US Fluid Ounces to Hogsheads (ale) (fl oz to hhd (ale))

1 US fluid ounce equals 0.0001204679087 hogsheads (ale) (rounded).

1 US fluid ounce = 0.0001204679087 hogsheads (ale)

How to convert US fluid ounces to hogsheads (ale)

To convert US fluid ounces to hogsheads (ale), multiply the number of US fluid ounces by 0.0001204679087. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply hogsheads (ale) by 8,300.965885 (rounded).

hogsheads (ale) = US fluid ounces × 0.0001204679087

Example: 10 US fluid ounces = 0.001204679087 hogsheads (ale).

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

US Fluid Ounce (fl oz)

US customaryCurrent unit

One 128th of a US gallon, 29.5735 mL. Not the same as the weight ounce, and about 4% larger than the imperial fluid ounce.

Fluid ounce began as an attempt to link volume to weight: the volume occupied by one ounce of some substance, such as wine in England or water in Scotland. Definitions varied by region and by liquid. When Britain defined its imperial gallon in 1824 as the space of ten pounds of water, the imperial fluid ounce came out so that an ounce of water weighs about one avoirdupois ounce. The US fluid ounce followed a different path and comes from the older wine gallon.

The US fluid ounce is exactly 1/128 of a US gallon, 29.5735295625 milliliters, about 4 percent bigger than the imperial one at 28.4130625 milliliters. American nutrition labels use yet another figure, treating one fluid ounce as 30 milliliters, a convenient rounding for serving sizes. The name is a trap, because a fluid ounce measures space while a weight ounce measures mass. A US fluid ounce of water weighs a bit more than an ounce of weight, while a fluid ounce of honey weighs considerably more.

1 US fluid ounce = 0.02957352956 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Fluid ounce; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume; 21 CFR 101.9: nutrition labeling household measures

Hogshead (ale) (hhd (ale))

Imperial (British)Historical unit (no longer in standard use)

54 imperial gallons (245.5 L), one and a half UK beer barrels.

Philologists such as Walter William Skeat traced hogshead to Germanic words for a cask, for example Dutch oxhooft and Danish oxehoved, meaning ox head; the older English form was probably oxhead. Parliament first tried to standardise the cask in an act of 1423, but sizes still varied by place and by what was inside.

For ale, Wikipedia gives two figures. Under the pre-1824 beer gallon the ale hogshead is listed as 45 imperial gallons, while its chart for the 1824 system gives 54 imperial gallons, 245.5 liters, one and a half barrels. The latter is the figure used here. Other goods differed: wine hogsheads settled at 52.5 imperial gallons (238.7 L), and in 1897 Whitaker's Almanack listed 46 gallons for claret, 57 for port and 54 for sherry. Colonial sugar and tobacco hogsheads were measured by weight instead. The ale hogshead has long fallen out of use.

1 hogshead (ale) = 245.48886 liters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Hogshead; Wikipedia: Kilderkin; Wikipedia: Barrel (unit)

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