A fifth represents what volume of liquid?

[dmv501]

A fifth of Scotch...but what does a fifth represent? Is it a fifth of a gallon?

[fidsdad]

one fifth of a Gill

[brachiopod]

...which is one fluid ounce.

 

A gill is a quarter of a pint, or 5 fluid ounces.

 

The arthropod formerly known as trilobite

[archbishop]

In America isn't a fifth, a fifth of a quart?

[Kingaroo]

Nope, a fifth is about the same size as a quart, prob'ly couldn't tell 'em apart without a lable.

A fifth is a fifth of a gallon. A quart is a quarter of a gallon.

[Quizmonster]

Before British pubs started using metric measures on spirit-optics, if you asked for a whisky in Scotland, you got 1/5 of a gill but if you asked for one in England, you got only 1/6 of a gill. Just made a nonsense of the notion that the Scots are mean!

[dmv501]

Thanks everyone. INdiana Prevention Resource Cntre gave me the answer too; a fifth is 0.8 of a gallon, so a fifth of a gallon.

[Pinotage]

A 'fifth' referring to alcohol is an American term meaning a  bottle, which up till the '70's contained a fifth of a US gallon, or 25.5 ounces.

 

After the US went metric on alcohol bottles, they adopted the standard 75cl bottle size which equates to 25.37 ounces.

 

 

[BenDToy]

Some pubs in Scotland used to serve quarter of a gill. In fact there is a pub in Glasgow city centre which used to be called The Quarter Gill, and I think it still is.