The material originally posted by Xcole is entirely in error. From the website:

http://www.beringer.com/section/bigbottle1.jsp

there is no mention of any of the jibberish reproduced but originating from Xcole, see below. However, the article does state the bottle holds 130 litres of wine.

With the capacity to hold over 1200 glasses of wine, this masterpiece of glassmaking art was certified by Guinness World Records on July 28 at a ceremony at Beringer Vineyards, where the bottle was carefully filled with 130 liters of Beringer Vineyards 2001 Private Reserve Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.

Products designed and produced in the Czech Republik are all done to rounded metric sizes. No consideration for obsolete units is taken.

Sazava (Zohsee) isn't a town, it is a castle that was formerly a monastery.

http://fmv.vse.cz/cz/castles/sazava.htm

Dick, you were deceived bigtime.


Dick,

Regarding your question of November 5th @ 10:17 a.m.

''Do you know what the size is of the biggest bottle made?''

Dick, the biggest bottle I know of is the 1 fl.bbl.

bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 4.200 cu.'
bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 7257.600 cu.''
bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 3 fl. blackjacks
bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 31 1/2 fl.gal.
bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 63 fl.pot.
bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 126 fl.qt.
bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 252 fl.pt.
bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 504 fl. cups
bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 1008 fl. jills
bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 2016 fl. jacks
bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 4032 fl.oz.
bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 8064 fl.tbs.
bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 16128 fl.dsp.
bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 32256 fl.dr.
bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 4 1/2' h. x 4 1/2' cir.
bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 54'' h. x 54'' cir.
bottle of 1 fl.bbl. = 144 av.lb. empty
made by Cavalier Glass Works, Town of Sazava, Republic of Czechland

Well, have you seen this? - Tony B:

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The Rich and Tangy History of the World's Largest Catsup Bottle!

It all started way back in 1891. A group of Collinsville businessmen raised $5,000 and created the Collinsville Canning and Packing Company.

The struggling little plant went through a few different owner/operators until 1907 when the Brooks brothers, Everett and Elgin, took over. They operated under the name of Triumph Catsup and Pickle Company.

The ghost sign image of the company name can still be seen on the north wall of the old brick factory. Soon the name became Brooks Tomato Products Company.

In 1920, the brothers sold out to American Cone and Pretzel Company. Then in 1933 the G.S. Suppiger Company purchased the plant. The Brooks label was retained by each new owner. The product line had acquired an excellent reputation over the years.

The catsup factory had great success, surviving the Great Depression, and growing by leaps and bounds through the 1940s. The plant produced much more than catsup, including chili beans, spaghetti, hominy, soups, and other sauces.

The "Brooks Tabasco Flavor Catsup," as it was named, was extremely popular. So much so that the McIlhenny Tabasco Company threatened a lawsuit claiming the term "tabasco" was their copyrighted property.
Not wanting to fight a costly legal battle, the Suppigers changed the name to "Brooks Old Original Tangy Catsup."

The company promoted its product well. In Belleville and St. Louis, big 12-ft high Brooks catsup bottles, adorned with neon, slowly rotated while perched on sign poles.

Brooks was even advertised in Sportsman's Park, home of the St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Louis Browns baseball teams.

At one time it was America's #1 seller among tangy catsups, and in the greater St. Louis area it out sold all other brands combined by 2 to 1.

In 1947, records show that the W.E. Caldwell Company of Louisville, Kentucky, entered a contract to build the 100,000 gallon water tower. Final drawings were approved in 1948 and the World's Largest Catsup Bottle was completed in October of 1949.

A water tower was needed for plant operations and to supply water to the new fire protection sprinkler system. Gerhart S. Suppiger, then president of the company, suggested the tower be built in the distinctive tapered shape of their catsup bottles.

Everyone was amused by the idea back then, little realizing they would create a landmark that would be world renown 50 years later.

In 1959, Brooks Foods merged with P.J. Ritter Company and the Suppigers sold their share of the company in 1960. Catsup bottling operations were moved to Indiana in the early 1960s, and the old factory was then used as a warehouse. Old-timers in town still lament the sweet smell of catsup that no longer wafted through town.

In 1993, Curtice-Burns, Inc., the then-parent company of Brooks Foods, decided to sell the property. The water tower's future was in jeopardy and the Catsup Bottle Preservation Group was formed.

Brooks was willing to deed the tower to the city of Collinsville, but the city declined the offer citing the cost of repairing and repainting the structure was far too much for the city's budget. The Preservation Group started a nationwide "Paint It!" campaign and began to raise the needed funds.

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ENDS

In 1947, records show that the W.E. Caldwell Company of Louisville, Kentucky, entered a contract to build the 100,000 gallon water tower.



Now, did that tower hold 378 500 litres or 450 000 litres? Or maybe something different altogether. If the gallon is defined from the inch and since the inch changed length in 1960, we can't be sure what the real amount is, now can we?


Final drawings were approved in 1948 and the World's Largest Catsup Bottle was completed in October of 1949.


I would expect a non-metric size if it was from 1949, some 55 years ago. Can't you come up with something modern? You imperialists always keep giving examples of old-fashioned remnant examples, but nothing from our time.

Your article doesn't say whether they were able to raise enough funds to save the tower and for all we know it is long gone. Just like imperial.

What is this thread actually about? I do not know *finds himself increasingly bored*

What a fascinating thread.

I particularly liked the juxtaposition of the rabid one claiming another poster is producing "jibberish".

Oh and leaving off bits from his cut and paste, you know like "The spectacular bottle, dubbed the “Maximus” by Fred Dame, president of the Court of Master Sommeliers, is a product of international skill and creativity that measures 4.5’ tall and 4.5’ around."

Hmm, which "foot" is that I wonder?!

;-)

Here's an anagram for you Carly:

Teg a file

Where's my mallet?

WHO HAS STOLEN MY MALLET?

Oh and leaving off bits from his cut and paste, you know like "The spectacular bottle, dubbed the “Maximus” by Fred Dame, president of the Court of Master Sommeliers, is a product of international skill and creativity that measures 4.5’ tall and 4.5’ around."


From experience, imperialists attempts to convert rounded metres into feet tend to give odd results, so the imperialists change the actual dimensions to rounded feet taking no care for the accuracy.

The case is proven below as the bottle is actually 1.39 m x 1.39 m. 4.5 feet is only 1.37 m, using the 0.3048 conversion factor which is stated 2 cm smaller then it actually is. See below:

http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=2303016


World's largest wine bottle under the hammer
November 17, 2004

New York - The world's largest bottle of wine, a Beringer Vineyards 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon which holds the equivalent of 173 standard bottles, is to be auctioned off at Sotheby's this weekend.

Commissioned by Morton's, a US restaurant chain, to celebrate its 25th anniversary and dubbed "Maximus", the Bordeaux-style bottle is 1,39 m and 1,39 m around.


Certified by Guinness World Records as the world's largest wine bottle, the 153 kg behemoth could fetch up to R454 000 with the proceeds going to charity. - Sapa-AFP


You seem to get a jolly out of seeing feet used anywhere even if the numbers as converted from metric are way off from what was intended.

ROTFL!!!

You thought it was converted from METRIC to IMPERIAL!!!!


HA! Nice one!

(this gets better and better)