Kilderkin

Related terms

Terms that belong to the same part of the subject, or that this one is routinely confused with.

• Equipment

  Firkin

  A small cask, conventionally a quarter of a barrel and nine imperial gallons in the British beer trade. Firkins and pins are the sizes in which traditional draught cider commonly reaches a bar.

• Equipment

  Cask

  A wooden vessel of staves bound by hoops, bulging at the middle so it can be rolled and turned. Casks both store cider and shape it, admitting a slow ingress of oxygen through the wood.

• Equipment

  Hogshead

  A cask size long used for cider. Cask sizes were never fully standardised across trades and regions, and a cider hogshead was not necessarily the same volume as a beer or wine one.

• Cider

  Draught cider

  Cider dispensed from a cask, keg or box rather than from a bottle or can. In British usage it also implies a serving format eligible for the reduced draught rate of alcohol duty.

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Sources

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• CAMRA cider and perry standards

  Campaign for Real Ale · specialist organisation · retrieved 2026-08-24

  Opened on 2026-08-24. Registered for the consumer-campaigning vocabulary — "real cider", "full juice" — which is advocacy language rather than legal definition, and is recorded as such wherever CiderHQ uses it.

• Hereford Museum of Cider collections and interpretation

  Hereford Cider Museum Trust · museum · retrieved 2026-08-24