Posted in Food by Mathias Eichler on July 29, 2010
What a barrel!

The Local reports the 400 year old barrel will be tapped for a celebration tomorrow for first time since it had been emptied in 1606.

The oak barrel in the town of Halberstadt measures five metres in diameter and holds about 144,000 litres of wine. Even empty, it weighs about 63 tonnes. Guiness World Records calls it the oldest giant wine cask in the world.

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