Makes one salivate for 1 kilderkin unless he or she has chosen the route of abstinence because kilderkin's don't agree with him or her. Ron Roizen wrote: > What evocative and wonderful poetics reside in the names for old measures > of ale and beer! > > British measures (Clarke, 1891, p. 37): > > 9 gallons make 1 FIRKIN > 2 firkins make 1 KILDERKIN > 2 kilderkins make 1 BARREL > 3 kilderkins make 1 HOGSHEAD > 2 hogsheads make 1 BUTT > 2 butts make 1 TUN > > One BUTT is a lot of beer or ale. > > F.W. Clarke, WEIGHTS, MEASURES AND MONEY, OF ALL NATIONS, New York: D. > Appleton & Company, 1891. > > ---------- > From: David Fahey <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Fwd: Re: Beef and Butt Beer > Date: Monday, June 25, 2001 10:51 AM > > >Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:37:59 -0700 > >From: "Terry L. Taylor" <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: Re: Beef and Butt Beer > >Sender: H-Net List for British and Irish History <[log in to unmask]> > >To: [log in to unmask] > >Reply-to: H-Net List for British and Irish History > <[log in to unmask]> > >Organization: Shoreline Community College, Seattle, WA > >Original-recipient: rfc822;[log in to unmask] > > > >Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 08:18:36 -0400 > >From: Eric Tenbus <[log in to unmask]> > > > >Sebastian: > > > >The term "butt' refers to the wooden cask in which beer was stored. > "Entire > >butt" seems to have been a name that initially referred to a blend of > >three ales > >(pale, brown, and old, the latter being aged for up to a year), a.k.a. the > >"three > >threads." According to Roger Protz in his book Classic Stout and Porter, > >entire > >butt, also sometimes called simply entire, co-existed with another > flourishing > >beer that soon became the most popular ale in England, that being > >porter. Over > >time, however, the name entire butt came to mean the same as porter, as > London > >drinkers often confused the two beers. This happened in the first few > decades > >of > >the nineteenth century. Eventually, large brewers such as Whitbread > >phased out > >the production of entire butt as a separate ale. > > > >I hope that helps somewhat. > > > >Eric G. Tenbus, Ph.D. > >Central Missouri State University -- God bless, Dick B. P.O. Box 837 Kihei, HI 96753-0837 (808) 874-4876 (tel/fax) Email: [log in to unmask] Web site: http://www.dickb.com/index.shtml