On 12/12/2020 8:42 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Friday, December 11, 2020 at 8:18:49 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2020-12-11 12:25 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 12/11/2020 12:04 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>>> I have to confess that I had heard of a fifth of whisky but never knew
>>>> what it was. It is not a term used here. I thought it was something
>>>> like a mickey, maybe smaller. I had to look it up and it turns out to
>>>> be what we have always called a 26er.
>>>
>>> I've never heard the term 26er. I gather the term "fifth" is a
>>> pretty archaic term but it used to refer to a standard bottle size when
>>> it comes to buying whiskey, rum, vodka, etc.
>> It is a fifth of a gallon.
> It's so strange that someone would want to divide a gallon into 5 parts. I think that dividing a gallon into 2, 4, or 8, parts is much more sensible.
>

It was probably to align with 750 ml wine bottle from Europe. They use
the ancient metric system over there.