Dad was really fond of the idea of that much beer. :D

I've recently been cooking from a set of Chinese cookbooks by a British author, so everything's in weights. It's not a problem at all, because it's not about baking so rough guesses are fine, but now I think about it it's kind of weird -- they changed little bits of Harry Potter for US publication so poor US children wouldn't be confused, but when they publish European cookbooks in the US they never convert 'em to volume measures!