 Three shot glasses of varying shape and size | |
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Ashot glass is aglass originally designed to hold or measurespirits or liquor, which is either imbibed straight from the glass ("a shot") or poured into acocktail ("a drink"). An alcoholic beverage served in a shot glass and typically consumed quickly, in one gulp, may also be known as a "shooter" or “shot”.
Shot glasses decorated with a wide variety oftoasts,advertisements, humorous pictures, or other decorations and words are popularsouvenirs andcollectibles, especially asmerchandise of a brewery.[1]
The wordshot, meaning a drink of alcohol, has been used since at least the 17th century, taken from the Old English 'sceot' and is related to the German wordGeschoss.[2]
Some of the earliest whiskey glasses in America from the late 1700s to early 1800s were called "whiskey tasters" or "whiskey tumblers" and were hand blown. They are thick, similar to today's shot glasses, but will show apontil mark or scar on the bottom, or a cupped area on the bottom where the pontil mark was ground and polished off. Some of these glasses even have hand-applied handles and decorations hand crafted using a grinding wheel.[citation needed]
In the early to mid-1800s, glass blowers began to use molds and several different patterns of "whiskey tasters" in several different colors were being made in molds. These glasses are also thick like today's shot glass but they will have rough pontiled bottoms from being hand blown into the mold. By the 1870s to 1890s as glass making technology improved, the rough pontiled bottoms largely disappeared from glasses and bottles.[citation needed]
A jigger, also known as a measure, is abartending tool used to measureliquor, which is typically then poured into a glass orcocktail shaker.
The termjigger in the sense of a small cup or measure of spirits or wine originates in the U.S. in the early 19th century. Many references from the 1800s describe the "jigger boss" providing jiggers of whiskey to Irish immigrant workers who were diggingcanals in theU.S. Northeast.[3][4]
The style of double-ended jigger common today, made ofstainless steel with two unequal-sized opposing cones in an hourglass shape, was patented in 1893 by Cornelius Dungan ofChicago.[5] Typically, one cone measures a regulation single shot, and the other some fraction or multiple—with the actual sizes depending on local laws and customs.
In the U.S. up untilProhibition, a jigger was commonly known to be about half agill, or 2 US fluid ounces (59 ml),[6] but starting in the latter part of the 20th century, it is typically interpreted to be 1.5 US fluid ounces (44 ml).[7][8] The jiggers used in the U.K. are typically 25 ml (0.85 US fl oz) and sometimes 35 ml (1.2 US fl oz). Jiggers may also hold other amounts and ratios, and can vary depending on the region and date of manufacture. Many jiggers may also have fractional markings on the inside of the bowl, to facilitate smaller measures of liquid.
| Country | Small | Single | Double | Notes |
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| Albania | 50 ml | 100 ml | ||
| Australia | 30 ml | 60 ml | A single shot is sometimes called a "nip".[9] At 30 ml, a typical spirit with 40 percent alcohol is roughly equivalent to one Australianstandard drink.[10] | |
| Bulgaria | 50 ml | 100 ml | 200 ml | |
| Canada | 30 ml (1 US fl oz) or 28 ml (1 imp fl oz) | 44 ml (1.5 US fl oz) or 43 ml (1.5 imp fl oz) | 71 ml (2.5 imp fl oz) | In Canada, a "shot" may refer to an official "standard drink" of 1.5 imperial fluid ounces or 42.6 millilitres,[11] though all establishments serve a "standard drink" of 1 oz.[12] However, shot glasses available in Canada typically are manufactured according to US fluid ounces rather than imperial,[13] making them about 4% larger. |
| Channel Islands | 25 ml | 50 ml | Jersey andGuernsey, bothCrown Dependencies.[14][15] | |
| Denmark | 20 ml | 40 ml | 50 ml | |
| Estonia | 20 or 30 ml | 40 ml | ||
| Finland | 20 ml | 40 ml | — | |
| France | 25 or 35 ml | 50 or 70 ml | ||
| Germany | 20 ml | 40 ml | In Germany, shot glasses (Schnapsglas, Pinnchen, Stamperl) are smaller.[citation needed] | |
| Greece | 45 ml | 90 ml | A shot is also commonly referred to as asfinaki and it can be made of one liquor or a cocktail mix. There is also a 3 oz – "bottoms up" – version ofsfinaki, calledhypovryhio, Greek word for submarine. It is served in a standard liquor glass half full of lager, where the bartender adds a glass shot filled with vodka or whiskey.[citation needed] | |
