Flapdragons and hogsheads

Love's Labor's Lost

The Winter's Tale

II Henry IV

Traditional weights & measures (PDF)
friend wrote:
All brewers in this country are faced with the hogshead situation. For beer may not leave the bonded premesis of the brewery in any vessel larger than a hogshead. Our hogshead is exactly 62 US gallons, actually an unwieldy vessel when full, weighing in excess of 600 lbs, much bigger than the largest common UK size vessel, the kilderkin.