Jug

49 languages
 Article
 Talk
 Read
 Edit
 View history
Tools















From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the container. For the jug used as a musical instrument, see Jug
(musical instrument). For other uses, see Jug (disambiguation).
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please
help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.
Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Jug" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June
2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
 French ceramic jug

Covered cream jug, 1735,

silver, Cleveland Museum of Art (USA)
A jug is a type of container commonly used to hold liquids. It has an opening,
sometimes narrow, from which to pour or drink, and has a handle, and often a
pouring lip. Jugs throughout history have been made of metal, and ceramic, or glass,
and plastic is now common.
In British English, jugs are pouring vessels for holding drinkable liquids, whether
beer, water or soft drinks. In North American English these table jugs are usually
called pitchers. Ewer is an older word for jugs or pitchers, and there are several
others.
Several other types of containers are also called jugs, depending on locale, tradition,
and personal preference. Some types of bottles can be called jugs, particularly if the
container has a narrow mouth and has a handle. Closures such as stoppers or screw
caps are common for these retail packages.

Etymology[edit]
The word jug is first recorded in the late 15th century as jugge or jubbe. It is of
unknown origin, but perhaps comes from jug a term for a maidservant, in the same
period. This in turn comes from the alteration of common personal names such as
Joan or Judith.[1]

Beer[edit]
In certain countries, especially New Zealand and Australia, a "jug" refers to a plastic
container filled with two pints (just over a litre) of beer. It is usually served along with
one or more small glasses from which the beer is normally consumed, although in
some student bars it is more common for the beer to be drunk directly from the jug,
which is usually served without the accompanying glass. (In the U.S., this may be
called a pitcher—although few US pitchers are as small as a litre, generally holding
between 64 and 128 U.S. fluid ounces, approximately 2-4 litres. In New Zealand and
Australia a pitcher sometimes can refer to a much larger measure of beer.) [2]