Talk:Tun (unit)

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English Tun
The following sentence is misleading: "It is assumed that the tun once also was the base for English brewery casks, whose now largest measure, the hogshead, is of a similar magnitude as its wine equivalent (between 220 and 250 litres)." In fact the hogshead is about a quarter of a tun, not "of a similar magnitude" as suggested. What was the sentence originally intended to say? Plantsurfer (talk) 10:09, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

"It is assumed that the tun once also was the base for English brewery casks, whose now largest measure, the hogshead, is of a similar magnitude as its wine equivalent (between 220 and 250 litres). A different gallon was used for ale and beer, the ale gallon, which in modern times was 282 cubic inches (2×3×47 in³), which does not divide the 58,212 in³ conveniently."

I think what was probably meant was that the wine hogshead is close to the ale hogshead in volume (both between 220 and 250 litres). Just poor wording. However, there is a more important problem here. This is given as an assumption but there is no indication as to who's doing the assuming. It's been tagged for five months with no clarification. It's time for me to assume something. I assume the author assumed this. I'm removing this uncited probable original research. J IM ptalk·cont 13:57, 14 September 2012 (UTC)