| Hungary | 20 or 30 ml | 40 or 50 ml | 80 or 100 ml | In Hungarian, shot glasses are calledfelespohár (feles meaning "half", standing for 0.5 dl),pálinkáspohár (forpálinka),kupica orstampedli.[citation needed] |
| India | 30 ml | 30 ml | 60 ml | A shot is commonly referred to as a "peg", and is measured as a "small" (chhota), or a "large" (bud-da) peg. A 120 ml shot (approximate quantity) in India is called aPatiala peg.[16] |
| Ireland | 35.5 ml | 71 ml | Derived from the use of a quarter-gill (35.516 ml, one-sixteenth of a pint) as the traditional Irish spirit measure. | |
| Isle of Man | 28.4 ml | 56.8 ml | One-fifth of an imperialgill.[17][18] | |
| Israel | 30 ml | 50 or 60 ml | In Israel, the common word for a small shot isצ'ייסר ("chaser").[19] | |
| Italy | 30 ml | 40 or 60 ml | In Italy, the common word for a shot iscicchetto or, more informally and used mainly in nightclubs by young people,shottino. In North Italy, thecicchetto is the most-common way to taste grappa from at least two centuries.[citation needed] | |
| Japan | 30 ml | 60 ml | In Japanese, the wordショットグラス (shottogurasu) is the term for a shot glass. | |
| Korea | 50 ml | Due to the reason shot glasses are almost exclusively used withSoju, they are called소주잔 (soju-jan, lit. Soju glass). | ||
| Netherlands | 35 ml | In the Netherlands a standard shot glass is 35 ml. A shot glass is also called aborrelglas, in whichborrel means a gathering at which alcoholic drinks are served andborrelen is a verb meaning to partake in said gathering.[20] | ||
| Norway | 20 ml | 40 ml | ||
| Poland | 20 ml | 50 ml | 100 ml | A standard shot (small) is calledpięćdziesiątka (lit.fifty, as in50 ml) while a large shot (double) is calledsetka or, colloquially,seta (lit.a hundred, as in100 ml). |
| Romania | 50 ml | 100 ml | A small shot is traditionally known in the Romanian language asunu mic (una mică) meaning "a small one" orcinzeacă, meaning "a fifty", as in fifty milliliters. A single shot is simply calledunu (una mare), meaning "one (big)".[citation needed] | |
| Russia | 50 ml | 100 ml | Both single and double shots are commonly calledстопка (stópka) in Russian, though a variety of slang names exist.Before metrication a single shot was calledшкалик (shkálik) and amounted to 61.5 ml, while a double was calledчарка (chárka) and was equal to 123 ml — both names are still occasionally used. | |
| Serbia | 20 ml | 30–50 ml | 60–100 ml | A single shot is traditionally known in the Serbian language asчашица за ракију andракијска чашица, meaning "small glass forrakija" and "rakija glass", or simply asмера—мерица, meaning "measure". A double shot is simply calledДупли, meaning "a double", while the smallest, 20 milliliter glass, is known asdvojka meaning "two".[citation needed] |
| Sweden | 20 ml | 40 ml | 60 ml | A single shot is referred to as afyra, meaning "a four" and a double is referred to as asexa, meaning "a six", as Swedes generally use centiliters rather than milliliters. |
| Slovakia | 20 or 25 ml | 40 or 50 ml | 80 or 100 ml | The most-common single-shot size is thepol deci (literally, "half a decilitre", 50 ml).[citation needed] |
| Slovenia | 30 ml | 50 ml | 100 ml | The 50 ml size is colloquially known asnula pet ("zero five", meaning 0.5 of a decilitre), and the small onenula tri ("zero three"). Another common term for a single shot ista kratek, meaning "the short one". |
| South Africa | 25 ml | 50 ml | The South African government has an official definition for the single-shot size.[citation needed] | |
| United Kingdom | 25 or 35 ml | 50 or 70 ml | Shots sold on-premises must contain either 25 ml or 35 ml measures of whisky, gin, rum, or vodka as defined in theWeights and Measures Act of 1985. This requirement does not extend to other spirits. A 2001 amendment allowed a double shot of 70 ml to be served. Generally, a single shot is equal to 35 ml in Northern Ireland and Scotland and 25 ml in Wales and England.[21] | |
| United States | 30 to 44 ml (1.0 to 1.5 US fl oz) | 59 to 89 ml (2 to 3 US fl oz) | There is no official size for a single shot, except in Utah, where a shot is defined as 1.5 US fl oz (44.4 ml).[22] Elsewhere in the U.S., the standard size is generally considered to be 1.25–1.5 US fl oz (37–44 ml).[23][24] A double shot in the U.S. may be 2 US fl oz (59.1 ml)[25] or more. However in most of the U.S. 1.5 US fl oz is the standard, with 1.5 US fl oz of 40% A.B.V spirit having the equivalent alcohol of 12 US fl oz (354.9 ml) of 5% beer, and 5 US fl oz (147.9 ml) of 12% wine.[26] |
A Patiala peg is as high as the distance between pinky and index finger.
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