Imagine if supposedly quart size didn’t have a quart in them? Would you know? Now imagine if liquor came in 40 different size bottles. Although the laws governing the definition of a retailer differed by state, it was common for a customer to ask for a quart from a retailer and get something a bit less than a quart, but which was still called a quart. Why didn’t a bottle of liquor contain a quart? Why only 4/5 of a quart? These 4/5 quart bottles were called “short quarts” or “commercial quarts.” This had to do with the difference between being a liquor wholesaler versus a liquor retailer, and selling liquid by the quart was a general threshold for wholesaler. ![]() Look at the explanation above, and you may start to see why. ![]() The fifth stopped being the standard size of a U.S. However, 1/5 gallon, or 4/5 quart is 25.6 ounces, which is so very close to 750ml (25.4oz) that we still use the term fifth to describe this size bottle. We no longer measure bottle sizes by fractions of a pint or gallon, and the term fifth may be archaic. ![]() The term fifth, however, comes from when bottles were 4/5 of a quart, which is the same as 1/5 of a gallon.
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