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.

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

1 hogshead (wine) = 238.4809424 liters

About the hogshead (wine)

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.

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

Hogshead (wine) conversion chart

1 hogshead (wine) expressed in every other volume unit:

Unit1 hogshead (wine)
Liters238.4809424
Milliliters238,480.9424
US Gallons63
US Cups1,008
US Fluid Ounces8,064
Cubic Meters0.2384809424
Cubic Centimeters238,480.9424
US Quarts252
US Pints504
US Tablespoons16,128
US Teaspoons48,384
Metric Cups953.9237696
Metric Tablespoons15,898.72949
Metric Teaspoons47,696.18848
Imperial Gallons52.45847363
Imperial Pints419.6677891
Imperial Fluid Ounces8,393.355781
Cubic Inches14,553
Cubic Feet8.421875
Cubic Yards0.3119212963
Oil Barrels1.5
Cubic Millimeters238,480,942.4
Microliters238,480,942.4
Centiliters23,848.09424
Deciliters2,384.809424
Hectoliters2.384809424
Cubic Kilometers2.384809424×10⁻¹⁰
Australian Tablespoons11,924.04712
US Legal Cups993.6705933
Imperial Quarts209.8338945
Cubic Miles5.721462076×10⁻¹¹
Wine Bottles317.9745899
Magnums158.9872949
Jeroboams79.49364746
Methuselahs39.74682373
Nebuchadnezzars15.89872949
US Gills2,016
US Fluid Drams64,512
US Minims3,870,720
Jiggers5,376
Pinches774,144
Dashes387,072
Imperial Gills1,678.671156
US Bushels6.767515183
US Pecks27.07006073
US Dry Quarts216.5604859
US Dry Pints433.1209717
US Dry Barrels2.0625
US Liquid Barrels2
UK Beer Barrels1.457179823
Firkins5.828719292
Kilderkins2.914359646
Hogsheads (ale)0.9714532154
Tierces1.5
Puncheons0.75
Butts (pipe)0.5
Tuns0.25
Acre-feet0.0001933396465
Cords0.06579589844
Board Feet101.0625
Cyathi5,242.939802
Sextarii436.9116502
Congii72.81860836
Modii27.30697814
Amphorae9.102326045
Omers108.4004284
Hin65.04025702
Baths (biblical)10.84004284
Homers1.084004284
Gō1,322.024716
Shō132.2024716
Tō13.22024716
Koku1.322024716
Charkas1,938.962457
Shtofs193.8962457
Vedros19.38962457

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