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Traditional Wine & Ale

Separate standard gallons for wine and ale before the 1824 unification.

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🍷 Traditional Wine & Ale

Separate standard gallons for wine and ale before the 1824 unification.

Traditional Wine & Ale

Queen Anne Wine Gallon (1707)

A 1707 statutory standard established to resolve maritime customs disputes, which later crossed the Atlantic to become the standard US Fluid Gallon.

3.785 litres

Traditional Wine & Ale

Historical Ale Gallon

A Tudor-era 282 cubic-inch measure for malt liquor, intentionally sized larger than wine measures to give working-class consumers a more generous pour per penny.

4.621 litres

Traditional Wine & Ale

Rundlet

A small British wine cask holding precisely 18 Queen Anne wine gallons, favoured for transporting premium fortified wines.

68.14 litres

Traditional Wine & Ale

Tierce

A traditional wine cask holding 42 Queen Anne wine gallons, whose exceptional transit stability inspired the modern oil barrel.

158.99 litres

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