A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide. They are traditionally made of wooden staves and bound by wood or metal hoops. The word vat is often used for large containers for liquids, usually alcoholic beverages; a small barrel or cask is known as a keg.

cask. nounrounded container for liquids. barrel. barrelet.

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A barrel is a big container used to store liquids. Barrels hold liquid in them — anything from wine to beer to oil. A barrel can also be the tube in a gun that a bullet travels through. You might hear the expression “stare down the barrel of a gun,” which means you’re looking at a gun pointed right at your face.

When used to denote a volume, one barrel is exactly 42 US gallons and is easily converted to any other unit of volume. As the US gallon since 1893 is defined as 3.785411784 litre, a volume of one barrel is exactly 158.987294928 litres.

Casks are like the middle children of the aged spirits world. Rather, a “barrel” is a specific term of art in the beverage industry referring to a 50–53 gallon (180–200 liter) cask, often made of white oak. For the all-encompassing term for the vessel that you age spirits in, “cask” is the preferred nomenclature.

There are 42 US gallons in a barrel, that’s an inconvenient 158.98722 litres, and the contents, when petroleum products or alcohol, are referenced at 16 degrees Celsius.

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