A hogshead is a large wooden cask. Each block was fermented and aged separately for 24 months in neutral French hogshead barrels. The wine barrel was half a wine hogshead or an eighth of a tun. The final step was packing the sugar into hogshead barrels for transport to market. The quarter of wine was a gallon larger than a hogshead. Some New World winemakers are now also using the larger hogshead barrel. "The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen" was published by Hogshead Publishing in 1998. This unit is close in size to the wine hogshead. It originally owned the Hogshead pub chain. In 2002 Hogshead Publishing printed the second edition. The word should therefore be "oxhead", "hogshead" being a mere corruption. The first edition of "WFRP" was published in 1986 and later maintained by Hogshead Publishing. The "American Heritage Dictionary" claims that a hogshead can consist of anything from (presumably) . The general standard for liquids is 31.5 gal or half a hogshead. The name of the tavern refers to an archaic unit of liquid measurement, the hogshead.