hist-brewing: Wine Quart

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In a message dated 3/26/2002 2:32:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
rpastor at tampabay.rr.com writes:

> Greetings all,
>  
>      I have a question for the list. On page 65 of Digby, he mentions "one
>  quart of honey to six wine quarts of water". Does anyone know what a wine
>  quart is and, if so, what's the conversion to modern measurement?
>  
>  Thanks,
>  Robert the Bald

The six to one ratio should work no matter the measure, but....check here. 
although I can't speak to how accurate it is : 

http://realbeer.com/spencer/Digby-recipes/glossary.html

"Wine quart 
57.75 cu in (i.e. the same as the US Quart), according to the Measures of 
Capacity FAQ"


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