshead was an English measure of volume for liquids. It was the English Oxhoft . Depending on the liquid measured, the number of liters was also different.

Wine measure

• 1 hogshead = ½ pipe = 1 ½ animal = 2 barrels = 3 ½ roundlets = 63 gallons = 126 pottles = 252 quarts = 504 pints = 14425 1/3 Parisian cubic inches = 285 17/20 liters

Beer measure

• Ale and wheat beer
  • 1 hogshead = 1/3 load = 1½ barrels = 3 Kilderkins = 6 firkins = 48 gallons = 96 pottles = 192 quarts = 384 pints = 10990 ¾ Parisian cubic inches = 218 liters
• Porter , hopped brown beer
  • 1 hogshead = ¼ ton = ½ pipe = 1 ½ barrels = 3 kilderkins = 6 firkins = 54 gallons = 108 pottles = 216 quarts = 432 pints = 12364 3/5 Parisian cubic inches = 245 liters

literature

• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 126