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A hogshead is a unit of volume for alcoholic beverages in the imperial system. A hogshead of wine is 63 gallons. A hogshead of beer or ale is 54 gallons. The unit of measurement is rarely used, although it re-entered pop culture when, during one episode of The Simpsons, Grampa Simpson uttered, “My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!” However, such an amount is unthinkable for an automobile, as it would work out to 432 (beer) or 504 (wine) gallons to go a single mile.This measurement was the inspiration behind the naming of the UK pub chain "Hogshead".
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