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Jigger
 Jigger is used to measure out (fluid) of liquor.


Shot Glass

  The word "shot", meaning a drink of alcohol, has been used since at least the 17th century, while reference to a shot specifically as a small drink of spirits is known in the U.S. since at least the 1920s. The phrase "shot glass" has been in use since at least 1940.


Sizes of Shot Glass

*Note fl oz is abbreviation from fluid ounce is a unit of volume (also called capacity) typically used for measuring liquids.


*N/A or n/a is a common abbreviation in table and lists for the phrase not applicable, not available, or no answer. It's used to indicate when information in a certain table cell is not provided, either because it doesn't apply to a particular case in question or because the answer in not available.



Country
Small
Single
Double
Notes
Australia

30 ml
60 ml
A single shot is sometimes called a “nip”. At 30 mL, a typical spirit with 40 percent alcohol is roughly equivalent to one Australian standard drink.
Bulgaria

50 ml
100 ml

Canada
30 ml
44 ml
71 ml
In Canada, a “shot” may refer to an official “standard drink” of 42.6 ml though many Establishments serve a “standard drink” of 1 oz. However, shot glasses available in Canada typically are manufactured according to US fluid ounces rather than imperial. Making them about 4% larger.
Denmark

20 ml
40 ml

Estonia
20 or 30 ml
40 ml


Finland
20 ml
40 ml
n/a
In Finland, the amount of strong alcohol that restaurant are allowed to serve is regulated by law
France

25 0r 35 ml
50 or 70 ml

Germany

20 ml
40 ml
In Germany, shot glasses are smaller
Greece

45 ml
90 ml
A shot is commonly referred to as a “Sfinaki” and it can be made of one liquor or a cocktail mix. There is also an 3 oz “bottom up” version of “Sfinaki” called “ipovrihio”, Greek word for submarine. It’s served in a standard liquor glass half full of blonde beer, where the bartender adds a glass shot filled with vodka or whiskey.
Hungary
20 or 30 ml
40 or 50 ml
80 or 100 ml
In Hungarian, shot glasses are called felespohár (feles means half, standing for 0.5 dl)
India
30 ml
30 ml
60 ml
A shot is commonly referred to as a”peg”, and is measured as a”small”(chhota), or a “large” (bud-da) peg. A 120 ml shot in India is called a Patiala peg.
Ireland

35.5 ml
71 ml
Derived from the use of a quarter-gill (35.516 ml, one sixteenth of a pint) as the traditional lrish spirit measure.
Isreal
30 ml
50 or 60 ml

In Israel, the common word for a small shot is צ'ייסר  (chaser)
Italy
30 ml
40 or 60 ml

In Italy, the common word for a shot is cicchetto or more informally and used mainly in nightclubs by young people,  shortino. In North Italy, the cicchetto is the most common way to taste grappa from at least two centuries.
Japan
30 ml
60 ml

In Japanese, the word ショットグラス (shottogurasu) is the singular term for a shot glass.
Poland

50 ml
100 ml
A standard shot (small) is called pięćdziesiątka (lit. fifty, as in 50 ml) while a large shot (double) is called setka or colloquially, seta (lit. a hundred, as in 100 ml)
Romania

50 ml
100 ml
A single shot is traditionally known in Romanian language as unu mic (una mică) meaning “a small one” or or cinzeacă, meaning “a fifty”, as in 50 ml. A double shot is simply called  unu (una mare), meaning “one(big)”
Russia

50 ml
100 ml
Both single and double shots are commonly called стопка (stópka) in Russian, though a variety of slang names exist. Before metrication a single shot was called  шкалик (shkálik) and amounted to 61.5 ml, while a double was called чарка (chárka) and was equal to 123 ml — both names are still occasionally used.
Serbia
20 ml
30 - 50 ml
60 - 100 ml
A single shot is traditionally known in the Sebian language as чашица за ракију and ракијска чашица, meaning “small glass for rakija"  and "rakija glass”, or simply as мера—мерица, meaning “measure”. A double shot is simply called Дупли, meaning “a double”, while the smallest, 20 ml glass, is known as dvojka meaning “two”
Sweden
20 ml
40 ml
120 ml
A single shot is referred to as a fyra, meaning “a four” and a double is referred to as a sexa, meaning “a six” as Swedes generally use centiliters rather than milliliters
Slovakia
20 or 25 ml
40 or 50 ml
80 or 100 ml
The most common single shot size in the pol deci (literally, “half a deciliter”, 50 ml )
Slovenia
30 ml
50 ml
100 ml
The 50 ml size is colloquially known as nula pet (“zero five”, meaning 0.5 of a deciliter), and the small one nula tri (“zero three”). Another common term for a single shot is ta kratek, meaning “the short one”
South Africa

25 ml
50 ml
The South African government has an official definition for the single shot size.
United Kingdom

25 or 35 ml
50 or 70 ml
Shots sold on premises must contain either 25 ml or 35 ml measures of whisky, gin, rum, or vodka as defined in the weights and measures act of 1985. This requirement does not extend to other spirits. A 2001 amendment allowed a double shot of 70 ml to be served. Generally, a single measure is equal to 35 ml in Northern Ireland and Scotland and 25 ml in England and Wales.
United States
30 ml (1 US fl oz)
44 ml (1.5 US fl oz)
59 to 89 ml (20 to 3 US fl oz)
There is no standard size for a single shot, except in Utah, where a shot is defined as 1.5 U.S fl oz  (44 ml). Elsewhere in the U.S., the standard size is generally considered to be 1.25 – 1.5 U.S fl oz (37 – 44 ml). A double shot in the U.S may be 2 fl oz or more.




Sources
https://www.wikipedia.org/

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