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Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

Pretty sure you're supposed to give the leftover wine to the poor beggars outside the castle

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Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

2 bottles of wine / person / day is a whole lot.

2010 WHO has the world champion drinkers as the Belerusans at 17L of ethanol/person/year, which converted back to wine is only about a third of a bottle a day. That's probably pulled down some by light drinkers (WHO starts counting people at age 15 for this), but not 6X.

Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

Would there even be a difference in the days of corned black powder?

Powder was manufactured into discrete balls of material and sieved to a size class. If a cartridge/artillery recipe asked for N 'grains' of powder, would it be asking for a mass measurement or a literal count of that many powder balls? 'grain' as a mass unit is a standardization of a platonic barley kernel, using it for pepper is pretty ambiguous between "mass of pepper equal to mass of that many barley kernels" and "that many pepper kernels", but also probably not that different since barley and pepper have similar densities and berry sizes.

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