A hogshead of sound ale—fifty gallons in a stave-built cask. Kept in a cellar or tavern storeroom, it is tapped by day to supply laborers, soldiers, and those who drink for warmth. A garrison or large household drains one in weeks; quartermasters and merchants purchase them by the multiple for camps and convoys.
Hogshead Ale
Fifty gallons pale ale; garrison staple; drains in weeks of daily supply.