So I’m Canadian, and whenever I’m gaming and talking to my USA friends, when we talk about drinking they always say “a mickey” for a 12oz and they say “a handle” for 60oz (we don’t call it that) But when I tell them I bought a “26er” of vodka they have no clue what I’m talking about. What is a 26 ounce bottle of vodka called in the USA?


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  3. So a handle is actually in metric and is 1.75 liters. A 750 ml bottle of alcohol is a 5th. 

  4. We actually speak ml for this kind of thing, believe it or not. This would be a 750ml bottle, or, a “bottle of vodka”. As distinguished from a pint (I know, inconsistent) or a “handle bottle” or just “handle”, which is 1.75l.

  5. I call that bottle size a “750” because they are 750 ml. Also call them “fifths”.

  10. I’m not sure if a USA liquor bottle has ounces listed. A 750 ml is a Fifth.

    For whatever reason a 350 mL bottle (12 ish ounces) is called a Pint.

    Handles are 1.75 L and are called Handles because many of the bottles have a handle cast into them.

    1 Liter bottles are rarer, but we would call them a Liter.

  12. A fifth is 750 ml and rounded from the old 757 fifth.

    Note that it’s 25.36 US ounces or 26.4 Imperial ounces, which I think you’d find the latter more in Canadian contexts. Both sure round to 26 though.

  14. I just call in a 750 Because that’s literally what it says on the bottle and if I want a big ass thing I said give me the big one assuming I’m not able to grab it on my own Because it’s stored behind the counter

  17. As a side note, we call a 40-oz glass bottle of cheap beer… you guessed it… a 40.

  21. I call it a 750 because I work in grocery and that’s what liquor comes in:

    375ml, 750ml, and 1.75l

    We don’t really have 26oz bottles that know of, but 750’s are pretty close.

  22. They are really 750ml, so neither exactly 25 oz or a fifth of a gallon, but they are called “a fifth” and are the standard size for all liquor.

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