Thursday, December 24, 2009

I have an old recipe for Sangria that calls for a ';fifth'; of good burgundy. How much is a ';fifth';?

A fifth is a fifth of a gallon. That is the standard size for a bottle of wine. It just means 'one bottle'.I have an old recipe for Sangria that calls for a ';fifth'; of good burgundy. How much is a ';fifth';?
a fifth of a gallon. Nowadays fifths are rounded to/sold as 750ml to go with most standard liquor bottles (50ml, 100ml, 200ml, 375ml, 750ml, 1.5l, 3.0 l)I have an old recipe for Sangria that calls for a ';fifth'; of good burgundy. How much is a ';fifth';?
A standard size bottle -- about 200 mL.
750ml or 25.5 ounces
A ';fifth'; refers to a fifth of a gallon or 25.6 fluid ounces.
A bottle.
Usually you can buy smaller bottles of liquor at the liquor store, those would be the fifth's. (Not the teeny tiny, one shot bottles).
750 ml bottle. One standard bottle of wine.
The Americsn liquor industry successfully converted to the metric system in the seventies (possibly eighties), Before that a fifth was one fifth of a gallon or four fifths of a quart, It is roughly equivalent to 750 ml. but every manufacturer saves almost 1% of a bottle when he sells 750 ml rather than a fifth. Perhaps this helps explain why the liquor industry did not fight against metrification.
';A fifth of a gallon of liquor. Technically it is around 757mL, but fifths are sold in bottles containing 750mL';. This is the smaller bottle of booze sold at liquor stores.
a ';fifth'; is four-fifths of a quart. The metric equivalent is 750 ml.
26.5 fluid ounces is a ';fifth'; of whiskey, or other alcoholic drink.

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