https://blog.cheapism.com/best-cheap-whiskey-3442/#slide=17I buy little whiskey, and seven times out of eight just for putting in my egg nog, but here is the other end of my other post.
I just bought a fifth of Evan Williams for that purpose, though , my neighbor at home, who has been there since 1976 but I had not spoken to more than a dozen time before last year, now wanders over with a fifth of tequila or whiskey darn near every time I am at home.
I bought a pint of the now popular legal moonshine type whiskey last year and let him try it.
It does not have all those floral and fruity things the whiskey experts seem find in booze but to me it just tastes like a whiskey with a little bite.
I finally decided to find what happened to old school pints, quarts , gallons booze bottles and looked this up.
We can thank Ford, Carter et. al. for screwing up an American standard.
The fifth was the usual size of bottle for distilled beverages in the United States until 1980.[8] Other authorized units based on the fifth included 4⁄5 pint, called a tenth, and 1⁄10 pint.
During the 1970s, there was a push for metrication of U.S. government standards. In 1975, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, in cooperation with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, proposed metric-standard bottle sizes to take effect in January 1979 and these standards were incorporated into Title 27 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These new sizes were 50ml, 100ml, 200ml, 375ml (355ml for cans), 500ml (discontinued in June 1989),[11] 750ml, 1 litre, and 1.75 litre.At that the new metric Fifth is. .24 of an ounce smaller than the old Fifth. -- 25.6 vs 25.36.
Another odd item:
The last returnable bottles of Coca Cola available up here before that stopped, for a quite a few years one U.S. Fifth in size.
Back then you could give three people a glass of Coke out of that , nowadays , it seems, average serving you would give them a whole bottle.
