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  2. Banana wine - Wikipedia

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    Banana wine is a fruit wine made exclusively from bananas. In Tanzania, banana wine is made commercially by fermenting peeled, mashed, ripe bananas and sugar. Water (to dilute the rather thick banana mash), wine yeast and sugar is added to the "banana mash". [1] [failed verification] The traditional processing of banana beer is

  3. Hogshead - Wikipedia

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    A hogshead of brandy was approximately equal to 56–61 gallons (0.255–0.277 m 3). [ citation needed ] Eventually, a hogshead of wine came to be 52.5 imperial gallons (238.669725 L ) (63 US gallons), while a hogshead of beer or ale came to be 54 gallons (249.5421 L with the pre-1824 beer and ale gallon, or 245.48886 L with the imperial gallon).

  4. Tonto (drink) - Wikipedia

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    Tonto is just one of the drinks made from Bananas others include Waragi and wines all made from different types of bananas. Tonto is made by ripening green bananas in a pit for several days. The juice is then extracted, filtered, and diluted before being mixed with ground and roasted sorghum. This mixture is fermented for two to four days.

  5. Wine bottle - Wikipedia

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    A wine bottle is a bottle, generally a glass bottle, that is used for holding wine. Some wines are fermented in the bottle while others are bottled only after fermentation. Recently the bottle has become a standard unit of volume to describe sales in the wine industry, measuring 750 millilitres (26.40 imp fl oz; 25.36 US fl oz).

  6. Butt (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Names and contents of beer and ale vessels in James Lightbody's Every Man His Own Gauger, 1695. Unit of liquid volume The butt is an obsolete English measure of liquid volume equalling two hogsheads , being between 450 and 1,060 litres (99 and 233 imp gal; 120 and 280 US gal) by various definitions.

  7. Banana beer - Wikipedia

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    Two types of banana are used for banana beer: the harsh tasting igikashi and the milder tasting igisahira. [7] The banana beer mixture consists of one third igikashi and two thirds igisahira. Once ripened, the bananas are peeled. They are not ripe enough if they cannot be peeled by hand. After peeling, the bananas are kneaded until soft. The ...

  8. English wine cask units - Wikipedia

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    The tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Middle Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, oil or honey. It is typically a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes (e.g. 256, 240 and 208 gallons) were also used. [1]

  9. Tun (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Medieval Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, [1] oil or honey. Typically a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes (e.g. 256, 240 and 208 gallons) were also used. [2] The modern tun is about 954 litres.