Liters to Hogsheads (wine) (L to hhd)

1 liter equals 0.00419320718 hogsheads (wine) (rounded).

1 liter = 0.00419320718 hogsheads (wine)

How to convert liters to hogsheads (wine)

To convert liters to hogsheads (wine), multiply the number of liters by 0.00419320718. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply hogsheads (wine) by 238.4809424 (rounded).

hogsheads (wine) = liters × 0.00419320718

Example: 10 liters = 0.0419320718 hogsheads (wine).

Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.

About these units

Liter (L)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One cubic decimeter (1,000 cm³). The everyday metric unit of volume for drinks, fuel and cooking.

The liter was born in revolutionary France. In 1795 it was introduced as a republican unit and defined as one cubic decimeter, while the gram was tied to a cubic centimeter of water. The name comes from the older French litron, itself descended from a Byzantine Greek unit of weight, not volume. A small revision of the decimeter in 1798 left the first liter about 1.000974 of today's cubic decimeter, and in 1879 the international metric authorities adopted the liter with the symbol l.

The liter then took a strange detour. In 1901 it was redefined as the space taken up by one kilogram of pure water at its densest, which made it about 1.000028 cubic decimeters, and that muddled definition lasted until 1964, when it was restored to exactly one cubic decimeter. A capital L was added as an alternative symbol in 1979 because a lowercase l is easy to mistake for the digit 1, and NIST says L is the symbol to use in the United States. A liter of water is close to a kilogram, which is why a one-liter bottle feels like a kilo in the hand.

The liter is the reference unit for volume on this site.

Sources: Wikipedia: Litre; NIST Guide to the SI, Chapter 5: units outside the SI

Hogshead (wine) (hhd)

US customaryHistorical unit (no longer in standard use)

63 US gallons (238.48 L), a quarter of a wine tun. A cask size for wine; tobacco hogsheads were a separate, larger size.

Philologists link the odd name to Germanic cask terms such as Dutch oxhooft and Danish oxehoved, literally an ox head, which English speakers may have bent into hogshead. An act of 1423 first tried to standardise the cask, but sizes still varied by product and place for centuries afterwards.

For wine the figure is 63 US wine gallons, or 52.5 imperial gallons, close to 238.5 litres (238.48 L as used here). It is a quarter of a tun and three quarters of a puncheon, and sits between the tierce at 42 gallons and the butt at 126. Other trades used different sizes: beer hogsheads of 54 gallons, fortified wines of 46 to 57 imperial gallons, and tobacco hogsheads of at least 550 litres.

Hogsheads carried far more than wine. Colonial Virginia shipped tobacco in them, British West Indies sugar averaged about 813 kilograms per cask, and Louisiana counted sugar by the hogshead for most of the nineteenth century. Whisky is typically matured in hogshead casks of about 250 litres.

1 hogshead (wine) = 238.4809424 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Hogshead; Wikipedia: Tun (unit)

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