<Li> Butter and cheese in UK, 224 pounds (102 kg) </Li> <Li> Salt, 280 pounds (130 kg) </Li> <P> Fluid barrels vary depending on what is being measured and where . In the UK a beer barrel is 36 imperial gallons (43 US gal; 164 L). In the US most fluid barrels (apart from oil) are 31.5 US gallons (26 imp gal; 119 L) (half a hogshead), but a beer barrel is 31 US gallons (26 imp gal; 117 L). The size of beer kegs in the US is based loosely on fractions of the US beer barrel . When referring to beer barrels or kegs in many countries, the term may be used for the commercial package units independent of actual volume, where common range for professional use is 20 - 60 L, typically a DIN or Euro keg of 50 L . </P> <P> Richard III, King of England from 1483 until 1485, had defined the wine puncheon as a cask holding 84 gallons and a wine tierce as holding 42 gallons . By 1700 custom had made the 42 - gallon watertight tierce a standard container for shipping eel, salmon, herring, molasses, wine, whale oil and many other commodities in the English colonies . After the American Revolution in 1776, American merchants continued to use the same size barrels . </P>

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