What size is a dram?!
What size is a dram?
As in a dram of whisky?
Answers:
About a half pint, if poured in my house.
Etymology: Middle English dragme, from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French, dram, drachma, from Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma, from Greek drachmE, literally, handful, from drassesthai to grasp
1 a -- see WEIGHT table b : FLUID DRAM
2 a : a small portion of something to drink b : a small amount
The fluid dram is defined as 1?8 of a fluid ounce, which means it is exactly equal to
3.696 691 195 312 5 mL in the United States and
3.551 632 812 500 0 mL in the Commonwealth and Ireland.
In the United Kingdom, a teaspoon was formerly defined as 1 fluid dram.
Dram is also used informally to mean a small amount of liquid, especially Scotch whisky.
a dram is just Scots for a short or spirit measure not a specific amount. In imperial measurements it would have been around the size of a gill.
i got fired because of that!! One night I lasted at the retired army club in Edinburgh and the crafty old buggars kept telling me a dram was much more than it was!
hmmm I was so wrong huh? Are you better today how's the whiskey tasting?
Depends entirely where you are drinking. In English pubs it appears to be 1/6th of a gill. In a lot of Scottish pubs it is 1/5th of a gill. In GOOD Scottish pubs it is 1/4 of a gill. In my house it is 2 or 3 times that!
i always thought it was one of those metal measures they have in pubs.
On Wikipedia it says it is used informally in Scotland to describe a small quantity of liquid, usually whisky. Actual fluid dram is 1/8th of a fluid ounce. Hope this helps.